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- Live Webcast: Meet Enterprise Application Demands on a Tight Budget
- Even in a challenging business environment, your business still needs to deliver secure, highly available applications across its global WAN from corporate headquarters to branch offices and mobile workers. Managed service providers can help by letting your business reduce costs and simplify complexity. Learn from the analysts at IDC how...
- Tags: Managed Services, Webcast, Enterprise Application, Blue Coat Systems Inc., WANs, Managed Hosting, Network Technology, It Services, Networking
- Webcasts 2009-07-02
- Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh
- Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh wow companies want you to buy stuff from them...details at 11I'd be interested in knowing how they arrived at the correlation between......older PCs and malware. I can't see why an older system would be any more likely to get malware than a brand...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Cyberthreats, Intel Corp., small and medium enterprise, PC Refresh, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- News to know: Windows 7, HD-DVD, Twitter, iPhone, SOA
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Christopher Dawson: Windows 7: Good enough to pay for? Andrew Nusca: Quickfire Deal: Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, HD-DVD, Jason Perlow, SOA, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Windows 7: Good enough to pay for?
- I finally installed the Windows 7 release candidate that the folks from Microsoft were kind enough to pass on a couple weeks ago at the Intel Classmate Ecosystem Summit. I could have installed it on my Mac, but I already have Vista running with Boot Camp with a fair...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- How about a Microsoft Security Essentials for servers?
- How about a Microsoft Security Essentials for servers?Leave that for the 3rd party providersMS is already treading on anti-trust thin ice with the release of this for the client. By not stepping into the enterprise market, MS allows all the current AV providers to charge for their enterprise features. So...
- Tags: Servers, X-WINDOWS, server, Microsoft Corp., security, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- How much do desktops matter?
- How much do desktops matter?The desktop/laptop will be around longer than that.Laptops continue to grow more prevalent than desktops, but a workstation computer will be a very long standing fixture in the lives of those in the developed world. No one is going to write term papers on a...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, mobile world, desktop, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-06-19
- Leopard Cache Cleaner 4.0.26 (Mac)
- Leopard Cache Cleaner makes system maintenance simple with an easy point and click interface to many OS X functions. Leopard Cache Cleaner can improve system performance by tuning internet and file cache settings, implementing ram disks, and cleaning out various cached and stale data. LCC includes tools to help optimize...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Tool, Northern Softworks, Leopard Cache Cleaner, LCC, LCC Portable, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, Productivity, Operating Systems, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software, Apple Mac OS
- Software downloads 2009-06-16
- Free AV from Microsoft: It's about time
- Free AV from Microsoft: It's about timeNo thank you"Morro will work by routing all of a users Internet traffic to a Microsoft datacenter"Umm, no. There are way too many privacy implications here.thats scary i know Microsoft will say how safe and Anonymous this would be, but currently I already...
- Tags: Rootkits, Data centers, AVG, Microsoft Corp., Free AV, Morro, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Fight Windows tax with a penguin stick
- Fight Windows tax with a penguin stickWho needs LinSux?Only poor, jobless and ignorant guys who think they are pros like Linux Geek need LinSux. If that small amount of money feels like tax then you need to work harder and get a better job. By the way am about to...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- News to know: Apple WWDC, iPhone, Macs; Palm Pre; Google Apps; Facebook
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Apple coverage: Ed Burnette: WWDC 2009 live Jason D. O'Grady: WWDC 09: the announcements (Updated 10x)...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Pricing, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Did Cisco Misstep with its SMB Play?
- Cisco's small business play yesterday was more than just an announcement of four new infrastructure and communication products. It's a reaffirmation of a basic tenant for Cisco drive value into the SMB's underlying data networks by enabling more applications to share that network. That's a smart strategy when the applications...
- Tags: Data Network, Network, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Small And Medium Business, Networking, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Typo'd Google domains in Top 10 malware exploit sites
- Misspelled versions of two popular Google services are among the Top 10 sites hosting exploits for use in drive-by malware download attacks. On the heels of two massive drive-by attacks -- ten of thousands of hijacked sites launching attacks via the browser -- Google released a list...
- Tags: Google Inc., Domain, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Autorun Eater 2.4 (Windows)
- Autorun Eater was born due to the increase of malwares using the 'autorun.inf' method to infect users unknowingly be it from flash drives, removable hard disks or any other removable storage device. When a device is infected with a malware and an 'autorun.inf' file is dropped, the shell menu is...
- Tags: Malware, Microsoft Windows, Old McDonald, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Software downloads 2009-06-03
- 20,000 sites hit with drive-by attack code
- Hackers have broken into more than 20,000 legitimate Web sites to plant malicious code to be used in drive-by malware attacks. According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious JavaScript, obfuscated code that leads to an active...
- Tags: Malware, Attack, Exploit Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- What if the new name for Microsoft Live Search is ... Yahoo?
- What if the new name for Microsoft Live Search is ... Yahoo?Google Search is just simply better, PERIOD.ntMicrosoft loses at auto-correctionEnter "rumplestilskdnin" at Live Search. It finds nothing and more importantly, doesn't say "Did you mean...".Enter the same term at Google and while it finds nothing, it makes a...
- Tags: SEARCH, Web browsers, MS-search, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Live Search, search engine
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and Mom
- Latest "Laptop Hunter" ad - Lauren and MomWhy do we need a commercial...to prove what everybody has known for years, that Apple computers are rip-offs.Um, same name, different women...These are two different Laurens... And the Lauren in this add is not helping her mom, she's buying the laptop herself, for...
- Tags: advertisement, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp., Now Microsoft, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Mac OS X vulnerable to 6-month old Java flaw
- Mac OS X vulnerable to 6-month old Java flawNah.....Apple designed OSX with security in mind from the start. What, this isn't an OSX flaw? Just goes to show you that you can never be too safe. I would expect that Apple users will make a run on...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, old Java flaw, Java, Java flaw, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., OSX Flaw, security, flaw
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Update on the Latitude 2100: options=sticker shock.
- So the new education-oriented Latitude netbooks are up for order now on Dell.com. The good news? Ubuntu 8.10 is an option, saving you $30 upfront for a $369 base price. More good news? Getting the system up to a gig of RAM from its 512MB base...
- Tags: Hard Drive, RAM, Dell Latitude, Netbook, Ubuntu 8.10, Built-in Camera, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Scalia gets a schooling in online privacy
- Scalia gets a schooling in online privacyI agree with ScaliaI've been saying for years now how the idea of "privacy" through anonymity on the Internet is incredibly ignorant. It's like saying that anytime I leave my house I can put on a costume and take off my car's license...
- Tags: NOW IT, Scalia, schooling, online privacy
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Is Apple going to get some security help from OLPC?
- Is Apple going to get some security help from OLPC?Security is not a function of popularity.Have a seat and listen to yet another stupid analogy.A shipping company has a problem with their boats sinking. It has 300 ships. A smaller shipping company has only 3 ships and none...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., One Laptop Per Child project, shipping company, security, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
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