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Data Breach Hits Google Employees
By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-07-02
Reports have been trickling out of Silicon Valley of a potentially major personal data breach affecting Google employees.
But the data breach didn't result from cunning hackers penetrating a
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HP VP Charged with IBM Espionage
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-07-02
A former Hewlett-Packard vice president who had previously worked at IBM was charged June 27 with trade-secret theft for spiriting away IBM pricing info and distributing to his HP superiors. Atul
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Open Source and IT Management
By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-06-23
Bill Karpovich knows the score. He knows that when you talk about IT monitoring and management software, the discussion starts and ends with the "Big Four": Hewlett-Packard with its OpenView suite, IBM's
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For Microsoft, Management Is Key
By Jeff Burt | Posted: 2008-06-11
When talking about Microsoft and virtualization, most people want to know about the company's long-awaited Hyper-V, the hypervisor technology that sources say could arrive as soon as early July.
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Leopard Is No Phone's No. 2
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-06-05
Leopard rumors refuse to ride in iPhone's side car. Against all possible odds, the talk leading up to Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held June 12 in San Francisco, is NOT about the iPhone. If
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Dangerous Domains
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-06-05
Think twice before you click on that .info or .hk URL. I can't recall the last time I came across either, but clicking on one or the other increases the risk you're visiting a no-no site. McAfee's "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited," published June 4, details the most dangerous domains.
Organizing Our Jumbled Web Personas
By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-06-04
After a decade and more of browsing, shopping and transacting on the Internet, millions of us have assembled a confusing clutter of Web site memberships, user IDs, log-ins and passwords.
A lot of
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Doodling the Google
By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-05-23
In little more than 10 years, Google has managed to become one of the most recognizable brands on Earth.
One of the ways it has achieved this distinction, besides inventing a world-class Web search engine, is by
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Weighing the Pros and Cons of Online Medical Records
By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-05-21
In my blog on May 19, I presented my arguments on why people should stop and think carefully before they decide to put their personal medical records on the newly launched Google
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Google Counters Lieberman
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-05-20
YouTube won't be the good soldier Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn) would like it to be. Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has been on Google's case to remove videos from YouTube that are produced by terrorist groups such as al-Qaida. Lieberman claims
Placing Our Trust in Google Health
By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-05-20
The public launch on May 19 of the Google Health site raises the question about whether it's wise for people to make large corporations such as Google, which isn't even directly involved in
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Did Intel Bribe Dell?
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-05-16
Journalists salivate over courtroom discovery. The raw evidence often lays bare all of the wheelings, dealings, buried bodies and canaries corporate lawyers and PR swallow before the public sees it. It can also drown you in paper and bore you to tears.
AMD v. Intel, an antitrust claim brought by AMD
Plaxo Finds Suitor Close to Home
By John Pallatto | Posted: 2008-05-15
Plaxo, which disclosed in April that it was shopping itself around, found a suitor in the shape of partner Comcast, which was reportedly ardent enough to pony up $175 million for the online address book
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HP and EDS by the Numbers: 2 + 5 = Data Center Giant
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-05-14
You don't need to be a fancy industry analyst to understand why Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of EDS makes sense. Third grade math is enough.
A timely report by Gartner on the revenue
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Municipal Wi-Fi Dying on the Vine
By John Hazard | Posted: 2008-05-13
Yet another project -- Philadelphia Wi-Fi -- has shriveled and is about to die, as beleaguered EarthLink alerted customers it would terminate service June 12.
EarthLink, which had entered into
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