Monthly Archives: August 2006
Heading Toward a Live Spaces vs. MySpace Showdown?
When Microsft inked an ad deal earlier this week with Facebook, industry watchers got all caught up in tit-for-tat, consolation prize assessments. But few...
SmartBPM Eases Process Building
Pegasystems SmartBPM Suite 5.1 business process management application provides a strong tool set for companies that want to efficiently codify custom business processes. SmartBPM...
Hi-Def LCD TVs
LCD TV Basics
As with any HDTV purchase, the first thing you need to consider is screen size. For LCD HDTVs, 50 inches (measured diagonally)...
Why Stephen Colbert Is Google’s Best Friend
As Marissa Mayer prepares to give her speech to television executives at the Media Guardian TV festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, tomorrow, she would do...
Cadillac DTS Review: A Tech Makeover
Cadillac no longer is the Cadillac of automobiles; that would be Lexus, Mercedes, or BMW. But Cadillac continues to be the most technically innovative...
How S-L-O-W Will Vista Go?
The complaints about sluggish performance in Windows Vista keep growing. While its unfair to point to beta software apps—or whatever Microsoft wants to call...
Amazons Banks Rise with Online Storage Content
Amazon Simple Storage Service, launched last March by the online retail giant primarily for software developers to stow their Web applications, is filling up...
Tech Testers Get a New Windows Vista Build
After weeks of waiting for a new, official Windows Vista test build, testers got their fix on August 25, when Microsoft posted release number...
Vista Build 5536 Hits the Download Sites
From Microsoft Watch On August 25, testers were downloading furiously the latest interim Windows Vista bits. Only a select set of technical beta testers...
50 Ways to Lose Your Laptop
When I wrote about ways to protect your laptop if you needed to ship it as checked luggage, one assumption I made was that...