Articles by Jack M. Germain

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The Net Generation Goes to College

Turn on your monitor and boot up your computer, because class is in session. Many college students now raised on the Internet and mobile devices will not be limited to sitting in traditional "brick-and-mortar" classrooms as schools look to the latest offerings in virtual technology and Internet broadcasting to update education New developments have...

The Image Spammer's New Bag of Tricks

Senders of unsolicited electronic messages, also known as spammers, are deploying a new generation of image spam to outsmart e-mail filters and other technologies designed to thwart them. They're cutting corners by linking their spam message to a photo from a popular image-hosting site, instead of sending it as an e-mail attachment. This technique...

Barracuda Reporting Engine Trails Web-Surfing Workers

Barracuda Networks has added advanced reporting capabilities to its Barracuda Web Filter appliance, the company announced Wednesday The new in-depth reports provide network administrators deeper visibility into corporate Web usage, enabling better management and assignment of bandwidth....

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Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings Offers a Mobile Linux Solution

Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings sees the future of mobile phone communication in the cross-platform solution that Linux can provide. His vision was buffeted recently by a prediction by market research firm ABI that Linux will ship in more than 200 million phones in 2012, up from 8.1 million in 2007 Based in Oslo, Norway, Trolltech has 200 employees...

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Imperva CEO Shlomo Kramer: Security Is All About Visibility

Imperva specializes in data security and compliance solutions for the data center. Its product lineprovides an automated and transparent approach to protecting and controlling sensitive datathroughout transactional data systems. The Imperva database and Web application appliances aredeployed in leading financial, retail, telecommunications, healthcare and government organizations around the globe. CEO Shlomo Kramer, who founded Imperva more than five years ago, is recognized by someindustry publications as one of the 20 luminaries who changed the network industry...

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Zend CTO Andi Gutmans: Pumping Up PHP

Zend CTO Andi Gutmans likes to tout the benefits of PHP and Web 2.0 development for business. In fact, he calls Zend "the PHP company." PHP, which stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor Platform," is becoming the language of choice for companies embracing service-oriented architectures, creating and mixing Web services into a whole new generation of sophisticated commercial applications...

CIO Survey Shows Mobility Going Mainstream

Competition is pushing all types of businesses toward greater mobility as companies ready plans to adopt mobile applications for core business activities Business mobility has gone mainstream, according to a global survey conducted by Nokia and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in cooperation with the CIO Forum....

Red Hat, Intel Cook Up New Desktop Recipe

Red Hat announced at the Red Hat Summit this week its new operating system for the enterprise. Red Hat Global Desktop is a client product for the Linux operating system that delivers an enterprise-class suite of productivity applications The Global Desktop is part of Red Hat's strategy of building innovative solutions that change thetraditional not...

Latest Intel Chips Land in Lenovo Laptops

Lenovo unveiled on Wednesday three new notebooks built around a new processor and chip set announced the same day by Intel Lenovo engineered both the ThinkPad T61 and the ThinkPad R61 with its new Top Cover Roll Cage for enhanced durability, an improved thermal management cooling and efficiency system, enhanced wireless connectivity with Ultra Conn...

PowerBroker for Linux: Managing Access One Task at a Time

Symark Software has released PowerBroker version 5.0 for the Linux operating system, the company announced Monday Symark makes security administration solutions for heterogeneous IT environments. PowerBrokerprovides Unix and Linux workstations and networks with increased security and accountability bydelegating administrative privileges and grantin...

OpenLogic Discovery Rounds Up Open Source Apps

Information security firm OpenLogic announced on Wednesday a product that will scan Windows, Linux and Solaris machines for all installed open source software OpenLogic Discovery will help enterprise customers inventory their installed open source software to help them remain compliant with internal policies....

Power Architecture, Part 2: Drawing In Developers

Consumers are becoming more conversant with the use of the Linux operating system embedded in many of their products, such as auto accessories, remote controls and cell phones. An even bigger secret is the extensive use of Power Architecture to run most everything else consumers and gamers touch For instance, real-time imaging systems on board subm...

Power Architecture, Part 1: Creating an Image

What do you do when a thriving segment of the computing industry has an identity crisis because few people beyond key vendors know it exists? That's the dilemma many of the supporters of Power Architecture are trying to fix One approach to establishing a better identity is to gather software vendors together to discuss the industry and common probl...

Microsoft Invites Collaboration With Grid Computing Research

Microsoft has released details about its SecPAL project to encourage collaboration from the grid computing community on methods for greater security and access controls Microsoft created SecPAL, or Security Policy Assertion Language, as a research project to develop a language for expressing decentralized authorization policies. The project also in...

Open Source Database Management Systems: What the Pros Use

Databases have been a tool for business and research analysis sincecomputers replaced typewriters in the workplace. Once the domain ofproprietary database management programs, database development is now seeingmore influence from open source programming Several industry surveys show a trend among small to mid-sized businesses of atleast trying open...

New SourceLabs App Aims to Make Open Source Safe

SourceLabs released on Wednesday the Open Source Management System (OSMS) to help control the legal, security and operational risks associated with open source software The OSMS is a platform to centralize and manage open source software code. The new platform will help organizations maximize the benefits of open source programming while mitigating...

Mobile Enterprise Tools, Part 2: The Roadside Desktop

Industry analysts report that the mobile enterprise application market reached US$1.2 billion in 2005 and is forecast to grow to $3.5 billion in 2010. Other industry studies predict that at least 40 percent the workforce will be mobile in 2007 Part 1 of this two-part series dealt with the advantages and risks faced by companies looking to make thei...

Are Data Leaks Bleeding Your Company Dry?

The data drip is here. Computer security experts are worried that corporate data leaking from networks onto small mobile storage devices will worsen into a flood of stolen customer and company information Over half of all information leaks travel to personal data storage devices such as USB drives, MP3 players and PDAs, according to recent industry...

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McAfee CSO Martin Carmichael: When Security and Business Lock Horns

Martin Carmichael, the chief security officer (CSO) for security software developer McAfee, is responsible for IT security, forensics, risk management, physical security, IT security engineering, and compliance with regulatory controls. He also serves as the chief privacy officer for McAfee His more than 20 years as a security executive at top-leve...

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Terra Soft CEO Kai Staats: Rallying Around the Cell Processor and Power Architecture

Power.org, an association of hardware technology companies, software and individual developers of Power Architecture, hosted a first-of-its-kind Software Summit in Austin, Texas, on April 19. The summit focused on identifying solutions to the challenges associated with software development on Power Architecture Kai Staats, CEO of Yellow Dog Linux d...

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