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Dell blames staff for malware infection Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 3:36AMBloody humans Dell said human error was to blame for mistakes which led it to ship a number of replacement server motherboards to customers pre-loaded with spyware.…
Pardon the Disruption: SC10 Seeks HPC Game Changers for Disruptive Technologies Program Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 11:34AMNEW ORLEANS----SC10, the premier international conference on high‐performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, is searching for technologies with the potential to disrupt the current technology landscape.
PC giant warns of hardware trojan Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 7:27AMComputer maker Dell says some of the motherboards in its consumer PCs carry malware that's beyond the reach of any antivirus software
Dan Baker Blog Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 4:15PMIs Network Integrity the Next Network Inventory? "Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play and few can play well. The right merchant is one who has the average of faculties we call common sense; a man with a strong affinity for facts...
Upcoming Club Activities: July 18, 2010 Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 2:55PMTo be included in the calendar the week prior to the event, send time, date, place and phone number to: Naples Daily News, Neapolitan Section, 1100 Immokalee Road, Naples, FL 34110; e-mail to features@naplesnews.com; or fax: 403-6138. Deadline for Upcoming Activities is noon Tuesday. No phone calls, please. Items in this list are printed on a space-available basis.
Amazon APIs as cloud standards? Not so fast Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 4:03PMSome people consider Amazon's APIs to be the de facto cloud computing API standard. I don't agree for several reasons--not the least of which is that it's too early for cloud standards in the first place.
France, Netherlands seek to halt Internet censorship Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 12:45PMFrance and the Netherlands called Thursday for international guidelines to prevent private firms from exporting high-tech equipment that could be used for Internet censorship.
int@j Introduces 7 Jordanian ICT Companies to Intel Capital Wednesday, July 7, 2010 @ 1:45AM07 July 2010 Int@j Int@j , the Information Technology Association of Jordan Information Technology Association of Jordan conducted an event with the globally recognized Intel Capital, the venture capital investment arm of Intel Corporation, and the event included more than 7 companies from the ICT community in Jordan on Thursday July 01, 2010.
Pixel Qi ships low-power displays for DIYers Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 1:41PMPixel Qi has begun shipping its power-saving, transflective LCDs to do-it-yourselfers, who can install them in 10.1-inch netbooks. The displays work in both color and monochrome e-paper modes, and are said to require up to 80 percent less power of an ordinary display.
Blade switch slashes job times Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 9:00AMAS the financial services sector drags itself out of the mire, businesses are taking a renewed interest in risk driven by new regulations.
This Recall Burns, Sony Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 2:31PMSony is hot, hot, hot -- in all the wrong ways.
Retail Bankers from More Than 10 Asia Pacific Countries to Gather in Singapore This July Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 3:58AM1 July -2010: Fleming Gulf's Retail Banking Asia Pacific 2010 will be the key forum for members of retail banks and other financial services institutions in the Asian financial market.
What the Windows 8 leak tells us Wednesday, June 30, 2010 @ 6:06AMAlthough things can certainly change between now and whenever Microsoft actually ships the next version of Windows, this week's leak offers an unexpected peek into Redmond's mindset.
Panel: Smart devices to flood consumer market Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 2:40PMConsumer electronics is on the brink of a "smart devices revolution," according to the CE panel members at the Freescale Technology Forum.
Computer Latency Problems Research Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 12:46PMEver since the iPhone crashed AT&T's network, it has become common cause that the increase in mobile data, or rather data that is transmitted over the air, is going to grow. A lot. Networks are already straining to cope. But that's not the big problem, says Andrew Herbert, director of Microsoft's Cambridge Lab. The real problem, he says, is latency. Latency is the delay between sending a signal ...
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Smart consumer devices market to explode Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 3:34AMConsumer electronics is on the brink of a "smart devices revolution" according to the consumer electronics panel members at last week's Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando, Florida.
Panel: Smart consumer devices market to explode Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 12:56PMA new era of media tablets and smartbooks will soon be flooding the market, dethroning Intel and Microsoft, by outselling traditional computers starting by this Christmas, according to consumer electronics panel members at the Freescale Technology Forum. Electronics - Microsoft - Intel Corporation - Consumer electronics - Intel
NetSupport enhances existing ITIL(R) Help Desk offering to deliver improved workflow efficiencies Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 8:43AMSoftware developer NetSupport Limited are pleased to announce the immediate availability of NetSupport ServiceDesk version 3.
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Open source media player embraces HD Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 12:11PMVideoLAN is shipping version 1.1 of its cross-platform, open source VLC media player, adding hardware acceleration, WebM support, and faster HD decoding, but deleting Shoutcast support.
