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Mr. Cs 7 Signs That Your Kid May Be A Hacker Mr. Cs 7 Signs That Your Kid May Be A Hacker – #1 Stood outside the local Apple store screaming ‘Bring it on!’ after Apple announced its ‘you hack us, we’ll hack you’ iPhone policy Mr. Cs 7 Signs That Your Kid May Be […]

SAP-Salesforce Face Off The Inevitable Comparisons: SAPs Business ByDesign versus Salesforce.coms Application Stack and Force.com Platform SAP-Salesforce Face Off – Midmarket = Ease of Use SAP gets the midmarket, but the product still remains complex, according to Forresters Ray Wang. SAP has spent a considerable amount of research to understand this market … Yet simplicity […]

How Google Will Keep You Hooked As the e-commerce landscape shifts, Google is looking toward six models to leave its competition in the dust. By Evan Schuman How Google Will Keep You Hooked – Auction Google makes the argument that its auction-driven pricing model is more than a marketing cost and can actually help match […]

The New-Look Microsoft Live Search The new-look Live Search home page. The New-Look Microsoft Live Search – Discovering Products and Prices Users can find products, reviews, guides, prices and other relevant information, all within the Live Search interface. The New-Look Microsoft Live Search – Getting Product Reviews Reviews are powered by the new Opinion Index […]

eWEEK Presents: Greatest Hits of Summer 2007 Summer excitement is usually reserved for pop stars and their mega-hits, but the tech industry also created some buzz during the summer of 2007. Here is a sampling of new products and companies that eWEEK editors think made the hit parade. eWEEK Presents: Greatest Hits of Summer 2007 […]

The FAA cleared airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis and grounded all flights headed to or from the area on Sept. 25 after a telecommunications network failed at 12:30 p.m. EDT Federal Aviation Administration officials told the Associated Press that it cleared the air space in a 250-mile radius while the equipment was being […]

The 5 Forces that Could Derail High-Tech Markets Gartner analysts identify the five disruptive factors they claim could force enterprises to change the way they attack their prospective markets. The 5 Forces that Could Derail High-Tech Markets – Force 1 Web 2.0 Web 2.0 communities have paved the way for new startups offering alternatives to […]

Q: Whats the difference between appliance-based and switch-based virtualization?A: All storage virtualization is based on specialized software. The difference between appliance-based and switch-based virtualization is really just a question of where vendors choose to put the software. This choice is usually based on how they want to position themselves in the market. The original virtualization […]

Q: What are the main uses of storage virtualization?A: One of the key things it does obviously is volume management. This function used to be provided by the arrays themselves, but with storage virtualization you can perform it in a centralized way across multiple distinct physical arrays. For example, you can combine disk capacity from […]

Xandros Linux Walk-Through After telling Xandros to install, this is your first big decision on the setup. Easy enough for you? Xandros Linux Walk-Through – Continuing the Xandros Setup All of this basic setup runs automatically. Foul something up? You can always re-run the First Run Wizard. Xandros Linux Walk-Through – Setting Up Peripherals Setting […]

Q: What exactly is SQL injection?A: SQL injection is a type of attack that targets Web sites backed by a relational database such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL. The database might be doing nothing more complicated than capturing user names and passwords, or it might be executing full-blown sales transactions. Q: Who is […]

Q: Whats the difference between “storage virtualization” and “file virtualization”?A: At one level pretty much everything in storage these days is virtualized to some degree. Low level standards like SCSI and RAID are forms of virtualization that abstract or hide the underlying physical attributes of disk drives from operating systems and applications. But thats not […]