Monthly Archives: September 2006
10 Lessons Learned (So Far) from the HP Scandal
With only a few days to go before the top Hewlett-Packard leaders—and ex-leaders—appear before a congressional Committee on Energy & Commerce hearing on September...
Virgins VOIP Is a Mega-Hit
Virgin Entertainment Group is no stranger to the latest trends, so it shouldnt come as a surprise that the company is leveraging a consolidated...
Cheap VOIP Beckons for SMBs
Open-source telephony technologies have recently blown open the VOIP market, creating a fertile breeding ground for new solutions built from the ground up for...
On Handicapped Access, Target Fights the Wrong Fight for the Wrong Reason
When a federal judge in California agreed that a lawsuit from the National Federation for the Blind can proceed against Target, e-commerce executives should...
GPLv3 Could Kill Open Source, Top Linux Developers Warn
Many of the top Linux developers have announced their objections to the proposed GPLv3.
In a position paper released Sept. 22, leading Linux developers like...
Microsoft Releases New Build of Windows Vista
Microsoft has released an interim build of Windows Vista to its usual testers as well as to some 100,000 of the participants in its...
Lenovo Investigates Laptop Fire; Analysts Say Recall Likely
Lenovo Group has experienced a single notebook battery pack failure similar to those seen recently by Apple Computer and Dell, leading analysts to believe...
After the Laptop Ban
Remember when you were allowed to use your laptop on a plane? While we are not quite at that point yet, indications are that...
Euro Pubs: If We Close Our Eyes, Google Can’t See Us, Right?
Several print publisher groups have announced plans to test an online content management systemthat would control what search engines index on their sites. They're...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1: Look but Dont Touch
With the release of the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, eWEEK Labs was looking forward to getting an early look at...