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Breaking News RSS FeedsPalin and politics: lots to talk about - Gibbs discusses reader feedback to last week's column about the break-in of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account and the heady intersection of IT and politics. ...Feed Source: www.networkworld.com Airport 'X-ray art' courts TSA trouble - Techno-artist/open-source developer Evan Roth has a message for the Transportation Safety Administration -- several messages, actually -- about what he considers excessive airport security "theater." He also has chosen an intentionally provocative method of delivering those messages: the TSA's own X-ray screening machines.... Word of mouth sales goes electronic - Word of mouth makes the best salesperson, according to all the sales manuals. Are you ready to take advantage of electronic word of mouth? That's what I believe social media has become, at least for smart businesses. True, most of the "blogosphere" and Twitter-verse may be electronic gossip, but some companies have made huge advances taking word of mouth to the Web.
... How IPv6 is like the U.S. financial crisis - Not long ago, the powers-that-be detected an impending crisis. To resolve it, they rushed into action crafting a proposal that represented an unprecedented upheaval of existing infrastructure. On the grounds that "something needed to be done" to avert the crisis, they brushed aside objections that the upheaval was too convulsive and might nonetheless fail to address the underlying issues that had created the crisis in the first place. The financial bailout proposed by the Treasury Department? No. I'm talking about the creation of IPv6.... Cloud computing: End of the corporate WAN? - When vendors and marketers get their hands on an IT concept, it doesn't take long for that concept to morph into a totally new business opportunity and possibly a new market segment. Such is the story of cloud computing.... Is ignorance of the law a design goal? - Carl Malumad is pushing for more U.S. laws and standards to be Internet accessible.... A better portable video tool - Gibbs looks at the Kodak Zi6, a direct competitor to the Flip Mino video camera he reviewed a few weeks ago, and discusses improving Windows audio.... RealDVD: Get it while you can - RealNetworks' RealDVD software lets users save their DVDs onto their computer's hard drive.
... Can you keep users from importing their own applications? - Shadow IT is all the IT that was neither planned nor approved by anyone but gets chosen, deployed and used by end users. Some see this as grass-roots deployment of cool technologies; some see it as weeds growing from any crack in the IT plan. If you don't build it, they will go find it elsewhere. And even if you build it, if it isn't adequate, comprehensive, flexible and easy to use, they will go find it elsewhere.... Can we really stop malicious insiders? - In terms of malicious insiders committing fraud, can anything "really" be done?... Google has gone and redefined 'beta' - The question of why so many Google products are classified "beta" -- and classified thusly for so long -- has knocked around the tech press for some time. However, no one really seemed to know the answer, at least no one outside of Google.... Palin's e-mail and expert mistakes - Experts aren't infallible. Whether they are mushroom collectors, e-mail providers, political candidates or IT professionals, they can get things wrong. If we're talking mushrooms, the results can be fatal.... More Chrome details, Less Firefox housekeeping - Following last week's discussion of Google's Chrome browser Gibbs discusses what makes Chrome special and then discusses a user's observation that Firefox 3 is up to something but what?
... Two new support options for SMBs - When the IT business gets slow at huge companies, vendors "discover" the small business market. Whether that's the reason in full or part, now seems to be a golden time for small businesses that need IT support, because the line of vendors ready to help keeps getting longer.... Calculating the cost of communicating - At a recent trade show, I happened to mention that some of my more forward-looking clients have created "communications calculators? that enable them to predict -- with a high degree of accuracy -- what the communications costs will be for moving or adding employees. Let's say a business unit owner wants to shift 5,000 employees from site A to site B -- how will that affect communications costs?... Sonos, Logitech offer great network music options - Sonos debuts its Multi-Room Music System. Logitech's Squeezebox Boom Network Music System is an all-in-one system that can access lots of music over a home network. ... This is not a Mac vs. PC column - Microsoft has sold a lot of copies of Vista; in May it reported it had sold 140 million. This statistic, along with the data points that 2007 was a record year for Microsoft and that 2007 Windows revenue was about $17 billion, should be seen as rather good news. Yet the press hardly ever has a good word to say about Vista and its adoption.... Disaster-recovery planning: Business insurance you can't live without - In our daily lives we try to protect ourselves from the worst. We buy insurance for our cars, homes and health and we safeguard personal information. Shouldn?t business owners and IT managers treat their networks and critical infrastructure the same way?
