Obama: "We are a better country than this"
- DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama, preparing to take a historic step as the Democratic presidential nominee, launched a sharp assault on Republican rival John McCain on Thursday and promised to reverse the economic failures of the last eight years.
Gustav kills nearly 70 in Caribbean, aims at U.S
- KINGSTON (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gustav was blamed on Thursday for at least 68 deaths in the Caribbean and U.S. forecasters said it could hit New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico oil fields as a potentially powerful hurricane next week.
Putin accuses U.S. of provoking Georgia crisis
- DUSHANBE/PARIS (Reuters) - Russia faced increased diplomatic isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday, with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions.
Lehman looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs: source
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs in its latest round of cost cutting, a person familiar with the matter said, as weak financial markets spur layoffs across Wall Street.
Salmonella outbreak over: CDC
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outbreak of an unusual strain of Salmonella that sickened more than 1,400 people and put 286 in the hospital appears to be over in the United States, federal health officials said on Thursday.
Top U.S. and Pakistan military officials talk strategy
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. and Pakistani military officials met this week on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to discuss the presence of militant safe havens in Pakistan and their role in Afghan violence, officials said on Thursday.
Court upholds dismissal of charges in KPMG case
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of criminal charges against 13 former executives at KPMG, saying prosecutors violated the defendants' rights by pressuring the accounting firm not to pay their legal bills.
Karadzic due for plea hearing at Hague tribunal
- THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
U.S. forces arrest senior Iraqi official
- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq's government of members of Saddam Hussein's party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.
Thai rail starts partial strike in anti-government rally
- BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai rail workers began a partial strike on Thursday, joining a protest by thousands of people barricaded inside the prime minister's official compound whose leaders vowed to stay until his government fell.
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HP says wins judgment against Pelikan
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co said on Thursday a German court has found Pelikan Hardcopy to be in violation of laws on unfair competition.
GeoEye signs deal to provide imagery to Google
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - GeoEye Inc on Thursday said it will provide imagery from its new $502 million high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite to Google Earth and Google Maps after the spacecraft is launched on September 4.
iPhone security flaw exposes private data
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A security flaw in Apple Inc's iPhone allows unauthorized users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way.
Web news aggregators rise despite papers woes
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Local newspapers may be faced with hard times, but the ability to get news on a mobile device is flourishing, with several outlets providing context that helps explain particular stories' places in the larger universe of world events.
Trade panel agrees to take up Microsoft case
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A trade panel has agreed to investigate Microsoft Corp's accusation that Primax Electronics of Taiwan has infringed its patents for peripheral devices like keyboards and mice, the International Trade Commission said on Thursday.
Dell profits disappoint as tech spending weakens
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc posted a surprisingly steep drop in quarterly earnings on Thursday and said companies around the world are cutting back on technology spending, sending its shares tumbling 10 percent and sparking fears of weakness in the whole tech sector.
EU, mobile operators clash over call billing
- BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Mobile phone operators may face legislation from the European Commission to crack down on what the EU executive sees as overcharging, but industry said such a step would amount to micro-management.
Sony to launch world's thinnest LCD TVs
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would launch the world's thinnest liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs this year, broadening its product line-up ahead of the critical year-end shopping season.
Mystery Chinese iPhone worker becomes Internet star
- CANBERRA, (Reuters) - A Chinese factory worker has become an Internet sensation after a picture of her smiling and flashing a peace sign to a co-worker testing an Apple iPhone stayed on the phone that was sold to a man in Britain.
Microsoft releases beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8
- SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp released on Wednesday a second test version of Internet Explorer 8, delivering a feature-complete upgrade to the world's most widely used Web browser.
Case Study- Pomona Valley Medical Center
- (Source: Liebert) With technology needs changing rapidly as this midsized hospital transitioned from paper-based to electronic systems, insufficient data center cooling threatened both growth and system reliability in this midsize data center. A new cooling strategy eliminated heat-related problems and provided a roadmap for future growth.
Case Study- Time Warner Cable of New York
- (Source: Liebert) Delivering high-speed Internet and VoIP services over an aging power infrastructure didn't make sense for Time Warner. So the company developed and executed a plan to upgrade and enhance the power system to its midsize data center without disrupting service to customers.
Powering Change in the Data Center
- (Source: Liebert) Discover strategies for scaling the critical power system your data center depends on without compromising system reliability. This paper can help you size UPS modules to optimize scalability and transition to a compartmentalized approach to power distribution that can quadruple the number of devices supported compared to traditional power distribution systems.
Five Technologies Simplifying Infrastructure Management
- (Source: Liebert) Today's data centers must support more devices, are consuming more power and generating more heat. Learn five infrastructure technologies that are making it easier for growing businesses to introduce new IT systems as needed while maintaining high levels of availability.
Cut Data Center Energy Costs
- (Source: Liebert) Cooling accounts for 35% of data center energy consumption. Discover strategies that can reduce cooling energy costs by as much as 40%, including simple steps you can take to get more from your existing cooling system and emerging technologies that can increase cooling capacity and data center density.
