Monthly Archives: October 2006
Boeing Makes Item-Level RFID Fly
As retailers and consumer goods manufacturers struggle with achieving the supply-chain nirvana of complete item-level tagging, $60 billion aerospace giant Boeing has gotten item-level...
Virtual Iron Unveils Xen-Based Virtualization Platform
Its time for VMware to have real competition in the x86 virtualization space, claim Virtual Iron officials—and they believe they can fill that role.The...
Verari Tool Creates More Efficient Data Center
Blade server vendor Verari Systems is rolling out an enhanced version of its Verari Command Center, the latest step by the company to create...
Cadence CTO Calls for Power Savings in Chip Design
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Asserting that power consumption consideration is "not a first-class citizen" in the current state of microprocessor design, Ted Vucurevich, chief technology officer...
Juniper Preps Metro Ethernet Switch/Router
Juniper Networks on Oct. 18 will seek to silence critics who bemoan the companys lack of an Ethernet edge aggregation switch for service providers...
Microsoft to Lose Another Senior Executive
Microsoft is losing another senior executive with a long history at the software maker.
Rick Devenuti, senior vice president of enterprise services and IT, will...
DigitalLife 2006
Its that time of year again—DigitalLife time!
Black Friday is just over a month away, and CES is still a blip off in the distance...
Oracle Settles Lawsuit with Federal Government
Oracle has agreed to pay $98.5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed PeopleSoft overcharged the federal government for software it purchased during an...
Technical Hiccup Delays Microsoft Patches
Microsoft was unable to offer immediate access to its monthly collection of security patches as a result of a procedural issue in distributing the...
Tech Worker Wages See a Bump in Q3
Hourly wages for skilled tech workers in the third quarter of 2006 improved over the year before, according to the Yoh Index of Technology...