Safehaus endorsement of the OATH Reference Architecture and use of the HOTP algorithm specification in HausKeys represents an important milestone towards the ubiquity of strong authentication, the organizations say. One Time Passwords (OTPs) are one of the simplest and most versatile f...

'The confusion created by Microsoft and its choice of the word 'Vista' is an affront to the people who take care of our nation's veterans,' said Barbara Boykin, Chairman of the VistA Software Alliance, denouncing Microsoft's choice of the name 'Windows Vista' for the new version of the...

Oracle continues its recent buying binge with news of the potential buyout of a majority of shares in India's i-Flex Solutions. The deal will strengthen Oracle's position in the banking industry.

Yahoo News will integrate video content from ABC and CNN throughout its pages, as part of a new deal the company has signed, which ups the ante in the burgeoning search market warfare among Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft.

By automating key intellectual property (IP) management and license compliance functions and integrating them within the extensible Eclipse interactive development environment, Black Duck lets development teams improve their productivity through more effective use of open source code a...

Yoxos provides Eclipse users an efficient and easy way to keep their Eclipse installations up-to-date. Eclipse users will be able to install or update the features they want from TPTP with just a few clicks through the Yoxos Install Manager. The TPTP features will be grouped according ...

The Eclipse JSR220-ORM Project will produce standards-based, object-relational mapping design-time tooling in Eclipse. JSR220 is the specification defining the standard for object-relational mapping (ORM) in Java.

Mercury Interactive Corporation announced that more than 150 customers worldwide have selected Mercury Business Process Testing. Mercury Business Process Testing was launched as the industry's first software product to automate application testing for non-technical business experts.

Security officials at Cisco have released a patch to fix the problem that resulted in 'Ciscogate' T-shirts going on sale last week in Las Vegas, after Michael Lynn - who gave a controversial presentation on Cisco security (or, rather, insecurity) at the Black Hat Security Conference - ...

A patent applicaton filed by Google at the end of 2003 has surfaced. The application seeks to grant Google exclusive rights for 'incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated presentation format.'

'Every time one of our Linux blades had a hard disk crash, it took the better part of a day for one of our admins to get a new one up and running with the proper configuration,' says Arty Ecock, Manager of Enterprise Systems at City University of New York. 'With the Intrepid M disaster...

GM has agreed to deploy Java ES throughout its enterprise IT infrastructure, and in the process will grow the total number of Java ES subscribers to nearly a million. Sun said GM plans to deploy the Solaris 10 as the standard operating system for this infrastructure.

Actuality Systems has developed a device that display true 3D images connected to a regular PC. Customers include the National Institutes of Health, Centacor (J&J), Kyoto University, Nissho International, Purdue University, the US Army and the University of Toronto.

King County Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez ruled yesterday that while Dr Kai-Fu Lee may join Google, Inc., he cannot do for Google anything competitive with his work at Microsoft. The two sides are still arguing about whether that effectively precludes him from working on search,...

A free webinar, sponsored by Webex and Selling Power, will be held on August 10 and feature SugarCRM CEO John Roberts. The webinar will announced results of a recent survey conducted by Selling Power magazine, in which over 600 industry insiders participated.

Intel's Steve Krig will lead a session on 'Optimizing Drivers for Server Platforms based on 64-bit Intel Xeon Processors and Running Microsoft Windows' on Thursday, Aug. 25 at 10am at the Intel Developer Forum at Moscone West in San Francisco.

More than $7 trillion was lost in the tech crash a few years back. Now that the industry is becoming healthy again, is it also returning to a very bad habit of the dot-com bubble era?

illustro has acquired the intellectual property and assumed the technical support and maintenance responsibilities for all customers using the product formerly marketed by Neon Systems as Shadow VM Web Server. The acquired products include a Web Server for customers using the z/VM or V...

Revenues and earnings have been generaly strong, even spectacular, in the most recent quarters for technology companies. With interest rates remaining low, technology purchased in the late 90s bubble at or past the end of its replacement cycle, and innovation continuing to march forwar...

