Year: 2006

  • Great Expectations for January’s Job Market

    Great Expectations for January’s Job Market

    Deborah Rothberg

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    There will be more job growth in the manufacturing and service sectors in January 2007 than in January 2006, according to the findings of a collaborative report from the Alexandria, Va.-based Society for Human Resource Management and the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, released Dec. 26. Firms continue to face considerable difficulty… Read more

  • eCoupled Technology Frees Users from Cords

    eCoupled Technology Frees Users from Cords

    Patrick Hoffman

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    At the International Consumer Electronics Show, scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, Fulton Innovation will introduce a way to charge wireless devices with its eCoupled technology, which allows for the transmission of power and data without the need for cords and ports. Fulton Innovation, a member of the Alticor family of… Read more

  • Samsung Unveils Gigabit-Density Mobile DRAM

    Samsung Unveils Gigabit-Density Mobile DRAM

    Brian Prince

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    Samsung Electronics officials announced Dec. 27 the company has crafted a 1G bit Mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory chip using 80nm process technology. The new chip, company officials said, will be more cost-effective than other high density mobile solutions and used for a wide range of advanced handset applications as well as for digital still… Read more

  • Bribing Bloggers

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Want to know why Microsoft has so many people saying good things about it, despite endless security problems, high prices, product lock-in and a big brother attitude toward using their products? Microsoft bribes people. Microsoft blogger Long Zheng tells us that he, and many other bloggers, from the “A list to Z list” received an… Read more

  • Security in 2007: Zero-Day World Puts Bull’s-Eye on Vista

    Ryan Naraine

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    Who will find the first major security flaw in Windows Vista? Will it be released as zero-day? Is there an end in sight to the botnet menace? Is spam close to being canned? Just who are these criminals phishing for your credit card data? Those are just a handful of the hot-button topics that will… Read more

  • Who Are You Surfin? New Ways to Be Cert’in

    Who Are You Surfin? New Ways to Be Cert’in

    Larry Seltzer

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    It seems like every time people get together to do something about a security problem, other people get together to whine about it. Now they’re whining about EV (Extended Validation) SSL Certificates: EV certs are a scheme by Microsoft to screw other browser vendors. They’re an attempt by certificate authorities to gouge Web site operators.… Read more