Monthly Archives: August 2006
Windows Live WiFi Beta Kicks Off
Microsoft quietly has begun beta testing the Windows Live WiFi suite that the LiveSide.Net folks discovered back in May. The Windows Live Connection Center...
Bush Order Aims to Pump Up Health IT
President Bush on Aug. 22 issued an executive order directing agencies that administer or support most health insurance programs to implement "interoperable" technology standards...
Siemens Launches SOA IP PBX for Medium-Size Enterprises
Siemens Communications at Voicecon Fall sought to pre-empt Microsoft and Nortel in their software-based IP telephony play when it launched a new release of...
NEC Brings Managed IP Telephony to SMBs
SAN FRANCISCO—NEC Unified Solutions took the concept of hosted IP telephony services a bit farther here at VoiceCon by introducing its Managed IP Telephony...
Microsoft Postpones IE Re-Patch ‘Indefinitely’
Microsoft was on tap to fix on August 22 an Internet Explorer patch it issued on August 8, last Patch Tuesday. But now, it's...
Razer’s Microsoft Gaming Mouse: It’s Real
After some uncertainty last week as to whether a viral-marketing Web site promising new Microsoft-Razer gaming peripherals was real or not, the answer is...
Genomic Researchers Upgrade IT System
A leader in genomic analysis since it was founded in 1992, the non-profit Institute for Genomic Research started looking to upgrade its server system...
Does Brazil Have It In for Google?
Reuters has a story today about Brazillian authorities filing for permission to sue Google, alleging the company is withholding user info required for a...
Readers Respond: A Linux Distro Windows Users Can Love
Bravo on Jason Brooks review of Novells SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 .I agree with just about everything he said, except I installed SLED...
Readers Respond: The 4 Faces of Net Neutrality
Thank you for Wayne Rashs interesting and comprehensive coverage of net neutrality .I look on net neutrality as something like universal postal service. I...