Monthly Archives: June 2007
Rugged Notebooks Get Tougher with Help from Intel
Competition in the rugged and semi-rugged notebook space is about to get a lot tougher.
Panasonic and General Dynamics Itronix, two of the leading vendors...
Microsoft Scratches the Surface
Microsofts new Surface product and technology platform surfaced May 30.Introduced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the D Conference, in Carlsbad, Calif., Surface has...
NSA Rolls with Tech Changes to Keep Spying
WASHINGTON—On Dec. 15, 2005, the New York Times broke the news that soon after the Sept. 11 attacks President Bush had secretly authorized the...
Microsoft Pushes Silverlight
Silverlight: One small step for rich Internet application development, one giant step for Microsofts push into the design and creative professionals market.Ian Ellison-Taylor, product...
Microsoft Gives Xandros Linux Users Patent Protection
Microsoft, shrugging off licensing moves to prevent it from repeating its controversial patent deal with Novell, has signed a set of broad collaboration agreements...
Toshiba to Use AMD Chips
Advanced Micro Devices chalked up a victory against rival Intel when Toshiba announced it will start using dual-core AMD Turion 64 X2 processors and...
SanDisk Launches Two Secure USB Drives
Portable data memory maker SanDisk on June 4 introduced a pair of new USB flash drives designed to deliver security and speedy access to...
Businesses Struggle to Secure Data
Business leaders rank the importance of securing their own data above securing their customers data, according to a recent survey of IT executives.
Customer data...
GPLv3 Authors Comment on Final Draft
At long last, the final draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 is out. While companies and attorneys are taking their time...
Virus Targets Popular Calculators
A popular brand of calculators is being infected by a new virus that causes screens to read, "t89.GARRA."The virus, which attacks Texas Instruments TI89...