Monthly Archives: August 2006
Microsoft: User Behavior as Key to Improving Search Results
From Microsoft Watch: When it comes to search, Microsoft researchers are some of the key movers and shakers inside the Redmond software company. At...
Apples Mac OS X Leopard: A 3-D Impossible Dream
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Computer once again showed it still owns the secret sauce when it comes to computer interface design (and maybe even with hardware...
Disaster Recovery: Make a Copy, Stay in Business
From Sept. 11 to Hurricane Katrina, businesses have wrangled with the nuts and bolts of recovering from catastrophes. Data replication software, which copies corporate...
Two Men Charged with Theft of VA Laptop
A pair of Maryland men have been charged with taking the laptop computer that contained the personal information of millions of veterans and active...
Giant Health Insurance Claims Database Pilot Unveiled
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is creating a database of health insurance claims from 79 million of its clients. The data will have no...
Leopard Spotting Piques Developers Interest
SAN FRANCISCO—The new Leopard version of Mac OS X with its Time Machine feature, along with the briefly mentioned Xcode 3 application development environment,...
Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs
Microsoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of...
The Next Research Frontier: Game Cheating
After recognizing that I had a computer gaming problem in college (this is where I spent my time in the early 80s), I basically...
QuarkXPress 7 Available as a Universal Application for Mac OS X Tiger
Quark is making QuarkXPress 7, its desktop-publishing package, available as a universal application for the Mac OS x 10.4 Tiger.
The QuarkXPress 7.01 update is...
Apples Leopard Leaps Out at WWDC
SAN FRANCISCO—Steve Jobs was at his jovial best, and why not? The Apple CEO and co-founder had a slew of interesting new products to...