Gaming Computer Vendor Alienware Targets Enterprise
Alienware execs describe life three months after Dell acquired the company. Best known for turbocharged gaming PCs with science-fictional designs, Alienware now finds that enterprises value its systems for high-performance computing.
Five Questions For Andrew Longacre, Research Scientist At Hand Held Products
A highlight of Longacre's 26-year career at Hand Held Products was the invention of Aztec Code, a matrix-style bar-code symbology used in online ticketing and badges distributed by Homeland Security to U.S. visitors. But Longacre doesn't spend all his time working with numbers; he's been singing in an opera chorus since before the Internet was cool.
Give Me An L, Give Me An I ...
Some 20,000 Linux desktops have landed in Indiana schools, and more are on the way. Could the Midwest state be breeding future Linux users?
Disrupt-O-Meter
A look at emerging technology that's disruptive--and that isn't.
Personal Tech: Rx Master From Excalibur Electronics, The Flock Browser, The Pharos Traveler GPS 525, Sonos Zoneplayer, BOB From Hopscotch Technology, Compactflash Elite Pro Card, Dliveo, A Web-Based File Delivery System
The Flock browser offers some handy extras to social networking fans, namely photo-sharing services, blogs, and bookmark-sharing sites; Dliveo is a Web-based file delivery system that hopes to become the FedEx of file transfers; and Kingston Technology has bumped up the capacity of its largest CompactFlash Elite Pro card to 8 Gbytes.
Security Firm Disclaims Mac Hack Demo
SecureWorks did a demo at the recent Black Hat conference showing how it could hack into a MacBook. Now the company has posted a disclaimer on its site to make it clear that the MacBook was modified.
Disrupt-O-Meter
A look at emerging technology that's disruptive--and that isn't.
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