Monthly Archives: August 2005
Survey: RFID Use in Hospitals to Rise Despite Obstacles
Uncoordinated efforts between hospitals, vendors, shippers and suppliers are keeping RFID out of hospitals, concludes a new report by Spyglass Consulting Group.
Nonetheless, a few...
Storage Digest: News from FalconStor, Promise Technology, Memorex, QLogic, Spectra Logic
FalconStor partners with Bell Micro to penetrate the SMB market, QLogic introduces a new Fibre Channel adapter, Promise Technology unveils a high-speed SATA RAID...
Intel Expands Its Vision for Servers
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. wants to stuff an information technology assistant into its silicon.The chip maker, at its fall Intel Developer Forum here, described developments...
How Microsoft 95 Became Microsoft 2005
In 1995, Microsoft was in trouble. Big trouble.
OS/2, despite its fans, was going nowhere. Windows 3.11 was, at best, a great GUI for running...
Zotob Worm Could Squirm on Windows XP
Microsoft late Tuesday warned that the Zotob worm could start squirming through certain configurations of Windows XP SP1 (Service Pack 1).
The worm, which squirms...
Google Talk (Beta)
At A GlanceThe new Google Talk Beta doesnt do much, but what it does, it does well. Googles long-awaited communication client offers instant messaging...
Google Talk Tackles Chat, VOIP
Barely a day goes by without a rumor that search engine giant Google is entering yet another client software and online service arena.
In a...
Google Launches IM Service with VOIP
Vying to compete with the likes of instant messaging veterans America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., Google Inc. Wednesday launched its own...
Open Source: Its Still All about Control
What do Microsofts offer to do a joint, independent research project to analyze the benefits of Linux versus Windows, Miro fighting with Mambos developers...
Security Analysts Still Leery About Google Desktop 2
In spite of Googles efforts to placate the concerns of its enterprise audience, some security experts are still leery about opening the door to...