Monthly Archives: May 2006
Google Goes Wi-Fi, WHY!?
Google presumably had a long time to get ready for its annual press day, when it invites 250 or so journalists into the Googleplex...
Advertisers Opting Out of Google’s $90M Click Fraud Settlement
There's anecdotal evidence suggesting that hundreds of Google advertisers will object to Google's proposed payment of $90 million to settle a click-fraud class action...
Cisco Names New Linksys GM
Cisco Systems is continuing the overhaul of its Linksys consumer products division, naming Michael Pocock as the groups new senior vice president and general...
Google’s Not Evil, to Chickens!
On May 11, the Humane Society of the United States, the country's largest defender of animal rights, formally recognized Google for banishing from its...
OpenSUSE 10.1 Arrives
Get your FTP and BitTorrent clients ready—OpenSUSE 10.1 has arrived!
In a recent OpenSUSE mailing list note, Andreas Jaeger, Novell/SUSEs project manager for SUSE Linux...
Brian Keane Resigns as Keane President, CEO
Brian Keane, president and CEO of IT services firm Keane Inc., resigned May 10 amid unspecified employee allegations relating to his personal conduct. The...
Dells Secret Channel
Dell and the channel are secretly growing fond of each other.
More and more VARs (value-added resellers), indifferent to shrinking hardware margins and prodded by...
Stock Voting Rights Plan Hits Brick Wall at Google
There are only moral victories for those behind a proposal to significantly reduce the voting powers of Internet search giant Googles top three executives.
The...
Review: Toshibas New Gaming Laptop
There have been essentially two things missing from Toshibas PC lineup: a desktop line and a gaming PC. Now, I can scratch off the...
Gadgets and Gizmos of E3
Every year, a new crop of gadgets, game controllers and other interesting items of hardware are shown at E3. Many never make it into...