Monthly Archives: August 2013
Cisco: Young Execs Will Fuel Increase in Video Communications
The young workers raised on technology who came into the marketplace less than a decade ago are beginning to move up the corporate management...
Black Hat Handed CIOs Plenty to Think About
The Black Hat hacker conference saw nearly 8,000 digital security pros talking, hacking and holding press briefings on the latest security holes in the...
WiFi Pineapple Penetration-Testing Tool Sparks Interest at DEF CON
Many good open-source software tools are freely available for penetration testers (and hackers) for testing the security of WiFi networks and their users. Getting...
Google Unveiling Android Phone-Tracking Service
Google Android users who often misplace their phones can now rejoice: Google will unveil a service later in August that will allow users to...
T-Mobile to Announce Milestone Quarter, but Can It Last?
T-Mobile on Aug. 8 will announce the results of its fiscal second quarter. It'll be the company's first quarter as a publicly traded company,...
HP to Shut Down Snapfish Photo Service in Four Countries
Hewlett-Packard revealed Aug. 5 that it is planning to shut down Snapfish, its Web-based photo storage, sharing and printing service, in India and three...
DEF CON Reminds Us of the Importance of Physical Security
Working in the bits and bytes software world of IT security, it's often easy to forget that the world around us still very much...
Enterprise Networks Are Much Slower Than Home Systems: 10 Reasons Why
Enterprise Networks Are Much Slower Than Home Systems: 10 Reasons Why
by Chris Preimesberger
Too Little Bandwidth to Start
Most companies start out in a hole by...
Oracle Cited for Ads Comparing SPARC T5, IBM Power Systems
Oracle has been keeping its focus on IBM since buying Sun Microsystems and its SPARC hardware business in 2010.Over the past three years, when...
Moto X Is a Serious iPhone Challenger: 10 Reasons Why
Moto X Is a Serious iPhone Challenger: 10 Reasons Why
By Don Reisinger
The Design Is Beautiful
There's no debating that the Moto X is a well-designed...