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  • International Space Station partners shine light on science benefit

    While detractors say the ISS is a costly lab that may never see a great return on investment, building the ISS has cost NASA $48.5 billion, the leaders of the ISS agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo…
    12 March 2010
    Tags: Station • Science • Return • Budget • Agency • Agencies

  • Germans plan wireless broadband with LED lights

    The team built a visible wireless system in their lab to download data at 100Mbit/sec, and then upgraded the system to get 230 Mbit/sec. Light coming from lamps in your home could eventually be used to encode a wireless broadband signal, according…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Spectrum • Led • Institute • Gold • Commercial • Broadband

  • MIT opens Media Lab Complex

    MIT has expanded the footprint of its Media Lab with a new US$90 million, 163,000-square-foot modern building. MIT has expanded the footprint of its Media Lab with a new US$90 million, 163,000-square-foot modern building.The Media Lab is very much…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Walls • Media Lab • Houses • Glass • Footprint

  • Kaspersky invents security suite for 'expert' user

    Kaspersky Lab has invented a new security product that combines bits of its current consumer security suite with new capabilities such as encryption, backup, password management, and the ability to manage the product across a network.
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Password • Lab • Expert • Controls • Bits • Antivirus

  • VeriSign: DNSSEC to improve Internet security

    The packets are larger…Based on anecdotal information, there are some pieces of equipment that have issues with this," Larson says, pointing out that some network gear has default configurations limiting DNS packets to 512 bytes whereas DNSSEC…
    03 March 2010

  • Mobile operators gang up to fight Apple over apps store

    Some, including Orange, Verizon and Vodafone, have already launched their own application stores.Mobile phone manufacturers LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have also voiced their support for the apps community.The Wholesale Applications…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Store • Manufacturers • Jack • Electronics • App • Android

Latest Features

  • BlackBerry spyware scare? Don't worry, yet

    More specifically, Tyler Shields, a senior researcher with Veracode Research Lab, has put together and publicly released some proof-of-concept spyware code, dubbed TSXBBSpy, that can reportedly wipe a BlackBerry clean, distribute on-board data via…
    09 February 2010
    Tags: Smartphone • Rim • Releasing • Hack • App

  • Where do web giants stand on IPv6?

    That's why a lot of Web sites create separate IPv6 sites like Google and Netflix where you go if you have an IPv6 address because they don't want the site to [be slow.For example, eBay is running IPv6 in its lab and plans to deploy the new…
    05 February 2010
    Tags: Websites • Twitter • Pressure • Isps • Ebay • Carriers

  • Cloud computing will change data management

    The UC Berkeley RAD Lab Cloud Computing report identifies "illusion of infinite scalability" and "no long-term commitment" as key characteristics of cloud computing, which address the challenges outlined in the previous section of this post…
    12 January 2010
    Tags: Virtualization • Telephone • Scalability • Resource • Operator • Adjust

  • Snow Leopard vs Windows 7

    Performance: An extra inch Microsoft promised to make Windows 7 faster and leaner than Vista, and lab tests show slight improvements on both counts. Windows 7 is a worthy rival, but Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the better operating system by a whisker…
    27 October 2009
    Tags: Folders • User Interface • Transparent • Usability • Tends • Noting

  • Test and development in the cloud

    If you look at the UC Berkeley RAD Lab paper on cloud computing, the first characteristic of cloud computing it identifies is "the illusion of infinite computing resources. Each can gain sufficient resources to do its job easily.Agile development…
    23 October 2009
    Tags: Surface • Assess • Affect • Delayed • Scalability • Lab

  • Inside Nokia's mobile testing lab

    The engineers at Nokia's testing lab have seen and heard all the phone disaster stories and have designed hundreds of tests with the idea of improving Nokia phone quality. Nearby computers measured and recorded what pressure was applied, bending…
    08 October 2009
    Tags: Cell • Labs • Pressure • Manufacturer • Mike • Dropped

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  • How to convert your vinyl records to MP3

    But we'll concentrate on the Audio Cleaning Lab here. Download the 30-day trial of Magix Audio Cleaning Lab from magix.com/uk. Cleaning Lab lets you record multiple songs and store them within a project file.
    26 January 2010
    Tags: Record • Media Player • Recording • Records • Adjust

  • How to use Windows Server Update Service

    For example, you might want to automatically install service packs for office computers, but install them manually on your servers or lab computers.Creating groups is simple. In response to this problem, Microsoft has released Windows Server Update…
    17 December 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • Patched • Installation • Centrally • Windows Server • Snapshot

  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    We did weeks of performance and load testing, but lab testing will always differ from real-world usage, and we knew there would still be issues here and there that we wouldn't find until thousands of people were actually using the site.Indeed, on…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Downtime • San Francisco • Advance • Mechanisms • Programming • Viewed

