Monthly Archives: May 2008
Verizon Snags $678M DHS Network Deal
Verizon landed a $678.5 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security May 14 to deploy and manage a secure global IP network. The...
IBM Aims for a Petaflop
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.-In the Warner Bros. cartoons, the Road Runner dashed across a vast desert landscape continually outmaneuvering its archrival, Wile E. Coyote, thanks to...
Frevvo Enables Dynamic Web Applications
Frevvo, which offers systems for developing rich Internet applications, has released an SAAS-enabled solution that creates Web forms.Announced May 12, Live Forms is especially...
Yahoo SearchMonkey Is Out of Its Cage
Playing off the belief that Web users turn to search engines to get information to complete tasks, Yahoo May 15 released its new open...
How to Use the Force to Take Advantage of Design Patterns
/images/stories/70x50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_(2).jpgDesign patterns did not begin with the "Gang of Four" (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides) and their book "Design Patterns:...
Plaxo Finds Suitor Close to Home
Plaxo, which disclosed in April that it was shopping itself around, found a suitor in the shape of partner Comcast, which was reportedly ardent...
HP and EDS by the Numbers: 2 + 5 = Data Center Giant
You don't need to be a fancy industry analyst to understand why Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of EDS makes sense. Third grade math is enough.A timely...
RSA and Infosecurity Europe Attendee Survey Results
Digging through my e-mail, I came across some analysis by Shavlik that summarized the company's findings of polls conducted in April at the RSA...
Time to Take Temp of Google Health
Google is holding a press pow-wow Monday, May 19 at its Googleplex in Mountain View, offering what an invite says is "an insider's perspective...
Where Has the Tech Leadership Gone?
Sean Garrett of 463 Communications wants to know where the Washington tech leadership has gone. In an intriguing post, Garrett gives the proper chops...