Happy Birthday, DNS
Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS, which allows computers to find each other on the network... Read on »
Sun Microsystems Aims to Exploit IBM's Unix Woes
Sun Microsystems Inc., looking to poach customers from a rival in a weak market for server computers, said on Thursday it had begun contacting companies that may be worried about a legal challenge to IBM's rights to the Unix operating system. Sun, which has been hit hard along with rivals... Read on »
Analysts predict wireless hot-spot crash
Most of the money that is being spent creating public wireless "hot spots" is being wasted, according to research published on Thursday. Analyst group Forrester believes that, in the future, there won't be enough people using Wi-Fi devices to support the operators that are currently introducing wireless local area networks... Read on »
CERT, Adobe Warn of Flaw in PDF File Readers
Nearly a week after information on the problem was leaked on the Internet, Adobe Systems Inc. and CERT on Wednesday put out... Read on »
Open source advocate fires back at SCO
Company calls effort "a waste of time" Just days after The SCO Group escalated its legal battle with IBM over alleged violations... Read on »
Linux lab lures Torvalds from Transmeta
The creator of the freely available Linux operating system will join the Open Source Development Lab, a consortium designed to bring high-end features to the software. Linus Torvalds, who will become an OSDL Fellow, will go to work full-time on future versions of Linux, such as its forthcoming 2.6 kernel,... Read on »
Microsoft Agrees to Ease Windows License Terms
Microsoft Corp. said on Monday it has agreed to cut the cost and ease some restrictions it placed on competitors seeking to view the inner workings of the Windows program under last year's antitrust settlement with the government. Following complaints from some rivals, Microsoft said it would make it cheaper... Read on »
CD-RW drive packs more data
Plextor has announced a new CD-rewritable drive that can squeeze 40 percent more data into standard blank discs. The PlexWriter Premium can pack 980MB of data into a 700MB (80-minute) disc and 1.2GB into an 880MB (99-minute) disc, according to the CD gear maker. It does so using the GigaRec... Read on »
AOL faces $1 billion insider trading suit
Two institutional shareholders said Monday they filed suit against AOL Time Warner, accusing Chairman Steve Case and other top executives of insider trading while using "tricks, contrivances and bogus transactions" to inflate the company's share price. The University of California and Amalgamated Bank's Longview Collective Investment Fund said in a... Read on »
PlayStation 2 Undergoes Major Update
Sony Computer Entertainment will put an upgraded version of its PlayStation 2 video game on sale in Japan in mid May, the company said Monday. The new machine will be the first major upgrade SCEI has made to its hit gaming platform since it first went on sale just over... Read on »
Gaim 0.61 (Linux and win32)
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you... Read on »
SquirrelMail 1.4.0
SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and... Read on »
IBM vows Java Office
IBM is to bundle server-side, Java-based office suite in with in its WebSphere portal, according to CRN. It's a shot against Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems too. Big Blue is entering a crowded field. Sun offers its StarOffice package in both as a fat client and as a thin client for... Read on »
MySQL boasts might against big players
MySQL kicked off its first-ever users conference by releasing the source code of its upcoming MySQL 5.0 product and touting its reputation as the little database company that could. The Swedish company, which develops open-source database software, is making its way into markets once dominated by proprietary database vendors such... Read on »
Cleaner, more efficient Mozilla vowed
The Mozilla project, largely sponsored by AOL-TimeWarner, has taken a dramatic turn. Team leaders have advised Mozilla developers to abandon the "swiss army knife" approach for smaller and lighter applications, according to a statement posted on the mozilla.org site today. In the statement, team leaders Brenden Eich and David Hyatt... Read on »
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