Xandros and Scalix Deliver Fully Integrated Next-Generation Alternative to Microsoft Email, Calendaring and Messaging for Small and Medium Businesses
Xandros, Inc., the leading provider of intuitive end-to-end Linux solutions, and Scalix, the leading Linux email, calendaring and messaging company, today announced that the forthcoming Xandros Server 2 will ship with Scalix 11 pre-installed. The bundled solution [...]

Demonstrates Oracle’s Commitment to a Secure and Fertile Linux Ecosystem Which Drives Innovation and Ensures Choice in the Marketplace
Open Invention Network (OIN), the company formed to spur innovation and protect the Linux System, announced today that Oracle, the world’s largest enterprise software company, has become a licensee. By becoming a licensee, Oracle is demonstrating its [...]

New Location-Based and RFID Managed Services Enable Businesses of Any Size To Track Fleet, Products and Inventory in Real Time.
Building on its unsurpassed global IP network, wireless resources, network integration, consulting and managed service expertise, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced three new sensor-based networking solutions that enable businesses to track a wide array of [...]

Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors the incumbent proprietary software powers.
The network’s patents are available royalty-free to any party that agrees not to file infringement suits involving its own patents “against the Linux environment.” Under the [...]

Novell welcomes Microsoft to its BrainShare user conference for the first time this year.
After years of hostility, Novell welcomed Microsoft for the first time to its annual BrainShare user conference to discuss implications of the vendors’ controversial technology interoperability agreement
“I will tell you as the CEO of this corporation, it was done for one reason, [...]

Despite most security experts agreeing that Windows Vista is more secure than its predecessors, Symantec is warning enterprises contemplating an upgrade to the new operating system not to skimp on basic security precautions.
In its Internet Security Threat Report released last week, Symantec identified several possible areas of potential threat related to Vista, saying these may [...]

The networking giant’s latest acquisition will enable it to diversify away from switches and routers, analysts told Network World US.
Cisco’s acquisition of WebEx is perhaps its most aggressive move yet — and likely not its last — in its drive to transform the company from a network hardware vendor to an applications and software provider.
The [...]

Plug-in application to support Outlook, Google Calendar and Notes
Tungle will deliver on Friday a beta version of a plug-in application designed to let users create a peer-to-peer network of people for the sole purpose of simplifying the process of scheduling meetings.
Tungle, which plugs into calendar applications, allows users to view blocks of time their contacts [...]

A problem in the way Windows PCs obtain network settings could let attackers hijack traffic, security researchers said Saturday.
The problem occurs because of a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings, researchers with security firm IOActive said at the ShmooCon hacker conference here. As a result, an attacker with [...]

WASHINGTON: The Federal Communications Commission will give up on the idea of allowing cellphone use on airplanes, its chairman said, because it is not clear whether the network on the ground can handle the calls.
While the chairman, Kevin Martin, cited a technical reason on Thursday, thousands of air passengers have written to the agency urging [...]