Month: August 2006

How S-L-O-W Will Vista Go?

The complaints about sluggish performance in Windows Vista keep growing. While it’s unfair to point to beta software apps—or whatever Microsoft wants to call them—the

50 Ways to Lose Your Laptop

When I wrote about ways to protect your laptop if you needed to ship it as checked luggage, one assumption I made was that no

For Big Blue, What Comes Next?

In less than three weeks, IBM managed to snatch up four software companies—Webify, MRO Software, FileNet and, most recently, Internet Security Systems. The question is,

Q&A: Dumping the PC For a Slimmer Cousin

Jack Wilson is enterprise information-technology architect at Amerisure, a mutual insurance firm in Farmington Hills, Mich. Between January and May this year, the 800-employee company

Generation Y for Dummies

Remember that time you were talking to the Generation X-aged employee in your department and referred to punch cards and he or she responded with

Cyber-Czar to Be Named ‘Soon’

WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security will be naming a new Assistant Secretary for Cyber and Telecommunications in the very near future, a DHS spokesperson has