Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

If you listen to some people-Microsoft-Apple has about as much business being in the office as the New York Yankees would have playing in the National Football League championship. Which is to say: none at all. These folks will tell you that Apple is all about the sizzle, and not about the steak. Or, to […]

Many people are angry at Network Solutions’ new domain name registration policy, but in an eWEEK interview, Network Solutions Senior Public Relations Representative Susan Wade said the company’s goal was simply to “defend our customers against front-runners.” Wade explained, “We believe that some of our customers are having .com domain names taken from them because […]

ICANN will investigate Network Solutions’ domain registering policy in the wake of reports that the company was automatically registering domains based on user searches. ICANN’s decision to investigate comes just as Network Solutions reportedly is changing the policy. In a brief note to eWEEK, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body […]

Numerous reports confirm that Network Solutions, the well-known domain registry company, is automatically registering domain names when individuals search for a potential name using its site’s search tools. This was first reported in a forum message in DomainState, a news and discussion site for Internet site owners. In the message, a domain owner and developer […]

As expected, Everex, a U.S.-based computer OEM, has announced that it will be releasing its gOS 2.0 Linux-powered laptop, the CloudBook Ultra-Mobile PC, to retailers by month’s end. This UMPC was introduced at CES in Las Vegas on Jan. 9. The CloudBook is Everex’s laptop followup to its extremely popular Green gPC TC2502 desktop system. […]

Open-Xchange, a German open-source groupware company with long ties to SUSE Linux, is changing its top management team. Rafael Laguna, who played a major role in merging SUSE with Novell, is now Open-Xchange’s president and CEO. And former SUSE CEO Richard Seibt is now OX’s chairman of the board. While at SUSE, Laguna and Seibt […]

Maybe it’s just me, but when I read that Bill Gates had inked an exclusive deal with NBC to deliver live and on-demand Olympics coverage on MSN with its Silverlight, cross-browser, cross-platform video plug-in, I saw a new world of online video opening up. In the past, online video has gotten a great deal of […]

Can I be honest? Intel was never really interested in partnering with the One Laptop Per Child project. The marriage of Intel and OLPC was destined for divorce before the two ever walked down the aisle. As so often is the case in a divorce, the partners have very different explanations for the split-up. In […]

OpenVZ Project, the open-source community branch of SWsoft, the virtualization company behind Parallels and Virtuozzo, will release on Jan. 8, pre-made Ubuntu 7.10 server and desktop virtual machines. Here’s how it works. Users will download an Ubuntu software template from OpenVZ. With this template, they can then set up OpenVZ VMs (virtual machines) of either […]

It’s going to happen. Sometime in 2008, SCO will finally stop thrashing on the floor and die. Will it be Novell draining it dry of its last financial resources in the U.S. District Court in Utah? Or, will it be the bankruptcy court in Delaware divvying up the last bits and pieces of the once […]

Im sure that the new Microsoft Office for the Mac, which will be coming out in January, will be just dandy. Well, actually, given Microsofts track record and that Leopard has only been out for a few months, Im anything but sure that Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac will even run. Putting that aside, […]

That was fast. Only two months ago, Good OS, a startup Linux distributor, exploded on the scene with gOS 1.0, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux with dedicated links to Google applications. Now, the company has announced that it will release the next version, gOS 2.0, Rocket, at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas on Jan. […]