How much is x.biz or .ge.biz worth? That's the question NeuStar is asking the Internet e-commerce community as it adds one- and two-character names to the .biz domain and makes them available to the highest bidders.
What started out as an upgrade to the phone system at Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center became a badly needed network overhaul that lowered costs and included a conversion to VoIP.
IBM researchers said today they have developed software that uses optical character recognition and screen scraping to identify and cover up confidential data.
One of my favorite clients was Shaun B. Higgins, when he was CFO and later European president for the bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises. Shaun is a character, and he enjoyed repeating that funny and useful axiom, "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." From Shaun, I learned an important lesson about innovation: Innovators need to know where they are going and behave as if what they're doing is the most natural thing in the world.
Vonage Holdings is adding unlimited free calls to countries including Mexico and China, plus speech-to-text conversion of voicemail, to its fixed-line VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service.
Ricardo Montalban, the actor who showed range playing the villainous Khan character in "Star Trek," as well as the suave host of the "Fantasy Island" TV series, has died at the age of 88 in Los Angeles.
In the 1997 science fiction thriller Gattaca, Ethan Hawke's character fights to make a life for himself in a world where pervasive genetic testing and manipulation has left the imperfect by the wayside. At the time, it was easy to dismiss the film as a futuristic flight of fancy, not an issue that people would be facing in the next 10 years. After all, the Humane Genome Initiative already had spent years trying to sequence a single man's DNA, and had years left to go.
At least 340 of the estimated 500 public companies required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin filing financial data in the XBRL format in June have made the conversion, according to a survey from XBRL US, a nonprofit standards group.
Twitter's growing popularity has yielded one unusual result: It has exposed the frailty of writing skills in the business world. You can fudge bad writing in a 20-slide presentation, but not in a 140-character tweet. From abbreviation-laden tweets with no discernible value, to tweets that fail to compel followers to click through on a link, examples abound. The process of constructing a good Twitter message takes careful thought, time and analysis.
Over the past year, we’ve had two ongoing story lines about fast DSL and slow Ethernet services. The first one involved Steve’s conversion to “business DSL” services for his SOHO location. The second, more recently, involved metro Ethernet services in general, and in particular the introduction of mid-band metro Ethernet services.
* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass discusses the differences between MySQL character data types
* Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses the costs of data across a WAN
The industry has produced several well-documented mechanisms to support a transition to IPv6, including the dual-stack approach, translation (the direct conversion of protocols between IPv4 and IPv6) and tunneling. These mechanisms are amply documented by a family of RFCs. IPv6’s designers have developed mechanisms and address types so that IPv6 nodes can communicate with one another in a mixed environment, even if they are supported at the core by an IPv4 infrastructure.
VoIP start-up Ooma will offer free long-distance service in the United States for customers of its VoIP conversion appliance. The company competes against traditional carriers and VoIP providers such as Vonage.
"The Devil Wears Prada" movie may be set at a glamorous top women's magazine, but experts are quick to point out that the management style exhibited by the character Miranda Priestly is definitely not fashionable.
The latest round of Mac advertisements tickles me. Despite not having used an Apple since my dearly departed and much beloved IIe, I must confess I laughed as the company's "Hi, I'm a Mac" character poked fun at Windows by comparing the Mac's device compatibility and "straight-out-of-the-box" functions to Windows' cumbersome driver and update requirements. I was amused not least because, while compatibility is a big part of Mac's consumer success, it has never been a strong suit for Apple in the enterprise
American Power Conversion (APC) this week announced a series of small footprint coolers for data center servers that are able to chill up to 30 kilowatts per rack.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology pranksters celebrated this past Tuesday’s debut of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Halo 3 by transforming the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard into the Master Chief character from the much anticipated video game.
Our three-PC network workgroup uses Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) to connect to the ISP using dial-up. A Windows 2000 PC is loaded with a PCI 56K bit/sec modem. When we select "on-demand dial" so the other PCs can dial out on it, a 15-character password overrides the correct saved password for the dial-up account, and no authentication occurs. It seems to be a local system account. How do I get the correct dial-up password to not change?
American Power Conversion (APC), a maker of uninterruptible power supplies for servers and workstations, has fixed a problem with its PowerChute management software that could disable servers and cause downtime for customers.
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that a single superfluous character in its own development code is responsible for the bug that has let hackers exploit Internet Explorer (IE) since early July.
Microsoft will force an upgrade on users of its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging software in September to plug a hole the company introduced when a programmer added an extra character to a code library.
Microsoft will force an upgrade on users of its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging software in September to plug a hole the company introduced when a programmer added an extra character to a code library.
Microsoft will force an upgrade on users of its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging software in September to plug a hole the company introduced when a programmer added an extra character to a code library.