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  • The Weekly Hash - March 29, 2013

    Posted March 29, 2013 - 11:29 am

    Having some fun at the expense of this week’s top tech newsmakers, this week featuring astronauts having a quick rendezvous, a Google exec having a midlife crisis and one teenager having a very good week

  • 9 great advantages of technical certifications

    Posted March 17, 2013 - 2:44 pm

    I love being technical and at least for the foreseeable future I would like to stay that way. Is it worth the time and money to get a technical certification? Yes it is and this is why.

  • Rackspace plans to hire 1,000

    Posted February 11, 2013 - 11:15 am

    Rackspace plans to add 1,000 people to its staff of about 5,000 over the next two years. It is doing so under an agreement with the state of Texas, which will help train its workers.

  • Channel partners poised to help enterprises build software-defined networks

    Posted January 15, 2013 - 9:19 pm

    Enterprises replacing legacy network infrastructure are increasingly turning to software-defined networks, which can automate an entire network fabric. Having helped hosting companies and academic institutions, a variety of resellers, system integrators and consultancies are ready to bring SDN to the enterprise.

  • Office won't be in the App Store in five months

    Posted October 10, 2012 - 5:46 pm

    A seeming leak of iOS/Android plans from a Microsoft office in the Czech Republic seems like confirmation. But it’s really just confusion.

  • White Paper

    Migration Lesson Plan for Educational Institutions

    Posted August 29, 2012 - 4:15 pm

    Education IT leaders at universities and K-12 school systems are under pressure to support improved collaboration and a virtual learning environment. Discover the lessons learned and the benefits realized by those within the education sector who have migrated from the outdated Windows XP operating system to Windows 7.

  • Channel partners make virtual desktop infrastructure a reality

    Posted August 29, 2012 - 1:11 pm

    Implementing VDI strategy requires expertise that many organizations lack. To reap virtual desktop benefits that include cost savings and better security, many IT pros turn to system integrators, resellers and other service providers to set up the VDI and make sure IT staff know how to make the most of it.

  • Apple retail VP slashes store personnel, then reconsiders

    Posted August 17, 2012 - 10:41 am

    John Browett, from UK electronics chain Dixons, called stores “too bloated,” and planned to sacrifice customer service for a “few more margin points.”

  • New tools finally give users a way to enforce their own privacy

    Posted June 28, 2012 - 12:45 pm

    A rush of new products are designed to add "military grade" encryption to email, text messages and corporate data. None are perfect; none are revolutionary. Collectively they represent acceptance, for the first time, that users should have tools to keep their data secure even from their own employers and tech suppliers.

  • U.K. trial tests whether jokes on Twitter are jokes, or threats

    Posted June 27, 2012 - 4:01 pm

    @stephenfry: God I hope common sense & natural justice prevail ‪#TwitterJokeTrial @Joannechocolat: "All writers should be following #twitterjoketrial. The future of humour, hyperbole and the use of common sense is being decided right now..."

  • New IBM channel chief: Partners lead new business growth

    Posted June 26, 2012 - 10:17 am

    IBM is promoting local, skilled solution providers to C-suite customers -- and, increasingly, the midmarket -- for quicker implementation, lower costs and stronger ROI. That's the mission of Big Blue's channel chief, a 32-year IBM veteran and former CIO responsible for global integration, as he reveals in an interview with CIO.com.

  • MIT app gives humans vision like a vampire

    Posted June 22, 2012 - 7:30 pm

    Software from researchers at MIT selectively enhances color and motion in video images, bringing out details like a baby's pulse that are too faint or small to be seen under normal conditions. Now if only they could get it to sparkle adorably in the sunshine.

  • Malware raids bank accounts with no warning to show what happened

    Posted June 20, 2012 - 12:38 pm

    The Zeus and SpyEye Trojans are pretty effective at stealing financial data from victims, but they're not good at actually raiding bank accounts without having to try to hide warning screens. New malware adds an Automatic Transfer System to let your Trojans move money from your bank accounts without bothering you for approvals or signatures or calls to 911.

  • Google finds 9,500 new threat sites per day

    Posted June 20, 2012 - 11:24 am

    On the fifth anniversary of its Safe Browsing initiative, Google has opened up about some of the risks it sees trending and what it's been doing about them. Mainly it warns users, many of whom ignore warnings about legitimate sites that have been compromised by malware.

  • Senator calls for limit on peeping by Apple, Google spyplanes

    Posted June 19, 2012 - 4:11 pm

    Apple and Google are fighting for dominance in the mapping/personal navigation market with high-res photos taken from "spy planes" showing more detail of cities, houses, power and water infrastructure and, Senator worries, people sunbathing in their own back yards.

  • White Paper

    BI Optimization: Building a Better Business Case for BI

    Posted June 6, 2012 - 4:30 pm

    This white paper describes how to build a better business case for BI, by understanding the level of ambition organizations can have and the layers in the business case that should contribute to that level of ambition.

  • Adjustable eyeglasses may be obsolete before they even ship

    Posted May 31, 2012 - 10:23 am

    A British company is making glasses using a dual-lens design that lets wearers adjust the focus to fit their vision, as a way to address shortages in the third world. Contact lens makers and DARPA are working on smart lenses with HUDs built in. How can clear vision compete?

  • Camping out at AOL: Teen entrepreneur lives on AOL's couch for two months

    Posted May 25, 2012 - 6:21 pm

    SiliValley entrepreneur Eric Simons crashed on AOL's couches and ate its food for free after a four-month AOL-sponsored incubator session ended before Simons was ready to leave.

  • Mobile malware trick: Give users real apps, plus infection on the side

    Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:29 pm

    Unlike in most other malware markets, malware writers aiming at Android have always had a strong profit motive. Now they're going even more capitalist -- delivering the value they promised by wrapping good code in malware rather than just pretending

  • Money, not technology, drives cloud growth, IT shrinkage

    Posted May 22, 2012 - 12:00 am

    IT has been shoved to the side in many businesses in which business unit managers can get the technology they want with an Internet connection and a credit card, not a project-management team and a bunch of whiney geeks from IT.

  • Where did 'cloud' come from?

    Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:30 pm

    Empowering users, threatening IT, making technology purchases a no-brainer? Why couldn't it have gotten here sooner? (Or why did it have to come at all, if you're among the naysayers in IT.)

  • What makes MS think it could ban non-IE browsers in Win8?

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 2:44 pm

    Once it was routine for Microsoft to dictate what applications or technology customers or other vendors had to use if they didn't want the big dog to bite. Now it's just ridiculous. No FireFox, Chrome or Safari on the ARM version of Windows 8? For how long, do you think?

  • Tell PirateBay (and lawmakers) what you think about file sharing, piracy

    Posted May 9, 2012 - 12:19 pm

    The Pirate Bay is teaming up with Swedish researchers who specialize in copyright-, file-sharing and enforcement on survey designed to provide more objective data than that supplied by RIAA and MPAA to help counter rabid anti-piracy plunder-and-pillage copyright enforcement rules.

  • Why will IT STILL not support BYOD?

    Posted May 8, 2012 - 4:08 pm

    Despite years of experience showing cloud and mobile computing not only increase productivity, but make end users happier and reap otherwise-lost hours of work while employees are at home, many IT shops still won't support work using personal devices.

  • The tablet that changed the whole market for tablets, and isn't a tablet

    Posted April 27, 2012 - 11:58 am

    In three months, Amazon's Kindle Fire went from zero to 54 percent share of the Android tablet market. Its cost and power have changed the choice from iPad vs. everything, to iPad, Kindle Fire, or long justifications of why another choice isn't an obviously bad one
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