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  • BlackBerry internet connections go down for UK users

    Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom experienced data outages on Monday and Tuesday on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi, according to user groups and some US carriers.The problems appeared to have…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: North America • Connected • Carriers • Blackberry

  • Ex-Sun CEO Schwartz dishes dirt on Gates, Jobs

    Steve was silent," Schwartz writes.A later meeting with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer ended on a similar note, according to Schwartz. Jonathan Schwartz is starting to share stories about his days at Sun, possibly in preparation for a book.
    10 March 2010
    Tags: Sun Microsystems • Story • Productivity • Jobs • Book

  • Fake Intel chips sold in US

    In addition, sticker on the outside of the box misspelled the word 'socket' as 'sochet' and other words on the box were spelled incorrectly, subtle but clear indications that the contents inside were not genuine.It was not immediately clear how…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Marketplace • Fake • Counterfeit • Contact • Comment • Buyers

  • Small web browser firms bitter over Microsoft ballot

    We're thankful to be part of the program, but we're sending a formal request to the commission to look into this issue," Hardin said.Although there was a comment period set aside last year before the agreement with Microsoft was finalised by the…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Scrolling • Request • Pushing • Commission • Comment • Browsers

  • Spanish police shut down 'world's largest' botnet

    They apparently thought they would be anonymous because they used a private domain name registrar, but that company ended up cooperating with the Mariposa Working Group. Spanish authorities have arrested three men in an operation that has crushed a…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Operation • Linked • Intelligence • Defense • Botnet • Authorities

  • Future of Web Apps conference advises developers

    It was so convenient that Huffman and his partner ended up knocking out Reddit when a significant system error popped up, letting the Supervise tool from Daemontools boot up the site automatically.The lesson: By adopting existing tools and…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Finance • Fear • Facebook • Crash • College • Attendees

Latest Features

  • Business needs new IT blood

    They're like a second family," she says.Some Year Up students at JPMorgan Chase weren't offered jobs when their internships ended, Galante says. You can't count on climbing any career ladder. If we keep going the way we are now, this year we will…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Students • Science • Financial Services • Entrylevel • Education • Advance

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    After a decade of timid stock performance, the fiscal year that ended June 2009 saw Microsoft's net revenue decrease for the first time in its history. It can't be easy being Ray Ozzie. Microsoft's chief software architect is just 18 months into…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

  • The most over-hyped tech products ever

    Like its namesake, ended up stranded.Dean Kamen's Segway (2001)No list of over-hype can ignore the product that more than any other has come to embody the sometimes tragically large gap between what hype promises and what is actually delivered.
    28 January 2010
    Tags: Silicon • Talked • John Dunn • History • Reaction • Tech

  • A history of Intel's antitrust woes

    AMD and Intel announced a broad legal settlement that ended several court cases between the two companies, including the 1991 antitrust lawsuit filed by AMD.1997Aug. The FTC ended its second investigation into Intel's business practices and decided…
    17 December 2009
    Tags: Acquire • Japan • Sale • Investigation • Actions • Antitrust

  • Snow Leopard vs Windows 7

    My long journey with Windows, which began even before Windows with MS-DOS, ended with Windows Vista. Windows 7 is a worthy rival, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the better operating system by a whisker for discriminating professionals I have a…
    27 October 2009
    Tags: Folders • User Interface • Transparent • Usability • Tends • Noting

  • Windows 7 security: more of the same please

    Windows 7 was never intended to be launched this week, and would in more normal circumstances have appeared at some point next year or ever later.What went wrong, why normality was disrupted, and why the world has been invited to experience the…
    22 October 2009
    Tags: Sdl • Returns • Grip • Failings • Debugging • Amichai Shulman

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How-Tos

  • How to alert your contacts if your Twitter account is hacked

    Using as few words as possible, try to include enough details about the message sent so folks can identify it, ended with a brief "I'm sorry". You've been hit by a social network scam on Twitter and don't know how to warn your contacts?
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Twitter • Sending • Scam • Phishing • Messages • Contacts

