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Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power

Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard powerMehKeystrokes make noises. The frequency spectrum of each key on the keyboard is unique. Lasers have been used to detect sound for decades. So, using a laser to sniff keystrokes is the obvious next step. I'm sure this practice is...

Tags: Keyboards, laser, government facility, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-03-20

Verint Video Solutions for Government Facilities

When it comes to securing government facilities, more than people and property are at stake. The very symbols of a nation are also on the line. But, even an army of surveillance personnel cannot keep an eye on all of the potential exposures. To provide real value, video surveillance solutions...

Tags: Video Surveillance, Video, Verint, Government Facility, Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2004-08-03

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In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Behind the GOP revolt on health care

ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Will the policy debate narrow or end?

here we go again!Obama is trying to destroy the best healtcare system in the world and give free care to people who don't deserve it.The solutions for the healt reform are simple and have been enumerated by conservatives like John McCain and others:1.Vouchers to buy insurance2.Tort reform3.Tax cuts in the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Obama, car

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Industry fight against Google hurts education

So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...

Tags: Google Inc., education

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Nuclear power has political meltdowns

Nuclear power has political meltdownsNo surprises.It was a government run entity. Of course it was overrunning costs. That's what government entities do.Nuclear waste is way less toxic than your current nemesis: coal ash heaps. It's just that people have been successfully indoctrinated to think that nuclear radiation is the most...

Tags: Nuclear Waste, nuclear energy, political meltdown, reactor, meltdown, government, nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Google Street View images can now be "deleted"

Google Street View images can now be "deleted"Street view should be bannedShould be banned in all city and residental locations. I have not found the service useful at all and that to me just leaves the service as a better tool for evil then good... Places like Iran must be...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Street View, Google Street View Image, Street View

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

National Archives: What, Me Worry?

I propose that the National Archives change its motto from "Littera Scripta Manet" The Written Letter Abides to "What, Me Worry?" befitting it's current lack of data security controls. While many of you this weekend were firing up your barbecues, cooking grilled meats...

Tags: White House, Data, Storage, Social Security, Government, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-05-25

News to know: Salesforce.com; Microsoft; Apple tablet; Google

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. Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Pop quiz - Which would you choose (Mac vs. PC)? ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Alternative energy and alternatives to alternative energy

To change,or simnply more of the same without all that pesky government intervention. To have, or to have not. That seems to be the question. There's now a draft of new federal requirement for alternative energy. And there is a proposed push toward biofuels....

Tags: Alternative Energy, Biofuel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Red tape keeps Conficker on medical devices

Red tape keeps Conficker on medical devicesAnd of course we [i]want[/i] the governmentto run healthcare? If they are interfereng with routine patching due to their regulations, then having those regulations interfere with fixing the issues the regulations caused, maybe it is time they stepped aside and let the staff maintaine...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Storage management, Red Tape, Conficker, medical device, data set, regulation

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Unisys has looming debt, credit pickle

Unisys could lose its credit line at the end of May and that could make it tough to pay off its bonds without issuing a lot of shares. Unisys' problem is a common one these days with credit tight as numerous companies try to rearrange debt payments...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Audit thyself: New energy evaluation service looks at the total IT, facilities picture

Have you managed to get a handle yet on exactly WHAT you might be able to do in your data center to reduce your power profile? Or are you just kind of poking around with tactical initiatives? (Which, by the way isn't a BAD thing. After all, Deloitte's CIO just...

Tags: Audit, Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Student free speech vs. taxpayer rights

Student free speech vs. taxpayer rightsThere are several issues at work hereFirst, the philosophy that all ideas have equal merit. It isn't true. A film that labels itself XXX (the MPAA doesn't give XXX ratings; it's done for promotional purposes by the movie maker) has zero merit. There is no...

Tags: Free Speech, Taxpayer, taxpayer

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

GPL's cloudy future

GPL's cloudy futureIn the Cloud: ANYBODY can do ITANYBODY. I believe that is the essence of the Cloud revolution.Users old enough remember the IBM PC. It was a revolution. A maneuver around traditional IT which gave rise to a new generation of software and hardware development without...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Configuration Files, GPL, AGPL, Google Inc., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Epicor Software Case Study: Symetrics Industries, LLC

As a full-rate production facility providing reliable, high-quality electronic manufacturing services and solutions, Symetrics Industries is an AS9100/ISO 9001- 2000 registered company that designs, manufacturers and tests aerospace and defense (A&D) systems for both the U.S. government and other governments around the world. To improve its competitive position, support future...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense

Case studies 2009-04-06

Fujitsu America CEO makes mid-market enterprise bet

Fujitsu America will kick off April 1 as an integrated IT systems player with a game plan to target mid-market enterprise customers and large corporations in industries such as retail, financial services, government, manufacturing and health care. Last September, Fujitsu announced plans that it would create Fujitsu North America...

Tags: Information Technology, Fujitsu Ltd., Strategy, It Services, Manufacturing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-30