Monthly Archives: February 2005
New Tech Prevents DVD Copying, Kills Rippers
Content protection company Macrovision Corp. plans to announce on Tuesday that it has developed a way to eliminate the vast majority of DVD copying.
The...
CA CEO Urges Open-Source Platform Development
BOSTON—Less than one week after officially taking over the reins as new president and CEO of Computer Associates International, John Swainson urged LinuxWorld attendees...
Baby Steps Beyond Google
In a recent column, I wrote about my experiences using a series of different Web tools to find the most important advances in brain-machine...
Online Collaboration and Social Networking Expands at Demo
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Emerging forms of online collaboration and social networking foreshadowed an always-connected future during presentations at the Demo conference here.
Startup companies this week launched...
Using RFID to Track Patients
Radianse Inc., an indoor positioning service company, has introduced what it says is the first single-use active-RFID tag for patient location. The wristwatch-sized device...
Gates: Consumer Anti-Spyware Tool Will Be Free
SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed plans to roll out anti-virus and anti-spyware products for enterprise customers, but details on pricing and release dates remain...
Red Hat Rolls Out New Enterprise Linux, Takes Shots at Sun
BOSTON—As expected, Red Hat Inc. announced Monday the release of its new top-end Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, at a meeting with partners...
Beehive Forum .5 Online Community Software
DIY (Do-It-Yourself) is one of the most important things we cover at ET. But DIY is not limited to just building computers. For example,...
Database Legend: How Real-Time Data Analysis Will Transform Society
Mike Stonebraker is a database superstar. Not only is the former UC/Berkeley computer science professor the father of the popular relational databases Ingres and...
Blog Tools Eye the Enterprise at Demo
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—As Weblogs gain more mainstream appeal, new blog-publishing tools are responding with products tailored to enterprise users and to emerging areas such as...