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Remember that holographic message from Princess Leia to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars"? In five years' time, mobile phone users will be able to interact with three-dimensional holograms of people they're talking to, just like in the movie, according to an IBM prediction. It's one of several future te...
Microsoft launched an HTML5 laboratory for developers on Tuesday. The company intends the project to be a site where Redmond prototypes early and unstable Web standard specs from standards bodies such as the W3C and shares them with the developer community. One reason for establishing the lab could ...
Skills develop with practice and repetition. It's true of anything, from playing the piano to driving a car. In any endeavor, the way to get better is to practice. Attempt the activity again and again, learning from mistakes made along the way. "Practice makes perfect" -- that's not a way we usual...
The U.S. government is falling behind in making critical and productive investments in research related to networking and information technology. Federal agencies have used funds designated for direct pioneering research and development in NIT for alternative purposes, such as the creation of inform...
In today's world of converged communications, businesses are relying more than ever on VoIP-based technologies to fuel work group collaboration and drive advanced business processes that are expected to reduce costs and deliver significant ROI. But successfully achieving these benefits means VoIP-b...
IBM has released the second Software as a Service offering in its Tivoli Live portfolio: its IT service desk. Called "Tivoli Live-service manager," this release follows last year's Tivoli Live-monitoring service, a SaaS app that manages the health and performance of IT resources. The IT service desk...
Since it arrived in 2004, Facebook has faced its share of unwelcome stories in the media, and it seems that security and privacy issues are a repeating theme. But when was the last time you heard about Facebook's site crashing? With more than 500 million active users worldwide, half of whom log in d...
The security community was horrified when it learned about Stuxnet, the worm designed to eat into industrial control systems, or SCADA systems, that was purportedly targeted at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. Not only was the worm highly sophisticated, but it also targeted a SCADA system from Siemen...
The end of Thanksgiving means the beginning of holiday shopping season, and as usual, a great deal of that shopping will be done online. But while online shopping is easy and convenient, it's also fraught with dangers. Sure, it's easy to search the Web for the best price on that laptop or video gami...
There is a quiet but persistent buzz that IT budgets will grow in 2011. CIOs are hinting at this during analyst meetings, and a recent poll at Interop, the leading business trade show for IT executives, showed that more than half of IT professionals are projecting an increase in their budgets going ...
It's often useful to interview customers to understand their perspectives about their suppliers. In these discussions, open-ended questions about supplier "success stories" and "horror stories" can prompt enlightening replies. Answers in the latter category invariably connect to some supplier failur...
With a catchy title -- "Broadband NextGen 911" -- U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Department of Transportation officials want to bring emergency services into the age of technology with more than just a three-number telephone call. "Today's 9-1-1 system doesn't support the communication t...
Scaling a website up to the size of a Twitter or a Facebook brings its own set of problems. These problems aren't always like those that crop up in moderately large sites -- they're unique to these massive, hyperscale systems. That's partly because IT administrators and managers have to rely on new ...
What can users expect from Facebook's new messaging system, which will be able to deal with messages from and different types of communication media? Will it really take in messages from different types of messaging systems -- email, SMS, text, etc. -- and output responses to those systems? Bearing ...
Well, it's November again. And in addition to gearing up for turkeys, pumpkin pie and football, those of us in IT know it's time to gear up for something else, something probably much less pleasant: our annual budget cycle. It's time once again for us to enter into days-long deliberation sessions ...
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