Monthly Archives: December 2007
Google’s Spectrum Application Approved
Google's application to bid in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction has been accepted by the Federal Communications Commission, but rivals like AT&T and...
What Google Learned From the Beacon Brouhaha
A lot was made of Facebook's Beacon snafu, largely because, well, the media and the blogosphere wouldn't give it a rest. I stand guilty...
Rolling Out the Old Year
As 2007 draws to a close, it is time for a tech wrap-up on the technologies, companies and trends that made a difference this...
Your Spammer May Be a Victim, Too
Security vendors like to report spam numbers, including the overall percentage of e-mail that is spam. The consensus on this number is north of...
HP Laptops Spring (Another) Security Leak
For the third time this year, a remotely exploitable zero-day vulnerability has been found in software pre-installed on brand new Hewlett Packard notebook computers.The...
On-Demand Trend Touching the Database
Web-based databases are slowly gathering steam in the marketplace, taking the data querying needs of organizations straight into the cloud.The latest entry into this...
VARs Safe from Economic Slump, for Now
While Forrester Research's updated IT Spending Outlook for 2008 showed dampened economic expectations, analysts say VARs won't be affected unless corporate earnings take a...
IT Managers Welcome Vista SP1 Release Candidate – 1
Microsoft released a slew of product updates over the past few weeks, but the one IT administrators seem to care the most about is...
Open-Sourcing Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Odds are most of us will never need the network throughput speeds of 2GB Fibre Channel or iSCSI or 10GB Ethernet.But, if you're working...
Internet Explorer 8 Beta Due in Mid-2008 – 1
Microsoft has finally started talking publicly about the next release of its Internet Explorer Web browser, and expects to deliver the first beta for...