It was nearly two years ago at the 2006 Oracle OpenWorld conference that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a plan to have Oracle provide support to Red Hat‘s own Linux customers. The controversial plan sparked debate over whether Oracle was trying to kill off Red Hat by taking away Red Hat’s revenue stream. Oracle and […]

I have two Linksys wireless access points and I would like to link them together to pass the Internet from one to another. Can I do that? — Abdulabbas The answer to your question is maybe. Depending on the exact model of the Linksys access point that you have (it might be just an access […]

Information technology is keeping pace with all the frantic action happening on the court in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In a game where play is fast and furious, the league is leveraging an array of technologies, including portable touch-screen computing, wireless sensing and quick-reacting statisticians to following the bouncing ball as its being played […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday rejected the idea that its deal last year with Novell Inc. ties it to the new General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) and said it will not support any software distributed under the just-released open-source license. The Microsoft-Novell partnership signed in November 2006 featured promises to make Windows interoperable with SuSE Linux, […]

With an IT team of two, Wakefield Canada may have braced itself for a slippery ride when faced with the prospect of rolling out a company-wide ERP system in a short time frame. With right planning and technology partner, however, this Canadian distributor of Castrol premium lubricants managed to build a system that improved its […]

Eric Raymond, influential developer and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has delivered a public rebuke to Red Hat’s Fedora project. In a message distributed to several high-profile Linux mailing lists and news organizations, Raymond said he is switching to the Ubuntu distribution after 13 years as a loyal Red Hat user, citing numerous technical […]

Security Enhanced Linux, a “hardened” version of the open source software that was helped into existence by a U.S. spy agency, is on the verge of gaining broad acceptance, a local developer says. Kerry Thompson, an Auckland security consultant, says the pending release of the Fedora Core 2 distribution will introduce SELinux to mainstream Linux […]

In February, Werner Co. stopped shipping its ladders to The Home Depot Inc., the home improvement retailer that had been its biggest customer. But the company was able to cushion the blow thanks to its production planning and reporting system. Werner used the system to quickly ramp down production on its assembly lines and avoid […]

Last year we looked at NetSupport TCO from NetSupport Solutions Inc., which offered basic inventory capabilities and remote control. Since then, the company has launched an enterprise-level successor, NetSupport DNA, which adds application and Internet metering, software distribution and remote control. We recently tested this version, and while it still has a few warts, it […]

Last year was an eventful one for Linux — the 2.6 kernel was released, Novell Inc. announced acquisition of SuSE AG, Red Hat stopped supporting its free distribution in favour of its Enterprise distribution, and instead kickstarted the Fedora Project, and the SCO Group Inc. claimed intellectual property rights over Linux. While it is not […]

The new Hewlett-Packard Co. will need to overcome countless challenges before it can call the acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. a success, but resellers, users and analysts say the company has started off smoothly. The prompt announcement last week of a product road map and management lineup helped calm nervous customers. So did the product […]

Software that will set up a network built from users’ hard drives and bandwidth has been quietly bundled into the Kazaa file-sharing program owned by Australian holding company Sharman Networks Ltd. and may also be distributed with other file-sharing programs. Los Angeles advertising software and design company Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc. plans to use the […]

The drop in worldwide PC sales has been so severe for IBM Corp. that the company has moved its PC sales division back into its normal sales and distribution channel, eliminating it as a stand-alone unit. The re-organization means the loss of some 150 jobs and the globally dispersed IBM PC salespeople, who currently report […]

Microsoft Corp. will begin to immediately offer computer manufacturers more flexibility to configure desktop versions of the company’s Windows operating system, Microsoft said Wednesday, admitting the change is in light of a recent Appeals Court ruling in the U.S. government’s antitrust case against the software maker. The company is taking the dramatic step, which will […]

Motorola Inc. will outsource elements of its wireless products CRM (customer relationship management), including distribution, warehousing, inventory capability, call centres, and the like to Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS), EDS said in a statement Wednesday. Motorola will use EDS to provide fulfillment and other services to support Motorola’s new distribution model called Motorola Messaging Express, […]

AT&T Corp. said Tuesday it has completed what it claims is the first U.S. coast-to-coast OC-192 (10G bits per second) IP (Internet Protocol) backbone and also announced it will more than double its Web hosting capacity this year with construction of seven more U.S. data centres and one in Asia. Some providers put extra capacity […]

Usually, when representatives from a software company like Inprise Corp. come together, it’s for a technology conference – not a rock concert. But in Winnipeg recently, that trend was reversed. Company employees joined some 60,000 audience members in attendance at a War Child benefit concert featuring big-name performers such as the Tragically Hip. War Child […]

In an effort to attack what it sees to be a relatively untapped market, Everest Broadband Networks of Fort Lee, N.J. has announced that its updated business model to outfit hotels with high speed Internet connections will be based upon an IP service delivery platform supplied by Atreus Systems Corporation. Atreus is located in Santa […]

Looking to give users an easier way to distribute Web content, Cache device maker CacheFlow has debuted its latest CacheOS/s aimed at e-commerce applications. CacheOS/s uses technology gleaned from CacheFlow’s recently announced alliance with content distribution company Akamai. CacheOS/s features support for Akamai’s “Akamaizer” software, which lets customers place popular content in key geographic regions […]

The well-known message to Internet start-ups is to get on-line quickly and add the spice later. That message was again delivered, but this time it cam from a panel of Canadian e-business leaders. At the recent upstartcanada.com bootcamp presentation in Toronto, the panel spoke to a crowded room about the lessons learned when trying to […]

A new high-speed computer circuit from IBM is leaving the closest competitors in the dust. The new circuit has tested at speeds almost five times faster than other top-speed chips. The circuit employs a design known as the interlocked pipelined complementary metal oxide semiconductor (IPCMOS). Stanley Schuster, a research staff member at IBM, stressed the […]

A study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) on behalf of on-line retailer association shop.org has found that on-line retail revenues are currently tripling every year in North America. The study, which was conducted in the first half of 1998 and compiled data from 93 retailers, found on-line revenues are growing by 200 per […]