Stories about: Paradise

I love The Village. Where else can I work and sip a US$6 tea while watching: great-looking NYU girls who are too young for me; a guy jumping up every five minutes because he's got more gadgets on his belt than Batman and doesn't know which one is vibrating; and another guy apparently dressed as a pirate from the waist down arguing with a food-challenged model about who has dibs on the bathroom. The model just accused Blackbeard 0.5 of not having any class. Meanwhile, she's wearing a t-shirt three sizes too small that appears to say "Too drunk to [#$%@]" for which she probably paid $300. You can't beat that.

The next iteration of the World Wide Web is a do-it-yourselfer's dream and a collaborator's paradise. It lets you tweak, tailor and tune the cyberworld any way you like. It also links you to a community of like-minded surfers.

A New Hampshire woman has pleaded guilty to spam-related charges in connection with a pornographic e-mail operation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday.

A California man accused of managing the computer system used to send hundreds of thousands of pornography-related e-mail messages has pleaded guilty to violating a U.S. antispam law.

Travellers who stayed at the upmarket Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas should keep a close eye on their bank statements in the months ahead. The hotel has admitted to an apparent database break-in in which personal information for 55,000 guests may have been stolen, including credit card and bank account numbers.

Residents and businesses in the Surfers Paradise Q1 resort apartments have the luxury of symmetric Ethernet data services for converged voice and data.

If location, location, location is the key to property investment, could it also impact on training investment?

BEA Systems bolstered its Java-based development strategy Monday, rolling out new software that allows corporate and third-party developers to create and deploy any Java or service-based application for its WebLogic server.

In many ways the engineering labs at Southern University's College of Engineering are student paradise. The Windows 2003 network supports 300 high-end Intel workstations with dual flat-panel displays, running myriad applications from AutoCAD, Unigraphics and others. Students transform two-dimensional projects into 3-D models using 3-D printers and the "Cave," an eight-foot cube where they project and manipulate holographic images.

It's ridiculous to imagine software industry consolidation as an unstoppable rush of water down creeks and rivers, gushing onwards into giant ‘megavendor’ business suite reservoirs. There will always be opportunities for smallish specialists to fill various niches. Standards in development platforms and in testing methodologies will ensure their existence, and go a long way towards easing integration pain. Many of Computerworld’s readers do not buy into the consolidated megavendor view of the future either. In a recent Quickpoll, some 54 per cent of respondents agreed that consolidation was ‘bad for choice’ while only 7 per cent believed it was ‘long overdue’. Only 8 per cent believed the consolidation trend was ‘good for quality’ — perhaps reflecting some of their megavendor experiences. Obviously consolidation has been going on for years and will continue, as agreed by 23 per cent of poll respondents

BEA Systems Inc. on Tuesday will pursue departmental developers with a price reduction on its WebLogic Express application server, intended for basic Web site development, and the launch of WebLogic Server, Workgroup Edition, a more full-featured application server that is limited to use by 20 developers.