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Sidekick Users Burned by Danger in the Cloud October 12, 2009 
Users of T-Mobile's smartphone, the Sidekick, suddenly found themselves without address books, calendars, to-do lists and photos -- data that the carrier had been maintaining through a subsidiary of Microsoft called "Danger," which hosts back-end services for mobile companies.
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Privacy in the Public Cloud: Q&A With Terremark Exec Jason Lochhead October 12, 2009 
When Amazon began offering cheap pay-as-you-go access to computing resources in the cloud to the public, it broke new ground. Independent developers, small businesses and individual departments of large businesses leaped at the chance to work on projects while keeping infrastructure costs down.
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The Cutting Edge of Law Enforcement Technologies October 06, 2009 
Not so long ago, Motorola was hailed as the bane of criminals. "You might outrun the cop, but you'll never outrun Motorola," went the saying. The Motorola two-way radio was one of the first technologies to tip the scales in favor of law enforcement. However, it was by no means the last.
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Bento Takes Up Photography With v3 October 05, 2009 
A new version of the database for the rest of us was released by FileMaker recently. The program, Bento 3, is designed for people who, in most cases, wouldn't touch a database with a fork. Its original version actually made creating databases fun. Its latest version adds to the frivolity. Chief among the Bento's new features is better integration with Apple's iLife application iPhoto.
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HP Works Macs Into the Media Server Mix September 28, 2009 
There's more for Mac users to like in a pair of media servers unwrapped this month by HP. The new media servers, the MediaSmart EX590 and EX495, offer an array of new features aimed at Apple-using households. They can collect media from Macs on a home network. Media collection can be automated so as new photos, video or music are added to a Mac on the Net, they will be automatically copied to the server.
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Bolstering BI With Web Data Services September 27, 2009 
The explosion of information from across the Web, from mobile devices, inside of social networks, and from the extended business processes that organizations are now employing, all provide an opportunity, but they also provide a challenge. This information can play a critical role in allowing organizations to gather and refine analytics into new market strategies and better buying decisions.
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Wii Goes to War September 25, 2009 
For years, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 have been gut-punching each other with price cuts while the Nintendo Wii just sits on the sidelines with a smug little grin on its face. While the two bigger consoles entered the market with huge MSRPs, the Wii planted itself at $250 and stayed there for nearly three years, easily beating the others month after month in units sold.
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Managing the Long Tail of Digital Storage September 24, 2009 
"The IRS isn't interested in the show that flopped." If you're unfamiliar with that line, it's straight out of the Broadway musical The Producers, which was a notoriously over-the-top story about how to increase profit by making something, a product, that does not strike it big.
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5 Keys for Full Recovery in the Cloud September 21, 2009 
While cloud computing is a familiar term, its definitions can vary greatly. So when it comes to online backup, the cloud is an important feature that can play a large role in securing and protecting during a disaster, which I like to refer to as "cloud recovery." In order to be worthy of this cloud recovery title, a solution should have the following five features.
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Seagate Lifts Home Networks to the Cloud September 16, 2009 
Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has come up with a new way to attack the chaotic home entertainment market: Let users create their own personal information clouds. On Tuesday, it unveiled its FreeAgent Theater + high-definition media player; and on Wednesday it announced the FreeAgent DockStar network adapter.
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New Dell Product Spurs Electronic Medical Records Adoption September 10, 2009 
Dell is expanding its electronic medical records offerings with a new hardware, software and service bundle designed to help hospitals ease the transition from paper to digital records. The service is an end-to-end solution that touches upon all aspects of this process in the hospital setting.
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When Microsoft Exchange Availability Matters the Most September 10, 2009 
The average worker checks email once every 15 minutes, recent studies have shown, with some users checking email as often as 40 times per hour. In addition, increasing use of personal mobile devices means that employees have become attached to their email at all times, with some checking their device as soon as each email arrives.
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Cloud Computing, or Everything as a Service September 03, 2009 
If you ask anyone today to define "cloud computing," there is slim chance you will get agreement on an exact definition. It is one of those emerging technologies that everyone knows they want to get into, but no one seems to know why or what the real benefit is. There is a lot of promise, but very few companies have realized tangible benefits from such services.
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When the Lawyers Come Knocking: Info Management and E-Discovery August 31, 2009 
Today, the discussion is on gaining control over information sprawl at enterprises. We'll take a look at the short-term and potentially massive savings from thwarting legal discovery fulfillment problems in advance by controlling information. And we'll examine how management life cycle approaches can bring long-term payoffs through better analytics and regulatory compliance.
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Distilling ERP Data Into Tasty BI Brew August 13, 2009 
Globalization, supply chain complexity, and commodity and currency volatility combine to produce mountains of business data. In the past, just being able to collect and manage the data was task enough, but now companies are looking to mine the data mountain to drive actionable value. Enterprise resource planning systems provide much-needed capabilities.
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Toshiba Finds a Spot at the Blu-ray Lunch Table August 11, 2009 
If Toshiba's announcement 18 months ago that it was dropping the HD-DVD format was the anticlimatic thud that ended the DVD format wars, Tuesday's announcement that it would join the Blu-ray Disc Association was little more than a dull echo. However, it did settle one important question: whether the one-time champion of HD-DVD would refuse to go along with Blu-ray.
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