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HP NetServers and Microsoft Clustering Are Life Savers for 9-1-1 Emergency Services

When dispatching emergency resources, 9-1-1 operators count on dependable computer networks. More than 25,000 times a day in cities around the world, HP NetServer systems equipped with the Microsoft clustering solution are behind the scenes running a highly advanced graphical Computer-Aided Dispatching CAD system known as VisiCAD - a mission-critical...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., TriTech Software Systems, Clustering, HP NetServer, Microsoft Corp., CAD, Servers, Software, Hardware

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Travis County Sheriff's Office Relies on TriTech Software Systems to Ensure High Levels of Safety for Its Officers and Citizens

The Travis County Sheriff's Office in Austin, Texas had been using an older, text-based system that was command line driven, essentially just a CAD terminal that was installed in 1999. The solution did not have any mapping capability and personnel had to rely solely on map books to locate incident...

Tags: TriTech Software Systems, Sheriff, VisiNet Mobile, CAD, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites

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MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising

Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...

Tags: MSN, Advertisement, Portals, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-27

DataViz releases Documents To Go for touch screen Windows Mobile devices

In early 2007 DataViz released Documents To Go for WM Smartphone (non-touch screen devices which was essential since these devices were unable to create documents at the time. Today, DataViz announced their new Windows Mobile touch screen product so that they now have the application for many mobile operating systems...

Tags: Touch Screen, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, DataViz Inc., Keyboards, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Monitors & Displays, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Software, Components, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-27

It must be a rough day in Cupertino

They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light. The widespread problems with...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., TechMeme, Apple Mac OS X, Internet, 3G, Service Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Suddenly, Android is hot again

After months of silence, the double-whammy of new software and hardware has gotten everyone talking about Android again. Earlier this month Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch was wondering if anybody cared about Android any more. Now TC is practically gushing over the mobile platform. What happened? Two things:...

Tags: Phone, SDK, Shout-out, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-27

The Gammima Strain

Photo: NASA Is the International Space Station just another bot in a botnet? Are criminal hackers tapping away in some dark warehouse now in control of critical command-and-control systems on board? No, that would make a good Michael Crichton novel, though. It seems some...

Tags: NASA, Password, Board, Laptop Computer, Virus, SpaceRef, Cyberthreats, Corporate Governance, Viruses And Worms, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs

With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in service longer, uncluttered and free of malware, viruses and hacking programs. At...

Tags: Software, Dumb Terminal, Virtualization, Network, Information Technology, IT Cost, Virus, Computer, Virtualization Software, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw

Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...

Tags: Black Hat, Hypervisor, Motherboard, BIOS Update, Intel Corp., Flaw, System Management Mode, Level Privilege, BIOS, Virtualization, Hardware, Components, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Keeping the brand - and verb - alive

photoshop  (v.) "to edit an image using a computer program," 1992, originally in ref. to Photoshop, a bitmap graphics editor trademarked and published by Adobe, released in 1990. --- Dictionary.com There aren't many brand names that can take on verb status but Photoshop, a pioneer in digital imagery manipulation,...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Web, Brand, Mobile, Photograph, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?

Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to "enhance the existing...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, WebEx Communications Inc., Microsoft Office, Cisco Systems Inc., PostPath, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

iPhone passcode lock rendered useless

Do not trust that passcode lock on Apple's iPhone. The feature, which lets users set a four-digit pincode to limit access to the device, can be easily bypassed with a few finger taps on the iPhone to give an intruder access to sensitive information. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Register, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Inventor sues Google, Verizon, others on voicemail

Inventor Judah Klausner filed a voice mail patent lawsuit on Tuesday against Google, Verizon Communications, and others. Verizon has already sued Klausner over the validity of his patents. SAN FRANCISCO--Emboldened by settlements with Apple and AT&T, inventor Judah Klausner filed a voice mail patent lawsuit on Tuesday against Google,...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Patent, Settlement, Verizon Communications Inc., Voicemail, Litigation, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Reuters, patents, legal, voice mail, Judah Klausner, Klausner, Google, Verizon

News items 2008-08-27

IDC: 2Q Server units up; Price war looms; IBM keeps market share lead

IBM maintained its server market share lead over HP as worldwide factory revenue was up 6.4 percent to $13.9 billion in the second quarter, but vendors saw "strong pricing pressure in the marketplace," according to research firm IDC. In it quarterly report on server sales, IDC found:...

Tags: Revenue, International Data Corp., IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Servers, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

DataSynapse survey claims HPC leading IT initiative

Datasynapse recently released the results of a survey that indicated that IT executives were more concerned about high performance computing than virtualization (I guess that meant using virtual machine software to create a virtual server-based environment rather than a more comprehensive use of the term). I must have not been...

Tags: Information Technology, DataSynapse, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-27

CIO Sessions: CareerBuilder CTO: Eric Presley

Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks to CNET News' Dan Farber about how the online recruitment site is building new search engine tools to provide more targeted job recommendations. He also discusses technologies to aid the job hunting experience for its users from creating new social networking tools to developing...

Tags: Job, CareerBuilder, CTO, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Live Webcast: The Power of Collaboration

Today's fast-moving business climate requires everything to happen in real-time. Add to that the fact that companies of all sizes now have people spread out over increasingly greater distances and it's easy to understand the challenges for everything from regular meetings and creative development to sales and training. ...

Tags: Webcast, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-08-27

Bubba

Arguably the most infamous product to ever come out of Redmond was Microsoft Bob. Bob was Microsoft's attempt to create an easier to use interface for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. It was the Edsel of software. Here's a parody of Bob called Bubba. Bubba takes a...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Windows 3.1, Bubba, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2008-08-27

A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .

I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Green tech reward program: Intel will recognize innovation that aids environmental cause

I've had the pleasure of interviewing Intel Chairman Craig Barrett three times in my varied career, so I can say with authority that he is passionate about the environment. And about education. Then again, this is not surprising from technologist who also happens to be a Montana ranch owner. ...

Tags: Innovation, Green Technology, Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Registration Deadline, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-26