Tyler Simpson knows a lot about reviewing tech products. The Seattle 14-year-old and his friend, Brandon Keller, have created several YouTube channels, including ThatAppleGeek, where they review products and report on technology.
A number of vendors have released flash drives that combine eSATA and USB connectivity to offer high-speed data transfer and portability in one small device. Kanguru announced its eFlash eSATA drive in November. Then, in December, Advanced Media Inc.'s Ridata-brand and OCZ Technology Inc. unveiled an eSATA-enabled flash drive with up to 32GB capacity.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an earlier decision that Apple did not infringe four patents of Samsung Electronics in its mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad.
Microsoft's answer to Adobe Flash and Flex and several other RIA (rich Internet application) and AJAX frameworks, Silverlight arrived with a flourish just over one year ago. Silverlight 1.0 (see my October 2007 review) manipulated its multimedia-savvy, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) user interface using JavaScript. Silverlight 1.1, which added support for compiled .Net languages and supported more of the .Net API, was available at that time only as an alpha test.
Have you ever wondered what your professional references say about you when prospective employers call them? Perhaps you suspect that one or more of your references isn't providing the glowing review of you that he or she promised when you were laid off. How do you find out if bad references are preventing you from obtaining job offers?
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has pledged to review the transparency of its trade negotiations after criticism over its recent decision to withhold information on an intellectual-property trade agreement.
India's Supreme Court has declined to review its earlier order to cancel 122 mobile licenses in 22 service areas, that will affect the Indian joint ventures of Telenor, Emirates Telecommunications, NTT DoCoMo and Sistema.
The move to standardize processes has gone overboard, say M. Eric Johnson and Joseph M. Hall in this month's Harvard Business Review. Some processes, they argue, are more akin to art than science and need to be treated that way. Johnson, a professor of operations management and director of the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, told Kathleen Melymuka why artistic processes are essential in IT and how to know when you need one.
As I've mentioned in the four-part textbook review in recent issues, one of the most important tools of quantitative risk management is the annualized loss expectancy. The ALE is calculated by using probabilities of events (as the name implied, calculated over a period of a year) and the expected costs associated with those events.
In my last column, I began responding to a former student who recently wrote to me with a request for suggestions on what to read in preparing for the CISSP exam. In this second article, I review some valuable Web sites for such preparation.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an earlier decision that found Samsung Electronics' products infringed four patents owned by Apple.
In my last three columns, I began responding to a former student who recently wrote to me with a request for suggestions on what to read in preparing for the CISSP exam. In this fourth and last article, I suggest a few valuable (albeit sometimes expensive) books and some (free) review materials for such preparation.
In the last few newsletters we discussed some of the key topics that were highlighted on the recently completed six-city network and application optimization seminar tour that was produced by Network World and moderated by Jim Metzler. In this newsletter we are going to review some of the most common questions that were asked by the seminar attendees.
We’ve used many newsletters to describe how VoIP works; this week, we’d like to review some basics on how video over IP works. As with voice, for video to be put into an IP packet it first must be converted into digital format and, as is also the case with voice, digital video is then compressed to maximize both bandwidth efficiency and to ensure quality presentation. Like voice, video is encoded at the origination point for transmission and then decoded at the end terminal.
Five members of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee have asked the FCC to review all available spectrum controlled by the Department of Defense and try to find ways to make LightSquared's proposed mobile broadband network possible.
Today, we’d like to offer a quick review of what to consider when managing VoIP performance, and refer our readers to a great on-demand Webcast that provides a technical discussion of the issues that may affect VoIP performance in an end-to-end scenario.
I got a nice note the other day from my former student Karthik Raman. Karthik was the valedictorian of the 2006 graduating class at Norwich University and also the gang boss for several years over the students who worked on the INFOSEC Year in Review database. Karthik is working in the McAfee Avert Labs these days, and he's just published his first contribution to their blog.
New U.S. President Barack Obama promised during his campaign to post all nonemergency legislation on WhiteHouse.gov before signing it as a way to allow the public to review and comment on it.
The breakneck pace of today's business environment makes quick wins critical. But for 40% of new leaders, striving for such wins leads to failure. In this month's Harvard Business Review, Mark E. Van Buren and Todd Safferstone, practice manager and managing director, respectively, of the Corporate Executive Board, look at how the pursuit of quick wins affected the successes and failures of 5,400 new leaders. They talked with Kathleen Melymuka about their findings.
The House Judiciary Committee last week sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting it delay a final decision in the proposed AT&T/BellSouth merger until the District Court of the District of Columbia completes its review of SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI deals.