Monthly Archives: June 2006
There’s More Dell in Your Google
There's more Dell in your Google.Google says later this year it's going to use Dell-made equipment in a $30,000 souped-up search engine Google sells...
Google Spreadsheets: The Soccer Mom’s Excel
Google seems to be morphing into the poor man's Microsoft.The latest evidence of this surfaced June 5, when Google began testing an online spreadsheet...
HP Puts AMDs Turion 64 X2 to Work
Hewlett-Packard is offering small and midsize businesses a two-for-one deal by introducing a new notebook PC based on Advanced Micro Devices dual-core Turion processor.The...
Microsoft Adds BI Server to Lineup
Microsoft officially added a new server to its business intelligence lineup on June 6, announcing plans for a back-end application that will support business...
Novells Profits Rise as Revenue Falls
On May 31, Novell had both good and bad news for its investors as it announced a net profit of $3 million, or $0.01...
IBM Jazzes Collaboration
ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM is doing some very interesting things in the area of collaborative development, and it wants the world to know.
Danny Sabbah, general manager...
Red Hat Completes JBoss Acquisition
Red Hat is the worlds best-known Linux distributor, but with its acquisition of JBoss, completed on June 5, it also wants to become a...
McAfee Adds Preventsys for Compliance
Security applications maker McAfee announced June 6 that it has acquired risk management and compliance software vendor Preventsys for an undisclosed sum.McAfee said it...
Personal Displays Keep Data Private
SAN FRANCISCO—The dueling needs for privacy and data sharing played out here at the annual SID (Society of Information Display) International Symposium. Vendors showed...
Veterans Sue VA over Data Loss
WASHINGTON—Claiming that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "flagrantly disregarded the privacy rights of essentially every man or woman to have worn a United...