Monthly Archives: May 2004
Riding Radio Waves
As project leaders ponder pilots of radio frequency identification systems this summer, in the rush to meet the mandates from Wal-Mart, Target, the Department...
Microsoft Unveils Future Of Tablet PC
SEATTLE—Microsoft on Wednesday gave WinHEC attendees a behind-the-scenes peek at future technologies the company is preparing for mobile PCs.
Darin Fish, business development manager in...
Telemedicine May Bring Medical Care to Remote Regions
NASA is funding and testing a combination of television and computers that can allow physicians in remote geographical areas to easily interact with specialists....
AMD Ships Athlon64 Chips for Thin, Light Notebooks
Advanced Micro Devices took aim at the thin-and-light notebook market Thursday, releasing two new microprocessors for the slimmed-down PCs.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., of Sunnyvale,...
Is Google at Risk with Outsourcing?
Search provider Googles highly anticipated initial public offering filing featured a folksy letter to shareholders, stellar financials and plans to allow small investors to...
Making RFID Work for Pharma
Two software giants, Oracle and Microsoft, both announced initiatives recently to help pharmaceutical companies integrate radio frequency identification (RFID) technology into existing systems.Oracle unveiled...
Sun Opens RFID Test Center
CARROLLTON, Texas—Sun Microsystems is looking to RFID expertise as an avenue to deepen customer relationships—and eventually to foster the need for more Sun servers.
The...
Mono Development Platform Moves into Beta
Novell on Thursday released the first beta version of an open-source development platform that allows developers to create Microsoft .NET applications for other operating...
Up Close with the Latest Longhorn Build
At this years Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft released another sneak peek at its next generation operating system, code-named Longhorn. PC Magazine, along...
Health IT Czar Appointed
Just a week after President Bush created the position of health IT czar by executive order, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy...