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Adobe has released version 2.5 of Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, which delivers more interactivity, as well as three new solution accelerators and a batch of new mobility features. The rollout is significant from a big picture perspective, said Chris Ethier, group manager of LiveCycle product mar...

Barnes & Noble may soon announce a full-color version of its Nook e-reader, acording to a Cnet report. The bookseller is likely to unveil the device at an event it will hold Oct. 26. The new Android-based e-reader will be called the "Nook Color," Cnet claims. It will reportedly have a seven-inch...

Regardless of which party holds office in the U.S., my true hope is for its success, because I have this twisted view that if we have successful president, we'll have a better quality of life. Unfortunately, both of the U.S. parties seem to be competing as to which can screw up the country more effe...

HP on Friday launched the HP Slate 500, a tablet PC aimed at the enterprise. Priced at $799, the Slate has a 3MP still camera and a VGA webcam and can Windows 7 Professional 32. The HP Slate 500 is based in a 1.8 GHz Intel Atom Processor and weighs 1.5 pounds in the basic configuration. HP's new tab...

Since the latter days of the 20th Century, business and political leaders have moved between each others' fields with increasing ease. Vice President Dick Cheney was one; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is another. Right now, two former leaders of high-tech companies are running for office: former ...

A team of European astronomers has determined that a far-off galaxy spotted last year by the Hubble Space Telescope is the most distant object ever seen. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the astronomers were able to analyze the very faint glow of the galaxy and calcula...

The first reviews of Windows Phone 7 smartphones -- the Samsung Focus and the HTC HD7 -- are in, and they range from lukewarm at the low end to acceptable. Will smartphone buyers be influenced by the reviews? Or do they generally decide what they want first, then go get it? Will the reception for W...

Over the past several years, as enterprises have been deploying voice over IP with more frequency, many have learned that the first step in the VoIP lifecycle process should be a complete assessment of network readiness. This is just one of the common stumbling blocks that organizations will want to...

Verizon, the very same company that recently announced it will sell the iPad beginning next week, announced Wednesday that it will become the first U.S. carrier to stock Samsung's Galaxy Tab. The widely anticipated Tab is a 7-inch Android-based tablet -- the epitome of a class of devices that Apple ...

One almost has to pity Facebook. Less than a month after it rolled out user enhancements that were lauded even by privacy advocates, it is back in the doghouse, facing a class action lawsuit and testy inquiries from two members of Congress. The problem once again is privacy. Many of the most popular...

Biometric security -- which employs systems that read people's fingerprints or compare their voiceprint or retina scans to information in data banks in order to authenticate them -- is being heavily used in some of the United States' most critical installations. How reliable are biometric systems? W...

HP on Tuesday announced the Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0, the next version of the mobile operating system that debuted with the original Palm Pre in 2009. The new hardware and software incorporate incremental improvements. "This is HP trying to get back into the smartphone market," Rob Enderle, principa...

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Time to Dust Off That Breach Disclosure Plan

As we should probably realize by now, not all tasks are created equal -- especially when it comes to making mistakes. For most of the things we do -- from brushing our teeth to typing an email -- making a mistake is usually relatively innocuous. Sure, we might have to clean a bit of the toothpaste ...

Google has added new cloud capabilities to its rack-mounted Google Search Appliance. As of Monday, a new feature, Cloud Connect, lets users of Google Search Appliance 6.8 search content both within an enterprise's firewalls as well as content from Twitter, blogs and industry websites through Google ...

Computer programmer and author John Graham-Cumming is trying to raise at least Pounds 500,000 to build a working version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. He is seeking donations of as little as $10 from about 50,000 people worldwide for the project. The Analytical Engine, first described by E...


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