Monthly Archives: January 2008
HP Says Thin Clients Are In for 2008
Hewlett-Packard believes the sweetest spot of the PC market is also the thinnest.The company, which remains the world's top PC vendor, is announcing three...
Cognos’ Rob Ashe: Working Under the IBM Umbrella
In the midst of being acquired by IBM for $5 billion-a deal expected to close this quarter-business intelligence software developer Cognos released Version 8.3...
The Mobile Frustration
One of the fastest growing segments of retail technology today is clearly mobile, whether it's in the hands of consumers accessing the Web or...
10 New Technologies IBM Is Cooking in Its Innovation Labs
10 New Technologies IBM Is Cooking in Its Innovation Labs
IBM Lotusphere 2008 is the setting for the introduction of new collaboration technologies, but it...
Startup Plans Social Mixer with Facebook
Office productivity experts are frothing at the mouth over the convergence of online collaborative work spaces and enterprise social networks, which, ideally, would let...
Bidding for History. Or Not.
By all accounts, the Federal Communications Commission's 700MHz spectrum auction, which begins Jan. 24, will be historic. The greater question, though, is whether the...
Do You Know What’s Leaking Out of Firefox?
Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has confirmed an information disclosure flaw affecting fully patched versions of the Firefox browser.Snyder's acknowledgment follows the public release...
New Microsoft Patent Reeks of Big Brother
A new patent filed by Microsoft describing plans to develop a system that would allow managers to monitor workers' physiological states through their computers...
San Francisco’s Dueling Muni Wi-Fi Clouds
Since EarthLink killed off San Francisco's muni Wi-Fi project in 2007 after EarthLink CEO Rolla Huff took a long, cold look at the economics...
IBM and Google: Competitors or Co-conspirators?
Here at Lotusphere, I have access to scads of IBMers who love to talk collaboration software. For kicks, I took an informal poll about...