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Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)
Reviews Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.
Tags: Battery, Intel Corp., Seagate Technology LLC, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Notebook, notebook hard drive, Gist, hard drive, flash memory, desktop
New technology lets you read your voice mail
News Several companies are betting on voice-recognition applications that transcribe those rambling messages into e-mail or text messages.
Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless e-mail devices, E-mail clients, Microsoft Outlook
Analyst: Have Cisco's glory days come and gone?
News Shares of former highflier Cisco Systems hit some turbulence Wednesday after an analyst issued a pessimistic report and the company's chief executive described the current quarter as "challenging."
How intuitive should developers make software?
Techguide If a user can't figure out how to use software, the blame often falls on the developer. Is the expectation that developers must create intuitive software unrealistic?
Tags: Business applications, Protocols and platforms, Wiki, Training, IP, Developer, IP Address, Computer, Fallacy, Networking Device
NTT DoCoMo's US$6 billion bet
News The company now has two years to roll out NTT DoCoMo's new wireless network on a revised schedule, and US$6.2 billion in AT&T Wireless stock says it will be on time.
Court affirms download patent
News E-Data insists it owns the patent for Internet software downloads, and an appeals court says the company may be right. At stake are licensing fees that could make the E-Data richer than Microsoft.
Paris report: Open-source move could be costly
News A complete switch "would mean significant additional costs without improving the service provided," a French official says.
Tags: Open source
Software download patent refuses to die
News A federal appeals court for the second time breathes life into a patent that could force software makers to pay licensing fees to sell their products directly over the Web.
Microsoft's Ballmer touts XML Web standard
News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday that the spread of the XML software standard will constitute the "next revolution" in personal computing.
Is your boss monitoring your e-mail?
News A quarter of employers have sacked workers for how they use their e-mail--and even for misuse of the office phone, a study shows.
Tags: E-mail clients, Workplace, Privacy
Pay-as-you-go software licensing going slow
News Pricing plans designed to let companies pay only for what they actually use are proving difficult to pull off.
Tags: Software licensing
CA chairman: Internet revolution is just starting
News Charles Wang, founder and chairman of software manufacturer Computer Associates (CA), says the Internet revolution is only just beginning and carries with it a promising future.
Does Seagate own the flash hard drive?
News The company's patent spat with STEC could be one of a series of suits and licensing disputes that follow.
Dealing with the project that wouldn't die
Insight After working in the industry for a while, most of us pick up a few stories about projects that would not die. We almost never use the word fail; projects in IT do not fail when we can just change the scope to reflect the work performed.
Google offers easy translation service for Web pages
News In honor of International Translation Day (you forgot?), Google is publishing code that Webmasters can use to detect the preferred language of their visitors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data mining & analysis, Database management, Page, Google Inc., Web Site, Hallmark, Webmaster, Web Page
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