Saturday | 6 September, 2008
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Sorting out the facts in the Terry Childs case 31/07/2008 08:12:20
It's been nearly three weeks since Terry Childs was arrested on four counts of computer tampering and sent to jail on US$5 million bail. In those three weeks, this event has taken turns to the strange, and wound up firmly in the land of the absurd. From bombastic claims in the press to midnight visits by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to pages of functional usernames and passwords entered into the public record, this case has certainly proven engaging. - +
Security goes to the movies: Iron Man 16/05/2008 08:32:21
Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with technology, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is Iron Man. Our movie reviewer is Ken Gagne; our privacy/surveillance nerd is security channel editor Angela Gunn, commenting in italics. - +
MS' holey collaboration kit 15/05/2008 11:06:07
The new Office servers I've discussed in recent weeks are diverse, opening up a wealth of opportunities: online forms, anywhere/anytime collaboration, advanced presence detection and VoIP technology, project management solutions, business intelligence with digital dashboards, and high-caliber search abilities. Microsoft has certainly granted users several computing capabilities through the Office suite. - +
Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery lessons still popping up 07/05/2008 10:33:00
For at least three days prior to when Hurricane Katrina struck, Marshall Lancaster and his IT team at Lagasse were closely tracking the storm, hoping it would spare his company's New Orleans-based headquarters and data center but preparing for the worst. By the time Katrina made landfall early on a Monday morning in August 2005, Lancaster and his team were in Chicago at the company's backup data center, having already declared a disaster. - +
Free and cheap software that kills the big guys 14/03/2008 10:31:19
People say the best things in life are free. That certainly includes software capable of doing just about everything that major commercial applications can do. - +
2008 CPU forecast: Quad-cores for everyone! 06/02/2008 09:41:01
Penryn. Nehalem. Phenom. Fusion. Inside these four cryptic code names lies the future of computer desktop processing for 2008. Ultimately, however, it's all about the epic, age-old battle between chip giant Intel and underdog Advanced Micro Devices for desktop dominance. - +
Rock star coders 23/01/2008 12:41:52
"You sound great singing in the shower, but there's a rock star inside you!" So read the first line of a job posting placed by Viget Labs in December, in its attempt to fill a junior-level position for a Ruby on Rails "would-be rock star programmer." - +
COO departure a short-term blip for Juniper 14/01/2008 07:10:52
The resignation of Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop is a short-term negative event for Juniper Networks, but some analysts say it will not dampen the company's momentum for the quarter or fiscal year. - +
Business division chief to retire from Microsoft this year 11/01/2008 09:26:15
Jeff Raikes, the president of Microsoft's Business Division, plans to retire in September, the company said on Thursday. - +
Fired Microsoft CIO re-emerges at mortgage firm 27/11/2007 12:16:13
Former Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott, who was fired by the software vendor earlier this month for violating unspecified company policies, has landed a new job -- and a promotion -- at a Florida-based mortgage firm. - +
Fired Microsoft CIO lands new gig 23/11/2007 12:40:37
It may be a thumping tumble down from running IT operations for the world's most famous software company, but Stuart Scott, recently sacked by Microsoft under unexplained/scandalous circumstances, has landed on his feet, albeit in an industry that as of late has displayed all the stability of a drunken sailor.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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