Monthly Archives: June 2005
Intel Research Merges Centrino with 802.11n
Intel Corp. will present a paper Friday that will demonstrate its progress toward integrating the current Wi-Fi technologies with the next-generation 802.11n protocol.
At the...
Security, Data Integration Top Venture Capital Interests
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Security, enterprise data integration, health care and regulatory compliance are some of the areas that will attract investment during the next few...
MSN Readies Revamped Shopping Portal
MSN is in the process of revamping the MSN shopping portal, hoping to better compete with Googles Froogle, eBay and Amazon.com, as well as...
Gateway Leader Pushes Customer Intimacy
When he took the reins at Gateway in March 2004, Wayne Inouyes first job was to right a company that had been battered by...
Botnet Hunters Search for Command and Control Servers
Convinced that the recent upswing in virus and Trojan attacks is directly linked to the creation of botnets for nefarious purposes, a group of...
AT&T Tests Enterprise WiMax in the City
AT&T Corp. is determined to make a case for fixed-wireless WiMax technology for urban, corporate environments.
In October, the Bedminster, N.J., carrier will roll out...
SAP Expected to Tap Rival Executives
After years of being characterized as an unmovable beast—a monolithic company and enterprise resource planning system incapable of change—SAP AG is morphing, it seems,...
Apple Set to Tune the Mainstream into Podcasts
When Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs took the stage last week at Apples major developer conference, he brought with him a message about...
MS Office XML Formats Not OK with GNU
The royalty-free license under which Microsoft plans to make its upcoming new Office Open XML Formats widely available is incompatible with the GNU General...
Gateway Aims for Success After Transition
Since taking over the CEO post at Gateway Inc. in March 2004—after the companys $289 million acquisition of eMachines Inc.—Wayne Inouye has remade the...