Monthly Archives: February 2008
Pay Inequity Shows No Signs of Waning
At many of the nation's biggest companies, the wage gap between white men and nearly everyone else in the workplace still exists, according to...
My Own Experiment with Memory Remanence
When I read about the recent Princeton University paper on subverting hard drive encryption by fishing for encyption keys in system RAM, I got...
Recession Bound? Fewer People Clicking on Google
Oh how we hang on a few stats and rush to wring our hands when the golden goose appears to lay too few eggs.Numerous...
Healthcare records will take more than Google and Microsoft
Who knows more about the issues involved in developing a secure, portable patient healthcare records system, Google, Microsoft or a CIO deeply involved in...
Lundquist’s Six Better IT Budget Cutting Steps
The analysts over at Gartner recently said that now is the time to cut the IT budget and they provided six steps to get...
Could Microsoft Close Up Zimbra?
While the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is still up in the air, that hasn't stopped many from speculating on what will happen to the...
Lenovo Slims Down the ThinkPad
Lenovo is rethinking the ThinkPad.After much talk and favorable review in the Wall Street Journal, Lenovo announced Feb. 26 that the company is ready...
HP, Dell Add Virtualization Options
A couple of IT heavyweights are offering new options for server virtualization.At VMware's European showcase, which kicked off in France Feb. 25, Hewlett-Packard and...
Use Yahoo, Build Buzz
In a technology move that underscores why Microsoft covets Yahoo, the Internet company on Feb. 26 introduced a feature that measures consumer votes and...
Adobe to Deliver AIR for Linux
SAN FRANCISCO-Adobe Systems hopes to make nice with the open-source community and soon deliver a Linux version of its newly released Adobe Integrated Runtime.Kevin...