Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this Google-dominated market.
Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this Google-dominated market.
A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday.
My phone rang at 8:30 a.m. one day last week, which isn't that strange an occurrence. East coast PR people sometimes seem to think that, since Network World publishes my stuff I must live in Massachusetts. But this call was from someone in the Mountain Time zone who happened to be in California that day. It was Idan Shoham, M-Tech Technology's CTO, and he wanted to make sure I was OK since I wasn't on the list for his press conference that morning. The event would be "interesting" was all that he would say
To prepare for your job as a computer technologist, you've gotten your college degree and earned your technical IT certifications. But do you have your private investigator (PI) license in hand? If you live or conduct work in Texas or a handful of other states, you may need one if you plan to retrieve forensics data from a computer, analyze it and provide a report to a customer.
Soti is about to go live with an expanded version of its MobiControl mobility management software. Version 11 offers full support for Samsung KNOX Android security, a user-based licensing option, new self-service features for bring-your-own-device end users, and support for iOS 7, Windows Phone 8.1 and other platforms.
Earlier this month I urged readers to attend a live chat about NAC between Joel Snyder and Richard Steinnon because these two experts have strong, divergent and well-informed opinions.
A live test of a new service that automatically scans travelers' passports using computer technology debuted at the San Francisco International Airport Friday.
Microsoft thinks its Live Search can match Google in some areas now, but the company has been the underdog in search for so long it's not even trying to lure users away from its rival -- at least not yet.
For IT education I have to say, you just can't beat Network World (and I say that not just because I work here!. After spending only minutes at NetworkWorld.com I was astounded by the amount of educational material that's available to our readers - from white papers, to technology research centers to product tests and technology primers. Last week, we added to the wealth of material with the launch of Network World IT Video, and announced the addition of Network World IT Roadmap Conference & Expo to our li
More than a month after it went live, a couple of large questions remain about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' botched launch of HealthCare.gov.
More than a month after it went live, a couple of large questions remain about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' botched launch of HealthCare.gov.
Microsoft is using the same tactic for its online services that made its Internet Explorer browser ubiquitous among Internet users. With new beta technology it's releasing Wednesday, Microsoft is tying its Windows Live services directly to its Windows OS.
The ISIS Mobile Wallet went live on Thursday, bringing NFC-powered shopping to consumers across the U.S. through a venture backed by three of the nation's top four carriers.
The ISIS Mobile Wallet went live on Thursday, bringing NFC-powered shopping to consumers across the U.S. through a venture backed by three of the nation's top four carriers.
Whether Nortel will be able to return to its previous market stature remains to be seen. But either way, look for bold moves reflecting the intent to live or die by the sword.
Jim participated in a recent Network World online chat on the topic of application performance management and WAN acceleration. The way these chats work is that for an hour Network World readers type in questions and Jim types his response. All of this occurs live. Since Jim is not the world's fastest typist he did not provide the most in depth answers to some of the questions. As a result, we are going to use the next several newsletters to expand on the answers to the questions that were raised by the Ne
Shout.tv wanted to attract millions of fans of sports and other live events to play sponsored trivia games for cash and prizes. But each game was like a DDoS attack on its data centers. As a solution, the company turned to a distributed database management system called NuoDB.
Microsoft Tuesday expanded the capabilities of its Windows Live ID service by adding support for single sign-on for its Windows Live services and making it possible for users to sign up for an ID from a mobile device.
Tom Rusin, President of Affinion Security Center, has me scared that hackers are trading my personal and credit card information all over the Web. His company uses monitoring of underground chat rooms and other sources to help keep customers credit safe and he recently gave me a live look at the hacker underground in action. Amazing how much of this information is being traded every minute.