Stories about: SLP

Although Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 software development platform is part of a February 2008 multiproduct launch, the company intends to ship it by the end of 2007, said S. "Soma" Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, in his blog.

Qantas Airways has signed up Cybertrust's Security Lifecycle Program (SLP) to check and manage existing and future governance, policy and outsourcing contracts for third parties.

Linux vendors have been hit by two fresh security bugs, affecting a widely used graphics decoder and the Gaim instant-messaging client.

Novell Inc. says the announcement of its Open Enterprise Server (OES) product at this year's BrainShare user conference is in keeping with the vendor's promise at last year's event to give customers more flexibility and choice and to support Linux in the enterprise.

Smart card company Gemplus SA and its subsidiary SLP InfoWare Inc. are jointly developing SIM (subscriber identity module) card-based customer relationship management (CRM) applications which will enable subscriber profiles to be captured in real time on the mobile device.

Freeways and networks have at least one thing in common: On both, traffic expands to fill the available space. Between construction costs and the lack of real estate in key areas, it's not practical to keep adding lanes. Nor is it practical to throw more bandwidth at your network problems -- in both situations, you end up with huge traffic jams.