Monthly Archives: June 2007
iPhone’s Elusive Activation
As I reported yesterday, my iPhone activation has run into some snags. Because my voice plan was relatively antiquated (a remnant of the old...
Waiting for iPhone: A running diary
Unlike Sacha Segan's covert odyssey to pick up his iPhone test unit, I went the old fashioned route - waiting in line. Armed only...
Metro Finds RFID Accuracy Not a Problem
A senior executive at the $81 billion European retail giant Metro Group says the efficiencies the chain saw in RFID trials were so compelling...
Does the CIAs Dark Past Foretell Current Data Abuse?
With the CIAs June 26 release of documents detailing 25 years of illegal exploits, data privacy advocates now have a book-length record of misdeeds—including...
Startup FastSoft Prepares App Accelerator
A new startup is moving to elbow its way into the competitive WAN optimization and application acceleration market with a new technique for speeding...
The Google Parasites
I have to confess a certain fondness for Google, an admiration that has grown out of frequent innovation and creativity. And its frequent luck...
FSF: The iPhone Will Betray You
The Free Software Foundation and its supporters describe the iPhone as a product crippled with proprietary software and digital restrictions.
In a cruel twist of...
Microsoft Testing Free Data Storage In the Cloud
Microsoft, as part of its new Windows Live set of hosted services announced on June 27, is now beta testing the concept of free...
AMD: Barcelona Coming in August and at 2GHz
Advanced Micro Devices will launch its highly anticipated quad-core Opteron microprocessor in August and the first of these "Barcelona" processors will run at 2.0GHz,...
CPU Bugs, Patches and Vulnerability
Its not your average bug report and patch. Its your CPU that has a problem, and people are debating how serious it is.CPU bugs...