Monthly Archives: April 2005
RFID Market In for Major Shakeup, Report Shows
Although it said the RFID market is booming and predicts it will continue to soar for years—from less than $2 billion this year to...
CherryOS Opens Up Code to Doubters
CherryOS, the Mac emulator for Windows that has been dogged by controversy, is to be released as an open-source project on May 1, according...
Service Lets Customers Buy with a Phone Number
When customers step into a cab from the Hello Taxi company in Brookline, Mass., they dont have to worry about fumbling in their pockets...
MemoryLink Displays Bandwidth-in-a-Box
A camera hovering 10 feet above the MemoryLink booth at the ISC West security conference in Las Vegas can capture the facial expressions on...
AOL Rolls Out VOIP Service
America Online Inc. introduced its Internet phone service on Thursday, focusing the initial release on AOL subscribers and on connecting consumers traditional phones into...
Outsource to Free Up Staff, Not Cut It
For at least a decade and a half, the top concern of chief information officers has been making sure that the information systems they...
Inside the Mind of Alan Greenspan – 2
images/bl_spacer.gifHow—and why—does the Federal Reserve chairman decide to raise interest rates? By analyzing statistical indicators and raw data on the health of the U.S....
Windows Supercomputer Release Slips to 2006
Microsoft Corp. acknowledged on Tuesday night that it is running about six months behind schedule with its high-end Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition...
Push Is Coming to Shove for XP SP2 Deployment
Affecting all the XP users who have been avoiding or procrastinating about installing the Windows XP Service Pack 2 upgrade, Microsoft is about to...
New Web-Ad Law Stirs Tempest in a Blogging Teacup
A firestorm of indignation lit up the string of independent Web sites known collectively as the "blogosphere" this weekend, creating a storm of e-mail...