Monthly Archives: October 2006
CA Aims to Help Improve IT Governance – 2
CA on Oct. 9 made its biggest bid yet to help IT customers get their budgets under control when it introduced a major upgrade...
The ABCs of DIY IT
Like many homeowners today, Im a big proponent of DIY, or do-it-yourself, home maintenance and upgrades. Im a regular customer of my local home...
Far-Flung Danger
Remote workers continue to expose their employers to a wide range of IT threats by using poor laptop etiquette and connecting to corporate systems...
Grids Get a Grip on Your Brain
Semi-surrounded by the curving movie screen that took up one whole end of the briefing room, I watched a three-dimensional animation of a human...
Firefox 2.0 Rc1: Spit and Polish
The Mozilla Foundations Firefox 2.0 release candidate 1 adds a few new features and capabilities to the open-source browser. The most noticeable is a...
Career Central – 7
Lose the AttitudeYears after the tech-bubble years of scarce IT professionals, the "stupid users" attitude among tech professionals still exists. But in todays business...
Labs Drills Down Into Vistas UAC Feature
Amid the hullabaloo about how intrusive Vistas User Account Control feature will be to the average user, Microsoft has been quietly ramping up the...
Light at the End of the Vista Tunnel
Its been a long and winding road, but the Microsoft Windows Vista release thats been floating vaguely in the near future (for years now)...
The Buzz – 7
BlogWatchReplacing Jobs?Former Apple Computer Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson resigned from Apples board of directors Oct. 4 amid a growing stock-option backdating scandal. Meanwhile,...
Securing 100 Million Laptops
If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negropontes One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one...