Monthly Archives: August 2008
Is Biometrics Ready as a Security Solution for Enterprises?
To hear some tell it, all signs are pointing to an era when biometrics will be a key element of authentication for enterprises. Just...
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett Talks Education, Technology at IDF
SAN FRANCISCO ?ö?ç?? Intel Chairman Craig Barrett kicked off the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here Aug. 19 with a spirited and far-ranging discussion that...
PCI 1.2 Changes Are Afoot
In a column I wrote for eWEEK's print edition (PDF) a couple months ago (Vol. 21, July 7 cover date, page 51) and in...
Google Petitions for White Spaces Spectrum
Google today appealed to the public for help in freeing up white spaces, the unused spectrum between channels 2 and 51 on analog TV...
Training, Flexible Schedules May Help Keep You at Your Job
An August report on IT turnover rates from Computer Economics leads with the following interpretation of its research: Flexible schedules and training opportunities can...
Why IBM May Be Regretting $300M XIV Acquisition
UPDATED: As you might imagine, when companies do something they deem "newsworthy" (and that term has a lot of relative meanings), they immediately ping...
Free the Airwaves and Make Google Happy
"Free the airwaves" is one of those feel-good mottos that it seems like everyone should agree to. I mean, who put those airwaves in...
Making the Switch
Network Authority and Strategic Technology Analytics modeled what a midsize organization might face in migrating its switching infrastructure. Included in this design was the...
The High Price of Wireless on Network Switches
As forward-thinking organizations plan their 802.11n high-speed wireless deployments, they would do well to first consider their Ethernet switching infrastructure.eWeek-working with Strategic Technology Analytics...
I Learn, Therefore iPhone
Almost a thousand incoming freshmen at ACU (Abilene Christian University) received an Apple iPhone 3G or iPod Touch Aug. 16 as part of their...