Monthly Archives: May 2007
HDS Gets New CEO, HP a New Storage Chief
Hitachi Data Systems Chief Operating Officer Minoru Kosuge was promoted to CEO on May 29 following the resignation of David E. Robertson, who has...
The Patent Puzzle
Patent fights are fights about money. The secondary issue, the one that makes the headlines, is control. To really understand whats going on in...
Free Software Shines On
The other night, I was watching an episode of Nova on PBS about the present and future of solar power and the major changes...
Linas Linux VM Promises Portability
A startup in Alameda, Calif., plans to release a kind of holy grail of software in the third or fourth week of June. Lina...
Google, Salesforce Point to a Hosted Future
The Internet has been abuzz lately with talk of a potential pairing between Google and Salesforce.com—a line of speculation that I find particularly intriguing.
For...
Dead or Alive, You’re Coming With Me — The OtterBox 1921
Along with the Treo 755p that I reviewed a couple weeks ago, Palm sent snazzy case called the OtterBox 1921.Whenever I look at the...
My Star Wars Generation
I destroyed the Death Star at least 1,000 times between the ages of 12 and 13. I imagine most boys did the same back...
The Google Crapplet
Its SOP when you buy a new OEM PC: First, you install all the updates to Windows and Office since your system was built...
Upgrading a T-Mobile Dash to Windows Mobile 6.0
As a consumer, I am constantly frustrated with wireless carriers' approach to the devices they hawk. Too often I have seen a new version...
States Freudian PCI Envy
Confronted with a seemingly impossible task, its human nature to long for a neighbors solution, even if that neighbor curses at that solution every...