Stromasys Announces "SYBIL" SPARCstation for Windows/Solaris and "ZELUS" Virtual HP 3000 for MPE/iX, Expanding its ... Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 10:57AM-
Oracle® Application Express Release 4.0 Now Available Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 9:13AM· To further streamline the development of database-centric Web applications, Oracle introduced Oracle® Application Express Release 4.0. · This latest release of Oracle Application Express helps reduce the time and complexity of building opportunistic Web 2.0 applications and reports.
Curtiss-Wright Controls Adds Support for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY(R) RTOS on Its VPX6-187 QorIQ(TM) P4080 ... Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 7:06AMORLANDO, FL--(Marketwire - June 23, 2010) - Freescale Technology Forum -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPXT, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, and Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent ...
Green Hills Software and IXXAT Announce EtherCAT(R) Protocol Support for Freescale Processors Based on Power ... Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 7:06AMEtherCAT Protocol Integrated With INTEGRITY(R) Platform for Industrial Safety Speeds Industrial Solution Development
Green Hills Software and IXXAT Announce EtherCAT(R) Protocol Support for Freescale Processors Based on Power ... Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 7:00AMORLANDO, FL--(Marketwire - 06/23/10) - Freescale Technology Forum -- Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, has collaborated with IXXAT Automation GmbH, a leading provider of data communication products and services for the automation and automotive industries, acontis technologies GmbH, a leader in EtherCAT Master protocol IP, and Freescale ...
Upcoming club activities: June 20, 2010 Saturday, June 19, 2010 @ 3:58PMTo be included in the calendar the week prior to the event, send time, date, place and phone number to: Naples Daily News, Neapolitan Section, 1100 Immokalee Road, Naples, FL 34110; e-mail to features@naplesnews.com; or fax: 403-6138. Deadline for Upcoming Activities is noon Tuesday. No phone calls, please. Items in this list are printed on a space-available basis.
The new wave of retro gaming Friday, June 18, 2010 @ 6:54AMSometimes it's really hard to let go. Like that vinyl collection you've got stashed away in the attic or those VHS cassettes of movies that you've already replaced on DVD that you just can't force yourself to flog on eBay. There are just those times when nostalgia takes over, leaving a home strewn with junk and a partner pleading for you to move on.
Angara to infuse computer education in school curriculum Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 6:23PMJune 15, 2010. Senator Edgardo J. Angara is leading the Senate in its pursuit of a legislation to integrate computer education into the curriculum of students in as early as the elementary level. "In our efforts to recover from lost economic grounds, our people needs to be updated on the latest advances in...
Juniper EVP Yen Talks Up 'Project Stratus' at Cloud Forum Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 11:45AMDavid Yen, executive vice president for Juniper’s Data Center Business Group, will use his talk at the IDC Cloud Leadership Forum June 15 to tout the company’s “Project Stratus,” an initiative designed to collapse the networking infrastructure from three to one layer.
How reliable are external hard disks? Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 3:47AMMost people use external hard disks to back up their data. We explain how reliable these devices are
Cloud Computing a Threat, and Opportunity, for Taiwan's PC Makers Tuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 1:23AMTAIPEI -- When Richard Lee, an electronics magnate, peers into the murky future of cloud computing, he sees both opportunity and challenge.
22nd Annual FIRST IT Security Conference Kicked Off June 13 in Miami Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 9:24AMPhilip Reitinger, director of the National Cybersecurity Center with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who will deliver the Monday morning keynote on "Cybersecurity Collaboration: Partnering Across the Cyber Ecosystem."Heather Adkins of Google who will discuss "Incident Response at Scale" at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, providing an overview of Google's response to a recent attack on its ...
22nd Annual FIRST IT Security Conference Kicked Off June 13 in Miami Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 8:00AMThe 22nd annual Forum of Incident Response Security Teams Conference kicked off on Sunday, June 13 at the Intercontinental Miami in Florida with a slate of high-profile experts in cybersecurity presenting the week-long agenda.
KineticD Adds Affordable Remote Access To Flexible Backup Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 11:40AMOnline charge-by-the-gigabyte backup firm adds more affordable remote access service to desktop PCs, aimed at CPAs and others. A few years ago, I did a survey/review on online backup services.
India, Singapore aim to double trade at $32 billion by 2015 Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 3:47PMIndia and Singapore are aiming to double the bilateral trade to $32 billion by 2015. The total FDI inflows from Singapore to...
