Monthly Archives: November 2005
EC Tightens Database Ties to Fight Terrorism
The European Commission last week adopted measures that will help fight terrorism and serious crime by opening up development of, and access to, common...
Readers Respond: PCs Get Touchy-Feely
Jim Rapoza has it all wrong in his Oct. 24 Tech Directions column, "PCs Get Touchy-Feely," when he says that tablet PCs (especially those...
Readers Respond: One GUI to Rule Them All
I am a 30-year veteran in the PC field. I dont see the Microsoft GUI hegemony as unfortunate, as Peter Coffee suggests in his...
“They” Know Where You Are
Youre out on the road. Suddenly you get a sharp chest pain, radiating to your arm. You can fight the pain just enough to...
Cisco Scoops Up Scientific-Atlanta
Enterprise networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. leapt into the home video equipment market with the acquisition last week of cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta...
What Users Want from Desktop Linux
Linux desktops have always faced an uphill battle against Windows desktops. Now, OSDL is calling together architects from over two dozen key desktop-oriented Linux...
Desktop Search Requires Security Lockdown
Self-deploying technologies—those products or programs that users bring into the corporate network from the outside—are the bane of the IT managers existence.
Wi-Fi hot spots...
Google Feature Puts Advertisers on the Line
Google Inc. is testing a new advertising feature that lets someone chat directly with the person or business vying for their attention.
The ads, that...
Will Sleepycat Save MySQL?
From the well-duh department last week came the startling news—brace yourself, this is a real shocker—that MySQL actually plans to do something about Oracle...
Ovation Puts Pep in PowerPoint Presentations
At the spring DEMO@15 conference, I had the opportunity to see a number of cool new products ranging from security devices to mobile blogging...