This is the second in a series of three newsletters intended to demonstrate that the next generation branch office represents a multi-year migration away from branch offices that are IT-heavy to ones that are IT-lite and that as part of this migration, the WAN plays an ever increasing role in application delivery. This newsletter will discuss how IT organizations migrated away from having branch offices that are IT-heavy and in so doing, created the performance and management challenges associated with App
Research lauded at the 21st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Thursday night ran the gamut from discovering beetles that mate with beer bottles to understanding the effect having to pee has on thinking.
A security researcher is asserting that Apple has made a poor security decision by allowing its Safari browser to honor requests from third-party applications to perform actions such as making a phone call without warning a user.
The story goes that when computer scientist Alan Kay began walking out of a banquet room in 2004 with the A.M. Turing Award he had just been given for his breakthrough work on object-oriented programming, he was stopped by someone who thought he was absconding with a table ornament instead of his "Nobel Prize in Computing."
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against electronics reseller Wintergreen Systems, alleging that the company didn't honor rebates it offered for some items and took as long as two years to fulfill other rebates.
Adobe's Flash Lite multimedia player is spreading like wildfire on mobile phones, according to third-party statistics released by the company on Monday.
Perhaps the Next iPhone won't be called iPhone 5 but the Zombie iPhone, in honor of the new spate of rumors that the late Steve Jobs is still with us in a sense, as the chief designer of the upcoming handset.
My friend and colleague Prof. Michael Miora, president of ContingenZ, recently achieved the distinction of being named a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute. I asked him to write about the BCI and the honor he has received and am delighted to present his report.
The European Commission fined Microsoft a massive €899 million (US$1.3 billion) for continued failure to honor the 2004 antitrust ruling against it, Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes said Wednesday.
Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.
Microsoft is appealing the US$1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday.
Don't feel bad if you don't really know anything about 5G wireless networking – because, by most standards, it doesn't actually exist yet. The cross-pollination of codified specifications, new products, and technological innovation required hasn't yet brought 5G to fruition.
After a mammoth October Patch Tuesday that was followed up by an emergency patch a week later, Microsoft is going lite on the security updates this month with two new fixes slated for tomorrow. One fixes a bug in Windows and Office, the other fixes a less critical flaw in Windows. Be on the lookout Tuesday around 1 p.m. EST for the updates.
Samsung Electronics is readying an entrant to the increasingly important low-end of the mobile device market with the Galaxy Tab3 Lite, which is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor.
On Halloween, zombies may rise from the dead to eat your brains. But computer zombies eat your bandwidth 24/7 with spam, phishing scams and other scary stuff. In this week’s A Wider Net, we honor Halloween by pitting the two kinds of zombies head to head.
Dawn of the digital dead
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Some of the most futuristic features envisioned in networked cars will depend on 5G mobile technology that probably won't be available in full until 2020, according to Ericsson's chief technology officer.