  • How to manage virtual machine performance

    We ended up having to put on a lot more memory than we figured during the capacity planning.Getting detailed and accurate estimations of how well a server will perform as a VM host is complicated further by the varying ability of different…
    01 February 2010
    Tags: Demands • Assessment • Vm • Virtual Machines • Workloads • Thumb

  • How to deploy Windows 7

    Given Microsoft's slow OS update schedule and the lack of transferability of SA coverage to new PCs, this insurance type plan has ended up costing businesses more per desktop than simply purchasing upgrade licences for old PCs and getting the OS…
    06 October 2009
    Tags: Assessment • Virtual Machine • Microsoft Windows • Hypervisor • Editions • Incremental

  • How to secure the Apple iPhone

    No EAS policies are enforceable via IMAP.How to make sure EAS isn't fooledApple's false reporting of on-device encryption for iPhones ended with its iPhone OS 3.1 OS update released on Sept 8. The recent revelation that Apple's iPhone OS had been…
    25 September 2009
    Tags: Failed • Enabled • Windows Mobile • Configured • Trust • History

  • Case Study: Building a case for e-discovery

    Jordan is involved in one lawsuit with a school district that has stretched more than five years - and Buraczyk believes it would have ended long ago if he could have just found a single email that may have exonerated the construction company.So…
    22 February 2008
    Tags: Discovery • Dollars • School • Lawsuit • District • Fees

  • IDS on the cheap

    For example, one such alert (Figure 3) was generated when a valid remote desktop session ended abruptly, possibly by a user not closing the remote desktop application correctly.I previously noted that the IDS sensor should always be placed between…
    03 October 2007
    Tags: Installing • Iso • Greg • Intrusion • Inexpensive • Ids

Reviews

  • 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…
    19 January 2010
    Tags: Maps • Layers • Workstation • Leverage • Benchmark • Quadcore

  • 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.
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Sun Microsystems • Attached • Vm • Account • Checking • Tech

  • 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…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Compatibility • Workstation • Vm • Experts • Virtual Pc • Desktop Virtualisation

  • 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…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Cpus • Workstation • Flagship • Legacy • Vm • Death

  • VMware Workstation 7 review

    These latter day OS support core parking and generally tune their scheduling algorithms to match the underlying processor core configuration.Randall Kennedy was an experienced US-based reviewer whose association with IDG, the publisher of…
    14 January 2010
    Tags: Category • Class • Vm • Bar • Guest • Leader

  • Microsoft Office 2010 review

    You can copy the animation and apply it to objects in your own presentation.If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth at least ten thousand, but up until now PowerPoint's video features have been rudimentary at best.Randall Kennedy…
    13 July 2009
    Tags: User Interface • Videos • Spring • Editor • Edit • Rendering

White Papers

  • Virtualisation brings Kings College academics together

    Which wasn't something that anyone really anticipated but I think it got picked up by the press and then ended up in genealogy publications, and it's taken on a second life, Vetch says. But the virtual grid at Kings College could provide an object…
    26 April 2007
    Tags: Virtualised • School • Virtual Machines • Editions • Funding • Compute

  • Veritas CommandCentral by Symantec and the Storage Management Evolution

    Unfortunately, many of these deployments have ended in failure. One of the most perplexing challenges facing data centers today is that of storage management. The challenge of storage management has increased exponentially as information has become…
    24 January 2007
    Tags: Path • Gap • Storage Management • Growth • Symantec • Organization

  • Eleven Myths about 802.11 Wi-Fi Networks

    Unfortunately, the people responsible for creating the application that performs this intrusion also ended up perpetrating one of the most widely spread myths concerning Wi-Fi security.As part of the promotion of their presentation, the authors of…
    23 January 2007
    Tags: Stations • Vulnerability • Vulnerable • Presentation • Drivers • Myths

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