Monthly Archives: February 2011
IBM’s Watson ‘Our New Computer Overlord’ in ‘Jeopardy’
The humans redeemed themselves in the second game of the man vs. machine "Jeopardy" tournament, after the previous game's debacle, but it wasn't enough....
RSA Conference: Advanced Persistent Threats Require New Security Focus
Many people agree that fighting cyber-crime requires a mix of awareness, technology and user buy-in, but finding the balance between those elements and mixing...
JetBrains Delivers New PHP Tool Release
JetBrains has announced a new version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for the PHP programming language PhpStorm 2.0.JetBrains, the maker of the popular...
W3C: HTML5 Spec Due in 2014
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has established a more defined timeline for the HTML5 specification, shooting for May 2011 as the last call...
Stuxnet Turns USB Memory Sticks into Weapons of Mass Destruction
This story starts at the Washington, D.C., Auto Show, which is held at the end of January each year. While I was at the...
How to Enhance Existing Applications with Embedded Analytics
Enterprises are filled with custom applications such as claims processing or fraud detection that routinely analyze large and growing data sets. So, how do...
Acer Iconia Tablets, Smartphone Boast Dolby Audio Systems
Barcelona--Computer maker Acer launched a slew of products at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), including the Iconia smart, which the company is billing...
Intel Enhances Management, Security in vPro Tools
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-When Intel starts shipping its newest "Sandy Bridge" PC processors later this quarter, the chips will come with the latest generation of the...
NetApp’s Revenue Increases, but Weak Profit Forecast Hurts Stock Price
Despite fears in some industry quarters that storage systems makers have begun losing financial ground to cloud service providers, NetApp on Feb. 16 reported...
Salesforce.com Isn’t Sole Reason Google Won’t Enter CRM
Software Advice analyst Lauren Carlson rekindled an oldie but a goodie topic in a blog post last week: Will Google Enter the CRM Market?That...