Sure, you may have scored more than 150 on the standardized IQ test, you may party hearty with Mensa Mommas -- but what's that actually worth in the real world? Diddly. If you truly want to know how smart you are when it counts, then InfoWorld's Geek IQ test is the puzzler for you. Answer the 20 questions below, and we'll add up your score and let you know how you measure up. Even a suit can follow those directions. And remember: Googling every question will not give you an accurate score. Got a beef or wa
The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched a pilot program to test whether early rulings on identified crucial issues in some investigations could limit unnecessary litigation, saving time and costs for all sides.
Sometimes a little advanced thinking can save a world of time and effort in the end. That's the premise behind products from Anue Systems, an Austin-based company that provides test and measurement appliances to help customers replicate traffic to determine how the network will respond.
We all know grocery shopping on an empty stomach and without a list in hand is dangerous if you expect to satisfy more than your immediate cravings. Likewise, shopping for network acceleration gear requires a clear understanding of current requirements as well as future expectations if you want to make a wise decision.
The Kenya ICT Board has been chosen to lead the Ministry of Lands digitization process, testing the board's ability to undertake the government's digitization and incorporate local technical providers.
In a bid to combat cheating and to "protect the value of certifications" Cisco now requires all exam takers to provide digital photos and digital signatures during the admission process at Pearson VUE, Cisco's primary test centers.
In this Clear Choice Test of corporate IM platform IBM Lotus Sametime tops competing products from Jabber, Microsoft, Gordano, Jive Software and Serial Scientific Intl by providing a plethora of communication options, integration with other IM products, ease of use, scalability and security.
The West African Examination Council on Thursday launched WAEC Direct Sierra Leone Online Service, a system that allows students to check their transcripts and test results online.
For school IT administrators, summertime is usually spent at work rather than on the beach. Many technologists who work in K-12 education use the months of July and August to brush up on technical skills, take classes, run summer computer camps, and most importantly, to test, install and integrate new technologies that will be used in the fall when the kids come back to school.
Self-driving cars will be tested on road in the U.K. by the end of this year, but will have drivers present in the cars, according to a report from the Department for Transport.
Verizon this week said it successfully completed its part of a four-nation, two week interoperability test of IP Multimedia Subsystem network equipment, which was orchestrated by the industry association MultiService Forum.
Embarq, an Internet service provider based in Kansas, has suspended its test of a targeted advertising service that tracks subscribers' Web habits as a way to deliver relevant ads.
China Mobile and Ericsson have joined forces to trial the City Site, a four meter tall panel that includes a base station and an antenna customized for hotspot coverage.
If you’re in the market for SSL VPN equipment, or have even just thought about it, you should check out our insanely thorough review and testing package. We put 11 products through their paces. We checked them for everything from application interoperability to authentication to manageability. And we picked a winner.
SSL VPNs dissected
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2005/121905-ssl-test-intro.html?net&story=121905-ssl-test-intro
We hope to cash in on the promise of that adage, as we are in what we hope is the final days of the industry's first comprehensive performance test of network application acceleration devices.
Is the free VoIP service provided by Skype a security risk? We called in Ed Mier and his team to thoroughly evaluate the security aspects of Skype. What they found was both surprising and strangely reassuring.
Test: Assessing Skype's network impact
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2005/121205-skype-test.html?net&story=121205-skype-test
Early last week a pair of finance industry organizations kicked off a pandemic flu exercise that runs though Oct. 12. The purpose of the exercise is threefold: to help financial firms understand the potential risks a pandemic poses to the sector; to provide an opportunity for firms to test their pandemic plans; and to examine how the effect of a pandemic flu on other critical infrastructures will impact the financial services sector
Discovering that your online street smarts aren't up to snuff has got to sting, yet more than a half-million individuals have unflinchingly summoned the courage to take MailFrontier's Phishing IQ Test since July 2004. Because we thrive on danger in the news profession, I made two decisions last week: I'd take the test myself; and I'd reveal the results here no matter how abysmal my score.
If your organization requires proof of each network vulnerability with a penetration test, then you are focusing on the wrong problem. With new vulnerabilities being disclosed daily, it should be assumed that all applications are exploitable. Modern networks should be focused on minimizing their attack surface, and vulnerability scanning is the best choice for this task.
Today, we're wrapping up the series of guest commentary columns from Jim Cavanagh. In this column, Jim points out that even though we've been focusing on E-911 from the perspective of VoIP, there are many traditional nets for which E-911 has not yet been fully and effectively implemented.
Businesses with certain Microsoft memberships and service agreements can now download the near-final version of Windows 8.1 to test with an eye toward enterprise deployment, the company says.
Skype has made available a test version of its latest upgrade, Skype 4.0, which the eBay unit calls its biggest and most ambitious release in its almost five-year history.
Nowadays it's not enough to just test an application in pre-production or monitor an application for performance. Vendors need to provide customers with an all-in-one product to manage the lifecycle, meaning they help customers design better application code, test more scenarios prior to production and then finally manage the application under real-world conditions.