More than a week after a Silicon Valley computer consultant found a way to view another computer's files by exploiting Java-related flaws in Netscape Communications Corp. browsers, users remain confused about how best to combat the vulnerability.
When it comes to databases in the Internet age less is definitely not more. In fact as vendors grapple with ramping databases up to Net speed, factors like more security to handle more data for more users and the need for increasingly sophisticated support for an array of standards prompt them to look at ways of adding value and links to new products. John Cox reports.
NetLedger Inc. has unveiled the latest version of its accounting software, which was designed from the outset to be delivered as an Internet service, accessed via a Web browser.
Databases, not HTML files, are now at the heart of e-commerce applications. These Web-based applications are putting new demands on database products and that's changing the way companies evaluate database management systems.
The Internet changes everything, as Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison is fond of saying, endlessly.
Insignia Solutions Inc. and Informix are working to tie together a Java Virtual Machine with a database for mobile applications.
Attendees at this week's PC Expo seemed relatively immune to the hyperbole about handheld, wireless computing and the Web.
Oracle Corp. this week announced revamped versions of its application server and database management system designed to provide most of the features enterprise customers need to build and run database applications accessible via the Web.
Palm Inc. has finally opened the door to the Internet for the millions who use the popular line of handheld computers. It also opened another door that allows Palm devices to work more easily with a wide range of plug-in peripherals.
The opening speech at PC Expo Tuesday hardly mentioned the PC.
A group of companies have joined together so users of the Motient eLink wireless service can access the MySimon Inc. comparison shopping service. The partnership shows the underlying complexity involved in letting handheld devices access Web services.
A new startup, this week launched by former McCaw Cellular and NextLink Communications Inc. veterans, has been granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission experimental license to test a portable broadband Internet access technology.
A German company has introduced a Java thin-client program that works with applications running on Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers.
Oracle Corp. this week will unveil a sweeping set of middleware products, with new packaging and pricing, to fill in the missing pieces of its plan to become the leading supplier of e-business software.
Formerly highflying Citrix Systems Inc. on Friday announced a high-level management shakeup, in the wake of a warning that revenues and profits are growing more slowly than expected.