"So many people are going to the [Beijing] Olympics and are going to get electronically undressed," says the U.S. government's top counterintelligence officer.
CIOs are perfectly placed to lead overall corporate efforts to reduce the consumption of greenhouse gases.
Opening its network to innovators is the best way for Verizon to counter AT&T's iPhone advantage
It wasn't easy, but I'm okay with my iPhone now. After finally getting it to remember that it was a phone rather than a brick, I managed to manually push all of my music, podcasts, videos to it. I got my contact info to update, but I did lose my lists of favorites and recent calls. I got iGoogle onto it with no problem, but lost my notes. What did I want the handyman to fix? What was I thinking of buying my husband for his birthday?
Navigating the Verizon Wireless pricing maze wasn't easy. Here's how we went from $200 to free.
Not many of us like to pay more taxes, but most of us do enjoy feeling safer. Apparently, the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative - known also as CNCI and Cyber Initiative - will accomplish both if it goes through. According to Walter Pincus' piece "Cybersecurity Will Take A Big Bite of the Budget" I read at the Washingtonpost.com, President Bush is requesting funding for the Cyber Initiative as part of the 2009 intelligence budget.
Symbian already owns the smartphone market. So why is the company open-sourcing its market-owning product?
For the past 15 years I've been using multiple email addresses to try and separate up my email automatically. I have a main email account, one for developing, another for purchases, and another for mailing lists and so on.
Originally this was to try and keep the email addresses that would be low-priority out of my main inbox. It also helped to keep the spam low by ensuring that I had email addresses that were never publicized anywhere, keeping their content relatively clean.
Most security companies tend to take a horizontal approach looking to capitalize on the finance, service provider, and federal government markets that traditionally lead the way for security spend. A few companies are doing well in the education vertical, finding momentum with configuration control features specifically tuned into universities.
Whatever money the city of San Francisco saved by setting up a wide area network (called Fibre WAN) over three years ago just may have to be used to pay for repairing it. It's not that the network failed to function, but rather it has been tampered with.
In an information-driven economy, effective project management is the key to business success.
Maybe the best migration strategy from Domino to Exchange is to use an intermediary approach.
I was in Philadelphia last week. After handing a cashier a fifty dollar bill, she swept a marker over it and declared "It's good." I told her it'd better be, because the bank gave it to me. She then told me that just recently she'd been given a counterfeit twenty dollar bill and had heard about bogus tens being circulated. You seldom hear about counterfeiters producing denominations that small. I guess if you're going to take a chance, may as well go big.
I'm a sucker for the idea of having of multiple computing devices around the house doing and monitoring different things. I think it's the childhood memories of lots of flashing lights on control panels marked with completely useless names.
Here are a few of the more passionate quips, gripes and compliants about the state of health care that didn't make it into our health care and IT story this week.
Fujitsu has a "portable" device that completely destroys the data permanently. But is it as good as a mitre saw?
A study by Jobfox (a job-matching site) lists the 20 most recession-proof jobs in the U.S. (.pdf), based on job demand over the past eight months. Sales representatives, software developers and nurses were deemed to be in the best position to survive a stormy economy. And IT jobs are well-represented on the list. Stripping out the non-IT jobs, the ranked list looks like this:
2. Software design/development
