Monthly Archives: June 2006
MEPIS Gives New Ubuntu-Based Linux a Dapper Look
Do you like Ubuntu? Do you like KDE? Would you like to have them both in one distribution, but with more than Kubuntu can...
Sun to Focus on Identity-Based Middleware
Rich Green, the executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems, is a very busy man these days.
Green, who returned to the Santa Clara,...
Louie Louie! Google’s Got a Vuitton Problem
A mixed bag of Google news from Europe this week.A French court of appeals on June 28 agreed with leather goods manufacturer Louis Vuitton,...
Is the Grass Greener on the Google Side?
And if so, who's smoking it?I kid. In the interest of annotating Microsoft's brain drain to Google (sigh, another list), here are the major...
Five Reasons Why You Won’t Use Google Checkout (and 5 Reasons You Will)
It's not that I like making lists. (Although Merlin Mann's 5ives is one of my favorite sites ever.) It's just that the list format...
eWEEK Daily News Podcast, June 29
In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: In this eWEEK Daily News Podcast: Google launches its online payment processing service today; in a less jubilant...
Making Public Health IT Work
Expected to help manage every health crisis, from pandemics to chronic diseases, a new program is working to help public health departments prepare reliable...
EMC Acquires RSA in $2.1B Deal
EMC continues to collect smaller companies to pursue its strategy of becoming a fully fledged IT infrastructure giant. The corporation revealed June 29 that...
French Appeals Court Rules Against Google
A French court of appeals on June 28 sided with leather goods manufacturer Louis Vuitton and ruled that Google had violated trademark, unfair competition...
Gateway Touts PC Bang for the Buck
Gateway intends to return to its roots as an up-market direct-seller of PCs.
The Irvine, Calif., PC maker, whose CEO, Wayne Inouye resigned on February...