Monthly Archives: August 2006
Location, Location, Location
For the past couple of years, weve been told that location doesnt matter—the world is flat, and, in a global market, you can be...
Oracle Implements Zero-Defect Policy for Fusion
After Oracles move in 2000 from client/server to Web-based applications with its E-Business Suite 11i—a notoriously buggy technology shift—the company isnt taking any chances...
Windows Small Biz Server R2 on Track for September Delivery
In late July, Microsoft acknowledged it had to recall the Windows Small Business Server R2 code it released earlier that month, due to a...
So What’s Up With Those Vista 5700 Builds?
As testers continue to post their mostly positive and quite detailed impressions about Windows Vista Build 5536 (a k a the "pre-Release-Candidate 1 build...
Microsoft Parental-Controls Service Goes to Public Beta
On August 30, Microsoft opened up the beta for its Windows Live parental-controls service (formerly code-named "Vegas"), that is now known as Windows Live...
Wireless Wire: News from Wireless Services, NMS, AppForge, Novatel
Wireless Services Gets $30M in Financing, Changes NameShowing once again that money will turn more heads than a pretty face, Wireless Services said on...
TDK Reveals Prototype of 200GB Blu-ray Disc
Digital recording media maker TDK claimed to have reached a landmark on Aug. 31 in the development of recordable media by announcing the prototype...
Study: Virtualization Deployment Goes Prime Time
Virtualization technology has gone "prime time" and is being deployed in application server and Web server environments in addition to test and development scenarios,...
Study: Pay for Performance Could Save Lives, Money
Premier, a health alliance of more than 200 nonprofit hospitals and health care systems, recently released results from its pay-for-performance demonstration project with the...
10 Avoidable IT Interview Flubs
A study released the week of Aug. 28 by Menlo Park, Calif., staffing firm Accountemps found that one of the most common mistakes made...