Monthly Archives: December 2011
Tablets, Mobile Devices Offer Efficiency for IT Pros, Employees
It's the week before a show, and the convention services team is preparing an exhibit hall of the Austin, Texas, Convention Center for the...
The Eaton 5PX
The Eaton 5PX
Solid and well-built, Eaton's 5PX3000 can be mounted in a rack or set up vertically on a shelf.
Easy to Set Up and...
How Microsoft’s Windows Phone Can Be Saved
In a Dec. 26 posting on his personal blog, cek.log, former Microsoft employee and Windows Phone evangelist Charlie Kindel dissects what he sees as...
Windows Phone Road Map Details ‘Tango,’ ‘Apollo’
A leaked Windows Phone road map purports to trace the smartphone platform's evolution over the next year.The road map was first posted Dec. 27...
Criminals Used Affiliate Marketing Sites in Majority of Facebook Scams in 2011
Cyber-criminals are no longer just using Facebook for identity theft or phishing scams. Now, they are also using the social-networking platform to defraud affiliate...
Jailbreaking iPhones to Install Siri: 10 Reasons It’s a Bad Idea
Apple's Siri virtual personal assistant is one of the most coveted voice-control features ever launched. Although it's currently available solely to iPhone 4S owners,...
Smart Neighborhoods
Smart Neighborhoods
Groups of buildings will mimic living systems. Neighborhoods are the building blocks of smarter cities, which are just systems of systems—water, power, transportation,...
Anonymous, Hacktivism
Anonymous, Hacktivism
Hacktivism increased dramatically in 2011, and for many people, cyber-attacks became an accepted form of political and social activism. While there had been...
Eaton 5PX UPS Offering Makes Going Green Easier
How green is your IT? That's a question asked by many business managers and IT staffers alike. The problem with developing a green strategy...
Big Data, Personalized Medicine to Trend in Health Care in 2012
With all of the unstructured data in medical journals, doctors' notes, radiology images and faxes, IT vendors have been developing technology to help the...