- Live Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning - Strategies and Tips
- With the rise in information technology and the reliance on business-critical information, the importance of protecting irreplaceable data has become a more visible business priority in recent years. As a result, most companies are aware that they...
- Webcast, 2008-03-19
- Free Sudoku 2008 (zip)
- Our Free Sudoku 2008 is a fun puzzle game. This version is designed for those who are seeking to learn how to play Sudoku or for those that like a challenge with the high level. This is the coolest puzzle game on the Web, play, and fun. This version...
- Software download, 2008-03-17
- Real-time Remote Workforce Enablement
- Cox Communications was looking for a way to deploy and manage the IT requirements of its decentralized customer support team comprised of over a hundred people. With only four IT staff designed to support the technical need of the customer support...
- Case Study, 2008-03-21
- Mod your computer keyboard, steampunk style
- Mild-mannered IT manager by day, mad modding genius by night, Jake von Slatt demonstrates how to build a computer keyboard -- steampunk style. by Cara Reynolds...
- Image gallery, 2008-03-18
- Live Webcast: Email archiving - Are you feeling lucky?
- Businesses of all sizes are struggling with ever growing electronic information volume and content. Although email is not the only electronic information, it is by far the fastest growing both in volume and sensitivity. Not only are companies...
- Webcast, 2008-03-20
- Live Webcast: Data Loss Prevention: Protecting Your Organization Against Accidental Disclosures
- E-mail is a vital communication tool and home to as much as 80% of your organization's records. Its mission-critical use represents a significant risk to your confidential information. Whether it's a small-scale embarrassment or major financial...
- Webcast, 2008-03-20
- The Future of Work: How to Prepare Your Business for the New Frontier
- According to a recent study by IDC, nearly 75 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile by the end of 2011 - but research shows that businesses are not aligned with this trend due to a slow adoption rate of technologies that can make this...
- Webcast, 2008-03-19
- Offbeat laptop sleeves at Barry's Farm
- Looking for a laptop sleeve that will turn heads at the office or at the local coffee bar on weekends? Barry's Farm has the wacky laptop sleeve market all sewn up. by Cara Reynolds...
- Image gallery, 2008-03-17
- Cracking open the Osborne 1: The original portable computer
- The Osborne 1 was the word's first self-contained portable personal computer. Many of the design decisions and innovations first seen in the Osborne 1 are still being used today some 25-plus years later. We could not resist taking a look inside this...
- Image gallery, 2008-03-19
- Live Webcast: Enhancing Business Mobility with Pen Computing
- For years pen-enabled computing devices have enjoyed great success and acceptance in highly vertical industries like delivery services, auditing and POS. The primary limitations of early pen computing devices, which were the hurdles to early...
- Webcast, 2008-03-17
- Sanity check: If you're working on IT-business alignment, you've already lost
- Last October, at a conference for IT managers and executives, I was chatting with George Spalding -- an ITIL expert from Pink Elephant -- about the popular concept of IT/business alignment. The fact that so many people in the IT field even talk...
- Blog, 2008-03-17
- Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology
- This Parallels white paper is a valuable decision-support resource that offers guidance for evaluating competing server virtualization solutions. It opens with a review of the three types of virtualization technologies available today: hardware...
- News, 2008-03-21
- Rundown: Geek movies of summer 2008
- In movie industry terms, the "summer movie season" actually begins before summer, on the first weekend in May, and ends before summer, on the last weekend in August. There are 18 geek-centric major motion pictures scheduled for U.S. release in this...
- Blog, 2008-03-17
- A galaxy far, far, away comes to Brazil
- The Star Wars Exhibit Museum opened on March 5 on the "Poro das Artes" at the Ibirapuera Park in So Paulo, where it will be until June 29.Children can take a course at the "Jedi Academy" (and face Darth Vader himself at the end) and adults can take...
