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  • Hosted Drupal CMS in development

    The service will be based on Drupal 7, an upgrade to the CMS software that will be released at about the same time, Buytaert said at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco.Drupal is a software platform for publishing websites and…
  • Twitter rolls out location sharing

    However, if that person had activated the new tweet location feature, then the neighborhood data under the tweet would read, SoMa [San Francisco's South of Market district]. Twitter on has turned on its new geolocation feature that allows you to…
  • Microsoft boffin wins Turing Award

    Turning, on computer scientists and engineers who have made great strides in advancing the frontier of computer science.Other recipients of the award, which ACM describes as the Nobel Prize in Computing, include Donald Knuth, Alan Kay and Vinton…
  • FDIC: Hackers stole $120m in three months of online bank fraud

    Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost US companies $25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.Online banking fraud involving the electronic transfer of funds has been on the…
  • RSA 1024-bit private key encryption cracked

    The annual RSA security conference is being held this week in San Francisco.While guessing the 1,000-plus digits of binary code in a private key would take unfathomable hours, the researchers say that by varying electric current to a secured…
  • FBI: Hackers change source code to spy on firms

    Hackers breaking into businesses and government agencies with targeted attacks have not only stolen intellectual property, in some cases they have corrupted data too, the head of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.The United…

Latest Features

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    As the man with the job of reversing that drift, it can't be easy being Ray Ozzie -- but it must be exciting.Neil McAllister is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. Microsoft's chief software architect is just 18 months into the job as Bill…
  • Apple Tablet event: Live countdown

    Our lucky reporters in San Francisco have their hand on the iPad as I sit here typing.7.37pm Steve Jobs is back. Then the play a video to all those at the San Francisco launch. Jobs says you can take a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo and watch…
  • 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…
  • The unstoppable rise of mobile applications

    One hang up has nothing to do with smartphone innovations and killer apps, rather it's the wireless coverage that many mobile apps depend on to deliver great customer experience.One of the most popular iPhone regions is the San Francisco Bay Area…
  • Chocolate is better than antivirus software in data breach settlement

    TD Ameritrade might as well give each victim a box of chocolates, which might at least help relieve the stress of having their credit ruined.I am heartened that US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco seems to have recognised to…
  • Fake antivirus makes security vendors look bad: Trend Micro

    She dropped by IDG News Service offices in San Francisco this week to answer a few questions. It's become an all-too-common scam: A legitimate website pops up a window that looks just like a real security warning.
 

How-Tos

  • How to avoid a tech support nightmare

    Marylyn Tesconi, who manages a large office, takes graduate level courses and volunteers at a local health clinic in San Francisco, has more than enough to do without spending hours on the phone trying to get her home router to work.
  • How to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business

    Curtis Kimball, who operates a mobile crème brûlée cart in San Francisco, often posts his location and flavors of the day on Twitter. Can you tell which of the following tweets is from a small but rapidly growing company?
  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    For example, in areas of California, video-over-the-web is more common than elsewhere in the country, so Akamai or Limelight might install a center in San Francisco to handle the load.More use of content delivery networks can definitely help…
  • Case Study: Collaboration demands WAN optimisation

    Case Study: Collaboration demands WAN optimisation Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) Engineers tackle long waits for big files. Storing large project files separately in its 20 offices worked fine for environmental engineering…
  • Case Study: A network-upgrade horror story, part 2: Bidding the project

    In October 2006, a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted a former contract employee in the procurement office of UCSF on public-corruption charges.Steven Donnelly was charged with selling confidential information about ATs bid to a Verizon…
  • Case Study: A network-upgrade horror story, part 1: laying the plans

    The idea was to replace the aging 155Mbit/s ATM-over-SONET network at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) with a new network based on 10G Ethernet over DWDM.Nobody could have imagined the glitches, snafus and legal hold-ups that we…

Reviews

  • Google Nexus One review

    Most of my contacts could hear me clearly, even when I was standing on a busy San Francisco street corner.Some Nexus One users have complained that their phones frequently drop from 3G to EDGE--or lack a 3G connection altogether.
  • Microsoft Zune HD

    For example, the San Francisco alternative rock station Live 105 has an HD station that plays only classic alternative. The Zune HD is a huge step forward for Microsoft's Zune line, but you still have to pay extra for some of the best features.
  • Celio Redfly C8N review

    Again, the apps took full advantage of the extra real estate, showing many more blocks on a map of San Francisco, for instance, and many more spreadsheet cells.Using the included adaptor cable with an optional video-out cable for an iPhone or an…
  • Nokia N97 review

    When we travelled from San Francisco to the slightly different microclimate of the East Bay, for example, the outdoor temperature on the home screen updated accordingly.Other widgets include Facebook, MySpace, your personal email, the music player…
  • Samsung NV100HD camera

    Should you catch the dreaded red-eye anyway, the camera's automatic red-eye removal function works well, too.We took the Samsung NV100HD to the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco to put it through its paces.
  • MacHEADS The Movie review

    It's kinda apt that the premiere for a movie all about crazy Mac users should be held at this year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. MacHEADS The Movie is an hour-long documentary on the power of the Macintosh community, featuring interviews with…

White Papers

  • Disk Failure Investigations at the Internet Archive

    The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco established to preserve Web sites by taking regular snapshots. It complements its small staff with highly dedicated and educated volunteers.The Internet Archive stores its…
 
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