Monthly Archives: January 2005
Hedge Funds Exposed by Public Pension Funds
The danger to hedge funds of having one of their clients become the target of a FOIA request is becoming more potent.Hedge funds face...
Search Engines, Bloggers Team to Fight Spam
The Internets leading search engines and a major Weblog tool vendor are joining together to fight the onslaught of spam in the comment sections...
No Linux Kernel Rewrite on the Cards
Speculation over the past weekend that IBM and Open Source Development Labs are preparing to rewrite the Linux kernel to counter intellectual property and...
Golf Courses Put Wi-Fi to Work
What began as a GPS (global positioning satellite) tool to help golfers improve their games has evolved into a fixed wireless management system that...
MSN Out: Yahoo New Verizon Partner
Search giant Yahoo announced Monday that it has finalized terms of a multi-year agreement with Verizon to become the default Web portal for the...
Wireless Broadband Takes on Shortwave Radio
The scene: An enterprising U.K. businessman sets up a taxi service and a shortwave radio station to communicate with his drivers. A rival instantly...
Item-Level RFID Tested in Europe, but Cases Await
NEW YORK—When it comes to talk of RFID implementation, Wal-Mart is usually at the center of it. But at the National Retail Federation Convention...
Intels New Centrino Aims to Get Rid of Bottlenecks
Intel on Wednesday will announce a significant evolutionary update to its successful Centrino mobile computing platform.
The new platform, currently code-named "Sonoma," will provide a...
Options for Mobile Health Devices Fall Short
Outpatient and hospital physicians have markedly different preferences when it comes to mobile health devices, but both groups agree that currently available products are...
Google Updates Picasa Photo Software
Google Inc. is stepping further into the management of digital photos as it launches an update to its Picasa software.
The new version, called Picasa...