Thor Olavsrud

The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) Monday said it would turn to Vignette Corp. to provide applications for the redesign of its enterprise-wide intranet, Business and Associate Services Environment (BASE). Vignette said its applications will used to manage TIAA-CREF’s information and the complexity of its Web sites. The BASE intranet […]

Eastman Kodak Co. Monday hailed Microsoft Corp.’s recent decision to modify its upcoming Windows XP operating system to give third-party digital photography software vendors and even footing to compete with the Scanner and Camera Wizard integrated with the operating system. Kodak said Monday that Microsoft had notified it of the changes, which include: Changing the […]

The technological revolution that took root in our national consciousness two years ago hasn’t led to the glowing, silicon-coated future that may have been envisioned at the height of the boom times, but among the sea changes ushered in by that period is a fundamental change in the way we perceive the architects of that […]

Red Hat Inc. Monday will unveil its Red Hat E-Commerce suite in an effort to extend itself beyond its core Red Hat Linux franchise. “You’ll see us pusing into business solutions, delivering value by pushing open source systems at levels above the operating system,” said Red Hat Director of Product Development Charles Gold. But while […]

The Code Red worm is rearing its ugly head again, crashing some servers even though they have been patched against the buffer overflow the worm exploits. Reports have been filtering in that servers running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft’s IIS 4.0 Web server software, and which also utilize URL redirection, are prone to crashing […]

Prodigy Communications Wednesday renewed its relationship with competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) McLeodUSA, giving the CLEC a three-year, multi-million dollar contract to provide dial network services for Prodigy’s dial and roaming DSL customers. The deal extends a relationship the two companies have maintained since 1997. Under the agreement, McLeodUSA is the preferred network provider for […]

With the antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. slated to be turned back to the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia in just two days, the Redmond, Wash.-based software titan Tuesday upped the ante by petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Thursday will hold an open meeting in an attempt to sort out the prickly issue of using frequency bands below 3 GHz to support the introduction of Advanced Wireless services, including 3G services, in the U.S. 3G systems are intended to provide access, by means of one or more radio […]

A new worm, aping the injection vector of the now infamous Code Red worm but carrying a much more dangerous payload, was found in the wild Sunday according to security firms Security Focus and eEye Digital Security. “There is in fact a completely brand new worm loose on the net right now,” said Ryan Permeh […]

Rochester, N.Y.-based global consulting and market research firm Harris Interactive Inc. Monday declared its intentions to merge with Princeton, N.J.-based Total Research Corp. in an effort to expand its reach and sell Total Research’s Fortune 100 client base on the effectiveness of its online polling and research capabilities. Both companies are debt-free, and Harris said […]

A House of Representatives Judiciary subcommittee Friday approved, by voice vote, a bill that would extend the current moratorium on taxes targeting the Internet by five years and bar Internet access taxes permanently. The original moratorium stems from the Internet Tax Freedom Act, passed by Congress in October 1998. The act imposed a three-year moratorium […]

Microsoft Corp. was handed a defeat by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Thursday when the appeals court declined a request by the software maker to reconsider its decision that the company acted illegally in “commingling” the Windows operating system with its Internet Explorer browser. The court’s decision means the case […]