Monthly Archives: October 2008
Lenovo, Acer Notebooks Offering Intel Processors, WiMax Technology
While Sprint and Intel are busy setting up the first large-scale WiMax network in the United States, Lenovo and Acer are each rushing a...
Red Hat Upgrades Open-Source SOA Offerings
Red Hat has updated its service-oriented architecture solution set with new releases of its open-source SOA tools.On Oct. 8, Red Hat announced the release...
Son of Tennessee Lawmaker Pleads Not Guilty in Sarah Palin E-Mail Hack
The 20-year-old son of a Tennessee state legislator pleaded not guilty to illegally accessing the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaskan...
The Good and the Bad of BlackBerry Storm
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to get my hands on Research In Motion's much-anticipated touch-screen device, the BlackBerry Storm.The new device, which...
Google ‘Mail Goggles’ Is Latest Frivolous Feature for Gmail
Everyone in the blogosphere and media is having fun with this one, so I don't want to miss out because this is quite the...
Congress Still AWOL on Data Breach Disclosures
In 2005 ChoicePoint was forced to admit it was duped into turning customer data over thieves. Almost 200,000 people were affected by ChoicePoint's data...
We Need the Next Internet–Now
Back in 2002 I wrote a column titled "It's time for next Internet." In that column I bemoaned the fact that we were still...
CA Acquires IDFocus to Bolster Identity Management
CA has acquired identity management vendor IDFocus for an undisclosed sum in a bid to bolster its provisioning and enforcement capabilities.According to CA, the...
2010 Will Mark Tech Turnaround
2010. There you go. Since the rest of the punditry world has taken to guessing when the current economic meltdown will solidify, and business-including...
Mono 2.0 Takes .NET Cross Platform
The Mono Project, an initiative to deliver an open source implementation of components of the .NET Framework, has announced the availability of Mono 2.0.Miguel...