Monthly Archives: January 2009
How to Measure SAAS Reliability
With IT budgets contracting under the weight of the recession, the sales pitch for software as a service is sounding more attractive than ever.SAAS...
Keynote KITE 2.0 Measures Web Site Performance, Applications
Keynote's Keynote Internet Testing Environment, or KITE, is a desktop application for testing the performance of Web sites. While KITE is aimed primarily at...
Sun VirtualBox a Solid Alternative to VMware, Parallels
Sun Microsystems' xVM VirtualBox desktop virtualization software is an increasingly powerful, no-cost alternative to VMware Workstation and Parallels Desktop products and should be added...
Citrix Expands Desktop Virtualization with XenDesktop 2.1
Citrix XenDesktop 2.1 delivers virtual Windows XP or Vista desktops to users, thereby centralizing OS and application management tasks such as OS and application...
Consumer Groups Hound FTC to Rein in Google, Mobile Web Ad Practices
Two weeks into the New Year and it's time to dispense with the niceties and get back to corporate bashing on Capitol Hill.The Center...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Has Cost-Cutting Potential
Desktop virtualization is beginning to draw interest from enterprise IT managers, who don't have to look far to see the benefits that can be...
Deceptive Ads on Yahoo Right Media
We've all seen ads on the Web that were designed to deceive us: The popup browser window that looks like an error message from...
Group Calls for Nationwide Ban on Cell Use While Driving
Road warriors are a staple of small to midsize businesses. They're the people who can hit the highways at a moment's notice to troubleshoot,...
AVG Purchases Behavioral Detection Technology to Bolster Anti-Virus Defenses
AVG Technologies has purchased identity theft protection vendor Sana Security in a bid to bolster its anti-malware defenses. The move gives AVG Sana's behavior-based...
From the Duh Department: Yahoo Del.icio.us Founder Joins Google
My peers fell all over themselves to cover the tweet that del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter is joining Google after leaving Yahoo in June. Schachter...