Monthly Archives: January 2007
Decoding the Futures Signals
Many trifling changes are hyped as "the end of an era," but sometimes the phrase is well-chosen. The final removal of Morse code proficiency...
Web Site Focuses on Recycling
When consumers are done with their electronic products, most of them will either throw each device away or put it in a storage room...
Keep It Simple, Not Stupid
Ah, a new year. This year Im not going to CES, but eWeek has enough editors and reporters at the Las Vegas event to...
Will SMASH 1.0 Be a Hit?
Two years after we first wrote about the Distributed Management Task Forces SMASH, Version 1.0 of the spec is complete. This is good news...
A Mickey Mouse Operation
Sounds Goofy," groused the Grimalkin when he heard that Disney.com was remolding itself as a social networking MySpace clone. "Thinking youll attract teens and...
Kicking Off the Technology Year
The Consumer Electronics Show—aka International CES or just CES—kicks off Jan. 8 in Las Vegas in what has become the official start of the...
RFID Adoption Is Lagging
It turns out 2006 wasnt the banner year for radio-frequency identification adoption that some analysts had predicted, particularly in the retail and consumer packaged...
Yahoo Readies New Messenger
Yahoo is working on a next-generation version of its Messenger product designed specifically for Microsofts upcoming Windows Vista operating system.The Yahoo team has used...
SharePoint Is Firm Foundation
Lost in the commotion surrounding the arrival of Microsofts Windows Vista and Office 2007 was the release of a product that may end up...
Group Backs Hybrid Hard Drives
In what could be a preview of the future of laptop computers, a group of top hardware companies have banded together to tout the...