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- Email archiving - Are you feeling lucky?
- Businesses of all sizes are struggling with ever growing electronic information volume and content. Although email is not the only electronic information, it is by far the fastest growing both in volume and sensitivity. Not only are companies worried about security risks but they are equally challenged with constant capacity...
- Tags: Google Inc., E-mail Archiving, George, E-mail, Online Communications
- Webcasts 2008-03-20
- Picking the right IT: Are some risks worth taking?
- Challenge: pick the right information architecture for a 10 to 15 FTE research foundation. The operating budget runs around two million per year, the mandate is to hand out about one hundred million per year in health care related research grants, the scope is nominally worldwide with preference given to...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Director, Office, George, Paul, Development Officer, Government, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- If you're concerned about security, look beyond the browser
- My blogging colleague George Ou raised some interesting points in a post yesterday looking at security flaws in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Over the years I've come to the conclusion that counting bugs is a pointless exercise and that it's far better to limit the attack surface you present to...
- Tags: Security, Web Browser, George, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Building PCs vs. buying: Flex those geek muscles
- There are geeks. And then there are geek's geeks. George Ou falls in the latter category. For someone who just has worked himself up to the point where he isn't handy--up from ridiculously incompetent--I can't help but marvel at George's weekend projects. His latest build it yourself feature...
- Tags: PC, Geek, George, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Hybrid drives: not so fast!
- Hybrid drives: not so fast!Thoughts on these benchmarksRobin,What are your thoughts on these benchmarks testing a solid state drive against some hybrid drives:http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3067&p=1Aside from the price, which is bound to fall over time, it seems like the ssd performs well.Hybrid drives solve a real problem for the mobile worldHybrid drives...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Engineering, Memory, george, Intel Robson, Intel Corp., Robson technology, disk
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
- VoIP: Are you ready to throw the switch?
- During this 16-minute podcast, TechRepublic technical director George Ou and section editor Bill Detwiler explore business cases for and against VoIP. VoIP can no longer be dismissed as a passing fad. But it still has a long way to go before people see it as a true...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., George, Telephony, Podcasts, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Internet
- Download resources 2006-05-17
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- Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600
- Check out the joystick ports, circuitry, and other parts that made the venerable game console tick.The Atari 2600 in all its cracked-open glory. I never owned one of these consoles--I was an Intellivision II man. (George Plimpton convinced me it was better.) Do you still play your Atari 2600?...
- Tags: Joystick, Photograph, Atari Inc., CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-15
- AMD announces low-power quad-core chips
- AMD announces low-power quad-core chipsPaging George Ou, stat!ntAh, good old "Fake-o-watt" numbershttp://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/06/amd-power-numbers-exposedRE: AMD announces low-power quad-core chipsIf you are going to "remind" readers about the Intel products in an AMD review in my opinion not an objective move at least state the pricing and availability so that we can compare...
- Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., low-power quad-core chip, quad-core chip, quad-core
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Creating an XP SP3 slipstreamed ISO file
- Creating an XP SP3 slipstreamed ISO fileDoh!Now you tell me! ;)[url=http://formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/37/Default.aspx]George Ou[/url] over at [url=http://formortals.com]Technology for Mortals[/url] was spinning his wheels for a while but ultimately prevailed.You better do this since SP3 won't install on a fresh install of XPShoot! Windows XP SP3 will not install on a pre-SP1 machine...
- Tags: ISO, XP SP3, nLite, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- A C3PO sighting in Pittsburgh
- While touring Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi literally bumped into Anthony Daniels, the actor behind Star Wars' lovable android C3PO. You might not recognize his face, but you surely know his voice. Take a walk down memory lane with Daniels, who talks...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Telecommunications, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, star wars, anthony daniels, pittsburgh, carnegie mellon, entertainment technology center, george lucas, ilm, skywalker, c3po, r2d2
- Videos 2008-05-09
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere
- Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphereLots of profit......jobs and innovation in jeopardy? Too bad we didn't jeopardize Sub-Prime lending when we had a chance. Same kind of profit potential here for the telcos IMO.Drop ComcastThere are lots of ISP's out there.AT&T Yahoo comes to mind.Could Comcast's big usership...
- Tags: INTERNET, Broadband Internet, Comcast Corp., Comcast-charged atmosphere, Net Neutrality, net neutrality bill
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Here we go again ...
- Here we go again ...Pure marketing hype.I agree with you, show me SOMETHING.It's time for ZDNet to hold Intel to the same standardsAMD has to update partners on roadmaps. The roadmaps leak, and ZDNet bloggers like Adrian and the former blogger George Ou delight in ripping AMD up for how...
- Tags: Processors, Blogging, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- AT
- ATThere will probably be......some kind of MD5 digest hashed to an iPhone private key which will be present on an update to the firmware. Yes?Yep - it's goneI tried at a Starbucks here in Colorado Springs and it asks for a user name, etc... vs just asking for you...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, Starbucks Corp., Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software
- George Ou pointed me in the direction of Stallman's comments relating to Windows on the OLPC project, though I did nothing about it because my head was figuratively on fire. I then saw Christopher Dawson's response to Stallman's comments, and so I figured that I'd throw my two cents in...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Apple and AT
- Apple and ATHey, it's no worse than MAC filtering :)Hey, it's no worse than MAC filtering which is universally used at for-fee hotspots :). The right sniffer and the right script can quickly change your MAC address to one that's already logged in. Just find a user on...
- Tags: Domain names, Web browsers, user agent, MAC address, DNS, MAC, Mac Filtering, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- News to know: Microhoo; Adobe; MacBook Air; OLPC; RIAA
- Notable headlines: Microsoft: We'll raise our bid for Yahoo, but can't make up our mind yet. Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air Ryan Stewart: Adobe Open Screen Project Dan Farber: IBM...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Advertisement, RIAA, Apple MacBook, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Professional Development, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Career, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Record labels getting better at detecting P2P
- An article in Ars Technica points to a recent increase in copyright infringement notices being sent to universities. While the Record Industry Association of America RIAA claims that it has not changed its procedures, it did note that record labels are constantly improving their ability to detect peer-to-peer traffic...
- Tags: Ars Technica, P2P, University, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Noble goals and politics at the OLPC
- The "One Laptop Per Child" project OLPC, the brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte, was envisioned as a way to bring the cost of computing down to a level where more in the developing world could afford it, either directly, or more likely, through purchases by governments and NGOs aiming to encourage...
- Tags: Software, Open Source, One Laptop Per Child Project, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux server market?
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on April 24 as planned and will be supported until 2011-2013. But is extended support enough to convince ISVs and businesses to support three Linux distributions? Despite the hoopla around its release Wednesday, Ubuntu's ambitions in the corporate server space will be...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
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