Monthly Archives: September 2006
International Alliance to Study RFID, Wireless Security
A new consortium, the International Technology Alliance, has been tapped to by both the United States Army Research Laboratory and United Kingdom Ministry of...
Readers Respond: Win98 Train Wreck Is Finally Here
Peter Coffees comments on the end of life of Windows 98 highlight the fact that a lot of older instrumentation was designed to work...
Readers Respond: Patent, IP Abuse Poses Hurdle in Tech Evolution
A belated thanks for Jim Rapozas column on patent/intellectual property abuse .There are two things that would help with the problem.First, extend the period...
Project Driveway: GMs Fuel Cell Fleet
General Motors has announced plans to build the worlds largest fuel cell fleet of vehicles.
Dubbed Project Driveway, the fleet will comprise 100 Chevrolet Equinox...
Web Researcher Offers Close Look into Web Success, Failure
SAN FRANCISCO—Which so-called Web 2.0 site will become the next MySpace.com, Facebook or Flickr? Wouldnt you—along with all those savvy IT venture capitalists in...
Uplogix Bolsters Out-of-Band Management
Console management startup Uplogix at Interop in New York Sept. 18 continued to build out its out-of-band management appliances to deliver more management functions...
Wave of New Security Products Arrives at Interop
A litany of new security applications and services were among the many new products rolled out in connection with the ongoing Interop New York...
Helping Students Build More Secure Software
In an effort to help educate the next generation of software engineers, Coverity, a San Francisco-based software engineering company, announced Sept. 18 its university...
Lenovo 3000 PCs Power Up with Core 2 Duo, More
Lenovo Group is upping the performance of its Lenovo 3000-brand computers.
The Raleigh, N.C., company on Sept. 19 updated its Lenovo 3000 N100 notebook PC...
Microsoft Lures Another McAfee Security Guru
Microsoft has added another high-profile IT threat researcher to its growing security team, this time luring Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow at anti-virus software...