Monthly Archives: July 2007
Intel Investing $200 Million in VMware
Intel is investing more than $200 million in virtualization leader VMware, it announced July 9, giving the chipmaker a 2.5 percent stake in the...
Linux Releases a Cleaner, Tighter Kernel 2.6.22
Master Linux developer, Linus Torvalds, announced on July 8 that the new Linux kernel 2.6.22 is now available. While this new kernel has many...
A New Day Dawns for eWEEK
Each morning, I, along with several other million Web surfers, start the day by catching up with the news. At one point, I would...
Genes Get Katt in Bebop Mood
"Bluejean bop a baby, bluejean bop—baby, wont you bop with Gene," sang El Gato, channeling the late rocker Gene Vincent when a buddy told...
Dells Linux Desktop Line Keeps Expanding
When Dell first announced that it would be releasing Ubuntu Linux-powered consumer desktops and laptops, some people saw it as more of a stunt...
New FCC Rules May Impact Linux-Based Devices
New U.S. regulations went into effect July 6 that could change how vendors of devices with software-defined radios use open-source software. The new rules...
Microsoft Tries to Spit Out the GPLv3 Hook
Microsoft wants everyone to understand that GPLv3 has nothing to do with the company, its Linux partnerships or anything else Redmond-based.
In other words, Microsoft...
Online Shoppers Taking Longer To Buy
The average time it takes a consumer to make an e-commerce purchase decision has jumped from about 19 hours in 2005 to 34 hours...
What the iPhone, Xbox and Las Vegas Can Teach You About Corporate Computing
Sometimes it seems like a stretch to connect the business-to-business world of corporate computing to the high-buzz-factor world of consumer electronics. At other times,...
The Data Security Weak Link
When Fidelity National Information Services this week announced that about 2.3 million customer records had been illegally sold to a group of direct marketers,...