Monthly Archives: August 2006
Linspire Frees Click N Run Software Service
In a surprise move, Linspire is now offering its Click N Run software service at no charge to its Linspire and Freespire Linux distribution...
Microsoft To Issue Fix For DRM Stripper App
Microsoft is preparing a fix for a program that strips the digital-rights-management protections attached to its Windows Media file format, representatives said Monday night.
Armed...
A New Breed of Laptops: The Intel Core 2 Duos
If youre a student planning to take a new laptop back to school with you this fall, youve probably bought it already. But for...
New Fujitsu 2.5-inch HDDs Feature Perpendicular Recording
Fujitsus U.S. subsidiary Aug. 30 introduced two new mobile hard disk drives with perpendicular magnetic recording—a feature that lets a disk greatly increase its...
KPMG Names New CIO
Global consulting firm KPMG on Aug. 29 announced the promotion of Stuart Campbell, head of the firms audit and advisory services practice, into the...
jQuery Eases JavaScript, AJAX Development
As more developers adopt the practice of AJAX-style development to create more interactive applications, they are looking for tools to make the job easier.
One...
Court Asked to Modify Final Judgement Against Microsoft
Microsoft and the Department of Justice have formally requested that the final judgment issued in the U.S. antitrust litigation against the software giant be...
Google Book Search Now Allows Book Downloads
As of this morning, Google now offers free PDF downloads on Google Book Search of books in the public domain.You can download such titles...
What Are Those 10,000 New Microsoft Employees Doing?
In late July, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Microsoft had added 10,000 new employees in fiscal 2006. So what are all those new folks...
Invites Go Out for Microsoft’s Competitor to Google AdSense
In early August, Microsoft told its adCenter user base to expect a fall pilot of its contextual ad system, ContentAds. Low and behold, the...