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Awk,
Can you PM me your email address please.
Wavelet
Great stuff Doma. Thanks EOM
:O)
Google readies PayPal-killer
It would be great if this new service really was going to be 'Trusted' !!
Wavelet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/13/google_payment_coming_soon/
Payment system weeks away
By John Oates
Published Tuesday 13th June 2006 14:19 GMTSecurity
Google is all set to launch its online payment system, or "PayPal-killer" for the over-dramatic.
According to a note from investment bank RBC Capital Markets the search giant will let people selling goods through Google Base use the system to pay for purchases. GBuy is due to launch 28 June and will initially be limited to Base users.
This will be extended to "Google-approved merchants" later. The service will be free at first but Google wants to charge between 1.5 per cent and 2 per cent of sale price. The service will be targetted at small merchants who are unable, or unwilling, to accept credit card payments.
The "Trusted GBuy Merchant" tag alongside search results may have a beneficial impact on click-through rates. Although ecommerce is growing fast - £18bn last year or 2.5 per cent of household spending - there is still a perception that security fears are holding back some purchases.
Google's brand may help allay these fears. If the search giant was to track purchases too then it would have valuable information to feed back into its search engine.
The announcement, or rather lack of announcement - Google has not confirmed the launch - is widely seen as bad news for market-leading payment system PayPal, owned by eBay.
There's more on how GBuy works and what it looks like here or on the San Jose Mercury News here.®
Yes, I think Doma is on vacation this weekend
Wavelet
Good news Doma re: Dell
At last the cogs in Europe are turning !!
Wavelet
Itsacomin !!!!!! EOM
Wavelet
Thanks Reach. EOM
OT: Gateway Ends Losing Streak
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/08/16/gateway_results_q2_05/
By Tony Smith 16 Aug 2005 10:48
Gateway went back into the black during its second quarter, the PC maker reported yesterday, ending its 13-quarter run of loss announcements.
For the three months to 30 June 2005, Gateway sold $873m worth of kit, up 4.2 per cent on both the year-ago quarter and the previous three-month period, which both yielded revenues of $838m, the company said.
Net income for the quarter came to $17.2m (five cents a share), up from the previous quarter's $5m (one cent a share) loss and the $339m loss (91 cents a share) Gateway reported this time last year.
The profit came as the cost of the company's restructuring programme following its acquisition of eMachines fell to $1m from $8m the previous quarter and $289m in Q2 FY2004.
It also included $15.1m from Microsoft, the result of a market agreement signed between the two companies in April 2005.
PC sales for the period were up seven per cent sequentially and 27 per cent year on year to just over 1m units. Three-quarter of those machines were sold through the company's retail channels, with four per cent retail unit sales growth and three per cent retail revenue growth bucking the seasonal trend, Gateway said.
However, PC sales contributed only 27 per cent to Gateway's gross margin, which rose fractionally from 9.6 per cent to ten per cent, sequentially.
The company had to "contend with gross margin pressure in all our major business units in the second quarter due to competitive pressures", company president and CEO Wayne Innouye said in a statement. Dell said much the same thing when it reported its Q3 figures last week.
Looking ahead, Gateway reduced its forecast for full-year sales from $4.0-4.25bn to $3.9-4.0bn. It also reduced its earnings forecast, from 15-17 cents a share to 11-13 cents a share. ®
Kant ... from the link you found, very interesting potential
Wavelet
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The upshot? Notebook PC use substantially boosts personal productivity through the opportunity to work on the road, at home or on location. Adding 7.7 hours per week of productivity for each desktop PC user can result in a dramatic boost in work flow and organizational efficiency. These results need to be factored against the increased costs that come with a comparable notebook PC.
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Mac OS-X TPM confirmation
Things are realy on a roll !!!!
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/08/01/0421248.shtml?tid=179&tid=118&tid=3
Wavelet
Very interesting Doma,
That is very encouraging. Look forward to hearing more detail on the next CC !!
