The appointment of a third party to audit the process is intended to tackle criticisms that Sun is too 'protectionist'. Sun Microsystems is to change the Java standards process to include an external audit by an accounting firm.
Industry association Bitkom has proposed an insurance model that would see digital business models insured against risks such as personal damages, the theft of intellectual property, client claims made against interruptions in service and the...
A US insurance firm has announced a policy to cover the Segway Human Transporter - more notoriously referred to as 'Ginger' or 'It'. However, the forward-thinking financiers haven't impressed Segway's creators who insist the device is so safe and...
Higher level monitoring and fault resolution need to interoperate with facilities at lower levels. Once a problem has been identified, its resolution should also be made as simple as possible, for example through automated reallocation of resources...
Microsoft has laid the blame for half of all Windows crashes on third-party code. Scott Charney, chief security strategist at Microsoft, told developers at the TechEd 2003 conference in Brisbane, that information collected by Dr Watson, the company...
Yahoo is planning an upgrade to its instant messaging software that will block access via third-party IM applications such as Trillian. However, she did say that the upgrade would likely disable access for all Yahoo Messenger users who access the...