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Power management vendor Verdiem has updated its Surveyor tools that help users regulate energy consumption by Windows-based PCs with features that solve "PC insomnia" and that automatically close open applications.

From the start, Henry Malmgren was determined to get to the South Pole. After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1998 with a degree in MIS he applied for a job in the Antarctic every year before NSF contractor Raytheon finally hired him as a network engineer in 2001. Since then he has alternated between the Denver headquarters and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, spending two summers and two winters there before finally working his way up to IT manager. Staying over is a commitment: Once the winter starts, there's no way to get in and out of the base until summer begins eight to nine months later. "I thought I would just do this for a single season, but somehow it always seemed too easy to keep coming back," he says.

Computer coding errors apparently caused the loss of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) orbiter spacecraft last year.

While Google made a big splash this week over its willingness to share its power efficiency secrets, the online giant actually is wading into a larger industry-wide power saving movement.

Integrating measurement of the complexity of software and performance of developers into the development lifecycle can have significant benefits in reducing risk, according to development metrics expert Ewa Wasylkowski.

Like a blind date, wireless LANs can seem attractive and compelling on the surface, but looks can be deceiving... as these tools reveal.

Finisar next month will add security features to its software for monitoring IEEE 802.11b wireless LANs, allowing managers to identify and eliminate unauthorized users.

As WLANS (wireless LANs) evolve from departmental phenomenon to being part of the corporatewide infrastructure strategy, managers have to make IEEE 802.11x a complete member of the network family.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to unveil a standards-based management suite early next year that is designed to help customers get a better handle on their increasingly complex storage environments.

Peter Gaucher, the program director of mobile product strategy at IBM Corp., said at the recent Mobile Insights conference that IBM was quite surprised at how many people are willing to use their thumbs to type, alluding to the relative success of the Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) Blackberry handhelds. Now IBM is rethinking the need for a keyboard on such devices. As you know, Big Blue manufactures the Palm as the WorkPad.

Where was Marlin Perkins and his Wild Kingdom TV show when I needed him? Here I was with a scrub jay pecking at my head while I scrambled through my backyard flora, trying to attach a camera to a pole.