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If it ain’t broke, don’t break it
Boy, it's got to feel bad when you destroy a perfectly good working spacecraft with a dumb bug in a software upgrade. Hippocratic sentiments...
Storage Elements Launches First Mac OS RAID System
SAN FRANCISCO—Outside of Apples introduction of the iPhone earlier this week, there really werent that many breakthrough-type products at the Macworld Conference and Expo,...
Report Predicts Rapid Growth of IT Offshoring
Up dramatically from prior quarters, 72 percent of CIOs reported that they intended to increase their spending with external service providers in 2007, according...
Symantec: Vista UAC Is Still Too Chatty
In positioning itself to provide aftermarket applications for Microsofts Vista operating system, anti-virus market leader Symantec is highlighting some shortcomings it believes to exist...
Zebra Technologies to Acquire WhereNet
Zebra Technologies, which makes passive RFID tags—wireless tags that are activated by radio frequency waves—announced Jan. 11 that it is moving into the active...
Leading the Patent Pack in 2006
IFI Patent Intelligence, a patent assignee company that has been around since 1956, announced Jan. 11 its annual list of the top 25 U.S....
SAP Reports Disappointing Preliminary Q4 2006 Numbers
SAP AG announced late in the afternoon Jan. 11 that it will miss not only analysts consensus estimates of its fourth quarter and full...
Week in Review: Dubious iPhone, Thin CES, Teradata Rocks
The big tech news of this week is obvious to anyone. David Beckham, 31, leaving Real Madrid for a $250 million contract to head...
Beware the Craplets
Thanks to CBC News, in association with an unamed Microsoft representative, for giving me a new favorite term. From the story:
"A senior Microsoft Corp....
SIIA Report Gives High Marks to Offshore Development
The Software & Information Industry Association has published a report on the state of global software development, showing that a vast majority of companies...