FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - IBM Corp. and Research in Motion Ltd. recently announced plans to integrate IBM's WebSphere Everyplace Access mobile middleware with RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Adding IBM's enterprise application access tool to BlackBerry Mobile Data Service and Wireless Platform would give users of salesforce-automation applications the ability to access request prices, enter orders, determine available inventory and the like. Field service groups can have sales reports and service requests pushed out to them.
FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - Aruba Wireless Networks Inc. has secured US$20 million in additional venture funding, bringing to $29.5 million the total raised by the year-and-a-half-old wireless LAN switch maker. The company also named Dominic Orr, former head of Alteon WebSystems Inc., as its executive chairman and named a CFO and vice president of worldwide sales and channel operations.
FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - Advanced Digital Information Corp. this week announced an integrated disk-to-tape appliance that lets users determine how they will back up and archive data. The Pathlight VX is a combination disk- and tape-based array that uses Advanced Technology Attachment drives and LTO1 or LTO2 tape technology. Back-up software sees the device as a single tape library. The Pathlight VX has as much as 40 terabytes of storage capacity and fits in a standard 19-inch rack. The company plans to ship it next month starting at US$190,000.
FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - The U.S. government has approved Singapore Technologies Telemedia's plan to buy a 61.5 percent stake in Global Crossing. Singapore Technologies is paying US$250 million for the bankrupt carrier. Global Crossing filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2002. The deal was under scrutiny because Global Crossing carries some U.S. federal government traffic and the Singapore government controls Singapore Technologies. But despite reported U.S. Department of Defense concerns, the Committee for Foreign Investment in the U.S. approved the deal.
FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - AT&T last week signed a three-year, US$3.6 million contract with Northwestern Human Services. The Mid-Atlantic mental health, juvenile and adult services organization is consolidating its hodgepodge network-service approach. Northwestern, which employs 6,500 people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Virginia, worked with nearly two dozen service providers before moving all its local, long-distance, Internet and data traffic to AT&T's network.
FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - Symantec Inc. is adding virus and worm reporting to the threat information that the security company already collects through its DeepSight Threat Management System service. The offering already features intrusion-detection alerts and firewall-related data, gleaned from 20,000 partners around the globe. DeepSight 5.0 starts at US$15,000 per year for research reports containing the aggregate security-event data.
FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - Symantec Corp. is adding virus and worm reporting to the threat information that the security company already collects through its DeepSight Threat Management System service. The offering already features intrusion-detection alerts and firewall-related data, gleaned from 20,000 partners around the globe. DeepSight 5.0 starts at US$15,000 per year for research reports containing the aggregate security-event data.
FRAMINGHAM (09/25/2003) - Symantec Corp. is adding virus and worm reporting to the threat information that the security company already collects through its DeepSight Threat Management System service. The offering already features intrusion-detection alerts and firewall-related data, gleaned from 20,000 partners around the globe. DeepSight 5.0 starts at US$15,000 per year for research reports containing the aggregate security-event data.
FRAMINGHAM (09/24/2003) - Symantec Corp. is adding virus and worm reporting to the threat information that the security company already collects through its DeepSight Threat Management System service. The offering already features intrusion-detection alerts and firewall-related data, gleaned from 20,000 partners around the globe. DeepSight 5.0 starts at $15,000 per year for research reports containing the aggregate security-event data.
FRAMINGHAM (09/24/2003) - RSA Security Inc. has upgraded its ClearTrust server software for policy-based access to Web applications, adding support for Security Assertions Markup Language 1.1 and identity-management features licensed from Thor Technologies Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO (09/22/2003) - Anti-virus companies are warning Internet users about W32.Swen, a new worm that spreads using e-mail messages, vulnerable network connections, Internet Relay Chat and peer-to-peer networks.
FRAMINGHAM (09/19/2003) - A software tool from IBM Corp. will let users search mountains of data on the Web and find out, for instance, what the buzz is about a new product or discern the reputation of a small business that wants to buy equipment. The WebFountain data mining and discovery tool has been in development for three years at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose. Big Blue has been offering the tool as a customized service. Last week IBM announced that Factiva, a joint venture of Dow Jones and Reuters, will market the tool as a subscription service. IBM says WebFountain will decipher text by searching through the Web and Factiva's library, which grows by 2 million documents per month from 8,000 different sources.
FRAMINGHAM (09/19/2003) - Forbes magazine released its list of the 400 wealthiest U.S. citizens this week. No surprise that once again Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates has not only grabbed the top spot but is the world's richest man, with a net worth of US$46 billion. Gates managed to increase his personal fortune by $3 billion over his net worth of $43 billion on the 2002 list. Gates' financial savvy apparently didn't rub off on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, however. Ballmer fell from No. 10 on last year's list to No. 11 with a net worth of $12.2 billion. Dell Inc. Chairman and CEO Michael Dell moved from No. 11 to No. 10 this year with a personal fortune of $13 billion. Meanwhile Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen kept hold of the No. 3 spot, with a net worth of $22 billion. Other wealthy tech players on the list included Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison, who came in at No. 9 with a net worth of $18 billion; eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar, who landed No. 29 with $6.9 billion, and Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos, who came in at No. 32 with $5.1 billion.
FRAMINGHAM (09/19/2003) - Companies can tighten their security by linking their computer networks with their building-monitoring systems as part of a new service IBM Corp. and General Electric Co. announced this week. The service, available this fall, will ensure IBM's enterprise management software can accept security alerts and other data from GE subsidiary Interlogix's Facility Commander security system. That system collects and manages incoming alerts from multi-vendor badge readers, burglar alarms and surveillance systems. Management of physical security systems - such as badge-based door entry systems, air conditioning monitors and alarm systems - often has been kept separate within corporations from security management of IT-based assets. But that has started to change for many organizations, including the U.S. Department of Defense, which is looking to use a common access smart card for building and network entry.
FRAMINGHAM (09/19/2003) - SBC Communications Inc. became the fourth regional Bell operating company to appeal the recent U.S. Federal Communications Commission ruling that, they say, lets competitors use their local access facilities at less than wholesale rates. SBC this week asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to stop the enactment of the Triennial Review order that the FCC issued late last month, saying the ruling causes "irreparable harm" to its business. SBC joins the U.S. Telecom Association, Verizon Communications Inc., BellSouth Corp. and Qwest Communications International Inc. in filing the motion for a stay with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.