Monthly Archives: August 2007
NYC Cabbies to Discuss GPS Mandate with Mayors Office
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is scheduled to meet with Mayor Michael Bloombergs office to discuss cab drivers demands that the Taxi and...
Iomega Unveils 500GB Drive for $199
Storage disk drive maker Iomega Aug. 27 introduced a new line of home- or small business-network hard drives that includes a 500GB option with...
Varonis Data Access Management Gets Granular
Varonis Systems has enhanced its DataPrivilege data entitlement management software, adding granular levels of access control right down to who, when and for how...
If IT Workers Had a Union
If IT Workers Had a Union
If my job is outsourced or becomes obsolete, pay to retrain me for six months. (Oh yeah, and the...
Yahoo Talks Up New Web Mail Software
In the interest of making it easier for its people to reach each other even when theyre not online, Yahoo, on August 27, added...
Content-Aware Image Resizing at Home
Last week I came across a video presentation of Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan's "Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing," a method for resizing...
War and Peace, Linux Style
Therell be peace in the valley for me, someday," sang the dulcet-toned Drudge, Elvis-like. The Kitty wasnt hung over from the recent Elvis week...
Five Steps to Next-Generation Web Applications
Five Steps to Next-Generation Web Applications">As the Web was born and grew in importance in the early 1990s, it immediately changed the way the...
China and India: The Big Squeeze On U.S. Technology
The New York Times (and eWeek) had a story on Saturday about a Chinese technology company interested in buying Seagate Technology. The unidentified company...
Report: Chinese Company Interested in Buying Seagate
The New York Times reported Aug. 25 that an unnamed Chinese technology company has shown interest in acquiring disk drive maker Seagate Technology, which...