Thor Olavsrud

What if the World Wide Web were one giant database, linking both human readable documents and machine readable data in a way useful to both mankind and machine? It would be the future of the Web espoused by Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). […]

In an effort to make its Office System more useful in common organizational tasks — and give partners a stepped up sales pitch — Microsoft Monday unleashed one last surprise in its vision of what constitutes its new system, with the unveiling of the Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator program. The program brings Office into the […]

The recently formed Open Security Exchange (OSE), which seeks to promote the integration of disparate components of security infrastructure, took another step forward Monday as it selected the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization (IEEE-ISTO) to provide strategic, administrative and management support for the organization. OSE is an industry forum established in April 2003 by […]

Citing denial of service (DoS) attacks which took down the SCO Group Web site, and what he characterized as an admission by open source guru Bruce Perens that SCO’s Unix System V code had been copied into Linux, SCO CEO Darl McBride Tuesday chastened the open source community for failing to police its own and […]

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), in which firms turn over many back-office functions to outside vendors, has been hyped as one of the next big things in IT, but research firms warn that cost savings garnered through such deals may not be all they’re made out to be. Citing its recently released report, “BPO’s Fragmented Future,” […]

Subscribers to Microsoft’s Software Assurance program can look forward to some new licensing options for the Office System on Monday, Sept. 1, as the software titan tweaks the program again in response to customers’ concerns. The latest tweaks will allow customers who buy Microsoft products through OEMs to sign up for the Software Assurance program. […]

Aiming to create a new standard for next-generation batteries for notebook and handheld computers that can handle the demands placed on today’s hardware, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Wednesday issued the first full draft of a new specification. IEEE P1625, “Standard for Rechargeable Batteries for Mobile Computers,” seeks to take a “systems […]

Microsoft may still be aiming for a 2005 delivery of Longhorn, the next iteration of the Windows operating system, but one analyst says don’t hold your breath. Joe Wilcox, lead Microsoft analyst for Jupiter Research (whose parent company also owns this Web site) said Microsoft’s efforts to align all of its products with the Longhorn […]

Antiquated technology, a lack of coordinated government policy and a pattern of industry-wide under-spending on electric transmission and distribution infrastructure may have played a role in the blackout that left about 50 million people in the U.S. in the dark Thursday, experts said. However, they were quick to note that it is difficult to speculate […]

Microsoft Monday unveiled the pricing of its forthcoming Live Communications Server (formerly known as both Greenwich and the Real-Time Communications Server), another indication that the product is inching closer to its third quarter launch. The Redmond, Wash.-based software titan said the server will have an estimated price of $929, with Client Access Licenses (CALs) coming […]