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Wearable Tech Expo sights and sounds
Network World's Jonathan Gold checks out some of the latest wearable devices at the Wearable Tech Expo in New York. Read More
WEBCAST: VMware | IBM
Virtualization Infrastructure With IBM and Vmware
For over a decade, IBM and VMware have collaborated to deliver integrated virtualization solutions to tens of thousands of customers around the globe. Learn More
WHITE PAPER: HP
Why you need a next-generation firewall
This white paper explores the reasons for implementing NG firewalls and lays out a path to success for overburdened IT organizations. Learn More
17 obscure Windows tools and tricks too powerful to overlook
Windows is chock full of handy-dandy power tools, but most of them are hidden from everyday view. These are the ones you need to know about. Read More
FTC takes out "tech support" scammers; $5.1 million in fines, retribution
While a number of these scams still persist, the Federal Trade Commission today said it got a US District court to slap the operators of several international tech support rip-offs to pay more than $5.1 million in fines and retribution on charges they masqueraded as major computer companies, including Dell, Microsoft, McAfee, and Norton, to trick consumers into believing their computers were riddled with malware and then charge them to “fix” the “problems.” The FTC said that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued default judgments against fourteen corporate defendants and fourteen individual defendants that allegedly operated the tech support scams. The operations were mostly based in India and targeted English-speaking consumers in the United States and several other countries, the FTC stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Friday is SysAdmin Appreciation Day: Here's one way to make sure you're appreciated
Friday is the 15th annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Pictured above is a related poster created by and featuring the IT department of the Launch Federal Credit Union, which serves Florida’s Cape Canaveral region.“We didn’t feel appreciated enough last year,” writes a Launch FCU sysadmin on a SpiceWorks message board, “so we sent this email to all employees and displayed 20 of these posters in visible places in every department.”In case you can’t make out all the words in the picture, the key sentence reads: “So appreciate an IT person today and we may allow you to use your computer tomorrow.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
US Social Security Administration spent nearly $300M on IT project 'boondoggle,' lawmakers say
The U.S. Social Security Administration has spent nearly US$300 million on a software system for processing disability claims that still isn’t finished and has delivered limited useful functionality, according to an independent report on the project.The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this week released a copy of the study, which the SSA commissioned McKinsey to develop.While the report was finished in June, SSA officials placed “a very close hold on the report with the goal of ensuring details about its findings remain secret until after Senate confirmation of Acting Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin as Commissioner,” three Republican members of the committee alleged in a letter, citing unnamed “whistleblowers.” The letter was signed by committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California, James Lankford of Oklahoma, and Jim Jordan of Ohio.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Seriously, what's so funny about this deli order?
My eagle-eyed wife snapped this photo and poses the question: "Seriously, what's so funny about a plain old deli order?" Deborah Brown Deborah Brown RELATED: FWIW -- The origins of 'Net shorthand | What a waste of money -- I can totally see the fenceTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
OS X Yosemite public beta arrives
On Thursday, fall came early for hundreds of thousands of Mac users as Apple released its first public beta of OS X Yosemite. The public-beta program, announced during Apple’s annual developer conference in June, is letting regular users download and test pre-release versions of OS X. Apple says the first million users to sign up at the OS X Beta Program website will be able to test Yosemite before the OS is released to the general public in the fall.Users who signed up for the program are receiving redemption codes to enter in the Mac App Store, at which point a Yosemite installer app will download to their Macs. Once Yosemite is installed, future updates to the beta software will come automatically via the system’s standard Software Update functionality. For much more detail about the public beta and how to install it, check out our our OS X Yosemite public beta FAQ.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Malwarebytes questions poor showing in anti-malware protection-evaluation lab testing
Dennis Technology Labs (DTL), which tests anti-malware products for effectiveness in protection, for the first time included the free version of the Malwarebytes software in the labs’ competitive evaluation along with nine other vendor products, both paid and free. The results published by DTL today reveal Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free had a poor showing, with only Microsoft Security Essentials doing worse in terms of effectiveness of protection.In terms of DTL’s “protection” ratings that score for accuracy in protecting against malware, the free version of Malwarebytes was scored at 63 based on how many times it prevented a threat from compromising the system. Only Microsoft Security Essentials did worse at a score of 56. By contrast, the products that scored the best in the DTL tests, Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 and Norton Internet Security, each scored 100. Other high scorers on “protection” included BitDefender Internet Security which earned a score of 94 as well as Avast! Free Antivirus and ESET Smart Security 7 which each scored 93.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Business leaders know: Let in the smartphones, tablets, laptops
Forward-thinking firms like Kraft didn't wait for employees to bring in consumer tech, but led the effort themselves Read More
25G Ethernet moving fast
The second highest server Ethernet port sales and shipments may be 25G over the next five years, according to Dell’Oro Group. First will be 10G, which will account for more than 50% of the $1.7 billion in revenue and 40 million ports by 2018.Twenty-five gigabit Ethernet is taking off fast. A handful of very powerful data center and cloud vendors and suppliers – Google, Microsoft, Broadcom, Arista and Mellanox – formed a consortium three weeks ago to promote and catalyze development of it. Cisco said it too is planning to join this group.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
A new breed of broadband satellites could have you living on a desert island
New broadband-friendly satellites could change where we live. Read More
Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2014, so far
Microsoft leads the way, but has plenty of company on jobs cut front Read More
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