Monthly Archives: March 2008
Boy, What a Mesh
Boy, what a mesh.Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's chief software architect, dropped in to keynote the company's MIX 08 conference March 5 in Las Vegas and...
Firewire The Skeleton Keyhole into Your System
Physical security attacks are all the rage these days. Two attacks have been described recently that purport to break the physical security of systems...
Checking Virtual Viability
When considering a virtual-world deployment, it's important to take the following steps:1. Define your objective. Marketing or consumer-facing applications often demand a service, such...
Brave New IT World Emerges
What would be a good, useful consumer product? Not another social network, that is for sure. But what about a social network made up...
Doing Business in the Virtual World
The battle for the 3-D Internet has begun. And the spoils are nothing less than the online economy of tomorrow.Virtual-world proponents such as IBM...
iPhone Application Delivery
Every morning, it's the same story:Dock my laptop, connect my iPhone, then sync my calendar from Outlook.I'm sick of it.But I need iTunes on...
Autodesk DWG file handling troubles user
Ray Sirois, IT manager for water engineering firm Wright-Pierce has a problem with Autodesk's AutoCAD 2008. Sirois took the unusual step of issuing a...
Exchange Interop for the Rest of Us
Apple's announcement yesterday that it plans to add support for Microsoft's Exchange groupware server on the iPhone and the iPod Touch devices has gotten...
Why Disk Storage Prices Continue to Drop
Prices for disk storage hardware keep slipping downward. Who knows when this trend is going to change?Samsung's and Seagate's assembly factories in the Far...
India Plans Huge WiMax Deployment
Tata Communications of India plans to install and deploy a WiMax network across 115 Indian cities within the next two years. With a price...