Neowin News Feed for: Effort

Malware Now a Group Effort

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:47:00 +0000

Hackers are taking a page from the open-source playbook, using the same techniques that made Linux and Apache successes to improve their malicious software, according to McAfee. Nowhere is this more apparent than within the... Read more...

Xen leads Novell's turnaround effort in Linux

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:26:03 +0000

On Monday, Novell will release major updates to its Linux product lineup by adding Xen virtualization software to its enterprise server product and new eye candy to the desktop counterpart. The biggest change will... Read more...

Companies push Linux partitioning effort

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:54:35 +0000

A push is under way to endow Linux with a virtual partitioningtechnology used by rival operating systems to make servers moreefficient. SWSoft is trying to get OpenVZmade part of the mainstream Linux kernel--the... Read more...

IBM Sits out Office Document Standards Effort

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:25:42 +0000

IBM does not intend to participate in an Ecma International standards committee that is standardizing Microsoft Office document formats, an IBM company executive said on Tuesday. As a member of the Geneva,... Read more...

Real Software Slams Microsoft's Patent Effort

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:31:33 +0000

In the wake of Real Software Inc. announcing a new version of its Realbasic application development tool, the company is concerned about a patent application Microsoft Corp. has filed that could affect all BASIC-like programming... Read more...

AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting effort

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 17:37:43 +0000

America Online Inc. (AOL) has snapped up Web-based e-mail company Mailblocks Inc. in an effort to bolster its own e-mail services with greater antispam protection, mail management, and interface improvements, it said Wednesday. AOL did... Read more...

Macromedia Flash effort does slow burn

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:20:02 +0000

A year after Macromedia revealed ambitious plans to expand the reach of its Flash format, the software maker appears to have trouble building support for the effort among developers and information technology planners. ... Read more...

Internet sales tax effort on hold, for now

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 07:14:12 +0000

The debate over whether the Internet should remain a huge tax-free marketplace for U.S. shoppers probably will not be resolved in 2004, according to policymakers and experts who cited the upcoming presidential election as a... Read more...

An Open Source Effort to rival Windows

Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:18:09 +0000

The government, electronics manufacturers and software makers launched a forum Friday to promote the development of a new operating system for next-generation networked appliances and other smart devices. The forum is... Read more...

Sun Mulls Joining Java Eclipse Effort

Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:51:56 +0000

In an about-face that could have a dramatic impact in the Java tools space, Sun Microsystems Inc. has indicated it might be willing to join the IBM-sponsored Eclipse open-source development platform effort—but only if momentum... Read more...

Web speech effort gets Microsoft boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:30:07 +0000

Microsoft is making a double-barreled effort to trigger new action on a flagging Web speech specification. The software titan has commissioned demonstrations of its toolkit for building voice-powered Web applications, while a Microsoft-backed group responsible... Read more...

.Net patent could stifle standards effort

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:26:37 +0000

Thanks castor_troyuk Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative. If approved as... Read more...