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Large Title Insurance Underwriter Manages Growth by Upgrading Its Domain Infrastructure

To serve its customers where they live and work, LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc., a leading real estate transaction services provider in the United States, maintains 700 offices across the nation. As the company grew and added new services, managing and maintaining the company's network became increasingly challenging and expensive. To...

Tags: Title Insurance, Directory Service, Microsoft Corp., Title Insurance Underwriter, Real Estate, Microsoft Windows, Directory Services, Servers, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware

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Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

[ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser is beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to...

Tags: Google Inc., Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, ModSecurity, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses

Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game Spore offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Spore, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Electronic Arts, video games, Nintendo

News items 2008-09-05

21% of CIOs expect their security budgets to increase

21% of Forrester survey respondents expect to increase their IT security budgets in 2009, while nearly three-quarters of those surveyed expect no cutbacks in their security spending. Only 6% of respondents anticipate having to cut their security budget 2009 despite the current economic uncertainty. Security makes up 10% of overall...

Tags: Information Technology, Security, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

20% of US households watch online TV

Online TV viewing has been gaining in popularity. 20% of American households who use the internet watch television broadcasts online, double the viewership from 2006, The Conference Board reports. The top two destinations for online broadcasts are the official TV channel homepage and YouTube.com. Being able to watch broadcasts on...

Tags: Broadcast, Entertainment, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

70% of DVR owners say they cannot live without DVR

More than 70% of DVR owners say that they cannot live without their DVR, according to NDS. Asked to rank the relative importance of a variety of household appliances, DVR owners ranked the DVR as the third most indispensable item after the washing machine and the microwave oven. 89% of...

Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

$600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008

The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...

Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

$600 mln worth of nanomaterials for electronics to sell in 2008

The global market for nanomaterials for electronics applications will reach $600 mln in 2008 and grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40% to reach nearly $7 bln in 2015, according to The Information Network. The Semiconductor sector will have a 62.1% share of the $600 mln market...

Tags: Electronics, Market, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

81.2 mln smart meters in Europe by 2013

According to Berg Insight, the installed base of smart electricity meters in Europe will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15.6% between 2008 and 2013 to reach 81.2 mln at the end of the period. After massive rollouts in Italy and the Nordic countries, the turn has now...

Tags: Europe, Berg Insight, Investment, Finance, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

81.2 mln smart meters in Europe by 2013

According to Berg Insight, the installed base of smart electricity meters in Europe will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15.6% between 2008 and 2013 to reach 81.2 mln at the end of the period. After massive rollouts in Italy and the Nordic countries, the turn has now...

Tags: Europe, Berg Insight, Investment, Finance, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-04

What can we do better?

I'm collecting data from teachers across my district (using a Google Form, of course), trying to get a handle on issues we still haven't addressed, ways we can use technology more effectively, and what their wishlists might be for the coming year. Here's the questionnaire that went...

Tags: Classroom, Teacher, Notebooks, Productivity, Telephony, Projectors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Family entertainment act

There was an assertionin the comments on the story Guns 'n' Roses that the prosecution would have to prove some economic damages. How do they plan on proving financial impact in court? Piracy rates are calculated by comparing ESTIMATED demand for a product...

Tags: Entertainment, Title, Piracy Rate, Sales Strategy, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Ten key differences between Linux and Windows

Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License

News items 2008-09-04

Reduce cost and administration overhead with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Organizations are embracing server virtualization as a means of saving money and simplifying management of their network server environment. This sample chapter from Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed offers a detailed introduction to the capabilities of Hyper-V technology and best practices for getting the most out of it. ...

Tags: Sams Publishing, Microsoft Windows Server, Administration, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Book chapters 2008-09-04

Internet traffic up 53% in the last 12 months

According to TeleGeography, international Internet traffic grew 53% between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61% the preceding year. Traffic growth between the US and Latin America was especially fast, surging 112%. Traffic on internet backbones between major cities in the relatively more mature US market rose a modest 47%. For...

Tags: Internet-backbone, Traffic, Internet, AM

Blog posts 2008-09-03

E-commerce growth, Q2 2008

Product Category Growth, YTY Total Retail Category 13% Video Games, Consoles & Accessories 73% Furniture, Appliances & Equipment 65% Home & Garden 23% Event Tickets 22% Sport & Fitness 21% Consumer Electronics 5% Apparel...

Tags: Accessory, Video, E-business, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, NB

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Hybrids v. Pickensplan? You do the pickin'

Some of the folks touting hybrid cars--standard fuel plus electric--think their favored technology runs against the plans of T. Boone Pickens. I recently blogged Pickens' pick of CNG as a great new transit fuel for American drivers. Over at Hybridowners they're saying electric hybrids and eventually plug-ins will...

Tags: Car, Hybrid, Folk, Hybridowners Site, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Where WiFi succeeds

Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn

Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burnRE: Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burnThe key reason they developed their own browser was for mobile browsing, which is expected to be more and more dominant in coming years. Chrome would be a good browser for the Google Android...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

German mobile users who play mobile games

Age Male Female Total Persons: Age 13-24 22.5% 14.6% 37.1% Persons: Age 25-34 17.7% 11.9% 29.6% Persons: Age 35-44 13.7% 9.1% 22.8% Persons: Age 45-54 5.0% 3.5% 8.5% Persons: Age 55+ 0.6% 1.4% 2.0% Persons: Total 59.5% 40.5%...

Tags: Game, Mobile, Person, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-09-03