Monthly Archives: August 2006
Windows Live ‘Agora’ to Take Cues From Xbox Live Marketplace
From Microsoft Watch: When we first stumbled onto the Windows Live 'Agora' code name a month or so ago, we weren't quite sure what...
Update: Microsoft’s Availability Plans for Vista 5536
Following some confusing back-and-forth with Microsoft, we believe we now have an accurate update on exactly who is designated to receive (legally) Windows Vista...
Microsoft Readies Windows Live Marketplace
Microsoft is expected to field a public beta of its new "Windows Live Marketplace" site, possibly as early as Aug. 28.
Code-named Agora—the Greek term...
Microsoft Seeks Testers for ‘Windows Live Essentials’
Here's yet another new Windows Live service that Microsoft is launching. Known as "Windows Live Essentials" – not to be confused with Office Live...
Toshiba to Manufacture Microsoft Zune Devices
Looks like Microsoft won't be taking a page from its Xbox playbook – not in its entirety, at least – with its Zune portable...
Lessons of Katrina
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, spurred enterprises to new kinds of thinking about disaster recovery. Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall Aug. 29,...
Robot-Based System Streamlines Genetic Testing
A trio of companies is offering a genetic-testing system that sounds like the height of high tech. A robot will perform a series of...
Katrina: What Have We Learned?
Tom Oreck began shopping for a second manufacturing facility for vacuum cleaner maker Oreck in December. Tulane Universitys Paul Barron now plans for a...
Digging Out from Telecom Mess
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Fourth Dell Executive Joins Lenovo
Lenovo Group has poached its fourth Dell executive and will tap him to lead a new business unit that will address customer service.
Christopher J....