Richard Adhikari

In a move widely hailed by rights groups, several members of Congress have introduced bills that will prevent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from arbitrarily searching and seizing electronic devices. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, publicized July 16th, gave customs agents that right on the grounds of national security, overturning years of […]

Although companies will reduce their IT spending because of the economic meltdown, it’s not going to be all doom and gloom for the IT industry. System integrators and consultants will get a boost from the crisis in the financial sector, say analysts, as institutions that have taken over or bought others seek to align their […]

The crisis hitting the financial industry is expected to result in slashed IT spending, predicted Robert Iati, TABB Group partner and a global head of the consulting firm, in a report just released. Securities industry IT spending in North America will fall from $21.9 billion this year to $17.9 billion in 1009, Iati predicted. This […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today unveiled the database vendor’s newest foray into the hardware business, and hopefully this one will fare better than Oracle’s Network Computer effort of the late 1990s. In his keynote speech at Oracle OpenWorld 2008, being held at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, Ellison announced the HP Oracle […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle’s got a new stinger to use against Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) market share with Exchange Server and SharePoint products, thanks to its BEA acquisition. It’s called Oracle Beehive, which Oracle’s president Charles Phillips described as a collaboration server that runs on Windows, Linux and Unix and supports third party applications. Beehive was […]

CEO Larry Ellison Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps will pop in to Oracle OpenWorld 2008, but the emphasis will be on BEA, BEA, and BEA all the way. The conference will be held at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco today through Thursday. The emphasis will be on BEA because its middleware products are […]

VMware may include a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as part of its offerings but partner IBM beat it to the punch in finding a way to leverage the technology. IBM has created a component based on VMware’s VDI that slashes VDI storage requirements by up to 80 percent, it announced at VMworld 2008, the VMware […]

When VMware (NYSE: VMW) invited archrivals Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) to VMworld 2008, its user conference being held in Las Vegas through Thursday, everyone was surprised. Sure, VMware is trying to show it’s open, but being this open could be a recipe for trouble for the virtualization kingpin. And that trouble […]

At VMworld 2008 Monday, VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) user conference being held through Thursday in Las Vegas, the virtualization giant unveiled strategies aimed squarely at the enterprise amid a backdrop of increasing competition from players like Microsoft. Those strategies center around VMware’s Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS), its combination of infrastructure, application and cloud services for […]

Is there a need for a separate EULA (end user license agreement) in the open source Mozilla browser? To date there has been, but that EULA is going to change very soon. In a conversation with InternetNews.com, Mitchell Baker, chairperson of Mozilla, admitted that Mozilla may not need both the EULA and open source license, […]