Monthly Archives: June 2006

Gates and Ballmer Calm the Microsoft Troops

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Microsofts chairman and CEO sent e-mail to Microsofts nearly 70,000 employees, explaining the latest management transition, announced June 15, via which Gates will relinquish...

Options Backdating: Technology Companies Under Scrutiny

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A selected list of technology companies that are the subject of formal of informal probes by the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Justice...

Options Backdating: Can IT Help?

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Options backdating, the latest scandal to hit corporate America, may be more widespread than anyone is willing to admit. If thats true, what can...

IPv6 Still Gets No Respect in the United States

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SAN FRANCISCO—Although the foundation of the next-generation Internet, IPv6, is gaining momentum in South Asia and receiving solid support in Windows Vista, enterprise IT...

Grass Is Always Greener: EBay and Google

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The Web is all abuzz with the Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side Of the Firewall stories about Google preparing an online...

Best Buy Learns That Data Protection Can Be A Customer Issue

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When a Cincinnati man brought his hard-drive to Best Buy to be repaired, he was told that he couldn’t have his old hard-drive back....

BidPay Is Back

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The old BidPay online payment service—which boasted more than 4 million registered users when it shut its doors in December 2005—has relaunched under the...

Are RFID Readers Hazardous To Your Health?

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FCC regs on RF exposure safety requires that at least 8.7 inches always exist between RFID antennae radiating elements and people. How many retailers...

TechEd Technology Tips

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Will Microsoft Still Be Microsoft Without Bill Gates?

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Now that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates officially has begun decoupling himself from the company he founded 31 years ago, it seems like a great...