Monthly Archives: September 2006
AdSense Litigant Accuses Google of E-Mail Tampering
The would-be AdSense customer who filed suit against Google for fraud and misrepresentation says the search company also entered her Gmail account and removed...
IBM Opens HiPODS Software Lab in Brazil
IBM has opened a multimillion-dollar high-performance software and services laboratory in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The new HiPODS (High Performance On Demand Solutions) Lab joins a...
Google to Divulge Orkut Data to Brazil
Google said it will divulge a "small and narrow" amount of data to Brazilian authorities after the government issued a 15-day ultimatum. Brazil is...
Borland Gathers Together for Eclipse
Borland Software is expected to announce an upgrade to its Together 2006 for Eclipse enterprise modeling product on Sept. 6.Borland, based in Cupertino, Calif.,...
City of Bergen Postpones Linux Desktop Evaluation
The Norwegian city of Bergen has postponed its evaluation of Linux on the desktop for the time being, but that does not mean it...
Vista RC1 Reviews Roll In
Windows Vista beta testers didn't let Labor Day weekend in the U.S. stop them from laboring over their reviews of Windows Vista Release Candidate...
Cisco Targets IPTV Services for New Router
Cisco Systems on Sept. 5 will move its Carrier Routing System-1 high-end router further out to the service provider edge when it introduces a...
Television: The New Nurses Little Helper
When patients can make requests for room servicing and health education through their televisions, they report greater satisfaction, and nurses say they have more...
Readers Respond: AMDs Opteron Pays Off
While I, too, am pleased with Advanced Micro Devices inroads in the OEM market (my last two PC purchases were AMD-based Lenovo systems), I...
Microsoft VP Fights for Closed-Source Rights
We almost missed this one, from "Inside Higher Ed" last week, which reported on a last-minute wording change in a Higher-Ed Commission report, at...