Monthly Archives: May 2007
The Internet? You Mean That Old Thing Google Bought?
The news yesterday evening: Google will buy RSS publisher Feedburner for $100 million. What to call it? Googburner? Feedboogle? Fondleburger?Whatever. Let's just call the...
Health Care Gets a Better IT Prescription
The health care industry can expect to get a big shot in the arm in the coming months from IT vendors as more and...
Customization Proves Painful for Retailers
The promise of personalization—where stores in one neighborhood would have entirely different merchandise than one in a nearby neighborhood with a different customer mix—is...
Keylogging Trojan Dodges Anti-virus Detection
A new variant of the Russian Trojan Gozi is circulating on the Web, this time armed with a keylogging function and the ability to...
Survey: Data Centers Facing New Complexity Challenges
Data security and storage provider Symantec announced May 23 the findings of a study that reveals some harsh realities but might not be much...
Zafirovski Says Nortel Making Enterprise Comeback
LAS VEGAS—Nortel Networks, with its troubled past behind it, has embarked on a mission to reassert its role as Cisco Systems foil in the...
MS Goes Open Source to Boost Identity Management
Microsoft is launching a slew of initiatives to help Web sites identify visitors.
First, the company is kicking off four open-source projects to support the...
These Are Dells Ubuntu PCs
Long expected, Dell finally officially released its first line of consumer PCs with pre-installed Linux, Ubuntu 7.04, on May 24.
Heres a closer look at...
Virtual Worlds a Long Way from the Web
In Neal Stephensons seminal 1992 cyberpunk novel "Snow Crash," Hiro Protagonist, the, uh, protagonist of the story, is a struggling pizza delivery guy. He...
CompTIA Adds Companies to Printing Certification Program
The Computing Technology Industry Association has added five more printing and document imaging organizations to its growing list of companies that support its newest...