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Latest News

  • Linux creator Linus Torvalds named most influential open source voice

    But Torvalds' blog posts create far more buzz than posts by O'Reilly and others on the list, MindTouch says.Fidelman said he was surprised about some names that didn't make the top 50, such as Zack Urlocher, Jim Zemlin, Matt Aslett, Paula Hunter…
  • Microsoft reveals existing apps not compatible with Windows Phone 7

    Very good news for any #silverlight and #xna developer :)," wrote Pawel Bojkowski, a developer, on Twitter.Johan van Mierlo, a Microsoft MVP for Windows Mobile Devices, also wrote that he approves of the change.
  • Google proposal to let DNS servers see client address

    Sometimes, however, DNS resolvers serve many users over a wider area, and a lookup may return the IP address of a server several countries away.Sending you to a nearby server improves speed, latency, and network utilisation," said Wilmer van der…
  • Apple iPad 3G pricing is 'ridiculous', says hardware guru

    I'd call 32GB the minimum for most people, especially when you think about how much video 16GB will hold.However, Van Baker, an analyst with Gartner Research, questioned whether the 3G models would sell in sufficient quantity to be a factor.
  • Python 2.x nears final release

    Python 3.0 was released in December 2008 and was intentionally incompatible with the 2.x line.Basically, Python has a very good compatibility story over a long period of time, but [Python founder] Guido van Rossum has always been aware that there…
  • Nominum aims to make DNSSEC simpler

    The company has automated the process of installing DNSSEC so that errors in implementation can be avoided.There's little doubt that DNSSEC is the domain of the experts," said Bruce van Nice, Nominum's director of product marketing.

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    Worse, EMPs are largely untraceable, because the weapon itself destroys any evidence of its use.A van with an EMP device in the back could effectively shut down big chunks of the US economy simply by driving down Wall Street with the signal turned…
  • Apple Tablet event and the hype machine

    As unfortunate as it feels to say this, Apple's device announcement is actually a big enough deal in America and internationally to warrant an inquiry into where we are in electronics and cradle-to-cradle living as a species.More in TreeHuggerIf…
  • Why developers like SharePoint 2010

    SharePoint 2010, the newly announced upgrade to Microsoft's popular Web and collaboration platform, is receiving a thumbs-up from developers pleased with the product's capabilities, including its use of Visual Studio as a tool for building…
  • Wireless sensors drive green data centres

    Wireless data centre sensors, sensor networks and associated monitoring and management applications, available from companies such as SynapSense and Arch Rock, are starting to enable these capabilities and could kick off an evolved approach to…
  • Cisco and HP gear up for battle in data centre

    InMon's Traffic Sentinel on the module handled all the sFlow reporting we threw at it with lower CPU utilisation rates than our production server," says Glen Van Lehn, network engineer at the college.This gave me a server with zero footprint - no…
  • Oracle offers compression to DBAs

    LGR does "use compression to some extent today, but we plan to use it extensively in the future," says Hannes van Rooven, a manager at LGR.Another Oracle customer, Intermap Technologies, is using the spatial-data version of 11g for its 11TB…
 

How-Tos

  • Case Study: Five more ways to screw up virtualisation

    asks Nick van der Zweep, director of virtualisation and integrity server software at HP. Do that enough times and when you do your true-up you have a big bill," he says.That's a common problem, says van der Zweep.
  • Case Study: Virtualisation reality check

    I have heard of companies that have gotten a lot of pushback from departments who don't want to give up their own hardware or applications, says Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, a technology analysis firm.The organisation chart can…
  • Case Study: Managing content in a rich media world

    So three years ago managers at the museum - which houses rare works by Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse among its 26,000-strong collection - embarked on an ambitious plan to digitally reproduce nearly all its works in the form of high-resolution…
  • Case Study: Users hook up to Cisco IPICS

    The Cisco technology could also be used as a communications bridge between Maher personnel and US Customs and Border Protection officials, Rummel said.According to Cisco, IPICS creates a shared communications architecture for land-line telephones…

Reviews

  • Dracula: Origin review

    You play Professor Van Helsing, in pursuit of the elusive Count on an adventure that takes in Transylvania of course as well as Egypt, Austria, Carpathian central and eastern Europe, until you reach the dark home of Dracula himself.This is a…
  • Google App Engine beta review

    The most popular implementations are open source.and the language's creator, Guido van Rossum, works there. When the world starts flocking to your web application Google's cloud of computers adapts to the load, handling everything the public demands.
  • Binatone Carrera X430 Europe GPS satnav device

    Sadly, in our tests the Binatone Carrera X430 Europe's battery drained very quickly, and it had a tendency to crash.You can select the quickest or the most direct route for your car, as well as avoiding motorways, and their are pedestrian, van and…
  • Wavelink Mobile Manager Enterprise

    It required a "van in the parking lot" style attack, where an access point with a wired connection uses a spoofed MAC address identical to the one it replaces. Here's one remedy. When you've got a large enterprise wireless LAN infrastructure…
  • Newbury Networks' WiFi Watchdog

    One of the biggest Wi-Fi security fears for network professionals is the "van in the parking lot" scenario, in which an intruder breaks into the network from outside the company's walls. We also made signatures at various points outside the layout…

White Papers

  • Making every contact count

    Making every contact count Tom Van Horn and Robert E. In the communications industry, the typical company loses one-quarter of its customers each year. Only half of car buyers are repeat customers, and thats just for the industrys best performers.
 
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