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  • Startup offers EMC Centera data migration services

    Centera also uses a cryptographic hash to ensure that data is immutable, making it compliant with government regulations requiring that sensitive corporate data not be changed after being created.Interlock uses the Extensible Access Method (XAM…
  • Cisco, Microsoft certification boosts job and pay prospects

    Offered by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the Network + certification is also often included in programs by vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, Novell and HP. IT professionals with certain IT certifications could make bank…
  • Microsoft boffin wins Turing Award

    The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2009 AM Turing Award to Charles P. Simonyi said PARC employees and associates would sneak…
  • Paperless office still a pipe dream

    Office employees are loath to give up the vast amount of paper stored in their filing cabinets, much to the chagrin of companies that sell scanners and electronic document management systems.A recent survey by AIIM, an industry association
  • New British forum aims at making cloud ripe for business

    Just a couple of days after a survey from CA revealed that only one in five IT managers was looking to future based on cloud computing, another survey has revealed that a quarter of IT managers could even define cloud computing.The figures were…
  • RealNetworks loses Hollywood battle, stops selling DVD copying software

    District Court for the Northern District of California said RealDVD violates federal law as well as a license agreement that Real had signed with the DVD Copy Control Association.The case had been set to go to trial, but Real Networks said…

Latest Features

  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    The Computing Technology Industry Association, or CompTIA, in late 2009 polled some 1,537 high-tech workers and found 37% intend to pursue a security certification over the next five years. Today's hot IT jobs are those that can help satisfy…
  • 5 crazy Apple Tablet rumours

    Barry Young, Managing Director of the OLED Association recently told Ars Technica that 10.1-inch OLED screens are not a normal production size among suppliers, so if Apple wants this screen size it would have to place a special order.
  • Sorry was the easiest word for tech companies in 2009

    Unfortunately, my intention to stir the pot with eye-poking banter has put my credibility and by association VMware's credibility in question among some of you. But they more than met their match in the high tech industry, where big names from…
  • Apple to show off at CES 2010?

    It may not be true.The rumor comes courtesy of The Wall Street Journal's Digits blogger Ben Charny, who recently attended a dinner for journalists in San Francisco with Gary Shapiro, the chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association, the…
  • CES 2010 preview downbeat

    It's here already.That's the state of the consumer electronics market now, and where it's headed in 2010, according to Consumer Electronics Association officials at the New York preview of the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show.While the…
  • Web file sharing, the new torrents?

    The site told The New York Times earlier this year that it hosted 10 petabytes of data and up to 3 million downloaders at a time.The Association of American Publishers estimates that half of the pirated books found by its members were linked to…
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    Banks, too, must amplify their security practices to combat the tactics cybercriminals are now using to perpetrate this type of fraud.Business banking attacks on the riseConsider that in a single month this past August, no less than the FDIC…
  • How to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business

    So far in 2009, 66 percent of marketers used social media in some form, according to the Association of National Advertisers. Can you tell which of the following tweets is from a small but rapidly growing company?
  • How social networking is key to job searches

    He's a member of two networks -- ENG and the Technology Leaders Association, in which about 40% of the members are in transition at any given time. When Vann was laid off, he already belonged to an Atlanta-area IT industry association, but he also…
  • 5 Strategies to Back Up Your Data, Now

    According to the Consumer Electronics Association, the average adult with online access has an average of 1800 digital files. Every year you say you'll be better at keeping your data backed up, but then life happens.
  • How to buy UTM products

    But they can take advantage of published product reviews and use the testing services available from organisations such as ICSA Labs (formerly International Computer Security Association), Crotty says.
  • Take a new tack for better IT

    We can't just wait for the lights to change colour," says Josh Hinkle, manager of network management and security at the American Heart Association (AHA). Four tactics to improve IT and get better app performance.

Reviews

  • TrueCrypt review

    If you aren't running Windows 7, or you want to use something other than a Microsoft product (and don't want to spend any money), TrueCrypt from the TrueCrypt Developers Association is pretty hard to beat.The product matches the features offered…
  • Encryption software group test

    Luckily, much has changed over the last few years, and many new and improved products have come to market.In this roundup, I've looked at three encryption packages: Microsoft's BitLocker, PGP Corp.s Whole Disk Encryption, and TrueCrypt from the…
  • Windows 7 on multicore review

    Together, these newfound processor smarts allow the Windows 7 kernel to better manage the underlying hardware fabric, taking into account logical and physical CPU layout as it schedules threads and allocates memory.Randall Kennedy was an…
  • Sun VirtualBox 3.1 review

    Editor's note: Randall Kennedy was a US-based reviewer whose association with IDG, the publisher of Techworld, was ended when it was revealed that he also ran a test and research company under a pseudonym.
  • Desktop virtualisation shoot out

    Read on to see which products hit their marks, which overachieve, and which seem to miss the boat entirelyRandall Kennedy was an experienced US-based reviewer whose association with IDG, the publisher of Techworld, was ended when it was revealed…
  • Parallels Desktop 4 review

    And while Parallels Desktop now has a timed snapshot feature, it's not as granular or as sophisticated as VMware's pioneering Replay function, which has been a staple of Workstation since version 6.Randall Kennedy was an experienced US-based…

White Papers

  • Avoiding Legal Traps on the Web

    In such situations, you might be required to keep such distribution on line while criminal investigations are occurring with Federal agencies.As CNET's News.com reported3, Nancy Flynn, executive director of the ePolicy Institute, summarised a…
  • Data and Text Mining the Electronic Medical Record to Improve Care and to Lower Costs

    The data-mining techniques of transactional time series in the HPF procedure and the association rules in SAS Enterprise Miner were used to examine the data. Patients' orders, medications, and complaints were also examined using SAS Text Miner to…
  • Fraud Detection – A Primer for SAS Programmers

    Efforts aimed at preventing or detecting fraud and abuse are becoming widespread features of business entities around the world.The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimated that, in 2004, occupational fraud and abuse cost the US economy…
  • Security Associations in Personal Networks: A Comparative Analysis

    We then make use of this taxonomy in surveying and comparing association models proposed in several emerging standards. For instance, standards for personal networking technologies such as Bluetooth1,Wi-Fi2,Wireless Universal Serial Bus (WUSB), and…
  • Storage Savvy: What IT Organizations Need to Know

    Managing storage assets is one of the top IT challenges today, according to the 2004 "Ten Top Pain Points" Survey Results Report of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) End User Council. Managing storage assets is one of the top IT…
  • Opening Up Magpie via Semantic Services

    If we take this view, then Magpie can be seen as providing an efficient way to integrate semantic and standard' (i.e.non-semantic) web browsing, through the automatic association of semantics to web pages and the provision of user-interface support.
 
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