Clint Boulton

Security experts have found a flaw in Sendmail’s server software that will allow an attacker to hijack a server and view sensitive information. Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) is an SMTP server used on mail gateways to route and shuttle e-mail. It is offered as an open source Linux product and in commercial Unix versions: […]

NEW YORK — Oracle is going after the business intelligence market with guns blazing, vowing to target the customer bases of long-time leaders Business Objects and Cognos. A multi-billion-dollar market, business intelligence software collects data from applications and shoots it back to corporate employees, managers and executives to give them insight into invisible or remote […]

Spring has arrived for IBM’s service-oriented architecture portfolio, whose seeds are blooming. The company today unveiled Service Oriented Architecture Governance, a bouquet of software, processes and services to help customers create policies in their distributed computing systems. Distributed computing systems, such as SOAs , allow communications such as Web services talk to one another as […]

Sun Microsystems is making its Sun Grid Compute Utility available over the Web in the U.S., charging customers $1 per hour per CPU through billing fulfillment provider PayPal. Developers and researchers in several fields will be able to access the utility with a click-through license through a simple portal, said Aisling MacRunnels, senior directory of […]

Bill Gates kicked off Microsoft’s MIX06 conference with a goal: to help Web designers use the Internet to create better customer experiences. The Microsoft chairman and chief software architect’s decree is part of the company’s plan to grab the attention of Web designers who are building Web logs, wikis and RSS feeds to serve growing […]

Borland Software agreed to buy startup Gauntlet Systems, whose software should serve as a “virtual sandbox” to verify coding standards in the larger company’s application lifecycle management (ALM) portfolio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Prior to entering the build management process in application development, Gauntlet’s software detects potential problems before they have a […]

Wind River Systems today said it has purchased Interpeak AB for $20 million in cash and stock to prop up its mobile operating systems. Interpeak, a privately held company based in Stockholm, Sweden, makes networking middleware that helps mobile computing devices, edge routers, WiMax base stations and virtual private networks safely connect to the Web. […]

Microsoft has begun waging a war overseas against “phishers,” perpetrators who steal money by using the Internet to trick people into giving up their personal information. Neil Holloway, president of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said at an Interpol technology debate in Brussels, Belgium that by the end of June 2006 it will […]

In an executive coup, Adobe Systems has lured Sun Microsystems’ software head John Loiacono to run its creative software portfolio, which includes Photoshop and Flash. Loiacono will become senior vice president of Creative Solutions, leading the graphics software power’s design, Web, imaging, video and audio business. This includes brands such as Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia […]

Microsoft said it will release Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, its data warehouse and collaboration software, to manufacturing today. Team Foundation Server lets developers match project management and software design to ensure that applications meet business requirements. The software collects information on project history, including impact analysis, capacity planning and resource management, a spokesperson […]

IBM today built on its ability to verify identities on computers, acquiring Language Analysis Systems (LAS) for an undisclosed sum. Privately held LAS makes name-recognition software that provides businesses and government agencies with a window into the properties of names based on language and cultural characteristics. The Herndon, Va., company’s software analyzes and compares factors […]

USB drives have been a popular gadget among consumers who like to move digital content from one computer to the next. Their wild popularity, born out of portability and capacity, has led enterprises to look into the benefits of using the drives. But USBs also scare many companies, which routinely ban them for fear that […]