Regardless, it’s good to see IBM’s moral leadership on this issue.
IBM knows the standards game better than any other company I know, which makes its recent announcement to stop supporting rogue standards bodies welcome and important. This might well be a response to the shenanigans Microsoft allegedly played with OOXML, but whatever its origin, the [...]
As far as changing passwords, the French and Spanish are the most lax. And the French tend to display birth dates on social networking sites and to use birth dates as passwords, the study found.
The Germans had the lowest rate of identity fraud of the countries, with 3 percent reporting problems.
People in [...]
Mayor Charles Meeker of Raleigh said that plug-in electric vehicles tie into the company’s economic development plans and goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce imports of oil.
A coalition dedicated to paving the way for plug-in electric
cars in communities launched on Tuesday, highlighting the technical and economic challenges to electric transportation.
Consumers need to get [...]
The company blames its woes on phone companies and large corporate customers, which have been cutting back on their capital expenditures more than had been expected. Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski said the company is conducting a comprehensive review of its business. And he said it is looking for a buyer for its metro Ethernet equipment [...]
Willcom D4 is slated for a June release and is expected to be priced at 128,600 yen ($1,272).
The handheld-size device uses a 1.33GHz Z520 Intel Atom processor and runs
Windows Vista Home Premium (with Service Pack 1). Other prototype devices based on similar designs–referred to as mobile Internet devices or MIDs–have also been shown running [...]
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Fake Steve was quite the sensation last year, but Internet memes come and go faster than 24-point leads, despite the fact that FSJ remains an amusing source of tech industry satire. Lyons will be taking the place of Steve Levy at Newsweek, who departed for Wired earlier this year.
Lyons is leaving Forbes, [...]
What do you think Facebook will announce at next week’s F8 event?
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Mobile or not, expect something big next week from the Facebook camp.
One of the 550-plus new iPhone applications was Facebook’s own, a slightly amped-up version of the Web-based Facebook for iPhone Web site introduced late last year. It’s more [...]
I recently caught up with Praveen Asthana, who directs storage operations at Dell. While cloud-based storage so far has had an uneven reception in the market, he says the initial consumer reluctance to store valuable digital files “out there” is receding.
At this point, Dell is not offering more details other than to [...]
Microsoft declined to discuss what will be in Windows Server 2008 R2, but a spokesman confirmed that it is the server version of Windows 7. The release is due sometime in 2010, Microsoft said.
The server move calls into question just how different Windows 7 is going to be from Windows Vista on the desktop side. [...]
“We are interested in this because it has some very unique properties and no one has really explored it at this level before,” Wilson said. “There are not product plans for this, of course. This is just one of many efforts to explore different form factors that are sort of a play off the Surface.”
And [...]
