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- Biometric IDs may be wave of future
- As the time nears for the launch of biometric-laden ID cards for federal employees, manufacturers have their eyes on the real prize - driver's licenses. With a federal law that requires states to issue smart driver's licenses - loaded with biomeric data - vendors see the new federal IDs as...
- Tags: card, new card
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
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- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
- The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...
- Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- The weirdest computing disasters of 2008
- Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters. Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters. The top 10...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, disaster recovery, laptops, Nick Heath silicon.com
- News items 2008-12-04
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Craving for that next cell phone hit
- Craving for that next cell phone hitCraving for that next cell phone hitInteresting point about having to get all the numbers and re-enter them. With a GSM phone I believe you just take the SIM card out and pop it into another phone and keep all your contacts and...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- News to know: Mac malware, Windows 7, Netbooks, Google
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adam O'Donnell: Despite what blogs and Apple say, Macs will eventually have malware Ed Bott: Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January 13? Andrew...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Data Center, Microsoft Windows 7, Malware, Data Centers, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Vista SP2: What's inside?
- Vista SP2: What's inside?Windows ExplorerAre they going to fix Windows Explorer? Things like remembering views, better copy performance, etc?RE: Vista SP2: What's inside?Better remembering of views in Explorer would be really nice.RE: Vista SP2: What's inside?Are you using it in a networked environment? A lot of people who...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, performance, Vista SP2, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Zoho launches CloudSQL; Plays anti-lock-in card
- Zoho launches CloudSQL; Plays anti-lock-in cardCloud via SQLPretty danged cool! I'm going to have to try it out now. I've been avoiding these "cloud services" because they're all proprietary and I don't want to get locked in.
- Tags: CloudSQL, Zoho
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09But what about...But what about the main loser OSes? You know, the ones that have only a tiny fraction of Vista's marketshare, even though they have been on the market longer?http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=108&qpnp=11&qpdt=1&qpct=2So, to extrapolate based on marketshare, the response would then go something like:OSX (being...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OSX, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Alienware Area-51 m17x
- Alienware Area-51 m17xALIENWARE OR BEWARE OF ALIENWARE?I recently purchased a uber gaming laptop from Alienware, the Area 51 M9750. I had been using HP's but the video card is insufficient for my favorite game WOW. The cost was double but I figured it should last twice as long being built...
- Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, Alienware
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Whassup with Netbooks?
- Whassup with Netbooks?netbook problemI completely agree that netbooks would be better off being marketed as a phone, with the option of a significant discount with an ISP contract. The problem netbooks have is that they are almost a single commodity. All of the big name producers use the exact same...
- Tags: Engineering, Chipsets, Netbooks, Whassup, netbook, Intel Atom, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Zoho launches CloudSQL; Plays anti-lock-in card
- Zoho on Tuesday launched CloudSQL, a middleware layer that gives developers access to Zoho Applications data via a SQL database call. With the move, Zoho is playing an anti-lock-in card. One of the biggest worries about software as a service is that your data--and your business--can be...
- Tags: Card, Monitor, Data, SQL, CloudSQL, Zoho Applications, Databases, Software As A Service (SaaS), Programming Languages, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Nokia updates Nokia Maps and Nokia Messaging clients and services
- Nokia updates Nokia Maps and Nokia Messaging clients and servicesN97 Videos and specshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CpesK7lmMgNokia N97 Data SheetPlanned Market Introduction•1st half 2009Category•ExploreInternet•Easy and fast connections to internet services •Easy text input with QWERTY keyboard and touch screen•3.5 inch sliding tilt display •Live personalized home screen with widgets•Up-to-date information via RSS feed•Fully compatible...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Cellular phones, Digital video, GPS, Nokia Corp., video
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Griffin Simplifi
- The Griffin Simplifi ($79) is a USB-connected dock for Apple's iPod and iPhone that offers an integrated Flash memory card reader. To be clear, the Griffin Simplifi doesn't let you import or export files directly between Flash cards and your iPod, it simply consolidates a USB card-reader and iPod dock...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Memory, Flash memory, Griffin Simplifi, Griffin, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-12-01
- WARP speed for Windows 7
- WARP speed for Windows 7Core i7 8-core???"8-core dual Core i7"WTF is that?All current Core i7's are quad-core with Hyperthreading. It runs 8 threads, which is NOT the same as an 8-core. The 4 cores run at full speed, but can balance 2 threads each, which can improve efficiency...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Integrated Graphics, GPU, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Quarts, Microsoft Windows, software renderer, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Shopping - How do you do it?
- Shopping - How do you do it?ebay? Paypal? NO WAY!!!Paypal is owned by ebay and with ebay's "Disruptive Innovation" scheme being forced upon it's users, I would be very cautious of anything ebay or Paypal at this time. Under the previous direction of Meg Whitman and currently headed by...
- Tags: PayPal, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 1)?Can answer these ...[i]Know how to access Windows shares on the network[/i]Well that's pretty easy in Nautilus using smb:// , but a simple link with an icon should suffice.[i]Have a rudimentary understanding of the file system to ensure that...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Printers, desktop Linux, KDE, GNOME, user interface, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, desktop, printer, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-30
- Some seriously good advice from "Narg"
- Some seriously good advice from "Narg"A compromise?How about a terminal near the employee entrance that is hooked up to a computerized time-clock? We use timeclock application in Sharepoint that would work fine, and get over the whole issue without having something that can't be tracked electronically as easily.RE: Some seriously...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Java, Murph, Microsoft Windows Vista, good advice, Narg, card
- Discussion threads 2008-11-30
- Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall
- There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...
- Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
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