Thor Olavsrud

NEW YORK — With Web services beginning to gain acceptance in the business world, Microsoft came to InternetWorld Fall 2002 Tuesday to refine its message: beyond just integration, Web services are about providing “business agility.” Success in business is often a matter of flexibility, of being able to respond to shifting market demands rapidly and […]

Intel , faced with continuing uncertainty in its traditional bread-and-butter market — PC chips — has been pushing hard to take share in a market where other semiconductor companies, like Texas Instruments, Intersil and Motorola, rule the roost: communications chips. At the same time, Intel does not plan to leave its core business languishing. In […]

The Bush administration is expected to recommend the appointment of a federal “privacy czar” as part of its forthcoming National Strategy for Securing Cyberspace (NSSC), according to an eWeek report. The NSSC is part and parcel of the Homeland Security bill Congress is scheduled to begin debating this week, and is expected to come under […]

Netscape Communications, not yet ready to throw in the towel in the dwindling browser wars, unveiled the Netscape 7.0 browser Thursday. The AOL Time Warner subsidiary’s latest browser is more tightly intertwined with AOL’s family of Web brands, the Netscape browser faces a nearly overwhelming opponent in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Since Netscape’s heyday as […]

Dell Computer has begun an effort to capture a piece of the market for “white box” PCs, marking a move back into the distributor market that the company abandoned in the early 1990s went it decided to go with its highly successful direct sales model. White box PCs are unbranded desktops, often put together from […]

The war between IBM and Sun Microsystems flared hotter Monday as IBM unleashed a three-pronged attack dedicated to taking business away from Sun and bringing it into the Big Blue fold. IBM’s plan of attack — its Solaris-to-Linux program — kicks off with a dedicated “Swat team” of Linux migration experts for porting Sun Solaris […]

Red Hat Director of Engineering and Editor of ApacheWeek Mark J. Cox Friday warned of an Apache 2.0 vulnerability which could allow an attacker to “inflict serious damage to a server, and reveal sensitive data.” The flaw, discovered by bug-hunter Auriemma Luigi, affects default installations of the Apache Web server in non-Unix platforms like Windows, […]

The concept of Web services has continued to evolve over the past two years since it was first introduced, but the clearest indication to date of the new thinking on Web services may just be a new version of one of its oldest technologies: the UDDI , or Universal Description, Discovery and Integration specification. UDDI […]

With an eye to achieving profitability, Inktomi Wednesday revealed it will narrow its focus to its Web search and enterprise information retrieval areas and reduce its content networking group. It also named a new chief financial officer. The company said it will consolidate operations in the content networking group and trim headcount by about 270 […]

IBM on Monday took the next step on the road toward realizing its vision of computing as a utility when it drew the curtain on Linux Virtual Services, which allows customers to utilize Big Blue’s computing network to access server processing, data storage and resources on a pay-as-you-use basis. “We think this is very much […]