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  • Internet Explorer 9 puts Microsoft back on top, says analyst

    Microsoft is back in the browser race, an analyst said today after the company unveiled a rough developer's preview of its next browser, IE9.They want to be more than a follower or just on features parity," said Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish as…
  • Google Apps now offers backup and recovery

    Big IT departments can appreciate the benefits and cost savings of this disaster recovery protection.We haven't talked all that publicly about this," Sheth said.Apps is free in its Standard and Education editions, and costs $50 per user per year…
  • Twitter to place ads in search function

    For example a search for 'laptop' may generate an ad from Dell.AllThingsD also said the 140 characters or less adverts will only be shown in search results, or add-on services such as TweetDeck that have agreed with Twitter to display the ads…
  • Devil Mountain 'CTO' revealed to be tech writer's creation

    One of the more interesting people I've talked with in the last two years is a figment of his own imagination. One of the more interesting people I've talked with in the last two years is a figment of his own imagination.Craig Barth", the chief…
  • Ericsson builds Google Android into remote control

    The prototype has a 10-inch touchscreen, a forward facing camera and speakers and could also be used as a mobile phone and to browse the web, the Swedish company at Mobile World Congress.The camera can be used for video conferencing, displaying an…
  • Oracle seeks fast profit from Sun

    Oracle is also betting that companies will pay a premium for integrated systems, like its recently launched Exadata Database Machine, that combine Oracle software with Sun servers and storage.Over the last few years when I talked to Sun shops they…

Latest Features

  • Seven questions with Cisco CEO John Chambers

    In this instalment of IDG Enterprise's 'CEO Interview Series,' Chambers talked with IDGE chief content officer John Gallant, Computerworld editor-in-chief Scot Finnie and InfoWorld.com editor-in-chief Eric Knorr about the market transitions…
  • Overlooked online threats

    Back in 2006, a couple of Indiana University researchers talked about how home routers could be attacked and used to steal personal information. There's the danger you know, and then there's the danger you don't know.Most of us are rightfully wary…
  • Business needs new IT blood

    He talked to them about networking and building a personal brand. If we keep going the way we are now, this year we will outsource one in four IT jobs to India, Russia and other countries that supply low-cost labor, according to the Hackett Group…
  • Palm ponders survival

    They don't have the scale to compete today, and the big guys are getting bigger.Expanding carrier relationships might be key to Palm, at least for the next few months, all the analysts said.In the phone space, success is about good carrier…
  • Tips for 4G early adopters

    Guy Maestre, vice president of North American operations for Kayentis, talked with Brad Reed about why mobility is so vital to Kayentis's business, what WiMAX will allow the company to do that it couldn't do before, and why the company decided to…
  • SAP, Oracle face one man's battle to silence shrieking servers

    Then he talked to a number of attorneys for the vendors.Nothing doing.One lawyer even talked condescendingly to him, implying Pulk didn't "understand the intricacies" of document discovery, he claimed.Pulk finally appealed to a higher power.
 

How-Tos

  • How to use Virtual PC with Windows 7

    Windows 7 is already a big hit for Microsoft, according to market share tracker Net Applications, which shows it rising past all the extant versions of Linux and Windows except Vista and XP and into fourth place hot on the heels of the Mac OS X…
  • Case Study: The virtual virtualisation case study

    This gave Eric some pause, so he talked over the pros and cons of each with CTO Brad Richter at some length.In the end they decided to go with VMware as they had originally planned. Server virtualisation has, without doubt, taken the IT industry by…
  • Case Study: Hitachi Consulting learns the lessons of VoIP

    Despite some setbacks, the director of IT for Hitachi Consulting wouldn't do voice any other way.I cannot imagine going back to an old TDM world," says Shisko, who talked about his VoIP experiences at the recent Network World IT Roadmap Conference…
  • Case Study: Server and storage virtualisation go hand-in-hand

    High availability across all 80 or so servers was just something we had talked about before. Compellent virtualised storage along with VMware servers helps gm2 Logistics become more efficient and head for a greener future.
  • Case Study: Fast 802.11n Wi-Fi goes to college

    To my mind, anything except 11n will very soon be outdated," she says.Starting in early 2007, Morrisville talked with WLAN vendors under non-disclosure deals to find out about their 11n product plans, and whether those products would fit the…
  • Case Study: A network-upgrade horror story, part 2: Bidding the project

    We had talked one-on-one with administrative decision makers. An IT executive tells the key lessons that he learnt during a four-year project to revamp his university's whole network.th-hour snagNow that we had the design characteristics down, it…

Reviews

  • Synology Disk Station DS209+

    The Synology Disk Station DS209+ has lots of benefits: compact, two-bay design; user-accessible drives; speedy performance; and RAID 0, 1, and JBOD configurations (it supports up to 3TB of storage; PC World tested the 1TB RAID version in a…
  • SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise

    SanDisk has talked of its plans for computers on a stick' (our phrase, not theirs) without offering a great deal of detail. The USB thumb' drive started life as a simple way to move files around without company admins knowing anything about it, a…
  • Google Android review

    They talked up the importance of openness - perhaps a jab at iPhone. Google this week unveiled the first commercial mobile phone to use the Google Android operating system - the T-Mobile G1. Google this week unveiled the first commercial mobile…
  • Apple iPhone 3G review

    We've talked to numerous iPhone users who have done what we've done in that situation - find a piece of paper, write the address down, switch apps on the iPhone, and type it back in.Perhaps the old desktop computer metaphor of cut, copy, and paste…
  • HTC Touch Diamond review

    That's a dramatic price decrease from the original £400 or so price HTC talked about earlier.The price also beats the £99 price tag on the iPhone 3G with 8GB of flash memory storage, which won't be available in Taiwan when it's launched today.
  • HP W2408H review

    As with the w1907V, a Quick View mode lets you swap between presets for viewing movies, photos, gaming and text, along with a fifth custom setting.The HP W2408H is therefore user-friendly and intuitive to operate.The manufacturer has talked up the…

White Papers

  • Self-Service SOX Auditing with S3 Control

    In particular, section 404 is often talked about as being the core provision of SOX as it deals with executive management's responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the company.
  • Extending the business value of SOA through business process management

    SOA and BPM are often talked about together - or even confused with each other. This white paper shows how they actually complement each other and how the differing frameworks can enhance your business.
  • Self-Service SOX Auditing with S3 Control

    In particular, section 404 is often talked about as being the core provision of SOX as it deals with executive management's responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the company.
  • Mobility equals More Time

    Click on their name, and just start chatting.Time and Presence ManagementPresence Management has been talked about a lot recently in journals. In this discussion of unified communications in support of ICT applications, Mohammed Nezarati, President…
 
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