Wavelet
OT: UK ID card to use ICAO reader standard
By John Lettice
Published Monday 25th July 2005 16:59 GMT
The Government last week confirmed that the UK's planned ID card is intended to operate as a 'passport lite' that could be used for travel within the European Union, and signalled that Home Office thinking may be moving towards the use of a PIN as a common mechanism for verification. The card's operation as a passport, said Under Secretary of State Andy Burnham, dictates that it will need to use ICAO standard RFID contactless reader technology, while use of chip and PIN would allow it to be compatible with banking and retail systems.
That means, he said, that it could function both as a contact and contactless card. PIN would also provide some measure of protection for internet transactions, but on its own, no more than that of a credit card. Nor is it immediately obvious what kind of transaction an ID card holder might want or need to conduct via the national chip and PIN infrastructure. There are however possible advantages for the Government in using the commercial chip and PIN network, not least of these being that audit trails would be far more extensive, providing a far more detailed picture of the user's movements.
The Government's view that the passport lite aspect of the card requires that it have a contactless capability however has interesting ramifications.
ID cards are already used for identification at border crossings in Europe, and the UK Presidency called for common standards on ID cards within Europe just days after taking office. The UK's call for common standards to "ensure that data stored on Identity Cards is appropriately protected but can be read by other Member States" is however some distance from receiving proposals for, and deciding on, those standards. Nor is it clear that contactless ID card readers to ICAO standards will be accepted across the whole EU, that Member States have the intention of using such readers, or whether it is even feasible to use them on a Europe-wide basis. Statewatch reports (while also challenging the legality of the EU's ID card moves) that governments have been sent a questionnaire asking what checks and equipment they intend to install at borders, and whether they intend to carry out one-to-one or one-to-many checks.
The primary purpose of these readers, if they're installed at all, will be to check passports, and if appropriate common standards for ID cards are agreed then it may make sense for member states which use contactless readers to check passports to also use them for checking ID cards. This isn't quite what one might understand from Burnham's claim that current plans to use ID cards for European travel mean that "the card will need to meet standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which require the card to be contactless in order to be considered a valid travel document."
As the European Union can (and does) decide what can be used as a "valid travel document" within its own borders, and is the body responsible for doing the considering here, one wonders what ICAO has to do with the matter. Designating national ID cards as travel documents could of course be part of a cunning plan to get around the legal difficulties Statewatch puts forward.
At the moment, however, the UK has decided on an interface standard for its own ID card scheme based on the assumption that there will be a standard EU ID card, that this will be a standard passport lite, and that it will conform to an international contactless passport standard that is readable globally. Having decided on this standard, it will then make obvious sense for the UK to use ICAO-standard contactless technology for readers within the UK as well. The security implications of this have been well trampled in respect of passport use, but if - as the Government hopes - ID cards are used widely within the UK, the potential for security breaches will obviously be greatly increased. As indeed will other opportunities. Wouldn't it be handy if, say, the local housing office knew exactly who you were the moment you walked through the door, and had your file on screen ready by the time you reached the counter? No? Perhaps not...
Because of the nature of the technology, there will be a risk whenever the card is being used for identification, rather than solely when it is being 'officially' read via its contactless capability. For most purposes this capability is unlikely to be needed. Burnham says that the forms of verification currently being considered are "card, PIN and biometric identification", i.e. whether the picture matches the face, whether the bearer can enter the PIN and whether the biometrics of the person match either those on the card (local check) or the National Identity Register (online check). These forms of verification are being discussed with "various organisations who would be potential users", and the discussions cover "what performance is acceptable".
The discussions have not yet reached a conclusion, but it seems perfectly possible that the Home Office's vaunted scheme, protected by magic biometric technology, will in most cases operate as picture ID or a pin-protected card, which are the options least likely to add to cost and inconvenience to interested organisations.
