Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Visualization and presentation: How to handle content

Two Google apps help blind navigate | Microsoft Wiffler lets smartphones use free WiFi from moving vehicles

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Visualization and presentation
Once again, I have multiple topics in this newsletter. This time they both involve ways to handle content with the goal of getting the greatest visual impact. Read More


WHITE PAPER: ArcSight

Building a Successful Security Operations Center
This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. Building a Successful Security Operations Center

WHITE PAPER: CA

The Most Important Metric for your VMs
The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More

Two Google apps help blind navigate
Google released two Android applications designed to help the blind with walking directions that pair Google Maps with GPS navigation technology. . Read More

Microsoft Wiffler lets smartphones use free WiFi from moving vehicles
Microsoft researchers have been working on a technology that would let mobile phones and other 3G devices automatically switch to public WiFi even while the device is traveling in a vehicle. The technology is dubbed Wiffler and earlier this year, researchers took it for some test drives in Amherst, Mass, Seattle and San Francisco. Read More

RFID could ease hunt for lost IT gear
If concerns about cost and security can be overcome, RFID technology could help solve a growing problem in large data centers: losing track of IT equipment. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power

The Business Imperative to Gain Data Center Insight
To manage costs, capacity and operations, today's dynamic data centers require new tools to understand assets and their use in order to deliver consistent, reliable and fast service to the business. Learn how with field-proven Avocent MergePoint® Infrastructure Explorer software. Read Now

When IT is asked to spy
It's 9:00 in the morning, or 3:00 in the afternoon, or even 10:00 at night. Do you know what your users are up to? More than ever, IT managers can answer, "Oh, yes." Read More

Hadoop pitched for business intelligence
Starting as a Web indexing software, Hadoop is being pitched as a business intelligence tool. Read More

Incognito lets Safari users evade data mining
Safari users worried about their online privacy are getting some help from a Belgian company. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Symantec

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Guide
This Reference guide provides key information to address client access, server recovery and network load balancing to better manage your storage data. Read Now.

Irish judge rules out 'three strikes' on downloaders
Hundreds of illegal file-sharers in Ireland will not face the 'three-strikes' rule after a high court judge ruled that the country's laws can not enforce disconnection from the web. Read More

SAP's NetWeaver isn't dead yet
SAP voiced strong support and provided an updated road map for its NetWeaver platform on Tuesday, further suggesting that the company has no immediate plans to shore up its middleware portfolio by purchasing a vendor such as Tibco. Read More

Google wants to control wind energy
Google today said it wants a big part of the energy that could be generated from offshore wind farms.  Read More

41% of web users share online passwords
More than four in ten (41%) web users have shared their online passwords with friends or family, says Webroot. Read More



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Ig Nobel honors world's wackiest researchers: 2010 winners
The 20th annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday night for "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The prizes commemorate the world's funniest research, and sometimes the world's biggest villains (BP is a winner this year). Here's a list of the 2010 prizes.

Eight hot commercial space projects
The recently passed NASA Authorization Act of 2010 was generally seen as a huge nod toward developing commercial space projects. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the authorization "launches a commercial space transportation industry." Indeed there are a number of interesting commercial space projects underway.

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