Monthly Archives: December 2007
The Human Factor Could Be Derailing RFID
Retail IT leaders today are still struggling with RFID, and finding a way to salvage years of effort and eek out some provable profits.
Staples...
Canonical Unwraps ‘Bazaar’ Version Control Tool
Open-source projects often face the problem of keeping track of a project's code, while avoiding stifling developers' creativity. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux,...
Novell’s Linux Income Increases
After an unexpected delay of eight days, Novell finally announced its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and 2007 fiscal year, which ended...
Intel Will Highlight Silverthorne at CES
NEW YORK—Intel is planning to use the 2008 Internal CES to highlight its efforts to dominate the emerging mobile market.
At a briefing for reporters...
MySQL Releases Database Connector Beta
MySQL AB has released a beta of the latest version of its MySQL Connector/ODBC that features performance enhancements and Unicode support.MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1, available...
NYSE Updates Server Farm to Keep Pace
The New York Stock Exchange has switched the backbone of its NYSE Hybrid Market online stock trading system to Hewlett-Packard ProLiant servers, the company...
Staples Reusable RFID Trial Expanding
A one-store RFID trial that Staples ran this summer with reusable tags was successful enough to convince the retailer to expand it to four...
Google: Cloaking Hurts Your Page Rank
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin get all the fame and glory for launching their search engine nine years ago. But...
E-Tailers Improving at Customer Service
E-tailers are getting better at customer service and delivering usable Web sites, with Overstock, Lowe's, Ralph Lauren and Kmart leading the way, according to...
eWEEK Labs: The Most Important Products of 2007
eWEEK Labs: The Most Important Products of 2007
Amazon.com Elastic Compute Cloud Among the most innovative of the products and services to arise from the...