In those cases where a biometric check is used, the Home Office has been considering measures that could be employed to combat spoofed biometrics. Burnham didn't give an answer on the use of contact lenses to fool iris recognition, but said that methods to deal with faked fingerprints could include "selecting a random finger for verification, from those available, rather than using only one fingerprint on all occasions. This also gives flexibility around issues arising from short term damage to fingers, such as a cut." This interesting idea, one notes, would inevitably add greatly to delays, confusion and failure rates at border checkpoints, and prove discouraging to commercial organisations considering using the more secure (allegedly...) biometric check.
One of the bodies the Home Office is consulting on biometric security issues is GCHQ's Communications and Electronic Security Group. We note that this organisation's FAQ currently includes this categorical statement: "There are currently no approved biometrics applications, and we do not expect any to be available in the near future as none of the technologies have yet, in our view, reached the stage where we would be happy with them as the sole access control mechanism." Have they told the Home Office?
While they're about it, they might care to discuss the use of single identification numbers, where the Home Office's views seem somewhat underdeveloped. Asked what assessment of the risks posed by the use of a single national identity number had been made, Burnham replied that an "extensive risk assessment of the use of a single identifying number has been conducted by experienced fraud and security experts. This has resulted in the selection of a new single identifying number that is unrelated to any number issued by the Government at the present time." So, the Government has assessed that existing identity number systems are too broken to use, and decided to invent a new, universal one instead.
It's worth noting that the Home Office's answers on issues of verification and security almost all lead to "the integrity of the National Identity Register" as a backstop. Thus, the "performance of one particular identifier or technology [which might be used in verification] is not the key determinant" because during enrolment a false match on one particular biometric "would be resolved by other biometric matches or by inconsistencies with the information held about the applicant and the record against which it had been matched." Which appears to indicate that the primary concern is for the data held by the Government to be solid, with the security offered to the user (which is surely the user's primary concern) coming a distant second or third. Similarly, supervision of enrolment would "reduce" (sic) the likelihood of fake biometrics being successful, and details of how the Government proposes to stop this becoming a simple key to ID fraud cannot be provided "in order to protect the integrity of the National Identity Register."
Effectively, it's a system which by design puts all of its eggs in one basket, and is dependent on that basket being made impregnable via measures which the Government will never reveal or discuss. Trust us...
Costings update On which subject, the Home Office has published its promised rebuttal of the London School of Economics' report on ID cards. The Home Office document (available here) has a very brief section on costings, which largely boils down to claims that the LSE used the wrong figures, and that the Home Office has access to other figures (which it still won't share with us) that justify its own costings entirely. As William Heath points out at Ideal Government, "How the assumptions work comes down to whether you trust the Home Office, its intentions, and its manner of doing business. Of course the Home Office has a self-image of itself as the good guys being hampered by a tedious liberties lobby in its fight against evil. It trusts itself. But it hasn't won many friends during all this process. The cause did seem to win Tony Blair as a convert. And there's a cluster of businesses hoping for patronage. But I've yet to hear of anyone won over by the arguments as put by the Home Office."
It's doubtful whether the Home Office rebuttal merits a rebuttal rebuttal, but now the wretched thing exists we face the tedious prospect of Ministers confidently claiming that the LSE study has now been thoroughly discredited. The LSE is preparing its response, but has told Kable that the Home Office document contains substantial material errors and appears ot contain false assumptions about the LSE's alternative blueprint. ®
oclv, you have made a very important point.
I agree with you and think a change should be made asap as the boards exposure may increase exponentially imminently.
Wavelet
CSI NetSec 2005 starts Today,
TCG, David Grawrock, Intel,presents "The Trusted Platform Module in Business and Government."
Wavelet
JMD Question ...
Am I right to assume that the fee paid to JMD is an annual fee which means they will provide coverage of the finanicial results for Q1-Q4 of 2005 plus other material events up to April 2006?
Wavelet
Weby
I currently have one poster on ignore. I have never before had a poster on ignore ...
