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New Cisco report says more mobile-ready devices and mobile video to fuel 39-fold global growth over the next four years.
Opinion
Managing the boundaries, practices, policies and technology associated with a shift to Internet applications raises questions around the growing overlap between personal and corporate identity.
News
NEC's Univerge Sphericall software, a solution that combines the basic communications needs with the power of unified communications tools, gets an upgrade.
News
Microsoft claims its engineers have been exploring complaints of poor battery life for some laptops running Windows 7, and that in every case the operating system is not at fault. Instead, Windows 7 had correctly evaluated via a new feature that those users’ batteries were failing, Microsoft said in a Feb. 8 blog posting. However, posts on Microsoft Watch, TechNet and other discussion forums seem to suggest that at least a percentage of users experiencing these issues also had batteries that were either new or nearly new, which in turn is raising further questions.
Opinion
AppLocker is Microsoft’s take on application whitelisting, a process by which a user can only run applications or processes that are expressly permitted by policy.
News
China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country's biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.
News
Microsoft's smartphone-related rollout at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 15 could be a mobile operating system with a flashy Zune-like interface and lack of Flash support, according to online rumors. PPC Geeks is reporting through unnamed sources that Microsoft's offering will include no multitask support and that Windows Mobile Device Center will no longer be used. Microsoft has kept the subject of its announcement under wraps, but executives have nonetheless suggested that it will be a major update to the company's struggling mobile operating system franchise, currently facing intense competitive pressure from the likes of Apple's iPhone and Google Android.
News
BrightMove's recruiting software gets an added boost from resume spidering specialists TalentHook, aimed at cost-conscious companies.
News
NASA officials gave a thumbs up Feb. 5 for the Feb. 7 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, which is currently set for a 4:39 a.m. liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
News
Intel is adding its vPro platform to the Core i5 and i7 desktop and laptop chips that were introduced in January. The vPro technology lets IT administrators remotely manage and secure desktops and notebooks. Version 2.0 brings in more encryption and anti-theft features.
News
Green Grid research reports that most companies are not offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency, even though doing so could mean substantial bottom-line and environmental results.
Video
IT administrators who license Google Apps Premier and Education Edition will be able to dictate security settings for their users' iPhone, Nokia E series and Windows Mobile smartphones right from the Google Apps control panel. This action may seem like a small measure of control for admins, but it could be a big cost saver; admins will be able to set these controls in the Google Apps cloud computing environment without running any additional software or having to manage dedicated enterprise mobile servers. According to the New York Times, Amazon is looking to purchase TouchCo. TouchCo is a New York based start-up that specializes in touch screen technology, which could mean Amazon is looking to upgrade its Kindle, making it a direct competitor to Apple’s newly released touch screen, the iPad. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced that his company is looking to add as many as 3,000 jobs over the next few quarters, as it looks to continue its expansion into new markets. If you’re an internet explorer user, it may be time to switch to a new browser. Microsoft released an advisory about a new vulnerability that could allow an attacker to access files on a PC if the user is running Windows XP or using IE with Protected Mode disabled.
News
Barracuda offers businesses the NG Firewall line of hardware and virtual appliances designed to protect enterprise network infrastructure, improve site-to-site connectivity and simplify administration of network operations.
News
Silicon Valley's decline has been charted over an eight-year period between 2000 and 2008 in which venture capital investment meant big gains for technology workers' wages in the beginning, but those IT wages have since diminished, according to government economists. The recovery will be slow and gradual, they say.
News
Environmentalist identifies wind, solar and geothermal exchange as three renewable resources with the potential to monetize the power system in the United States in a different manner, wresting control away from "big carbon" industrial companies with profits -- and not the environment -- as their top priority.
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Each year at this time, eWEEK Labs names the products that stood out in our testing in the 12 months past. We shy away from naming the “best” products of the year because best is so relative. Instead, we focus on the products that, among other things, raise the technology bar in their category; innovate in some significant way; better align IT with business needs; and, in general, make day-to-day life easier for IT professionals. To be eligible, a product had to be tested by eWEEK Labs, and available, this year. Herewith is our list for 2009. (And click on the links in each item for the Labs' original reviews of the products.)
The tight Windows-on-Mac market just got tighter with the release of Parallels Desktop 5. Parallels Desktop can now make a Windows virtual machine appear as the only system in Full Screen mode or as almost invisible and just another Mac application in the new Crystal mode. Parallels also now ships with useful tools for managing VM creation.
Review: features sound great, but tests show omissions
Review: Management suite easily integrates linux systems into Windows networks.
Review: Microsoft's SCOM 2007 streamlines host of tasks, but there's no upgrade path
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