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Latest News

  • MySpace connects with Microsoft Outlook

    Hyperlinks in the activity updates allow you to quickly jump to see the activities, such as posting a new picture, recording a new video, recording a new song, or making a new friend, all with a simple click.
  • International Space Station partners shine light on science benefit

    They acknowledged that a US fiscal year 2011 budget consistent with the US administration's budget request would let the United States support the continuation of ISS operations and utilisation activities to at least 2020.
  • Microsoft introduces free Android app

    In 2008, Microsoft launched its first app for the iPhone and has released several since then.But, with the current war of words between the two companies over the EC investigation into Google's activities (something that the search giant has…
  • Investigation software snoops through social networks

    The new program, codenamed Hone, is designed to give intelligence and law enforcement agencies a leg up on criminals who are now operating anonymously on the Internet.In many ways, the cyber world is ideal for subversive and terrorist activities
  • Software AG launches social network for BPM

    Anyone can add a new "sticky" to the workspace, each one representing an activity, with the activities organised into columns to represent the stages in a process. Users can add detailed comments and other information to the stickies through a…
  • Nvidia launches Ion 2 graphics for netbooks

    Intel maintained that low-cost netbooks were designed for basic activities like web surfing and word processing, while Nvidia said that the devices could be repurposed at slightly higher prices with powerful graphics to support high-definition…

Latest Features

  • How not to shut down your laptop, and other tips

    Actually, no: If you use Dial2Do, all the aforementioned activities are easily said and done. Why is that a really bad idea? I'll explain this week - and I'll also tell you about a web service that could very well save your life.
  • Security and the rise of corporate espionage

    You realise, of course, it wasn't just Google that was compromised in this operation; it was also those individuals and enterprises using Google's infrastructure and resources to conduct their online activities.Three weeks after the attacks on…
  • BlackBerry spyware scare? Don't worry, yet

    But as long as you're vigilant about the activities you perform with your BlackBerry device - don't just download any and all apps you come across, take some responsibility, do your research, and so on - the current crop of known BlackBerry…
  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    That means IT staffers would be wise to also embrace the skills required to track services from start to finish across a distributed and diverse environment.In a research report, Forrester Research advises companies to: "Initiate a service…
  • Security standards can be cyber threat

    Unfortunately, some cyber security standards activities remain part of broader organisations that rely on the extracted revenue for those standards in order to maintain the non-security related objectives of those organisations, including the…
  • The future of IT application architectures

    In the future, a growing percentage of computing will be driven by non-human activities from devices like sensors. I have written before about the impact cloud computing will have on IT operations, and noted that the increasing scale of data…
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    Distribute the latest cyber attack reports to the entire IT group so more stakeholders can become educated about cybercrime and its methods.Isolate your Internet banking activities. Dedicate specific machines or facilities to hosting your Internet…
  • How to maintain your work/life balance

    If you're on a treadmill, it's hard to talk on the phone or to text," says Handal, who recommends engaging in activities that make it hard to work simultaneously.You can further divert your mind from work while exercising by listening to music…
  • How to fix cloud security

    Once its agent is installed in a private or public cloud infrastructure, it can perform deep packet inspection, monitor event logs and monitor system activity such as file changes for unauthorised activities, Thiemann says.Shavlik, a cloud-based…
  • How to get retweeted on Twitter

    The lesson learned here is that if you're trying to get more retweets, don't just engage in idle chit-chat or tweet about mundane activities," Zarrella suggests.3. What makes some types of tweets on Twitter get shared more than others?
  • How to protect yourself from Windows 7 hacks

    Because the flaw only enables an attacker to crash the system, and doesn't provide any unauthorised remote access that could lead to compromising information or performing other malicious activities, the odds of the exploit being actively used by…
  • How to avoid redundancy

    Internal roles are critical, but getting aligned with customers and those activities will make technical workers more valuable to business managers. Despite talk of an economic recovery on the horizon, countless lost jobs won't be replaced and IT…

Reviews

  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 review

    In addition, UAG makes a distinction between "upload" and "download" type activities. We tested Whale Communications' SSL VPN in 2003 and the product didn't fare very well. Microsoft bought Whale in 2006, jettisoned some of the strange…
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 review

    There's also an upgrade checker that helps you identify custom code that might be replaced with out-of-the-box SharePoint 2010 features.For day-to-day management, the streamlined Central Administration console provides new tools for throttling…
  • Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 review

    The drives themselves are also low power and while there is a fan in the unit, it only speeds up during particularly intense activities.Other features of note include the ability to connect up to five Axis Network video cameras for real time…
  • O2 Joggler review

    You can either invite them to share the calendar and see your activities or hide your calendar entries but be able to text them about events. The O2 Joggler is a digital picture frame that can also act as a family calendar and wireless music and…
  • The Sims 3 review

    It's shiny, sexy, and perplexingly emerald-green, but more than anything, The Sims 3 - Electronic Arts' groomed and gussied-up digital dollhouse - is an intrepid and wonderful game.nderful, because The Sims 3 is finally the game the original…
  • Windows 7 RC1 review

    Hook up a digital camera, for example, and an icon for it will appear in the Taskbar; click its icon, and you'll move to the Device Stage, a new control centre for activities involving peripheral devices.Unfortunately, most of what makes the new…

White Papers

  • Operational responsiveness

    Today, there are many examples of business activities that are highly responsive and, sadly, even more that are less responsive. The operational responsiveness of businesses, business processes, and business systems in general has evolved and…
  • Beyond PCI Checklists

    This white paper discusses change process controls, which ensure required activities have been completed properly. These activities must be validated not just at one point in time, but regularly over an entire period of time (i.e.the entire year…
  • Maximising consumer trust in site security using extended validation SSL

    While this phenomenon has been masked by the overall increase in online activities like banking, trading securities, and filing taxes, the fact remains that many online retail businesses are less effective than they could be and are leaving money…
  • Automating ITIL v3 Event Management with IT Process Automation

    This paper introduces ITIL v3 Event Management principles, related activities, and typical challenges. There is confusion around Event Management in ITIL. Yet it is essential, providing the foundation for improving other ITIL processes, as well as…
  • SOA… Now What?

    It is almost as if there is some stigma associated with not having a SOA strategy and that companies not trumpeting the progress of their SOA activities are in some way out of kilter with the rest of the IT world.
  • The Capacity to Succeed: Demand and Capacity Management

    Any organization that fails to manage this resource to ensure that sufficient capacity is available-and is being used efficiently-risks losing control of its IT costs and having its business activities seriously constrained.
 
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