Wavelet
IdentiPHI .... this is fantastic.
A very comprehensive set of literature detailing the awsome capabilities of our products.
On the second data sheet there is a lovely quote ....
http://www.identiphi.net/Identiphi_SLAA_Final.pdf
"SecureLogin Advanced Authentication is highly configurable and gives us the flexibility to enforce different authentication security options across a diverse range of sections and users"
Chief Security Officer
Major US Bank
All powered by Protocom & WAVE !!!!!!!!!!!
Wavelet
Wave's ETS 4.2
These 'dot releases' ie. software version 4.1 changing to 4.2 are often 'maintenance releases' rather than 'feature releases'.
I see this as a good sign when relating to the software we use at work. Minor dot releases are usually made available for bug fixes or due to client request for minor changes.
This should mean two things .... firstly there is a significant user base out there using our product and secondly that they are in close contact with wave helping iron out problems and suggesting minor improvements.
I am pleased to see this as I am fustrated on a daily basis with other software suppliers who do not put out enough dot releases as they are not responsive enough to customers needs.
Also FWIW I was not unhappy with the CC as I was not expecting any new info pertaining to Q4. Q1 2005 however should in my opinion give us a small insight into where we are going !
Wavelet
Hello Guvna,
Doma was not being sarcastic, "the dogs bollocks" is a British term used to describe something that is the best of the best.
So in context if you look at the link
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/verticals/security_identity_user?c=us&cs=55....
You will see 4 user athentication products listed which inrease in functionality and level of security from 1. to 4.
1. Integrated Smart Card Readers for Dell Latitude Notebooks
Very basic hardware / software package
2. Dell OtaniumSuite Pro Smart Card Access Management
Basic hardware / software package
3. Dell OtaniumSuite PKI Secure Smart Card Management
More advanced hardware / software package
4. IdentiPHI Software Package
The absolute dogs danglies phat kickin TCG compliant hardware / software package !!!!!!
Wavelet
Doma, I wonder how IdentiPHI compare to Envoy as a provider?
I assume Envoy too can provide an "authentication and identity management solution that includes smart card technologies, TPM, single sign-on and card management systems."
Wavelet
Looks like Dell's marketing of Wave's products just stepped up another gear !!!
At some point the momentum will become very obvious to the street. There will be sales and there will be revs from the largest computer supplier in the world.
Thanks Doma.
Wave's CSP with Intel ...
Doma, I agree this is new and great news! Wave's CSP
has not been mentioned by intel before
Looks like the last piece is falling into place on the chart!
Wavelet
TCPA Support in Linux
Sorry if posted before I'm catching up with posts but noticed this ....
http://slashdot.org/
Wavelet
Holy shamoly Doma !!!!!!!!!!!! We ARE on our way !!!!!!! eom
Hopefully Wavexpress can capitalise on this opportunity to piggy back streaming services with extra content
Wavelet
Telephone Business Gears Up to Deliver TV
Tue Dec 21,12:43 PM ET Technology - AP
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&e=4&u=/ap/20041221/ap_on_hi_te/ye_te...
By BRUCE MEYERSON, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK - If everything goes as planned, the telephone industry will be all about television in 2005. TV over your home phone line. TV on your cell phone. Few topics have been as popular this past year among phone companies and their technology partners.
"There's one application knocking on the door and consumers are truly hungering for it: real-time TV and streaming TV," Anssi Vanjoki, general manager for multimedia at cell phone maker Nokia (news - web sites) Corp., proclaimed at a recent investment conference.
Similarly bold pronouncements have been emanating from a growing list of powerful names, from local phone giants Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications Inc., to wireless chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., to Walt Disney Co., News Corp. and none other than Microsoft Corp.
Such talk is hardly new. But this time telephone companies are backing their words with billions of dollars to upgrade their networks.
