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- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Perens new crusade is patent law
- Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...
- Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consulting
- Medicare no-pay list: Lessons for IT consultingAn Unfair ComparisonThe comparison is somewhat unfair. When the wrong patient gets an appendectomy, or the wrong blood, or instruments left inside the patient, it can be clearly established that the mistake stemmed from* Carelessness * Some best practice protocol not being followed* Lack...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, IT Consulting, blame, consulting, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accounts
- Palin had '10 to 15' secret email accountsWhy...Why are you people so hard on Palin? She can't help it. She suffers from Palinitis: You open your mouth, out pops a lie.I mean, she is only running for Vice President of the United States, with the additional possibility...
- Tags: Devilcrat, Obama, e-mail, Palin, secret email account
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Accellion Secure File Transfer
- Accellion Secure File Transfernot convincing...In order for this to work as designed, the person who "drops the file at the post office" repository, would have to go thru some process to identify who they want to be able to access it. OTOH, if they just mail it, it goes to...
- Tags: SECURITY, Accellion Secure File Transfer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Accellion Secure File Transfer
- Paula Skokowski, VP of Marketing for Accellion, and I had a lovely debate, err, conversation over the need for her company's product, a file transfer "virtualization" product. In the end, she won me over and I was forced through gritted teeth to agree that Accellion's managed file transfer solution could...
- Tags: File, Accellion, E-mail, Storage, Online Communications, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- File Mail (exe)
- File Mail is claiming to be the Internet's first "F-Mail" client. It's simple interface allows users to send and receive large file attachments, with little or no knowledge of compression or encryption. You simply select the file, or multiple files you wish to transfer, and click send. The files are...
- Tags: File, BNetDev.Com, File Mail, Audio Transfer, Internet, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-01
- Does HIMSS hate open source?
- Does HIMSS hate open source?Our Health Care System is Broken in So Many Ways.I have no doubts that before our Health Care system is fixed if it ever will be, a million years in life will be lost. What a horrible waste. I would rather not be a...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, open source, Does HIMSS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- Chilling data from the Arctic
- Chilling data from the ArcticSo much hyperbole, so little factPolar bear populations are on the rise. It's stupid to think that the polar bear is so unadaptable that it can't handle a decrease in ice floes. They'll just hunt from shore. Life adapts.BTW, the sea ice is the SECOND lowest...
- Tags: Polar Bear population, Arctic, bear, lake, ice
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Intel Tops Dow Jones Sustainabilty Index (again)
- The Dow Jones Sustainability Index DJSI results for 2008 are out, and although I'm not a huge fan of corporate sustainability beauty pageants, this one is probably the most credible measure of performance yet. That said, the DJSI is a far from perfect measure of corporate sustainability performance and contribution towards...
- Tags: Sustainability, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Intel Corp., James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- 3 steps to IT preventive maintenance
- 3 steps to IT preventive maintenanceThe Killer-cultureYour post provides some good tips on how to foster a culture capable of killing projects. Our aversion to admiting failure is so strong that few organizations can pull the plug, even if they have the governance in place to enable appropriate project and...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Can a case be made against the Palin e-mail hacker?
- It's probably only a matter of time before the feds arrest the kid who allegedly hacked into Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. If the news reports are true, it looks like fingers are pointing to the 20-year-old son of a Democratic state legislator in Tennessee. But, here's...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Service Component Architecture, U.S. Department Of Justice, Hacker, E-mail, Online Communications, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Targeted malware attack against U.S schools intercepted
- Timing is everything, and from a cybercriminal's perspective, a new school year means segmenting their email databases to launch a targeted attack welcoming everyone back online. According to MessageLabs Intelligence : "Starting in early September, MessageLabs intercepted a targeted, email-borne malware attack on US schools and government organizations, a...
- Tags: Malware, Social Engineering, Attack, E-mail, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?Obama's childish attack????Kinda like the one where McCain says Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners, when in fact, what he wanted was to teach them how to recognize inappropriate touching to protect them from child predators? Ridiculous, childish attack INDEED!Um ridiculous and childishlike...
- Tags: INTERNET, RIM BlackBerry, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Judge: Probable cause required for location info
- Judge: Probable cause required for location infoPrivacy Not an IssueSince the government wants information from a third party, not the individual, there is no right to privacy. Right to privacy has been over extended already to include public areas where there is not expectation to privacy, and should be...
- Tags: Government, Telecom & Utilities, Right-to-privacy, privacy, Probable Cause, location info
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...
- Tags: Malware, Server, Bot, Spamming, Spamming Service, SET-X Mail System, MX, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domain
- So it turns out that the Eco-Patent Commons, which I wrote about back in January, isn't just another empty-handed cooperative industry effort. Three new companies, Bosch, DuPont and Xerox, have joined the effort and another, Sony, has contributed an additional patent to the community. ...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Xerox Corp., Public Domain, Patent, Green Technology, Open Source, DuPont Co., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physics
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physicsHmmm, the brain drain is more thanlosing our people to Europe... it's our poor education system. It's amazing how low on the scale we are for developed nations when it comes to education. Especially in the lower grades where it...
- Tags: INTERNET, fascism, LHC, sure sign
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
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