  • How to build a data forensics lab on the cheap

    You don't have to spend lots of money to set up your own data forensics lab - here's a quick guide to doing it on the cheap. How to build a data forensics lab on the cheap Brandon Gregg The quick guide to trapping criminals How-Tos
    28 July 2009
    Tags: Dollars • Registry • Blocking • Remove • Scene • Suspect

  • How to buy UTM products

    Larger enterprises that have the resources "should select three or four vendors and try to kick the tyres in a lab," Crotty says. As more organisations turn to unified threat management products, we look at some of the factors that determine how…
    07 April 2009
    Tags: Implementing • Security Features • Centralised • Filter • Labs • Gateways

  • Case Study: How Wi-Fi eased the classroom crunch

    Any classroom can become a computer lab, and it should never take more than five minutes to get a student logged on. Schools are less likely than universities to adopt Wi-Fi - but at Heathland School in West London, teachers saw the need and went…
    27 May 2008
    Tags: Peter Judge • Centralised • Access Points • Expand • School • Buildings

Reviews

  • Dell PowerConnect 8024F review

    In fact, a PowerConnect 6024 gigabit L3 switch has been running a significant part of the lab network without complaint for the past six years. Ah, the rarified air of 10G switching, very fast, very expensive, very exclusive.
    04 March 2010

  • Buffalo DriveStation HD-UX3 review

    It advertises 480 megabits per second (Mb/s) speeds - equivalent to 60 megabytes per second (MB/s) - but in reality USB 2.0 devices rarely even see half that speed.Most USB drives we test in the lab average around 25MB/s or closer to 20MB/s for…
    20 February 2010
    Tags: Wait • Transfer • Hd • Hard Drive • Fill • Capacities

  • Synology DS1010+ review

    I've used several of Synology's small storage arrays over the past few years, namely the CS409 and the DS509+, and they have shouldered their load in the lab for long periods of time without a whimper.
    15 February 2010
    Tags: Streaming • Gui • Gigabit Ethernet • Expansion • Backups • Arrays

  • ViewSonic ViewBook 130 review

    Two finger pinch gesture recognition in particular was slow and awkward in Internet Explorer; not so bad for expanding images in Photo Viewer but still buggy and erratic.Screen quality of the ViewSonic ViewBook 130 is average for the type, a…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Style • Plastic • Notebook • Finger • Battery Life • Air

  • Xerox WorkCentre 3220 review

    Security and network protocols options are scant in comparison to Konica Minolta's Magicolor 1690MF, making the multifunction slightly more difficult to install over a network.Xerox claims print speeds of 28 pages per minute (ppm), though the…
    08 February 2010
    Tags: Scan • Printing • Function • Documents • Destination • Addresses

  • Kaspersky Lab AntiVirus 2010 review

    Kaspersky Lab AntiVirus 2010 review Erik Larkin Loaded with features review,reviews Kaspersky's antivirus app would likely get the job done when it comes to protecting a PC, but it's not the best bet for either detection or ease of use.
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Antivirus • Apps • Malware • Detection • App • Detected

White Papers

  • Optimising Storage Utilization and Availability

    This whitepaper documents the results of ESG Lab testing of IBM SVC and focuses on the fundamentals of network based storage virtualization including ease of use, non-disruptive virtualization, data mobility and copy services.
    24 September 2009
    Tags: Volume • Controller • Availability • Virtualization • Utilization • San

  • Why Enterprise Application Search is Crucial to your ERP system

    This new era started in August of 1995 when technicians in Digital Equipment Corp.s Western Research Lab completed the initial index of the entire Web, allowing full-text search of 10 million Web pages.
    22 October 2008
    Tags: Pages • Engine • Creation • History • Dates • Advent

  • Resolving Business-Critical Application Problems

    This paper examines the challenges of application problem resolution and presents three case studies that demonstrate how leading global companies in the banking, telecommunications, and healthcare industries are using best practices to optimise…
    15 October 2007
    Tags: Resolution • Levels • Industries • Banking • Processes • Practices

  • Fujitsu and LSI Logic Drive Ready-to-Go SAS Storage Systems Through Proven Compatibility

    Compatibility has been proven through the efforts of the Fujitsu Firmware and Compatibility Testing (FACT) Lab. LSI and Fujitsu Computer Products of America are driving the transition from SCSI to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
    17 April 2007
    Tags: Sas • Compatibility • Attached • Scsi • Fujitsu • Logic

  • Security Conformance Evaluation of the Infineon TPM confirmed by Common Criteria Certificate

    This is done through lab accreditation procedures and supervising evaluations. To insure that a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) has been manufactured according to high security standards, Trusted Computing Group (TCG) specifications are accomplished…
    04 April 2007
    Tags: Criteria • International • Module • Knowledge • Trusted • Certification

  • Tips to Deploy Web Services Security

    The challenges begin when Web services move from the lab into the fray of day-to-day business operations. This white paper will provide five tips for maximizing Web services through effective deployment, and along the way, provide a case study of…
    09 March 2007
    Tags: Paper • Asset • Deployment • Maximize • Expose • Canada

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