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Costco and Sam's Club are rationing rice. Friday's reported incident in the Persian Gulf probably has more than a few paranoid individuals stocking up on gasoline. And to top it all off, Microsoft's cutoff date for Windows XP is coming in two months, a decision that's left over 165,000 fans of the ...
Yahoo wants to tie all its various services together so each user needs to log in just once to access and manage its services, and will be able to do so from one central site. To do this, it is rewiring its architecture from the inside out and opening up its platform to third-party developers, Yahoo...
Have you seen the recent television commercial that shows the Pentagon and says, "This building gets attacked 3 million times a day." The sad news is that it's true. Cyber-warfare and cyber-attacks have now become a reality. Ever consider how your business would be impacted if the Internet went away...
AMD has announced the availability of three new triple-core x86 processors in its Phenom X3 lineup. New offerings include the 8750, the 8650 and the 8450, with power levels ranging from 2.4 to 2.1 gigahertz. Appropriately enough, the triple-core X3 lineup seems to play well in the middle ground betw...
Microsoft may reconsider its decision to pull Windows XP off the shelves in June if it sees enough customer demand, CEO Steve Ballmer said -- despite a huge customer outcry over the decision. Speaking at Louvain-La-Neuve University in Belgium, Ballmer also said it's a "statistical truth" that most p...
Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means wed to the "WOA" nomenclature. Several other industry analy...
For enterprises, the primary reason for adopting Voice over Internet Protocol phone service is money. Long-distance phone calls placed over the Internet typically cost a mere fraction of those placed under the business rate plans offered by traditional telephone companies. As a result, the business ...
IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. The iDataPlex system builds upon IBM's blade server background and more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack. It also uses 40 percent less power whil...
Microsoft unveiled a new service Tuesday that will take the software maker into the realm of cloud computing. Currently available as an invite-only beta, Live Mesh will initially enable users to share files and synchronize folders across multiple PCs. Support for Windows Mobile and Mac OS X is comin...
Web application vulnerabilities put critical business applications and back-end databases at risk from attack, theft, and fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS, or PCI), which recognizes the threat Web application vulnerabilities pose to credit card data, allows organizati...
PlayStation 3 owners may soon be able to watch movies without ever leaving their living rooms. In an official PlayStation blog entry dated April 15, the game maker hinted at plans for the PlayStation Network in 2008 and a recent revamp of the PlayStation Store. A senior marketing executive also ment...
Malware creators are taking advantage of the controversy over the upcoming Olympic Games to spread their wares for illicit financial gain. Latching onto the Free Tibet political demonstrations that have spread around the world, would-be thieves have embedded a piece of rootkit malware that logs keys...
Internet service providers that serve advertising when a user requests a Web page that doesn't exist are exposing their users to a giant security breach, according to security researcher Dan Kaminsky. The vulnerability resulting from the practice, which is an increasingly common way for ISPs to make...
Western Digital is now shipping the next generation of its 10,000 RPM "Raptor" series drives. The new drive doubles the previous capacity to 300 GB and picks up a 35 percent performance increase. Aimed at PC and Mac enthusiasts as well as users of professional-grade workstations that can benefit fro...
I am an information junkie, and I suffer from information overload. There, I've said it! And even though sometimes it seems like a momentous task to wade through the virtually endless supply of information to find and view the information that I want without wasting hours each day, there is hope. Th...