Year: 2006

  • Fathi Reshuffled Out of Microsoft Security Chief Role

    Fathi Reshuffled Out of Microsoft Security Chief Role

    Ryan Naraine

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    For the second time this year, a major management reshuffle at Microsoft has sent ripples through the software maker’s security unit. Just seven months after tapping Ben Fathi to head up the newly formed STU (security technology unit), the Redmond, Wash. company announced that Fathi would move over to manage a Windows Core System development… Read more

  • Gateway M285-E Tablet: Too Much of a Good Thing?

    Gateway M285-E Tablet: Too Much of a Good Thing?

    Anne Chen

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    With a 14-inch widescreen display, a full-sized keyboard and the latest Intel processor, Gateway’s M285-E Tablet PC is a machine for users who don’t want to make sacrifices to have tablet functionality. The M285-E may provide too much of everything, though: The screen provided plenty of real estate for jotting down notes or for drawing… Read more

  • Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division

    Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions. The software giant is also making changes on the security front by bringing its security, Trustworthy Computing and Engineering Excellence teams together in one group,… Read more

  • Toshiba’s Tecra M7: Notebook with Tablet PC Bonus

    Toshiba’s Tecra M7: Notebook with Tablet PC Bonus

    Anne Chen

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    Toshiba’s Tecra M7 is for users who want a good notebook system with some tablet functionality. Weighing in at almost 6 pounds and sporting a 14.1-inch widescreen display, the Tecra M7 is large and powerful enough for everyday computing, but it lacks the battery performance of its competitors. The Tecra M7 is a convertible tablet… Read more

  • WiMax World Finds Wireless Broadband Still Grappling for a Foothold

    WiMax World Finds Wireless Broadband Still Grappling for a Foothold

    Lisa Vaas

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    BOSTON—There’s nothing quite as sad as a wireless broadband show without connectivity. “Check back later, after they work out the bugs,” said the marketing communications manager at Expedience’s in-your-face-at-the-door, floor-dominating booth at WiMax World here Oct. 11. Here Expedience was, having plopped a two-sector base station on top of the Seaport Hotel, and having paid… Read more

  • Marwaha to Merge High-Volume Process with IBM’s High-Value Channel

    Marwaha to Merge High-Volume Process with IBM’s High-Value Channel

    John Hazard

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    On paper the two channels are contrasts. IBM’s practice of deep integration and customization for high-end products; Lenovo Group’s fast and furious pace to mass market PCs to the world. But IBM, partners and analysts claim both methods have a place in the same family and that Ravindra “Ravi” Marwaha, who has been chosen to… Read more