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CS, Engineering Jobs Top WSJ-PayScale Study
By Donald Sears | Posted: 2010-10-27
The starting salaries of engineering and computer science degrees top those of liberal arts majors by a margin of $22,000 from the top of the scale to the bottom, according to a Wall Street
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Google Voice Search Leveraged for Local Listings on iPhone
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-27
Anyone wonder what people who conduct voice searches are looking for? Chitika says its local search listings. The ad network said that people who search with their voice on the iPhone are three times more likely to be looking for local results. Chitika, which noted earlier this
Iron Mountain Comes Out with New E-Discovery Suite
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-10-27
Iron Mountain, earlier this week added a new enterprise e-discovery package, Enterprise Discovery Suite, to its long line of products.
This is Iron Mountain's first software
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Cloud Security Survey Shows Way to Go
By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-26
A survey from access governance vendor Courion underscored that security cloud has a ways to go.
In a survey of 384 business managers (86 percent of which came from companies with at least 1,000 employees), Courion found disagreement over who is in charge of data. More than 65 percent said the
Google AdMob Launches Interactive Video Ads for Android
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-26
Google's display and mobile ad businesses may be chugging along at a combined $3.5 billion run-rate for the year, but competition from Apple's iAd and other ad platforms mean the search engine can't curb its enthusiasm for the hunt. The company's AdMob mobile display ad unit, which it
Facebook-like Social Games to Rule Google TV, Apple TV: Cuban
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-25
When it comes to TV consumption, I respect Mark Cuban's opinion quite a bit, so I paid close attention to two of his recent blog posts regarding Google TV and Apple TV. On Oct. 22, Cuban wrote "How Google TV Could Hand Netflix the entire streaming universe," a
Isilon Refocuses, Finds Profitability After Long Time in Red
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-10-25
Looks like network-attached storage maker Isilon Systems, which supplies large-scale, linear-oriented, clustered systems -- mostly for huge workloads created by media
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Trojan Masquerades as Microsoft Security Essentials
By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-22
Researchers from F-Secure have uncovered a Trojan posing as Microsoft Security Essentials.
The Trojan is spreading through drive-by downloads as hotfix.exe or mstsc.exe,
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Google Creep Exemplified in Stats: Royal Pingdom
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-22
Royal Pingdom offered a fun post Oct. 19 dealing with one of my favorite topics: Google Creep. Google Creep is my nickname for the spread of Google's sphere of influence across the Web, starting with search, moving into Web applications and content such as YouTube, easing into the
Pro Softnet Ships 320GB IDrive Pocket-Size Portable for Mac
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-10-21
There isn't a lot of Mac-related storage news, so when there is something, we at Storage Station are only too happy to report it.
Online backup provider Pro Softnet recently released a
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Facebook Developer: Android Only Open Is as Open Does
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-21
File this under: Kettle, meet Pot. Renowned Mozilla Firefox browser/Facebook for iPhone developer (turned Facebook for Android developer?) Joe Hewitt joined Apple CEO Steve Jobs
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Attackers Improve Zeus Trojan to Beat Security
By Brian Prince | Posted: 2010-10-20
Malware authors have released a new version of the Zeus crimeware, security researchers reported Oct. 20.
The latest version of Zeus, which Trusteer is calling 2.1, has improved the
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Google Search Getting More Social with Shared By Links
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-20
Google has recently started running a new search engine experiment that provides "shared by" and "recent updates" links to Twitter tweets and Facebook and MySpace status updates for some popular queries. Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan saw the shared by feature when he searched for "Tom Bosley," the
EMC, Dell Repairing Frazzled Storage Relationship
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2010-10-19
It had to feel like a knife in the back to EMC when Dell announced Aug. 16 that it wanted to buy 3PAR for $1.15 billion. After all, EMC and Dell had been partners for 10 years in
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Google Adding Location Tab to Search Results Pages
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2010-10-19
Less than two weeks after we learn that Marissa Mayer has been moved over to run Google's geo/local efforts, the search engine she helped launch to global prominence is adding a location tab to the left-hand panel of its search results page on Google.com. To this point, when
