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Will Android Survive?
With the Apple iPhone setting the market on fire, it seems difficult to imagine another platform replicating its success. That isn't going to stop people from trying though. If even only half as successful, there is a lot of money to be made. The latest platform to catch fire is Android. Will it succeed, or be an also ran?
Chris Murphy
Encryption Can Get Board's Attention
There are lots of good reasons for IT leaders to pay attention to even the finest details of encryption policies. One of the more practical is that encryption's a board-level concept. As in, the board of directors will feel no hesitation in second guessing decisions not to encrypt data that ends up exposed.Which makes the findings in this week's cover story on encryption all the more surprising.
Allen Stern
Does Ellen Following Me Mean Twitter's A Fad?
Earlier this month talk-show host Ellen began following me (and other tech people) on Twitter. Did her move display something more than just a simple follow?
Thomas Claburn
Word, We Need To Talk
Hey there, Word. How're things? Seems like you're doing okay. I hear you have a new release coming shortly, in Office 2010. In fact, I've been meaning to talk to you about that.
George Hulme
Chrome OS Security: Initial Impressions
There is much developers can do to build a secure operating system when limits are set on what devices are supported, and there's no regard for compatibility with all types of software applications. I'm sure it's a luxury some software designers in Redmond and Cupertino certainly envy. But that's the clean shot Google has with its new Chrome OS.
Nicole Ferraro
Steal Presents Online This Holiday Season
A new Facebook application preps itself for the holiday season
Gaston Hillar
Detecting Scalability Problems With Intel Parallel Universe Portal
You already know that achieving a linear speedup as the number of cores increases in real life parallelized applications is indeed very difficult. However, sometimes, the multicore scalability of certain algorithms for existing multicore systems could be worse than expected. The overhead and the bugs introduced by concurrency could bring really unexpected scalability problems when the number of cores increases. Intel can help you with a free service in the cloud.
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The SIO To Go app sends realtime alerts to users' iPhones, notifying of attacks and potential threats to corporate networks.
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Put down that handset and pick up a wireless headset. We rate Bluetooth devices from Aliph, BlueAnt, MoGo, Motorola, Plantronics, and Samsung.
Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip giant, talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking.
Lessons Learned From PCI Compliance
Assessors reveal mistakes companies make with data security standard.
Practical Analysis: How Locked In To Vendors Are You?
Stem-to-stern storage, networking, and management products are coming from several vendors. Is that a positive trend?
Rolling Review: Acronis Deploys Windows 7 With Ease
The software gets the new OS to your users quickly and easily, but lacks management features.
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Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers
If Larry Ellison were to bid ciao and adieu to the wonks of the EU, here's what his goodbye letter to Oracle customers might say.
Helmüth Gumbel
Global CIO: SAP's Spread-Out Payment Plan Is Good But Not Enough
The ERP business has become a buyers' market and is likely to stay this way. SAP could be on the verge of capitalizing on that.
Rob Preston
Down To Smarter Business: People Want Technology Focused On Results, Not ''Solutions''
Sensors, wireless, cloud computing, machine-to-machine networks--they're all coming together to change how people get their jobs done.
Art Wittmann
Practical Analysis: How Locked In To Vendors Are You?
Stem-to-stern storage, networking, and management products are coming from several vendors. Is that a positive trend?
John Foley
Government Technologist: Vivek Kundra's Data Center Problem
The number of data centers belonging to the U.S. government has more than doubled in the past 10 years. Can Federal CIO Vivek Kundra put a stop to the trend?
Alexander Wolfe
Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip giant, talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking.
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Full Nelson: A Web Presence Needs Sizzle, For Shizzle
Customer engagement is the future of the Web. For the bold and the willing, successful ideas are there for the trying -- just don't try too hard.
Chris Murphy
Global CIO: Microsoft Data Center Strategy Vital To Azure
The company envisions a more just-in-time approach to bringing on data center capacity.
Brian Gillooly
Global CIO: Building A Brand Takes IT Flexibility
There are fundamental differences in how marketing and IT see their roles, and the world. And it's bad for a company's brand when the CIO and marketing execs don't get along.
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