Monthly Archives: May 2006
The Google Mini Flapdoodle
Google expected a little flak when, in January, it began making available a bevy of new search features to only a select group of...
Googley on the Bounty
Google likes to offer bounties. There's one for AdSense and AdWords, Google's ad features, and $1 for every new Firefox browser with embedded Google...
SGI Files for Bankruptcy
Silicon Graphics is filing for bankruptcy protection as it continues a reorganization designed to bring the struggling hardware maker back to financial health.
The Mountain...
Linspires Proprietary Mix
Critics say Linspire is legitimating proprietary code at the expense of open source. Strong words, but there are many sides of this issue as...
Report Casts Doubt on Vistas Security Impact
An early review of the much-publicized security features due in Microsofts next-generation Windows Vista operating system concludes that the tools may be so unfriendly...
Thoroughly Modern Thin Clients
Ten years after vendors announced that thin clients were the future of computing, were still waiting for them to take off. However, now that...
Thin Clients Yield Large Returns
The long-term care of PCs, just like people, can be expensive.For New London Hospital, which needed to replace several hundred aging desktop PCs recently,...
HP Compaq t5720
Announced in March 2006, the HP Compaq 5720 gets a noticeable performance boost with Advanced Micro Devices 1GHz Geode NX1500 processor—the first AMD processor...
Sun Ray 2FS
Building on its new relationship with Microsoft, Sun has licensed Microsofts RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), a new feature that allows for direct connection to...
Thin Clients: Take Two
Just a short time ago, the PC was declared dead, and network computing was heralded as the wave of the future. That vision never...