Monthly Archives: May 2007
AMDs New Quad-Core Chip is a Phenom
Advanced Micro Devices believes its next generation quad-core desktop processors are a true phenomenon in the IT industry.
With those high expectations in mind, AMD...
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Setting the Battle Lines
Microsoft is putting its own spin on its "re-re-announcement" that it believes that Linux and open source violate 235 of its patents. The company...
Microsoft Claims Open-Source Technology Violates 235 of Its Patents
Microsoft is using the threat of patent violations by the free and open-source software community to try to drive enterprise customers to SUSE Enterprise...
Microsoft Partners Announce New Phones, Devices
As Microsoft continues to ratchet up its focus on unified communications, it will use the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles the week...
Hitachi Ups the Ante for Unified Enterprise Storage
Hitachi Data Systems May 14 introduced a new, unified enterprise storage system with performance and capacity claims that appear to border on science fiction—or...
CodeGear Shifts onto Rails
Borland is back! Whoops, I mean CodeGear, the developer tools arm of Borland, is back. Borland, the parent, packed up and moved to Austin....
Report: Techs Gender Gap Widened by Uninviting Workplace
For years, word has circulated of a significant gender gap in the technology workplace, where women are greatly outnumbered by men.
The blame is typically...
DHS Employees Sue TSA over Lost Hard Drive
The American Federation of Government Employees is suing the Transportation Security Administration after the TSA lost a hard drive containing employment records for some...
GigaStor Portable: Mobile Tivo for the Network Engineer
Network Instruments will bring a portable, Tivo-like appliance to the thorny task of finding and resolving intermittent problems on remote network segments.
The company plans...
KDE 4.0 Alpha Arrives
Analysis—Some people have been anxiously waiting for the summer blockbuster movies to arrive. Many Linux fans, on the other hand, have been waiting impatiently...