Splunk technology, to be available free at launch to individuals to beta test, aims to let systems admins search machine data exponentially better than anything else on the market right now. Search technology will be on log files to get sys admins out of the awk/grep/perl script constr...

'Customers deploying performance-intensive applications on 64-bit Intel processor-based systems can experience enhanced scalability, performance and cost reduction with MKS Toolkit,' said Melissa Laird, an Intel general manager.

Cisco has admitted and detailed a security vulnerability that was revealed at the Black Hat conference, and now Symantec has jumped into the fray, warning that the revelation at the conference increases the chance for the hole to be exploited.

With cell phone (or mobile phone) usage reaching deep penetration in the U.S., the new frontier is web browsing and searching. An existing standard, WML, seems inadequate, so now a number of companies are trying to blaze the trail along this frontier.

George Colony, the president of Forrester Research, recently said that HP CEO Mark Hurd doesn't have a strategy, saying that Hurd hasn't been there long enough to formulate one. Meanwhile, the long-running HP User Group show, Interex, has folded.

IBM's Blade.org 'community' features several other founding members, including NetApp, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Nortel, Novell and VMware. IBM has shipped more than 200,000 blades since market introduction, the first and only vendor to reach that milestone.

The Microsoft Windows Vista beta is reportedly missing two-thirds of the functionality planned for the final product. It is initially going to 10,000 testers, expanding to 500,000 MSDN and TechNet folk.

InterSystems is a Bronze sponsor of the JAOO conference in September. The conference presents in-depth presentations and tutorials by researchers, engineers and trend setters in software engineering and technology. JAOO expects more than 800 developers, software engineers and speakers ...

MTV Networks has formed a partnership with global SMS specialist mBlox for US wireless operator connectivity. The partnership joins MTV Networks with the largest SMS aggregator in the US, and allows MTV Networks to offer premium SMS services and mobile marketing campaigns to their nati...

The Redmond giant has not fallen asleep at the switch when it comes to search, but rather plans to continue to be the leading force in the entire computing universe. Tha is, if CEO Steve Ballmer's recent remarks are any indication.

Using the Centrify solution, web-based applications hosted on Apache and popular J2EE application servers including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, and Tomcat will support Microsoft ADFS without having to deploy any additional federated identity software.

Business intelligence (BI) tends toward expensive IT projects with uncertain outcome, and technology solutions have been limited by the complexity and steep learning curve of BI solutions, according to INetSoft. The company addresses this situation with a J2EE-based approach that takes...

Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, led Sun's technical strategy as the chief scientist from the company's inception in 1982 until 2003, has joined SpikeSource's board of directors.

The Portals Bridges Project provides support for Portal independent and JSR-168 compliant Portlet development using common web frameworks like Struts, JSF, PHP, Perl and Velocity.

Intel is exhorting geeks from around the world to pre-register for its Ultimate Geek contest now, then pick up the instruction guide at the Ultimate Geek kiosk on the first floor of Moscone near the main registration area when the show begins August 23. Registration is free and open to...

Yahoo has announced that it has named Prabhakar Raghavan, a former IBM researcher, to head Yahoo Research as it competes with rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

SMBs need to better automate their security, backup and PC upgrade processes, according to a report just published.

IE 7.0 has tabbed browsing just like Firefox. That was one of the things that emerged as pre-release editions of Windows Vista Beta 1 began circulating this week in advance of the August 3 release date announced last week by Microsoft.

'The McAfee team has driven exceptional company performance in the second quarter by strategically growing our business globally across all segments,' said George Samenuk, chairman and chief executive officer of McAfee, Inc. 'Our strategy of delivering proven, best-of-breed security s...

'As the most-visited Spanish-language website, Univision.com is excited to work with Google to bring the benefits of more targeted search capabilities to our users,' said Javier Saralegui, President, Univision Online. 'In addition, for those consumer companies not yet targeting Hispani...

'Coherence is a quality product from a vendor we've grown to trust,' said Morten Lileng, Manager at Capgemini, as he sung the praises of Coherence 3.0 for in-memory distributed data management, clustered caching, and data-intensive grid computing. 'The performance and scalability that ...