Monthly Archives: May 2008
Readers Respond to Microsoft XP SP3 Difficulties
For more than a week, eWEEK readers have been responding to two articles about the difficulties of trying to install Windows XP Service Pack...
Cisco Denies China Censorship Complicity
WASHINGTON-Cisco Systems has strongly denied that it cooperates with the Chinese government in censoring Falun Gong or other dissident groups. The accusations arose from...
Vivisimo Spruces Up Social Search with Discovery
Vivisimo steered itself into the next generation of enterprise search in October 2007 with its Velocity 6.0 platform, which included social tagging, bookmarking and...
How to Get Ready for Mobile Commerce: What’s in Your M-Wallet?
There are many names for it. Some call it mobile billing, mobile commerce, mobile e-money or mobile buying. Others call it cellular commerce, electronic...
Fair Outcomes Addresses E-commerce Disputes
Fair Outcomes, a provider of technology solutions that aid in negotiations, has released the test version of Fair Reputations, a solution designed to resolve...
HP, Wyse Roll Out Thin-Client Notebooks
Hewlett-Packard and Wyse Technology, the two leading vendors of thin-client PCs, are attempting to expand their share of this particular niche market and are...
Placing Our Trust in Google Health
The public launch on May 19 of the Google Health site raises the question about whether it's wise for people to make large corporations...
Biggest News at EMC World Didn’t Happen
LAS VEGAS -- There was a modicum of news May 19 on Day 1 of EMC World here at Mandalay Bay resort: some standard...
Facebook, LinkedIn Are Prime Recruiting Grounds
It wasn't very long ago that most people found jobs through friends, and companies filled positions through employee referrals.Yet according to a survey released...
Would You Encourage Your Kid to Work in IT?
Between outsourced jobs, feared salary competition from H-1B visa holders and the residual effects of the dot-com bust, IT as a field has been...