Monthly Archives: October 2005
Google Merges Map and Local Sites
Search giant Google has merged two of its Web destinations, Google Maps and Google Local, a sign online mapping features are of growing importance...
NewsGator Acquires NetNewsWire
RSS platform company NewsGator Technologies has acquired NetNewsWire, creator of a popular RSS reader for Mac OS X.NewsGator already owns RSS aggregators on Outlook,...
Ellison Case Might Satisfy No One
San Mateo, Calif., county judge John Schwartz may be one of the few people in Silicon Valley possessed with common sense when it comes...
Hack Can Crash Playstation
Can you hack a PSP?It appears so. Secunia has listed a "moderately critical" advisory for Sonys game machine using firmware 2.0. Evidently a "specially...
Philadelphia Wi-Fi Wont End Debate
Lawyers and other industry experts are predicting that the public battle over the Philadelphia municipal Wi-Fi network is going to continue even in the...
IBM Will Unveil First Power5+ Systems
IBM on Tuesday is unveiling the first systems that will be armed with the new Power5+ processor, including a server with a version of...
Google-Sun Deal Offers No Microsoft Killer
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Analysts watching search giant Googles every move came away unimpressed from the announcement of Googles new partnership with Sun Microsystems.
Many came to...
Microsoft FAT Patents Get Thumbs Down
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected two key Microsoft patent applications relating to its File Allocation Table file system. But Microsoft officials...
Google-Sun Partnership Falls Short of Hopes
I hadnt seen so much excitement about a software alliance announcement in ages.
There was Sun, with the most popular open-source office suite in the...
Disasters Demand Supply Chain Software, Research Shows
In dealing with disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, government should take cues from private industry about using SCM (supply chain management) systems for managing...