Monthly Archives: June 2008
HP Enables Operational BI
Hewlett-Packard is rolling out Version 2.3 of its Neoview data warehouse application, which offers several patented technologies designed to enable operational business intelligence. HP...
Gentlemen, Start Your SSD Storage Engines
eWEEK's Jeff Burt reported June 4 that Sun Microsystems has entered the race to see which Tier 1 storage system company can come up...
Learning to Love UAC
User Access Control in Windows Vista has been such a controversial development that it's worth re-examining periodically. Let's restate the purpose of UAC: It...
Organizing Our Jumbled Web Personas
After a decade and more of browsing, shopping and transacting on the Internet, millions of us have assembled a confusing clutter of Web site...
Facebook’s Open-Source Dish with a Side of Attribution
Facebook's use of the Common Public Attribution License to open-source its platform is a controversial exercise designed to protect and extend the company's brand...
Why Icahn Should Sit Down and Wise Up
Gazillionaire Carl Icahn, a money-hungry shark who has thrust himself into the middle of the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations, should keep his teeth out of the...
Microsoft: Scratch the Surface
If you asked a thousand people what Microsoft could do to Windows to improve the product, would even one of them describe a yearning...
Meter Running on All-You-Can-Eat
Time Warner Cable didn't have to do any thinking outside of the box to come up with a new pricing plan for the delivery...
Intel Starts Shipping Atom for PCs
Intel is preparing to ship the first of its new line of Atom processors for a emerging category of low-cost PCs that the chip...
Complaint: Yahoo Opposed to Outsourcing Search to Google
Now that a Delaware court judge has unsealed the complaint in a shareholder lawsuit filed against Yahoo's board of directors, we can get an...