Both wired and wireless players are intent on moving beyond simple phone calls, a business where revenues and customers are being lost to price wars and new rivals — especially with the arrival of cheap voice-over-Internet phone services from cable TV companies, AT&T Corp. and dozens of smaller players.
While the strategy includes video games and other interactive offerings, the biggest revenue target is the cable TV market: In 2004, consumers paid more than $36 billion for their cable TV, and that programming generated nearly $19 billion in ad revenue, according to the National & Cable Telecommunications Association.
The challenge in grabbing a share of that pot, or expanding it with newfangled services, is very different for residential phone companies compared with cell phone carriers.
On the wired side, the question is more about competitive edge than technology, though there are few similarities in how Verizon and SBC are retooling their telephone networks to deliver video.
Both companies are expected to introduce TV services in at least a few markets by midyear without much of a hitch. Less clear is whether their version of TV will feature enough new bells and whistles on top of the usual cable fare to set it apart and lure customers away from traditional providers of such programming.
There's no doubt that the fiber-optic cables and digital technologies they are deploying are robust enough to deliver interactive services such as Caller ID on the TV screen or more heavy-duty offerings like video-on-demand without the current limitations on selection.
But neither Verizon or SBC will be specific thus far about what they'll offer right out of the starting gate.
Both, however, have asserted that they'll be very competitive on price — a promise that bodes well for snagging customers but not so well for a speedy recovery of the billions of dollars it will take to upgrade their networks and buy programming from cable channels, movie studios and other content providers.
If they're too aggressive with pricing, Verizon and SBC will risk triggering the same price wars that have devastated the telephone industry.
By contrast, cell phone TV faces multiple barriers.
Although mobile service providers are rolling out next-generation technologies that are speedy enough to deliver a TV signal, there are limits to how much network capacity they can divert away from phone calls and wireless Internet access. And just as they interfere with calls, gaps in network coverage may disrupt a TV feed.
On the device side, while screen quality has improved, TV presents a challenge in terms of battery life, processing power and storage capacity.
And then there's the pesky question of whether people truly want to watch TV on such a tiny screen and would be willing to pay much extra for it.
Nevertheless, the buzz on cell TV has been coming in loud and clear on multiple fronts, with many proponents pointing to strong demand for mobile video services in South Korea (news - web sites). Usage became so heavy on one Korean carrier's network that it withdrew an all-you-can-eat pricing plan and switched to a pay-as-you-go approach.
Sprint Corp. already offers two premium TV services to its cell phone customers, using MobiTV from Idetic Inc., though the quality is crude compared with real television. Sprint won't disclose how many subscribers have signed on, but says the positive response to its first service was a driving force in launching the second this past summer.
Among content providers, Fox recently announced plans to produce one-minute episodes of its "24" television series for Vodafone Group PLC, the world's biggest cell phone company. Disney plans to launch an ESPN-brand cell phone company in 2005 featuring a wide range of sports content including streaming audio and video.
Qualcomm and Texas Instruments also appear to see potential in cell TV. The two rivals are developing competing wireless chips to receive and process TV signals in an efficient, high-quality manner.
Qualcomm is even hoping to address other obstacles to mobile TV beyond its normal expertise.
The company plans to launch a national cellular TV service in 2006 over its own spectrum, broadcasting up to 20 channels for wireless carriers to sell their customers.
OT: Four Infineon execs heading to jail on price-fixing charges
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/02/infineon_execs_plea/
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Published Thursday 2nd December 2004 23:35 GMT
Four Infineon executives will serve jail time after pleading guilty to being part of an "international conspiracy" to fix the price of computer memory, the US Department of Justice announced today.
Heinrich Florian, Günter Hefner, Peter Schaefer, and T. Rudd Corwin will serve between four and six months in the clink and pay $250,000 each to settle their role in the price fixing scandal. All of the workers operated in Infineon's sales division both here and in Germany. They have agreed to help with the DoJ's ongoing investigation into the conduct of the major memory makers.
