Profile of Paul McDougall
Editor At Large, InformationWeek
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Paul McDougall is a former editor for InformationWeek.
Articles by Paul McDougall
posted in December 2008
12/31/2008
Citigroup Global Services is sold to TCS for $512 million.
12/30/2008
Microsoft's next operating system is available from torrent sites.
12/24/2008
The aerospace command is using the Internet to follow Kris Kringle's Christmas Eve progress.
12/23/2008
Microsoft needs to keep its older operating system on the market in order to appease business customers.
12/23/2008
The $127 million deal includes a six-year outsourcing contract under which Wipro will provide tech support to the bank.
12/23/2008
An astronaut and a cosmonaut successfully performed a series of tasks outside the station.
12/22/2008
The charge is the latest in a series of allegations in the ongoing legal spat between the clone maker and Apple.
12/22/2008
The software maker gives system builders an additional four months to get their hands on XP.
12/19/2008
League spokesman says posts on the microblogging service not really from The Great One.
12/19/2008
Mad Mac user wants attendees to greet the CEO's stand-in with "utter silence."
12/18/2008
Host IDG has no plans to discontinue the show despite the loss of its star attraction.
12/17/2008
A top tech analyst said the company's CEO is cancer free and that Apple is pulling out for other reasons.
12/17/2008
David Paterson seeks 4% cut of digital music and movie downloads for his beleaguered state.
12/16/2008
Support forums indicate that Apple's Leopard update is wreaking havoc on users' systems.
12/16/2008
Hardware vendors are getting an early jump on Microsoft's next OS to avoid Vista-style compatibility headaches.
12/15/2008
The Leopard update is designed to improve Mac performance across the board.
12/15/2008
Redmond appears to have concluded that it must support the iPhone if it wants to be a serious mobile player.
12/14/2008
The move would appear to indicate that Redmond has finally acknowledged the iPhone's market dominance.
12/12/2008
The British Broadcasting Corp. has struck partnerships to bring Internet video to the small screen.
12/12/2008
Xbox's strong Thanksgiving sales didn't help Microsoft outpace Nintendo in November.
12/11/2008
FSF claims the company failed to make source code for its routers available to customers.
12/10/2008
Feeling a moral and civic obligation to stimulate the economy, I finally took the plunge into home theater. Have you seen those prices lately? $599 for a 42-inch Panasonic plasma? I'm so there. But I didn't want my savings eaten up by expensive cabinetry designed to separate components. Enter this little invention from up north.
12/10/2008
Mac cloner says OS X 10.5 includes code designed to shut down unauthorized machines.
12/9/2008
Redmond's offer to limit data retention to six months in Europe needs rival's cooperation.
12/9/2008
Many opponents of offshoring, the process by which IT and other jobs are shipped to low-cost countries like India, have blamed the GOP for supposedly selling out the American worker. But there's evidence that Team Obama won't act much differently.
12/8/2008
Microsoft's CEO said quick integration of the Internet giant's operations would be better for both companies.
12/5/2008
The service pack is designed to improve support for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Blu-ray devices.
12/5/2008
A number of major Web sites won't display properly in Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft has revealed.
12/5/2008
Big Blue's virtual desktop includes open source system and application software.
12/3/2008
Trial software is almost ready for current and future versions of Microsoft's operating system.
12/3/2008
The Vista challenger is designed to fully integrate desktop and Web-based apps.
12/2/2008
The waiter deposits a $200 check and an uncomfortable silence envelops the table. Glances are exchanged and eyebrows are raised. Who ordered the expensive wine? Who only had a soda and sandwich? Who pays for what? Enter IBM.
12/2/2008
Hot video games like Gears Of War 2 and Fable II helped boost console sales.
12/1/2008
Reports disagree over whether a new search deal is in the works.
12/1/2008
The upstart reseller is offering a fully configured Leopard system for $554.
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