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  • 29 August 2011

  • News: Groups ask FCC to rule against BART's mobile phone shutdown

    Digital rights groups ask the U.S. FCC to rule against BART's decision to shut down mobile phone service during a planned protest.

  • News: Peer-to-peer, wireless network could help in disasters

    A Georgia Tech professor envisions greater reliance on device-to-device communications using typical consumer phones after a disaster.

  • News: Red Cross comm team ready for disasters

    While most businesses back up data and records as potential disasters approach, the American Red Cross has a communications and information systems infrastructure built to bring key data into areas ravaged by storms like Hurricane Irene.

  • News: Irene takes out cell towers, disrupts communications

    Communications networks took a hit from Hurricane Irene with 1,400 cell towers and cell sites damaged or disrupted mainly in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday.

  • News: Read me: Four social-media sites for bookworms

    When I was twelve, my local library had a summer reading competition, aptly titled “How many books can you read?” Every interested kid could grab a poster, which had space for the names of fifty books, along with recommendations at the bottom of the page for those who weren’t sure where to start. And, for motivation, there were prizes.

  • News: Budget cuts and uncertainty ahead for Indian outsourcers

    Economic problems in the U.S. are likely to lead to cuts in IT budgets, of up to 10 percent in some cases, according to a report released Monday by Offshore Insights, a research and advisory firm in Pune, India.

  • News: Dell to launch public cloud service this year

    Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services.

  • News: VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres

    Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday.

  • News: Microsoft: TPC should also measure database availability

    The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microsoft researchers plan to argue at the upcoming TPC conference, being held this week in Seattle.

  • News: Scala: The Android programming language you didn't know you had

    Statically typed Java language pushed as alternative to JRuby and Groovy for building mobile Android apps

  • News: CIOs offered course on supplier negotiation tactics

    The next generation of CIOs are being offered specialist supplier negotiating skills to help prevent them being "ripped off".

  • 27 August 2011

  • News: GCSEs: Dramatic fall in ICT student numbers

    E-skills UK has warned of an alarming 23 percent fall in the number of students taking a GCSE in ICT.

  • News: Women in IT called to be role models

    The University of Chichester is calling for women in technology to get involved in a careers session to help encourage young girls into the industry.

  • 26 August 2011

  • News: Cloud-Based Storage Improves Disaster Recovery at Situs

    When Bill McCown joined The Situs Companies six years ago, the Houston-based real estate consulting firm was anticipating growth, and the company figured its tape-based backup systems would need to be upgraded. Then came September 2008, when Hurricane Ike slammed into Houston. "Our data center stayed up but our office didn't have power for a week," recalls McCown, who is the director of IT for the firm. While employees in other locations had access to the data center, the central office was offline and out of the communications loop.

  • News: China yanks video that leaked hacking tool

    The state-run China Central Television network has yanked a video that inadvertently included a short clip of a cyber-attack tool targeting Falun Gong websites.

  • News: Should You Sue Your Offshore Outsourcing Provider?

    Dispute resolution is always an important consideration when outsourcing IT. If that fails, however, you can always sue if your provider has breached the contract.

  • News: DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams

    As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity.

  • News: The Challenges of Competing with Cloud Computing Providers

    In discussions about cloud computing and in comments readers leave on my blog posts, I commonly get statements along the lines of "Yeah, this cloud computing stuff sounds great, but at the end of the day, you have to have an IT guy solving problems like they've always done." In personal interactions, I often hear this sentiment portrayed as, "Public cloud computing is fine for the SMB and startup market, but enterprises aren't ready to move to that model." The tone of much of this feedback is that anyone who advocates cloud computing is at best naive or at worst incapable of understanding the real details of IT.

  • News: Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people

    Google+ has a new option that will enable users to take a simple step to 'ignore' people on the social networking site.

  • News: Bugs & Fixes: Safari web content maladies

    If you're running Safari 5.1, whether under Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, there's a good chance you're not altogether pleased with how well it's running. At least that's the reaction I hear from many of my colleagues as well as what I see on numerous forum postings. From the myriad of reported Safari 5.1 issues, I've chosen to focus here on a pair of related problems.

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