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The news that all three of the front-running candidates for president of the U.S. have been victims of privacy breaches at the passport office may have a silver lining Sure, Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain have good reason to be irate, and their campaigns are right to bring pressure to bear on the State Department. However, thes...
Technological advances have prompted changes to corporate communication needs. Employees working in hotel rooms, field offices or even abroad often require access to network and system resources. Also, admission to company networks is no longer limited to individuals on your payroll. Increasingly, suppliers, contractors and customers require real-time access to information...
From our lobby windows, I can see the ongoing construction of the much-hyped Trump International Hotel & Tower. It is slated to be 96 floors tall upon completion, and with its sleek, stainless steel facade and glassy, closed curves -- reminiscent of Philip Johnson's postmodern Lipstick Building in Manhattan -- it will be the perfect complement to the city's ubiquitous skyline...
Companies have long recognized the importance of customer data in the context of revenue growth and cost reduction. Today, more companies are also waking up to the value of customer data in the context of direct mail waste reduction, which is fast becoming not only an environmental imperative but also an economic imperative One need only consider t...
I was working on two things last week. One was the impact of the recession on the tech market and what would likely happen to tech spending; and the second was the release of Windows Vista SP1, which I've been using for several months on a number of machines. On the recession side, I've been particularly focused on what is likely to be an adverse impact on some, but not all, "green" initiatives and how the recession will increase the number of hostile takeovers...
The potential to increase server utilization is the primary reason virtualization has been gaining traction in the enterprise. Cost reductions -- through greater data center efficiency, flexibility, lower energy usage and space needs -- are others Though it does not directly impact the functional footprint of IT systems, virtualization can enable o...
Only weeks after having won a digital format battle against HD DVD, Sony finds itself entangled in a legal fight over the technology behind Blu-ray The U.S. International Trade Commission will hear a case filed by a retired university professor with a 50-year engineering career against Sony, Motorola, Nokia and more than 25 other companies for pate...
Three days have passed since Microsoft released its first service pack (SP1) for the Windows Vista operating system, but feedback from many users on the Vista Team blog point to a variety of issues with the software While the majority of commenters on the site reported no problems with the download and installation, a growing number of users have d...
The Ubuntu developer community moved its long-awaited upgrade, Hardy Heron, into beta release on Friday Ubuntu is a Linux-based operating system designed for general consumers. The development of the OS, first released in 2004, has been sponsored by Isle of Man-based Canonical and the company's owner, South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttlesworth.
The wireless spectrum auction is over and the big boys have won the day -- America's two biggest carriers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T, shelled out a total of more than US$16 billion for tons of spectrum AT&T, America's largest wireless carrier, has to dig deep to pay the $6.64 billion it owes, and is tapping operating funds and taking out a loan....
A small company based on the tiny Caribbean island of Antigua in the West Indies has broken the highly vaunted BD+ copy protection scheme for Blu-ray discs The company, SlySoft, produces software that helps customers rip DVDs, HD DVDs, and now, of course, Blu-ray discs into a digital format that's not hindered by copy-protection shackles. Ostensibl...
Smartphone maker Palm lost money in the third quarter, even though the company was reporting the strongest product launch in its history Palm posted a third-quarter loss of US$31.5 million, or 30 cents per share, compared with a profit of $11.8 million, or 11 cents per share, in the third quarter of 2007....
Have you seen that movie "Groundhog Day?" You probably have, but on the off chance that you missed it, it's the movie where Bill Murray's character (who's kind of a jerk) wakes up every morning to find that it's the same day -- Groundhog Day -- over and over again. He's forced to relive the same day repeatedly, and as he does so, he slowly learns enough about life to transform into a pretty likable guy...
In an article I wrote for the E-Commerce Times titled "WorldCom's Failure: Why Did it Happen?" I talked about one of the largest accounting frauds in U.S. history. The upshot of this fraud was that former CEO, Bernie Ebbers, 63, was convicted of orchestrating this US$11 billion accounting fraud and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on July 13, 2005...
The Internet has become the ultimate democracy in many ways, leveling the publishing playing field for writers with blogging software, allowing musical acts to distribute music without a record label and giving video producers outlets such as YouTube. With e-commerce outlets such as eBay, anyone can sell virtually anything Zlio.com, a France-based ...
Citrix and HP announced a deal Thursday that integrates the virtualization company's XenServer into HP's 64-bit ProLiant Servers. The jointly developed server virtualization solution, Citrix XenServer HP Select Edition, will be available to both HP and Citrix customers The new offering provides users with a graphical management console and is integ...
The Alzheimer's Association recently reported that one out of eight baby boomers is expected to get Alzheimer's disease, creating a total of 10 million victims. This staggering prediction underscores the need for brain health and augmentation, a new market that tech players are fortunately beginning to enter Just as it is possible to go to work out...
Battling furiously to catch up to market leader VMware in the hypervisor market, Microsoft has unveiled what it calls a "feature-complete" version of its Hyper-V product A hypervisor is a virtualization platform that lets multiple operating systems run on one host computer at the same time....
The U.S. government is tapping into the private sector to head up a new bureaucracy to help fend off cyber-attacks. The Bush administration is bringing in Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod Beckstrom to head up the National Cyber Security Center, according to news reports The government created the new center in January amidst reports of increased fea...
Google has introduced a new set of tools to let Google Docs users amp up their online documents -- particularly their spreadsheets. Gadgets for spreadsheets now lets users embed graphical representations of their data directly in their spreadsheets, as well as publish the gadgets on the Web The tools are called "Gadgets-in-Docs" and "Google Visuali...
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