Doubt cast on Seinfeld as Windows TV ads near
- Microsoft is said to have rejected younger comedians Will Farrell, 41, and Chris Rock, 43, for the TV ad because it did not want its campaign to be seen as pandering to the youth market or be seen as too hip.
Microsoft: Performance integral to Windows 7, IE8
- Fixing performance issues in Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system and Internet Explorer browser are key development goals for the next versions of those products, according to Microsoft company blogs.
Google introduces Android apps store
- Google unveiled plans for the Android Market, where developers can distribute content for Android phones.
Opinion: Microsoft starts virtualization hype blitz
- Besides Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft will also be talking about a desktop and application virtualization suite nicknamed App-V.
Apple whips rivals in consumer purchase plans
- U.S. consumers are more likely to buy a Mac over the next 90 days than a PC from Apple rivals Dell or HP, according to data from ChangeWave Research.
IT workers hit hardest by offshore outsourcing, survey finds
- Offshore outsourcing displaces IT workers at about twice the rate as workers in other occupations, according to a new survey. Programmers and developers who have little customer interaction are at the highest risk.
Best Western forced to play defense on data breach disclosure
- A dispute between Best Western and a Scottish newspaper over the scope of a data breach highlights the need for companies to get out in front on disclosures of data breaches.
'West Wing' creator may be writing movie about Facebook
- A Facebook profile that's said to be built for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin says the West Wing creator plans to write a movie about the invention of the Facebook social network.
Apple confirms iPhone security bug, promises patch
- Apple plans to patch a flaw in the iPhone's password-protected locking feature next month in a software update.
Target agrees to $6M settlement of accessibility lawsuit
- Target has settled a two-year-old lawsuit charging that its Web site was inaccessible to sight-impaired users.
Trade body to hear Microsoft complaint against Taiwan company
- The U.S. International Trade Commission said it will investigate a complaint that Microsoft filed against a Taiwanese maker of peripherals including computer mice.
Who provides what in the cloud
- Currently dominated by Amazon.com and several start-ups, cloud computing is increasingly attracting the interest of industry giants, including Google, IBM and, most recently, AT&T.
Steve Jobs' death greatly exaggerated; Bloomberg obit a mistake
- The Bloomberg financial news service accidentally posted its obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday on its wire service, then quickly retracted it after realizing the mistake.
Panasonic and Sony tout plasma, LCD TV plans at IFA show
- Panasonic is showing off 65-in. and 58-in. prototypes of its thin plasma TV at the IFA electronics show in Berlin, while Sony is touting an extremely thin LCD set at the same event.
Opinion: Put some excitement back into your bookmarks
- Sometimes we all need a little help getting out of our Internet rut. Here are picks from Macworld editors, ranging from super-practical resources to addictive time-wasters.
Dynamic Capacity Management for Virtualized Environments
- (Source: CiRBA) Capacity planning is undergoing a transformation as virtualization technologies are adopted in IT environments. This paper describes the nuances of capacity supply in virtual environments, how to model the demands that workloads create, and how to effectively align supply and demand to maximize efficiency and minimize operational risk.
Image Gallery: 'Fashion' PCs hit the catwalk
- These PCs for the style-conscious were strutted down the runway at the PROJECT Las Vegas trade show for the fashion industry.
Sprint's WiMax service to include local features
- Sprint's Xohm WiMax service will offer localized information on a portal using a subscriber's location data.
Opinion: Growing cynicism around going green
- One of the sources of frustration with vendor-driven green initiatives is that true efficiency improvement requires a holistic effort. The efficiency of one device is often affected by associated elements in the supply chain, all of which may be dependent on external factors.
China aims for petaflop computer in 2010
- Next year, China hopes to include graphics capabilities on the same silicon as the main processor, much as AMD and Intel are doing today.
Scented, other 'fashion' PCs hit the catwalk
- At the PROJECT Las Vegas fashion trade show this week, Microsoft Corp. tries to bring the worlds of computers and fashion together, strutting its partners' coolest PC designs before fashionistas and style divas.
Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3
- Microsoft is warning users of Windows XP SP3 who try out IE8 Beta 2 that they won't be able to uninstall either one under certain circumstances.
Veoh ruling bolsters YouTube effort to fend off $1 billion Viacom suit
- The dismissal of Lo Group's copyright infringement case against online video-sharing site Veoh should help Google Inc. defend itself against similar charges filed against it by media giant Viacom.
As SSD factories explode, memory prices plummet
- Hynix's new NAND flash factory shows why chip prices may still take time to recover, which is great for users.
European court won't stop U.K. hacker's extradition to U.S.
- The European Court of Human Rights has refused U.K. hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal against demands for his extradition to the U.S.
You might say that
- IT site manager pilot fish at this big manufacturer gets a call from an engineer -- who's frantic because his plotter won't print some engineering drawings he needs pronto.