"These four executives are the first to plead guilty to a charge of fixing prices in what is still a very active and far-reaching investigation into antitrust violations in the DRAM industry," said Scott D. Hammond, the Antitrust Division's Director of Criminal Enforcement. "We will continue in our efforts to bring to justice other domestic and foreign-based executives who were involved with fixing DRAM prices."
Infineon admitted in September to keeping the price of memory artificially high between 1999 and 2002. It agreed to pay a $160m fine for its actions. Micron made a similar admission in November, although the company will likely avoid paying a fine. Samsung and Hynix are also under investigation.
Dell was one of the leading computer/server makers that complained about the memory maker's actions with CEO Michael Dell referring to the companies as a cartel at one point. A number of other hardware makers were affected by the pricing.
The four Infineon staffers were charged with participating in meetings to discuss the price of DRAM memory in which they set certain prices for the products. In addition, the DoJ charged them with exchanging information on customer purchases. The DoJ found them in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. ®
Trusted memory
Can anyone inform us if any of our Embassy patents cover trusted memory?
Wavelet
Very cool Eamon. All of your efforts are appreciated.
Wavelet
HBG, I disagree that Linux is any MAJOR competition for Microsoft.
I have a fair amount of unix systems admin experience, mostly with SGI's irix and more recently Linux. My experience has been that Linux is a fantastic operating system and in itself is fairly easily installable, BUT after installing the OS and office tools etc. things can get very hard indeed for your average user.
A lot of the available software out there is not pre-comiled and you have to jump through too many hoops to install it. If it wasn't for one of my engineers being an absolute guru in this area I'd still be struggling myself.
So what's my point .... well just that there's no David vs. Goliath situation here at the moment. Linux has quickly taken a proportion of Microsoft's business and that IMHO has only been to the techy percentage of the computer using community. This is a significant percentage but the vast majority of the planet with a choice will continue to use Microsoft software for its plug and play features and ease of intergration etc. Obviously a massive percentage can't even choose and will continue on the Microsoft path.
Before anyone dissagrees I would like to add that we have a first class Microsoft IT specialist in our corporation and even he wouldn't be able to install Linux this weekend if you asked him too. No - he's very happy deploying active directory at the moment and will welcome TPM's and software like KTM when they arrive en mass.
Wavelet
Doma,
My local bread shop is called Greg’s and they are very successful. I think this is a dot and he is implying wave will be as successful !! LOL
Paul, your post just makes me think ...
that Steven wan't stupid when he was singing a Microsoft song at the TCG infosec meeting last week. He stood up for 20 minutes basically saying you can manage TPM's now with Microsoft Windows Server 2003!
Wavelet
I am up beat as well.
SKS obviously had to be VERY careful about any sort of predictions for deployment or revs with the law suits.
Trusted Computing REALLY looks like its now happening with or without Wave.
The most recent public demonstrations of Trusted Computing by the PC giants (many for the first time) included Waves applications.
The giants aren't making revs from Trusted Computing yet so WHY SHOULD WE !!
Everyone needs to understand where we are today as the whole computing industry is really starting to agree that this is the future !!
Unfortunately more patience is required.
I have no doubt that investment will be made in Wave if we continue to hold the respect we currently visibly have from the giants.
Wavelet
Intel website has changed again ....
The D865GRH board is now one of only two highlighted products
http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherbd/index.htm?iid=ipp_home+desk_boards&
cooool!
wavelet
Barge Please Help.
I am seriously trying to understand what a 'Trusted Domain' is in the context of trusted computing and the Embassy OS.
Can you give me a plain English explanation and example of a trusted domain.
I understand how trusted domains work in a microsoft network, but assume that is not what is being refered to with Interoperable Trust Domains.
Thanks in advance
Wavelet
OT: HP Web Services Purchase
Great last line to this article.
wavelet
HP hears happy voices inside of Talking Blocks
By Ashlee Vance in Chicago
Posted: 03/09/2003 at 19:05 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/32643.html
HP has snatched up one of the many wee Web services companies out there and said it may buy a couple more as needed.
