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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
With VMware, virtualization tools come with a management system built in. Check out this webcast to learn more.
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Black Hat: 10 can't-miss hacks and presentations
The 2011 Black Hat security conference is promising a smorgasbord of (in)security fun. From vulnerabilities in PLCs (programmable logic controllers) to the security design of Apple's iOS and...
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Facebook's remote log-out security feature: Should you care?
Tom Eston: Facebook is trying some new ways to innovate security, though it's still overlooking some other simpler fixes. Should you care about these new controls?
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Google asks the NSA for help: Smart decision
Taking into consideration the complexity Google faces in its global operations, the volume of data it manages and warehouses, it's my belief that the only organization in the world that could even...
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Quick'n'Dirty podcast's chaotic no. 16: pay phones, paper clips and oneforty
After a series of MacGyver-like attempts, Laura Fitton finally makes it onto the show.
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ERP + forms + flow: coexistense for the short term?
Following on from my last, somewhat dismal post, I wanted to paint an alternative scenario. Towards the end of last week, Perfect Forms reached out to me with a video featuring Tom Allanson the...
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Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our...
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Welcome to MegaTom
Tom Raftery, analyst at Greenmonk and another Irregular pinged me this morning to let me know about a new community: MegaTom. Born out of an idea from Gavin Starks and Simon Wardley, MegaTom seeks...
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When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or...
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Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service
Skype has a further response on the Chinese monitoring situation. And they don't sound that pleased about it. Here's Skype president Josh Silverman: In April 2006, Skype publicly disclosed that...
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Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics
The cost of good graphics is going down fast. AMD plans to release new versions of its ATI Radeon 4000-series graphics processing units (GPUs) for entry-level graphics cards, according to the...
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Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting
A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting...
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Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The...
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Calais 2.0 unveiled by Thomson Reuters
In a press release to coincide with this week's Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, Thomson Reuters subsidiary ClearForest has announced a major upgrade to their OpenCalais web service;...
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A "goldmine for Intel" and a treasure trove for Ed Tech
Tom's hardware just featured a piece on Intel's Atom processor. While this new low-end processor family for UMPCs and mobile Internet devices has already been well-covered by the media, the most...
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NOC-NOC, who's there? Or, "I've seen the thumbwheel and the damage done"
NOC= (Blackberry-maker Research In Motion's Network Operations Center in Waterloo, Ont.) As to the latter portion of this post's title, NOT an original. Readers of a certain vintage may...
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Here's why I predict iPhone will come down to $299 within a few months
With his customary deftness, my CNET colleague Tom Krazit mashes up some numbers from AT&T's earnings call this week with other numbers from Apple iPhone sales and projected sales reports....
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News to know: OLPC; Android spat? Live Documents; Apple; Old software never dies
Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: OLPC: How do we gauge success? Will 490,000 units do? Christopher Dawson: OLPC on sale through 31 December. Ed Burnette: Sun/Google Android "fight" overblown....
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AMD's Phenom - For suckers only
I was quite interested in AMD's Phenom quad-core CPU, that is, until I read some early reviews of the processor. Now I've come to the conclusion that you'd have to be a sucker to be an early...
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The e-mail menace
You don't have to be a security expert to know that sending important information via unprotected e-mail is risky. From the moment you click Send, your message travels over unsecured networks...
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SETI's search for alien life is in trouble
SETI might be forced to sharply curtail its search for alien life if it can't plug large losses in funding.
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