Best Buy Rolls Out $99 Android Sale
The holiday shopping season has fully arrived, and stores across the country will be opening early and offering bargains. If you're brave enough to hit the big box retail stores this weekend, Best Buy is offering five different Android handsets for $99 each.
Be Transparent To The (Open) Core
"Transparency" is a vital term in open source: how easy is it to find out about some aspect of an open source project or product? Matthew Aslett of the 451 CAOS Theory blog went to find out how a number of vendors of open core products stacked up in this regard.
Exploit Code Targets Internet Explorer Zero-Day
There's exploit code circulating that can be used to target certain versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft says it's working on a fix.
IT Owns E-Discovery
Organizations realizing technological expertise is just as essential as sharp legal analysis when it comes to e-discovery.
The Future Of Storage As A Virtual Machine
In our last few entries we looked at what can be done today with storage software running as virtual machines. In this entry we will consider what the future holds for storage as a virtual machine. Storage as a virtual machine may be the only way you apply data services in the future.
Forecasting the Demise of Social Media
With users buying Friends and Followers and acting as shills for marketers, we may see the carefully crafted coils of the social graph start to come undone
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.
A 10% increase in broadband availability means a 1.2 to 1.5 point increase in GDP, Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski says.
Energy, staffing, and hardware costs lead the list of worsening challenges facing data center managers, research firm says.
A lawsuit filed on Monday charges a California-based company with copying a patented Apple design.
DataLight's FlashFX Pro makes it easier for software to access the NAND flash memory used for storage in embedded devices.
A federated identity can be used to provide a single sign on to multiple applications, both in the enterprise and in the cloud.
As Thanksgiving looms, we sometimes overlook those better angels of our nature that are all around us. And that's a mistake.
Global CIO: The Thanksgiving Angels Of Flight 3405
As Thanksgiving looms, we sometimes overlook those better angels of our nature that are all around us. And that's a mistake.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent
An interview with the city's mayor and IT principals about DataSF.org and its groundbreaking applications
Global CIO: Microsoft Data Center Strategy Vital To Azure
The company envisions a more just-in-time approach to bringing on data center capacity.
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.
How IT Can Ace Vulnerability Management
Finding the flaws in your operating systems and applications is only the beginning. You then need to plot a path to security and ensure that no new weaknesses find their way onto your network.
State Of Enterprise Storage
Continuing to throw precious resources at escalating storage and bandwidth demand isn't a strategy, it's a recipe for disaster. Diverse drivers mandate a new path.


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