Monthly Archives: January 2006
Fixing the Patent Mess
"We are the patent office, not the rejection office."—Bruce Lehman, then U.S. commissioner of patents and trademarks, in 1992
While perhaps uttered with good intent,...
Give Me Money
From: [email protected]: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:12 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: Pixelated pickings; General Blues; from BMC to EMC; scratching out a living"Brother, can you...
CES: ITs Consumer Proving Ground
Heres a tech project: Take lots of disparate electronic devices, tie them all in to a new server and make each device available to...
ThinkFree Office 3 Does Well in Real-World Tests
Charting a course away from Microsoft Corp.s Office is no simple—or short—task, as eWEEK Labs has learned from a company carefully evaluating its office...
Mercury Set to Land Systinet
Mercury Interactive last week announced plans to acquire Systinet in a deal valued at $105 million.Mercury said the deal will enable it to move...
Adobe Buys Navisware DRM Line
Adobe Systems Inc. last week acquired the digital rights management business of Navisware.The purchase, for an undisclosed sum, allows Adobe to jump into the...
Outage Effect
Online service outages are nothing new. Every service provider from eBay to Google to Microsoft has experienced them—some major, some minor—since the dawn of...
ThinkFree Office Put to the Test
During the last two years, eWEEK Labs has followed FN Manufacturing LLCs efforts to loosen Microsoft Corp.s grip on its corporate desktops. This particular...
Mainsoft, IBM Widen Linux Links
Mainsoft Corp. and IBM have joined together to extend the Linux ecosystem by helping Microsoft Corp. customers move to Linux.Mainsoft officials said the new...
AMCC Enters Mac Backup Arena
Giving Macintosh customers much-needed enterpriselike capabilities for their machines, Applied Micro Circuits Corp. unveiled new SATA II-based RAID and multicontent backup offerings at Macworld...