Richard Adhikari

Although companies will reduce their IT spending because of the economic meltdown, it’s not going to be all doom and gloom for the IT industry. System integrators and consultants will get a boost from the crisis in the financial sector, say analysts, as institutions that have taken over or bought others seek to align their […]

Lotus Notes users can now access their e-mail and calendar over the iPhone with Lotus iNotes ultralite, a stripped down version of the application released today by IBM (NYSE: IBM). Available free to users with a Lotus Notes software license, the smaller version can be accessed through the Safari browser, which is standard on Apple’s […]

So, here we are, with our beloved leaders locking horns over a $700 billion bill to bail out Wall Street and the Dow taking a nosedive. Well, it’s going to plunge even further as the ripple effect of the financial sector’s crisis is felt. All those companies closing down, and they’re big ones, means IT […]

The crisis hitting the financial industry is expected to result in slashed IT spending, predicted Robert Iati, TABB Group partner and a global head of the consulting firm, in a report just released. Securities industry IT spending in North America will fall from $21.9 billion this year to $17.9 billion in 2009, Iati predicted. This […]

UPDATED: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the Attorney-General of Washington State, Rob McKenna, are teaming up to crack down on scareware. The term refers to pop-up ads that often show up behind some Web pages and offer to scan users’ PCs, find some errors and direct the users to a Website where they can download software […]

Oracle’s competition is rejoicing over the company’s announcement of the HP Oracle Database Machine, unveiled with much fanfare at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco earlier this week. In announcing the product, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison told a packed hall that the rapid proliferation of data has forced his company to go beyond […]

For scientists, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was built under the French-Swiss border to re-create the Big Bang that created the universe almost 14 billion years ago, is an important experiment; for kids, it’s a pop icon. The LHC is a 16.9-mile circular tunnel in which beams of protons aimed at each other will […]

Once again, rumors that Salesforce.com has become a takeover target are keeping the grapevine busy, showing up on various blogs including Eric Savitz’s blog on Barron’s. Such rumors have been springing up around Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) for a long time and have always been dismissed. The latest were based on the jump in the company’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The explosion of data and staggering energy costs faced by most enterprises are creating the need for modernized datacenters, and Hewlett-Packard is concentrating on this market, Ann Livermore, HP’s executive vice president, told a packed hall here at Oracle OpenWorld 2008. “By 2010, more than one-third of CEOs and CIOs say their […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today unveiled the database vendor’s newest foray into the hardware business, and hopefully this one will fare better than Oracle’s Network Computer effort of the late 1990s. In his keynote speech at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, being held at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, Ellison announced the HP Oracle […]

Well, okay, call me SAML 2.0 then, which isn’t the same thing as SAML 1.0, an earlier version of the Security Assertion Markup Language. SAML is the protocol used to achieve Single Sign-On between Web sites as well as authentication that enables safe transactions, among other things. As our Webopedia site [explains](http://webopedia.com/TERM/S/SAML.html), SAML defines mechanisms […]

Securing a virtualized environment? If you’re asking IBM, only the PHANTOM knows. Big Blue announced today what it calls the Proventia network virtual intrusion prevention system (VIPS). Officials said it’s the first in a series of products to come from its PHANTOM initiative, a corporate-wide research project aimed at securing the virtualized environment. This is […]