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PC Platforms: Looking Back at 2006 and Ahead to 2007
Consider the desktop personal computer. Form factors have changed, new CPUs have emerged, and more-advanced chip sets have arrived on the scene, but the...
Great Expectations for Januarys Job Market
There will be more job growth in the manufacturing and service sectors in January 2007 than in January 2006, according to the findings of...
eCoupled Technology Frees Users from Cords
At the International Consumer Electronics Show, scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, Fulton Innovation will introduce a way to charge...
links for 2006-12-27
The Open Source Desktop Myth > Microsoft Won. Get Over It.
Forget about winning on the desktop, the author says. Open source developers should look...
Homeland Security Admits Privacy Errors in Anti-Terror Effort
The Department of Homeland Security conceded a potentially serious privacy issue that existed as part of an anti-terrorism program that combined personal information of...
Samsung Unveils Gigabit-Density Mobile DRAM
Samsung Electronics officials announced Dec. 27 the company has crafted a 1G bit Mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory chip using 80nm process technology.The new...
Bribing Bloggers
Want to know why Microsoft has so many people saying good things about it, despite endless security problems, high prices, product lock-in and a...
Security in 2007: Zero-Day World Puts Bulls-Eye on Vista
Who will find the first major security flaw in Windows Vista? Will it be released as zero-day? Is there an end in sight to...
Security Analysts Predict More M&A in 2007
Security software market analysts have been calling for significant consolidation in the space since at least 2005, but some industry watchers are predicting that...
Better Products for SMBs, Deduplication Lead Storage Trends
The numbers from IDC, Gartner/Dataquest, Enterprise Strategy Group and other researchers have confirmed it every quarter for the last three-and-a-half years: The $30 billion...