“Small,” however, is part of the plan. Intalio is looking to acquire companies with fewer than 25 employees, an “active user base,” and a “committed customer base.” In other words, it may well be looking to go the JBoss route and grow big by buying small.
When I commented on The 451 Group’s report on open-source [...]

However, there are “still too many user names, too many passwords,” said Kim Cameron, an architect of Identity and Access at Microsoft. “There’s this endless digital baptism of filling in forms and logging in everywhere, and it creates a wonderful environment for the criminal element through phishing attacks and what have you because on the [...]

After months of incubation as a mere preview download, Yahoo Messenger for Vista is now a full-fledged…beta. No matter, let the feedback loop continue with this dark and gleaming desktop chat application that elevates certain aspects of the instant messaging experience while falling a step behind in others. The new look and feel is certainly [...]

Don’t get spooked that the watts-per-channel specs on these receivers seem low. While other manufacturers tend to inflate their power ratings, Harman Kardon sticks to real-world numbers–in other words, Harman Kardon’s 30-watt receiver may sound just as loud as another company’s “100-watt” receiver.
Of course, Harman Kardon fans have always trumpeted the brand’s excellent sound, [...]

A would-be college grad was denied her Bachelor’s degree in education after a federal court ruled Thursday that her college did not violate her First Amendment rights by denying her the degree. The student was pictured on her MySpace page with a cocktail in her hand featuring the caption, “Drunken Pirate” along with a derogatory [...]

One of the pictures shows part of the Holmdel building, which was recently sold off to developers as part of the Lucent/Alcatel debacle. The building is historically significant not just because it was designed by Eero Saarinen but also because all kinds of technological breakthroughs occurred there. There is also a famous myth that a [...]

But the market reaction that Microsoft has left the building and thrown away the key is not entirely held by analysts.

Google was up 2.37 percent to $566.08 a share in early-morning trading.

The continued sell-off in Yahoo’s shares comes despite the Internet search pioneer’s announcement after the markets closed Thursday that it had entered [...]

Once of Google’s 10th birthday gifts to the world is its re-release of a 2001 version of the search index. (The FAQ says there are “various technical reasons” for not displaying results back to Google birth year of 1998.) On it you can see what the service knew about any topic back then. Like you. [...]

No one said securing Windows 7 would be simple. But Microsoft has a vested interest in keeping us safe when we use its OS and UAC is a key component in that. Now it needs it to figure out how to make everyone happy. And maybe, eliminating annoyance isn’t the best way to do that. [...]

It could work like this: The Supreme Court’s ruling in 2004 against the Justice Department and in favor of the ACLU commanded a narrow 5-4 majority, with justices Stephen Breyer, William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor, and (separately) Antonin Scalia dissenting.

The court concluded that COPA “cannot withstand a strict scrutiny, vagueness, or overbreadth analysis and thus [...]