By the end of this month, HP expects to complete its purchase of Talking Blocks - a Web services software management company located in San Francisco. The idea is to add Talking Blocks' tools into HP's Utility Data Center (UDC) and OpenView software packages.
Talking Blocks' main goal is to add a layer on top of J2EE application servers that makes it easier to manage software running on a variety of different platforms. It's Talking Blocks Management Suite pulls this off by providing a shared set of security, version control, integration and monitoring services.
Yes, the vomit inducing words are part of the product description. Evolution, leverage, exposing business functionality, adaptable and insulated. Talking Blocks has them all.
The key bit of its software is the Runtime Service Registry. Ideally, this lets a customer link Web services from a variety of consumers either inside or outside the firewall. The registry helps track various apps, monitoring their performance and communications.
HP expects Talking Blocks' software to be a nice addition to its UDC management suite. HP can already help customers manage hardware from various vendors from one console. The users can move apps around the "virtual set of resources" as needed. Talking Blocks will add a new layer of tools to the software part of this puzzle.
This is all very fluffy and cute and ambiguous. Thankfully, the always eloquent Nora Denzel, senior vice president of HP's software unit, helped provide a moment of clarity on how Talking Blocks and UDC might work together.
Say a customer wanted to find out how many transactions it could run before the close of the stock market on a given day. It could turn to the Talking Blocks code for the analysis. If a little more horsepower is need to crank all the calculations, messages would be sent to the UDC console to send in some extra servers and get the job done.
Talking Blocks lists four customers, including Verizon, BusinessWire and Moody's, so maybe it can actually pull some of this off.
HP's big challenge will be linking a new complex management package with UDC and OpenView. This is the same problem that Sun Microsystems faces after having acquired some Web services software makers of its own.
Denzel said HP may not stop at TalkingBlocks in its quest to bring Web services to the world. It will acquire companies and partner as needed to make dreams a reality.
Re: Good or Bad?
I'd say good. Gives companies like Wave longer to deploy the kinds of applications Microsoft wants to deploy with Longhorn.
Go WAVX !
wavelet
Microsoft delays Longhorn. Again (different angle at the end of this article)
By John Leyden
Posted: 02/09/2003 at 10:37 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32602.html
Microsoft looks to have delayed the release of Longhorn withdrawing a commitment to ship the next version of Windows in 2005.
Longhorn was originally supposed to ship in 2004. In May, this year release was pushed back to 2005. This week Longhorn's availability has been delayed even further, with Microsoft execs declining to say when exactly the operating system might ship, eWeek reports.
A Longhorn developer preview CD is to be distributed at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next month. A broad beta will follow next year, Jim Allchin, group vice president of Microsoft's Windows Platform Group, said at a financial analyst meeting this summer.
Longhorn includes a major revamp of the Windows File System and is described by Redmond execs as Microsoft's "most revolutionary operating system to date". This sounds impressive until we remember that the company has said this about just about every version of its operating system since Windows 95.
This time around, however, the reason for the delay in the next version of Microsoft's operating system could extend beyond the purely technical. eWeek notes a theory that Microsoft is postponing the release of Longhorn until the remedy order made in settling an antitrust case against the software giant expires.
The order, issued last year and valid until 2007, forces Microsoft to license the protocols between its client and server environments to third parties.
But a Microsoft spokeswoman told eWeek that it was "highly unlikely" that Longhorn will be released after the consent decree expires in November 2007. "Any and all relevant APIs will be disclosed as documented on release of the product," she added.
Share Holders Meeting
Will anyone be able to record the event and do
an 'UncleverName' style transcript ?
I would soooooo love to go, but can't as I'm
over in the UK.
Congrats to all longs!!!
The best is yet to come!
Wavelet
Signed in - wavelet
doma is away on holiday at the mo.
will be back by fri/sat i believe.