Monthly Archives: February 2007
Innovation: 10 Cases Where IT Raised the Bar
Senior managers are pressing technology leaders to offer new services and grow revenue. What should CIOs do? Here are 10 cases where IT raised...
Symantec: Out of the Box, Vista Prone to Legacy Threats
Symantec Security Response has spent months throwing every hack but the kitchen sink at Microsofts Vista operating system, and on Feb. 28 it released...
DHS Confirms Real ID Act Regulations Coming; States Rebel
Events at the state and federal level are converging around the Real ID Act, as a spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security confirmed...
Sun Strikes Back at Worm Targeting Telnet Bug
Sun Microsystems has issued an inoculation script for a worm exploiting a recently patched vulnerability in its Solaris 10 operating system.
The worm exploits a...
Omtool Launches Health Care Document Management Platform
Health care professionals deal with an abundance of paperwork every day—including admission and discharge forms, insurance forms and patient records. Health care workers also...
Stock Market Slide Bares IT Problems
What started as a massive drop in stock prices in China on Feb. 27 eventually showed up problems in the infrastructure of several well-known...
Hard Disk MTBF: Flap or Farce?
Data sheets for hard drives have always included a specification for reliability expressed in hours: commonly known as MTBF (mean time between failures), or...
Chart: The YouTube Filtering Decision Process
Following the news that YouTube has signed its first post-acquisition filtering licensing agreement with an indie label, here's a chart depicting its decision-making process....
Google defeats “must carry” AdSense lawsuit
Google has a first amendment right to reject ads, a Delaware federal court ruled last week.The decision to dismiss several complaints against Google, Microsoft...
BigLever Shifts Gears for Software Product Lines
BigLever Software Inc., a maker of SPL (software product line) development tools and services has announced the release of Gears 5.3, the latest version...