Monthly Archives: October 2005
HP Smart Office Scales to SMBs
Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling out a set of downsized storage offerings to help small and midsize businesses better back up and protect data as...
Making Electronic Health Records Consumer-Friendly
Almost three-quarters of Americans surveyed in a study sponsored by the health care-oriented non-profit Markle Foundation say they favor the establishment of a nationwide...
Readers Respond: RSS: Not on My Desktop
I agree it is easy to become overwhelmed by RSS feeds, but the technology is in its infancy (Jim Rapozas Tech Directions, "Feed for...
Security Watch: Acquisitions Aplenty
Last week, the number of independent companies in the security space decreased again as Symantec gobbled up Bindview, and Checkpoint ate Sourcefire, maker of...
Novell Shares Linux Usability Research Videos
Novell Inc. released a large amount of primary desktop-usage research—including more than 200 video clips of users bumbling their way through unfamiliar computer interfaces—to...
Readers Respond: Innovation: Dont Get Me Wrong
You can count me in among the "No software patents" gang (Jim Rapozas Tech Directions, "Innovation: Dont Get Me Wrong," Sept. 26.) Im the...
CompTIA to Release RFID Certification Test Beta
IT trade association CompTIA, or the Computing Technology Industry Association, is taking on RFID. The nonprofit consortium on Oct. 31 will release the beta...
Google Plugs Security Flaw in AdWords
Google Inc. has quietly patched a potentially dangerous security flaw in two of its business-facing services after a private security research outfit warned that...
IBM to Roll Out New Virtualization Tools
Stretching its virtualization technology across new storage boundaries and platform support, IBM on Monday announced a new virtualization partner program and a range of...
Intel Shares Dual-Core Xeon Chips Early
Intel Corp. says two brains are better than one when it comes to crunching numbers and serving up Web pages.
At an event Monday in...