... Is 'green IT' real? As real as your bottom line - A few weeks back, I wrote about the rise of green tech. Many folks have been asking me how real this trend is. I'm not sure what they mean by "real" (I'm a virtual gal, myself), but here's my best shot at an answer.... Verizon robo-caller torments my household - Nine robo-calls in 24 hours, all from Verizon: Nothing could make them stop; not my wife's increasingly urgent pleas (I was away); not the hapless customer service reps who promised relief; not the "in-charge supervisor" who wasn't in charge; and, not even the ever-so-helpful individual who said the barrage was "a national problem" before adding, "We're suggesting that people just unplug their phones."... Food, vampires and IT - The Texas State Fair offers food only a fiend could think of, and IT vendors seduce you with stuff you need that traps you. It?s the vampire economy folks. ... QuickBooks Enterprise adds Web hooks - Have you ever had a service or delivery person come to your home or business carrying a smart phone in place of a clipboard with pre-printed forms? You know, the ones you have to mash down hard when you write so all three copies will be completed? Outside of UPS or FedEx, I never have. But users of QuickBooks Enterprise can zoom their techs from the 1950s to 2009 with one of the add-on modules demonstrated at the QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions User conference last week.... Google's Chrome: Ohhh! Shiny! - Google's Chrome browser isn't ready for prime time but it sure is shiny and interesting.
... Two travel gadgets that hit the spot - Kensington's iPhone and iPod rechargeable battery pack and Belkin's Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger are both extremely portable.... Automation, anyone? - One simple way to look at automation is that logically it falls into three classes: machine-to-machine, machine-to-human, and human-to-human. And of course some capabilities and products cut across all three. But there are fundamentally different traditions on the two extremes. ... Financial crisis pummels stocks - Stock markets plummet around the world as investors worry about the growing level of financial turmoil.... Obama highlights McCain scandal - US Democratic hopeful Barack Obama attacks rival John McCain over a 1980s financial scandal, as campaign mudslinging intensifies.... 'Safer' test for Down's developed - Scientists develop a blood test that could tell pregnant women if their unborn baby has Down's syndrome.... Mammals facing extinction threat - About 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their plight for a decade.... Suicide blast hits Sri Lanka town - A suicide blast in a Sri Lankan town kills a former general and at least 26 other people, the defence ministry says.... EU's climate package 'in crisis' - The EU's attempt to lead the world on climate change will crumble unless its current policy crisis is resolved, a study warns.... Deadly earthquake hits Kyrgyzstan - An earthquake kills at least 65 people in Kyrgyzstan, near its mountainous border with China, officials say.... Menezes officers 'not at fault' - The police did nothing wrong in the run-up to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a policewoman tells the inquest into his death.... Starbucks denies it wastes water - US coffee-shop chain Starbucks defends itself against claims of a serious waste of water by leaving taps running in its stores all day.... Goat 'condoms' to curb Kenyan herd numbers amid drought - Drought forces Kenyan herdsmen to turn to traditional contraception to control goat population, the BBC's Ruth Nesoba reports.... Poland settle dispute with Fifa - The Polish FA settles the dispute with its government that threatened its ability to co-host Euro 2012, says Fifa chief Sepp Blatter.... Tour rocked by new positive tests - Two Tour de France stage winners - Italy's Leonardo Piepoli and Germany's Stefan Schumacher - test positive for an advanced blood doping product.... The human cost - 'My grandfather jumped off a roof in the 1929 crash'... Day in pictures - Memorable images from around the world... New era - Is Dr Beetroot's fall a boost for South Africa's Aids fight?... Winning the war? - Judging al-Qaeda's strengths and weaknesses ... Kosher calls - Ultra-orthodox Jews struggle with new technology... Shifting grounds - New states come into play as polls swing to Obama... EU opens 'job centre' in Africa - The EU opens a "job centre" in Mali, hoping fewer young Africans will risk their lives trying to get to Europe.... California crash driver arrested - The driver of a US bus that crashed killing eight passengers is held on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, police say.... Tibetan earthquakes kill dozens - At least 30 people die as two earthquakes strike the Himalayan region of Tibet, Chinese state media report.... Angola arms trial opens in Paris - Forty-two people, including members of the French elite, go on trial accused of involvement in trafficking arms to Angola.... Livni concerned for peace talks - Time is running out for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel's PM designate Tzipi Livni has warned.... Fury over Zardari Kashmir comment - Kashmiris react with anger after Pakistani President Asif Zardari is quoted as describing militants fighting India as "terrorists".... Stocks slide despite reassurances - The UK's top share index has its biggest one-day points fall ever as Chancellor Alistair Darling tries to reassure financial markets.... Lehman Bros head took home $300m - The head of failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers tells Congress he took home $300m (£172.6m) over the past eight years.... Nobel prize for viral discoveries - The discovery of HIV and work linking a virus to cervical cancer jointly win the Nobel Prize for Medicine.... Companies 'need green directors' - Businesses must change their attitude to green issues, the World Conservation Congress is told as it opens.... Chihuahua is box office top dog - Canine film Beverly Hills Chihuahua is best in show in the North American box office, according to early estimates.... Oyster card hack details revealed - Dutch researchers reveal details of how they managed to copy the radio chips used on London's Oyster card.... Send your video, pictures and story ideas - Have you got a good story? BBC News wants to hear from you.... Copyright © 2008, Chicago Best Price. All Rights Reserved. |