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IPv6 Still Gets No Respect in the United States

SAN FRANCISCO—Although the foundation of the next-generation Internet, IPv6, is gaining momentum in South Asia and receiving solid support in Windows Vista, enterprise IT...

Grass Is Always Greener: EBay and Google

The Web is all abuzz with the Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side Of the Firewall stories about Google preparing an online...

Best Buy Learns That Data Protection Can Be A Customer Issue

When a Cincinnati man brought his hard-drive to Best Buy to be repaired, he was told that he couldn’t have his old hard-drive back....

BidPay Is Back

The old BidPay online payment service—which boasted more than 4 million registered users when it shut its doors in December 2005—has relaunched under the...

Are RFID Readers Hazardous To Your Health?

FCC regs on RF exposure safety requires that at least 8.7 inches always exist between RFID antennae radiating elements and people. How many retailers...

TechEd Technology Tips

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Will Microsoft Still Be Microsoft Without Bill Gates?

Now that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates officially has begun decoupling himself from the company he founded 31 years ago, it seems like a great...

Skeptics Question Microsoft Interoperability Pitch

BOSTON—Some members of the open-source community are skeptical about Microsofts efforts to bridge incompatibilities between software licensed under the GNU General Public License and...

Is Gates Retirement Linuxs Chance?

On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from Microsoft in July 2008, and everything changed. It may be two years away,...

Oracle Trumpets Content Management for the Masses

REDWOORD SHORES, Calif.—Not content to control half of the relational database market, Oracle on June 14 introduced two enterprise content management products aimed at...