Recent Articles
-
RFID Vendors Raise the Stakes with New Products
With the design and deployment work for the U.S. Department of Defense’s extensive RFID network completed in late September, industry experts expect a ripple effect across the supply chain industry, with more companies moving to add RFID dollars to their budgets. RFID vendors aren’t wasting any time coming out with new products to meet the…
-
Survey: Microsoft IIS 6 Ahead of Apache
Port80 Software, a Microsoft partner, has released a new survey showing that the Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 Web server has overtaken the Apache open-source Web server among Fortune 1000 Web sites. In the survey released on Oct. 11, Port80 Software said IIS 6 more than doubled its market share over the last year, to…
-
How Do You Secure 100 Million Laptops?
If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the largest computing monoculture in history. Wary of the security risks associated with a computing monoculture—millions of machines with hardware and software of identical…
-
Fathi Reshuffled Out of Microsoft Security Chief Role
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…
-
Gateway M285-E Tablet: Too Much of a Good Thing?
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…
-
Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division
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,…