- Image gallery, 2008-03-18
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- On March 18, 2008, Microsoft made Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available for general download via Windows Update. Here's what you can expect from the installation process. by Ed Bott...
- Image gallery, 2008-03-18
- Blu-ray BD+ completedly defeated
- The mood over at Slysoft is that of exuberance as they announced version 6.4.0.0 of their AnyDVD HD product last week. With this version, it is now possible to make full copies of all Blu-ray discs with impunity. Already in November 2007, a beta...
- Blog, 2008-03-24
- Does work have to be fun?
- I was bemoaning the fact the other day that the current extreme tightening of funds was essentially sucking the fun out of my current position when I was given this piece of advice - "The way to survive in our business is just to hunker down "there...
- Blog, 2008-03-23
- The ten roles you need for ITIL configuration management
- Many IT departments try to implement ITIL configuration management without giving very much thought to the staffing of the configuration management service. Many IT departments try to implement ITIL configuration management w Like any IT task,...
- Blog, 2008-03-23
- The Big Brother Awards
- In Montreal, Canada, at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in May 2007, Privacy International presented the first International Big Brother Awards. The "winners" of the Big Brother Awards are, in the words of Privacy International:...
- Blog, 2008-03-22
- Will you rent your next data center from HP?
- Hewlett-Packard announced this week that it was launching a data center-as-a-service product -- which it calls Adaptive Infrastructure as a service -- that allows enterprise IT departments to essentially rent a data center from HP rather than buying...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Finding Easter Eggs in old software
- One of most popular secular event in the celebration of the Easter holiday is the hunting of hidden Easter Eggs. Hidden by the Easter Bunny, or the Easter Beagle depending on your beliefs, Easter Eggs can be actual painted boiled eggs, or the little...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Configure Snort to log packets to MySQL
- Last week, we looked at setting up Snort, a Network Intrusion Detection System. Now we will look at configuring Snort to log packets to a remote MySQL server where a graphical Web interface can be used to view captured packets and statistics. To...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Latest Office articles from the Knowledgebase
- There are a few new articles on Office from the Knowledgebase to report: Shortcuts for applications in the 2007 Office system are not generated in the designated location on a computer that is running Windows Vista: This one's for anyone using...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Fake Cisco kit may contain malware
- Marketing counterfeit Cisco equipment is not breaking news by any means, as it has been an ongoing problem for Cisco and its resellers for years now. As evidence, check out this article for NetworkWorld by Brad Reese Giant counterfeit Cisco sale on...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- When an online group becomes a force to be reckoned with
- Last month, I told you about the Internet group "Anonymous" and their fight against Scientology (The Internet and IRL- have the lines blurred?). At the time, I don't think that I fully appreciated what impact an online group would have against an...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Wiki technology appearing all over the place
- Wiki, a technology for online encyclopedias and other documentation, is beginning to find itself in some interesting places. A Stanford professor has proposed that wiki technology be used in Congress to help make the process more transparent. In...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Big winners in the airwave auction- Verizon and AT&T;
- In the auction of the airwaves, two big winners came out on top, leaving Google phone in the dust. Verizon and AT&T combined to account of $16 billion of the 19.6 billion bid in the spectrum being vacated by the shift to digital by television...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Pic: Google naps
- What happens when uber-rich engineers get to spec out their own "nap pods" for workday power-sleeping? You get these refugees from the set of Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. Just a reminder that not everything Google makes is...
- Blog, 2008-03-21
- Virtuozzo for Windows Capacity and Scaling
- One of the keys to a successful virtualization project is the effective management of virtualized servers. Without proper optimization, your virtual infrastructure may experience performance and even stability issues. This white paper provides IT...
- News, 2008-03-21
- Deploying Application and OS Virtualization Together: Citrix and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
- As virtualization becomes more pervasive in the datacenter, organizations are deploying complementary types of virtualization technologies. Read this white paper to learn how blending application and OS virtualization using Citrix and Virtuozzo...
- News, 2008-03-21