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After nearly two years in development, Borland has announced two updated tools for C++ developers: C++BuilderX and Enterprise Studio for C++. The company is calling the tools the first technology-independent development suite designed to address the complexity of modern-day application development.
Microsoft has moved up the public prerelease date of the new edition of its Office 2003 productivity suite to Monday, September 15, to let some of its business customers download the desktop application bundle about two weeks sooner than originally planned. The software -- which will be released to ...
A day before the two-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a series of phone calls threatening the presence of a bomb at San Francisco's Moscone Center forced the evacuation of thousands from Oracle and Seybold trade shows. Authorities, on guard with the approach of September 11, r...
Microsoft's disclosure of three new security holes in Windows came just moments before its senior security strategist, Phil Reitinger, told lawmakers on the House Government Reform technology subcommittee about the company's efforts to help consumers defend themselves against viruses and other Inter...
Mainstream computer users soon will see a lot of new developments -- thanks to the vision of haptics technology pioneers. Haptics technology, mainly developed to assist the blind when using computers, is bringing the sensation of touch to the Internet and the desktop, and enabling computer users at ...
Timing technology updates with the start of school, Apple announced it has sped up its iMac desktop computers with faster processors and beefed up the storage in new iPod digital music players, which are now offered in 20- and 40-GB models. Against a backdrop of lawsuits filed by the Recording Indus...
Oracle's takeover bid for competitor PeopleSoft -- which has dominated trade press headlines during the dog days of summer -- has somewhat obscured its technology rollout strategy. But that's about to change. This week at the OracleWorld 2003 conference in San Francisco, the database software giant ...
In an effort to target Microsoft and the operating system industry, Japan has proposed an Asian open-source operating system. Initially, the country was a major player in the PC market, but in software it is almost insignificant internationally. However, the current environment with Microsoft in Asi...
Online and on-demand media services in digital form are likely to make CDs and DVDs obsolete as consumers switch to downloads and streaming media to get their music, movies and other entertainment, according to Forrester Research. Providing evidence that downloads cost the music industry $700 millio...
In a bizarre twist to the file-sharing fight in which the Recording Industry Association of America is using copyright law to pursue file traders, search engine Google pulled links to sites hawking unofficial Kazaa alternatives after the popular file-swapping service made its own copyright-infringem...
The other day I was asked what the odds were that SCO would win against IBM. On the basis of how the two parties were behaving, I offered a range of between 55 and 65 percent. One of the strongest indications I have that SCO might win is that several of the financial analyst groups who work with me,...
SoBig.F, Blaster, Nachi and MiMail -- the most frequently occurring viruses in August -- helped make last month the worst in the history of computer security, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The business-focused antivirus company, in its monthly virus ranking, pegged the newest viruses as the to...
This week, security software developer Symantec announced Norton Antivirus 2004, the newest version of the company's antivirus software. While this product will provide consumers with new kinds of protection against some emerging nonvirus threats -- such as spyware and keystroke-logging programs -- ...
Keeping paper documents intact for years and years has become a matter of routine for historians and archivists trying to keep a record of history. But saving digital information is turning out to breed its own set of unique challenges. Because digital files depend on their context -- such as the op...
What's so great about the Office 2003 software system that Microsoft announced yesterday was ready to roll off the assembly line? While the software company has indeed spruced up the core applications in the package, that's not the big news. The big news about Office 2003 is not the incremental upgr...
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