Six enterprise security leaks you should plug now
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What's happening -- Businesses are integrating location-based services such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and Socialight into enterprise applications. For example, ice cream retailer Tasti D-Lite...
View ArticleVideoconferencing for every budget
There's nothing like face-to-face meetings for really connecting with clients or team members, but with air travel becoming ever more expensive (and ever less pleasant), frequent in-person meetings are...
View ArticleData centers experiment with new power sources
Data center power usage is soaring -- the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that data center energy requirements will double in the next five years. To address that surge in energy use,...
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Hackers never sleep, it seems. Just when you think you've battened down the hatches and fully protected yourself or your business from electronic security risks, along comes a new exploit to keep you...
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Not everything is handed to data center managers on a silver platter. Sure, a few administrative tools arrive on freshly produced discs right from the server vendor. But there are some indispensable...
View ArticleReplacing legacy applications: Four problems solved
Legacy applications are one of the most difficult issues to face within IT. A rip-and-replace approach is expensive, difficult to cost-justify and tends to interrupt business. Meanwhile, the legacy...
View ArticleIn pictures: Mondo datacentres
Think you have to manage a lot of IT gear? These massive facilities - each at least 100,000 square feet and most much larger than that -- house thousands of servers and process millions of documents,...
View ArticleIn Pictures: 10 technologies that changed business forever
The applications, devices and services that have changed the way we do business often started as small-scale alternatives to the status quo. Now we can't survive without them.
View ArticleIn Pictures: 8 cool heat maps that help visualise Big Data
Big or small, data can be difficult to visualise. These examples use heat maps to put massive data sets into a context that's easy to understand.
View ArticleFord SYNC voice-control upgrade understands you even if you talk funny
Even the techiest cars today have clunky voice features compared to what you'll experience on an iPhone or Android phone. When Ford updated its SYNC infotainment system (to version 3.6.2) in August, it...
View ArticleIn Pictures: 8 iPad Apps That Are Complex, Powerful and Advanced
Most people don't think of the iPad as a high-end computing device. These eight apps prove otherwise.
View ArticleIn Pictures: 8 iPad apps that are complex, powerful and advanced
Most people don't think of the iPad as a high-end computing device. These eight apps prove otherwise.
View ArticleIn Pictures: 10 Microsoft research projects
An early look at cutting-edge technology being developed by Microsoft
View ArticleNo Man Sky launch on PC puts a big dent in the resurgence of computer gaming
The No Man's Sky launch on PC is a terrible nightmare. Some gamers have even decided to wait for bug fixes. This is not a good sign.
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