Monthly Archives: September 2008
VMware Enters Brave New World at VMworld, Desktop and Server Virtualization’s Biggest Stage
In the summer of 2007, VMware, with a successful IPO under way and hardly any serious competition in the market, began to look more...
FAA’s NextGen Air Trans System Planning Criticized
WASHINGTON-As any of the thousands of air travelers who suffered through an Aug. 26 crash of the Federal Aviation Administration's flight plan IT network...
VMware Fixing Flaws Found After ESX, ESXi 3.5 Update Problems
VMware is promising customers that it will improve the way it installs and updates its vast array of virtualization products, following serious issues those...
Google’s Search Crystal Ball via Marissa Mayer
Last Sunday, Sept. 7, the blogosphere scoured Google for a post trumpeting the company's 10th birthday. Sadly, we were disappointed, or relieved for those...
F# to Join VB and C# in Microsoft Language Stable
NEW YORK-Microsoft plans to deliver a new general-purpose programming language to developers, known as F# (pronounced F Sharp), that takes advantage of the functional...
Google, UAL Gaffe Underscores Need for Smarter Web Crawlers
A 2002 Chicago Tribune story on UAL Corp.'s bankruptcy filing popped up on Google News on Monday, sending shares in the parent company of...
Newber Connects the iPhone
I don't have a work-provided cell phone, but I frequently want to use my personal phone for work. However, I use a personal number...
More Cyber-criminals Being Arrested, Prosecuted
Many of us who have been following the cyber-crime scene for a few years have openly griped about the lack of success that law...
Dell Beefs Up Virtualization, Server and Storage Offerings
Dell is rolling out an assortment of virtualization offerings, along with new server and storage systems, that the PC vendor believes will boost its...
Video: Scarily Effective People Searching
On the last day of DEMOfall 08 a company called Intelius showed off a new search engine called iSearch. iSearch makes it possible to...