Articles by Matthew W. Beale

The Earth Day Network is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Earth Day festival this year by presenting a live Webcast of this weekend's EarthFair 2000 festivities from the Capitol Mall in Washington, D.C Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who is chairing the event, will be the featured speaker. Web surfers will also be treated to appearances by Bill Nye...

As Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) muddles forward in its Pyrrhic struggle against the U.S. government, Linux continues to encroach upon the company's sacred Windows NT market space. Given Microsoft's well-documented aggressive business style, many analysts are bracing for another colossal battle as the software titan hunkers down to undercut the open source movement...

Magic Software Enterprises is one of an increasing number of high-tech firms that are moving a portion of their business and product lines to the Linux open-source platform. The company is a board member of Linux International, which is a non-profit organization founded with a mission to advance international Linux acceptance According to the compa...

Open-source solutions provider VA Linux Systems announced this week that the Linux-based KDE (K desktop environment) graphical user interface and CMU Sphinx speech recognition system projects have migrated their development efforts to its SourceForge resource site KDE and CMU Sphinx will join more than 1,750 other open-source projects that have acc...

As the LinuxWorld Expo came to a close in New York City this week, computer book and operating system publisher Macmillan USA, Inc. announced that it has released the latest version of its distribution of the Linux open-source operating system Macmillan Deluxe Linux-Mandrake 7.0 offers, on top of its graphical tools for installation and disk partit...

E-commerce solutions provider BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) announced Thursday that it plans to work with Nokia to create a new standards-based solution for building wireless e-commerce applications The companies will integrate BEA's WebLogic Server and Nokia's WAP Server 1.0 products. The new solution will enable e-commerce developers and indep...

As part of its "Linux for eBusiness" strategy, Caldera Systems, Inc. has announced that its soon-to-be introduced OpenLinux eServer will ship with IBM open-source e-commerce products The Caldera OpenLinux-based eServer 2.3 is set to officially debut next week at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City. It will include IBM's VisualAge for Java and the ...

Diversinet Corp., a provider of e-commerce security applications, has unveiled a new product version that is designed to issue digital permits for both wired and wireless permissions The Digital Permit Server version 2.0 allows content providers and other organizations to create authorization parameters that allow users who work with resource-const...

Cybernet Systems Corp. is a manufacturer of Linux-based thin servers that were designed for small to medium-sized businesses that are looking for an inexpensive and simplified way to gain an online presence The NetMAX pre-configured Web server for Linux product, which Cybernet boasts can be installed in 15 minutes, is based on the Red Hat Linux dis...

Separate industry-wide initiatives led by Sun Microsystems and industry powerhouses Compaq Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: CPQ), Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HWP), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) are seeking to secure online business by collectively creating an industry standard for securing personal computing environments Sun...

In the first major "post-Red Hat" Linux-related public stock move, open-source software developer VA Linux Systems has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The Sunnyvale, California-based company, according to the SEC filing, is looking to raise $70 million (US$) through the sale of shares of ...

In a move that is expected to catapult China to the next level of Internet commerce, the People's Bank of China has signed up a Texas-based company, Sun Microsystems' Chinese subsidiary and a Beijing-based software firm to provide secure authentication tools for the bank's e-commerce projects Plano, Texas-based Entrust Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: E...

Motorola Computer Group (MCG), a division of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), announced major moves into the Linux business market this week at LinuxWorld in San Jose, detailing strategic partnerships with divisions of Caldera, Inc The Tempe, Arizona-based provider of embedded computing technology disclosed what it calls a Unified Linux Strategy, "that ...

TurboLinux previews its new high availability clustering Web server this week at the Linux World Conference in San Jose, pushing the viability of high-end open-source solutions for e-commerce The TurboCluster Server, which has been ported to the Alpha Processor, is a "breakthrough for Linux," stated Cliff Miller, CEO of TurboLinux. "More and more o...

Using public-key infrastructure (PKI) technology provided by Entrust Technologies, the Bank of Bermuda recently initiated the launch of its Secure Clients Access service to offer international customers trusted online banking As a result of its agreement with Entrust, the Bank can now not only offer digital signatures and e-mail encryption for file...

In response to a recent firestorm of criticism regarding the security of its products, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) left a Web server with a beta version of Windows 2000 and the embattled Internet Information server (IIS) outside its firewall this week This enticing announcement openly invited members of the hacking community to crack the new program.

A report recently released by International Data Corp. (IDC) -- "eCommerce Software Applications Market in Asia/Pacific" -- indicates that by the year 2003, the e-commerce applications market in the Asia/Pacific region will top $1.3 billion (US$). IDC defines such applications quite simply as those that enable companies to conduct business online A...

A new study indicates that e-commerce operations are 57 percent more likely to experience a security breach than other online sites, and 24 percent more likely to be the target of a hacker/cracker attack. E-commerce companies involved in the study have been impacted by most examined breach categories "The 1999 Information Security Industry Survey" ...

Applix, Inc., (Nasdaq: APLX) a solutions provider for the UNIX and Linux markets, this week announced the creation of SmartBreak.com, a new Web site intended to accelerate support for users and developers working with open-source environments SmartBreak features a searchable knowledge base, containing information and documents to assist in solving ...

Baltimore Technologies, (London: BLM) a provider of e-commerce and enterprise security solutions with main offices in London and Dublin, this week announced a strategic partnership with Identrus, the global trust organization Baltimore's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has been deployed by Identrus to secure the operational pilot of its new interna...