5th Annual Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP) to Include Paper From EVE's CEO Luc Burgun Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 10:14AMEVE-Sponsored Event for Computer Architects Collocated With ACM IEEE International Symposium Computer Architecture (ISCA)
5th Annual Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP) to Include Paper From EVE's CEO Luc Burgun Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 10:13AMThe 5th Annual Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP), to be held June 19 in Saint-Malo, France, and sponsored by EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, will include a paper co-authored by its Chief Executive Officer Luc Burgun. read more
5th Annual Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP) to Include Paper From EVE's CEO Luc Burgun Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 10:00AMSAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - 06/10/10) - The 5th Annual Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP), to be held June 19 in Saint-Malo, France, and sponsored by EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, will include a paper co-authored by its Chief Executive Officer Luc Burgun. The paper titled, "Automatic Embedded Multicore Generation and Evaluation Methodology: A case study ...
MSI replacing BIOS with UEFI firmware interface sometime this year? Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 12:46PMThe Unified EFI Forum is a trade group that includes Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and ARM. The goal? To develop and implement UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The specification replaces BIOS as the software interface between your computer's hardware and OS, doing away with several limitations of the BIOS firmware interface in the process. Unlike the old, dependable BIOS, however, UEFI ...
How to find drivers for your hard drive Friday, June 4, 2010 @ 10:08AMMissing hard-drive drivers QUESTION I backed up my Windows XP PC to a portable hard drive. This drive appears in Device Manager and Disk Management, but not in My Computer. My Creative sound system failed at the same time. The Hardware Wizard was unable to locate new drivers for the hard drive, USB ports or sound entries in Device Manager. Ken Robinson
Indo-SA trade to reach 10 billion dollars by 2012 Thursday, June 3, 2010 @ 11:24PMNew Delhi, June 3 : President of South Africa Jacob Zuma and Anand Sharma, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry launched the India-South Africa CEOs Forum in Mumbai on Thursday.
Five Best Computer Diagnostic Tools [Hive Five] Sunday, May 30, 2010 @ 11:18AM# hivefive Computers are easier to use and more dependable with each new generation of hardware and operating system update, but that doesn't mean they're problem-free. Here's a look at the five most popular tools for troubleshooting your computer problems. More »
STS sponsors Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2010 Sunday, May 30, 2010 @ 8:41AM30 May 2010 In one of the prominent events this year, STS STS , a leading regional IT service and enterprise solutions provider furnished gold sponsorship for Bahrain International eGovernment Forum, which took place in Manama, Bahrain from May 17 th - 19 th , 2010 under the patronage of H.H. Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Nitro reads PDFs right, earns Editors' Choice Friday, May 28, 2010 @ 4:30PMGiven Adobe Reader's security hang-ups, and an already-saturated free PDF reader market, introducing a new reader could be a risky venture. But Nitro PDF Reader offers a smooth, secure, robust, and free toolset for getting down to business with PDFs.
Intel tips new silicon for tablets Friday, May 28, 2010 @ 2:49PMIntel says it will launch dedicated silicon for tablet PCs at next week's Computex show in Taiwan. The Atom-based chipset -- likely bearing the "Moorestown-W" moniker -- will run a tablet-specific version of Windows 7 that supports power-saving "SmartIdle" technology, according to various reports.
Global CIO: Oracle's Larry Ellison Embraces Cloud Computing's 'Idiocy' Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 7:08AMColumn about Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's gradual acceptance of cloud computing into Oracle's product line after he said cloud computing was idiotic, absurd, and nonsense.
State Pulse: New Delhi: National e-waste policy critical Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 9:07AMIn the absence of an effective method for collection of e-waste and managing the hazardous constituents, some e-waste ends up at the scrap market, which then recycles them, using high polluting technologies- Syed Ali Mujtaba The death of a person in New Delhi's scrap market and hospitalisation of seven others has brought to the fore the dangers of radioactivity and the urgent need for a national ...
Passware Kit beschleunigt verteilte Passwort-Wiederherstellung Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 4:07AMCEIC 2010 -- Passware, Inc. ( http://www.lostpassword.com/ ), ein Anbieter von Software für Passwort-Wiederherstellung, Entschlüsselung und elektronische Beweissicherung für Unternehmen und Strafverfolgungsorganisationen, gab heute die Einführung von Passware Kit 10 ( http://www.lostpassword.com/kit-forensic.htm ) - der ersten, kommerziell ...
MOEA to Host 2010 Taiwan Business Alliance Conference Touting Cloud Computing Center Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ 6:52AMTAIPEI, Taiwan----The Ministry of Economic Affairs , in association with DIGITIMES, will host a “2010 Taiwan Business Alliance Conference” in Taipei on May 31, 2010 with the themes of the agenda focusing on new technologies and applications that will address the business opportunities as well as challenges brought on by the arrival of the new 3C industry – cloud computing, connectivity and ...