Business Transaction Management: Facilitating the Management of Virtual Environments
- (Source: OpTier) The evolution of complex, multi-tier IT environments poses a growing number of virtualization management challenges, consequently hampering an organization's ability to monitor and control application performance effectively across the physical and virtual layers. Business Transaction Management (BTM) focuses on business transactions as the focal point for managing applications. BTM increases operational efficiency by tracking, prioritizing and providing granular visibility into every transaction across virtual and dynamic IT environments. Discover how organizations have also utilized BTM to enhance capacity planning application, performance management and SOA.
Gain a faster, cheaper way to manage workload
- (Source: BMC Software) IT Organizations are seeking to reduce costs and avoid business disruption while supporting growth. Since batch makes over 70 percent of all work processed by IT, industry experts recommend migrating to a workload automation solution to meet those goals. Listen to why BMC CONTROL-M is the leading Enterprise Workload Automation solution in the marketplace today and how BMC can help you make the move.
Toward More Flexible, Next-Generation Collaboration Solutions
- (Source: Novell) A recent study by CIO Magazine and IDG Research Services found that while collaboration tools are very important, their effectiveness leaves much to be desired. The study, commissioned by Novell, surveyed 100 senior IT executives around the world on their experiences with and plans for collaboration software. A full 80 percent said secure collaboration within and beyond organizational boundaries is of critical or high importance, but fewer than half said their current solutions effectively deliver this capability. The study also highlights a need for collaboration solutions that are flexible, interoperable, and capable of leveraging existing investments.
Driving Business Success Through Workgroup Choice and Flexibility
- (Source: Novell) The structure of your workgroup environment plays a vital role in enabling your knowledge workers to be productive and collaborate securely. And IT choice and flexibility can mean the difference between reactive spending and proactive investment. Boost your competitive advantage with a workgroup infrastructure that lets you deliver the tools and services that are right for you. Download this white paper to learn how Novell offers a variety of solutions that give you the flexibility to address critical business initiatives and workforce productivity.
Deploying Virtualized NetWare on Linux Whitepaper
- (Source: Novell) IT managers are increasingly excited about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell and the many benefits provided by its included Xen* virtualization technology. Among these benefits are server consolidation, workload isolation and disaster recovery through dynamic server migration-which are motivating more organizations to migrate to Linux.
Transformational Analytics: Virtualizing IT Environments
- (Source: CiRBA) The overwhelming complexity of the modern data center compounds the problem of how to safely virtualize IT environments. This paper provides an in-depth guide to analyzing complex environments for virtualization opportunities, particularly within production environments where stability, service levels and performance are of the upmost performance.
Virtualization Analysis for VMware
- (Source: CiRBA) Planning for VMware-based virtualization is not just a sizing exercise. It requires understanding all the constraints that impact a target environment. This is especially true of VMware Infrastructure, where sophisticated features such as VMotion, DRS and HA necessitate careful planning and diligent administration of virtual environments.
Solid-state disk lackluster for laptops, PCs
- Using SSDs in laptops and PCs now means getting much less capacity at a much higher price.
Terror threat system crippled by technical flaws, says Congress
- A U.S. House subcommittee is warning that a $500 million IT project designed to "connect the dots" on terrorist plots and help prevent another 9/11 attack could turn out to be a failure.
Opinion: After the Core 2 Duo chip, what's next for Apple laptops?
- It's expected that Apple will, sometime in the next month or so, unleash updated MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops -- maybe even a new MacBook Air. As processors get faster, do they threaten to undermine desktop sales?
Malware infects space station laptops
- Malware has managed to get onto the International Space Station, NASA confirmed today. And it's not the first time that a worm or virus has made it into space.
Microsoft reveals IE8 Beta 2
- Microsoft today launched the second beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser, but declined to offer up a ship date for the final version.
Samsung's new SATA II SSD
- The new SSDs will run faster than older-generation SSDs made for low-cost PCs, Samsung said, because they include high-performance SATA II controller technology inside" /> Samsungs new SATA II SSDs
McCain's online reach surges in days before Dem convention
- In the weeks prior to the Democratic National Convention, John McCain broadly expanded his reach on the Web, as many bloggers took up his cause and his attack ads found a significant online audience.
The key to data security: Separation of duties
- Separation of duties is a key control in finance, and it should be required in information security, too. It requires that no one person is able to compromise information.
Air traffic network glitch cleared up -- for now
- A communications problem that yesterday hit a Georgia facility that processes flight plans has been corrected, according to the FAA.
Apple forgets to fix iPhone passcode bug
- A bug that affects iPhones and the iPod touch and allows unauthorized users to bypass the pass-word protection software on the devices has resurfaced after being squashed earlier this year.
Study: Grim outlook for U.S. IT spending
- U.S. companies are reining in IT spending as the economy continues to show weakness, a new survey has found.
Review: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 offers some nifty new features
- Microsoft's latest beta of Internet Explorer 8 includes better tab management, new services such as Web Slices and Accelerators, and an interesting feature some are calling 'porn mode.'
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