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Facebook Offers Users More Privacy Choices By - Reuters | Article Published December 09, 2009 Facebook will provide users with more ways to limit who sees their postings, photos and videos –– but will also allow them to expose their information to a wider Web audience. Tags: network, Google, privacy, policy, Facebook Regulators Mull Consumer Privacy Guidlines By - Reuters | Article Published December 08, 2009 With an ocean of consumer privacy being gathered, the Federal Trade Commission met to discuss guidelines on how firms use that data to advertise. Tags: privacy, FTC, policy, bug, Google Cyber Threats Threaten Feds Daily By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published November 11, 2009 Security professionals at civilian agencies said that independent foreign hackers and poorly coded software gave them the most headaches. Tags: authentication, metrics, security, review, policy Enterprises Need "Real Time Web" Strategy By David Needle | Article Published November 03, 2009 Real-time services range from Twitter to IM to online conferencing to company wikis -- each can updated without an editorial filter. Tags: network, Socialcast, services, policy, Enterprise Intel CEO Forecasts Big Second Half By David Needle | Article Published October 23, 2009 PC sales will be up this year over last, with a greater boost coming in 2010, says Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Tags: Paul Otellini, Intel, chips, iPhone, policy Sensible Password Policy: Longer is Better By Paul Rubens | Article Published October 22, 2009 Sure, a 15-character password is one tough cookie, but it creates its own problems. Tags: policy, malware, security, IT, passwords Cisco's Virtual NICs Boosts its Unified Computing By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published October 12, 2009 Cisco is adding a Virtual Interface Card to its UCS system, enabling the network interface to scale up and be more flexible to the increased virtual machine traffic. Tags: marketing, server, policy, virtualization, Cisco India to be World Tech Leader, Forbes Says By - Reuters | Article Published October 12, 2009 As software companies move up in the value chain, India's strength in the service sector will emerge strongly, opines Forbes CEO Steve Forbes. Tags: software, services, media, IT Leadership, policy Enterprise IT vs. Mobile Devices By Michelle Megna | Article Published September 16, 2009 Plenty of staffers now use their personal handheld for company business, creating myriad security and policy challenges. Tags: services, iPhone, policy, mobile, wireless Facebook To Give Users More Privacy Control By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published August 28, 2009 Facebook is bowing to pressure from Canadian regulators and providing users with more options and control over how their personal information gets shared. Tags: Facebook, developer, policy, privacy, advertising Information Workers Want to Be Free By Mike Elgan | Article Published August 26, 2009 Maybe it's best to just get out of the way and let employees do what you hired them to do. Tags: browsers, marketing, video, Facebook, policy Using Sender Policy Framework to Fight Spam By Sonny Discini | Article Published August 24, 2009 Sender Policy Framework, or SPF, is getting a lot of buzz as a solution to spam. Tags: server, policy, spam, servers, e-Mail eBay Unveils App Store By Michelle Megna | Article Published August 18, 2009 Software developers gain a new marketplace, while buyers see a new source of software for business and other uses. Tags: Salesforce.com, Amazon, software, eBay, policy Businesses Need to Work on Social Media Skills By Dan Muse | Article Published August 07, 2009 More than one in three corporations have no policies concerning the use of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter in the workplace. Tags: social networking, policy, social media, Facebook, Twitter Black Hat Convention vs. Hackers By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published July 29, 2009 Would you like to be the wi-fi provider in charge of protecting the network at the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas? Tags: services, wireless, NAC, policy, Black Hat Company Mobile Costs Are Too High By Michelle Megna | Article Published July 27, 2009 Outfitting employees with mobile gear is getting costlier and companies aren't containing the expenses. Tags: policy, voice, carriers, services, wireless Tech Looks to India for R&D By - Reuters | Article Published July 21, 2009 Prompted by cost cutting fever, more tech companies are looking toward India. Tags: Microsoft, search, Intel, policy, Wimax Privacy Commissioner: Facebook Privacy Lacking By - Reuters | Article Published July 17, 2009 Facebook gets a poor grade for its efforts to protect user data, according to the Canadian privacy commissioner. Tags: social networking, privacy, policy, Facebook Social Security Numbers Easy to Hack By Alex Goldman | Article Published July 08, 2009 Researchers suggest that social security numbers are far too predictable to be of use as a national ID. Tags: privacy, e-Mail, authentication, services, policy US Gov Weighing Rewards for Safer Secure By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published June 28, 2009 As a public-private partnerships develop, U.S. government officials consider incentives. Tags: Congress, policy, Google, privacy, Senate Symantec's Touts Endpoint Service for IT Managers By Alex Goldman | Article Published June 23, 2009 Claiming "enterprise IT is broken," Symantec's new suite of products aims to fix it. Tags: services, server, security, policy, software IBM Exec Selected to Head Patent Office By Christopher Saunders | Article Published June 21, 2009 The news is considered a positive for the IT industry. Tags: Copyright, Senate, policy, Patent Reform, Congress New Linux Kernel Offers List of Improvements By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published June 11, 2009 The new Linux 2.6.30 kernel release sports new filesystem support, security and driver improvements. Tags: Intel, wireless, policy, Windows, Linux Breached VPN Reveals Corporate Insecurity By Alex Goldman | Article Published June 02, 2009 The VPN is clearly not as safe as it should be, based on recent reports. Tags: Google, policy, search, Microsoft, e-Mail Red Hat Moves JBoss to Broaden Middleware By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published May 19, 2009 Red Hat's new solution helps it broaden its open source middleware portfolio and could well bring it into more direct competition against middleware stacks from IBM and Oracle. Tags: open source, Oracle, IBM, SOA, policy IBM Touts Blackberry Integration By Alex Goldman | Article Published May 07, 2009 At the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, IBM talked up plans to upgrade productivity using the BlackBerry platform. Tags: policy, wireless, IBM, Lotus Notes, Blackberry Swine Flu Online: Panic and Bad Information By Alex Goldman | Article Published May 02, 2009 Swine flu generates oceans of noise on the Net. "The chatter about swine flu even dwarfs that of recent viral media star Susan Boyle," notes a Nielsen report. Tags: voice, search, policy, swine flu, e-Mail Facebook New Usage Policy: 'A Success' By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published April 25, 2009 Privacy experts doubt that Facebook's new policies will in fact better safeguard data. Tags: privacy, Storage, Facebook, media, policy Do We Need an FDA to Protect Our Data? By Joshua Greenbaum | Article Published April 20, 2009 It’s time we take data protection out of the realm of futility and treat our vital data like a food or a drug that needs serious oversight and safeguards. Tags: LinkedIn, policy, consumer, privacy, Facebook CNN-Kutcher Imbroglio Suggests Twitter Changes By Ed Sutherland | Article Published April 19, 2009 The CNN-Kutcher controversy may spur Twitter to adopt its long-awaited business plan. Tags: services, e-Mail, media, policy, Twitter Microsoft Unveils Apps for Crime-Fighting Data Mining By Alex Goldman | Article Published April 19, 2009 Microsoft's Citizen Safety Architecture offers apps to analyze massive amounts of data. Tags: policy, e-Mail, IBM, Microsoft, unified communications Inside Intel's Top Secret Lab By Rob Enderle | Article Published April 08, 2009 Three Intel initiatives, Confrontational Computing, Energy Aware Network Proxy, and CloneCloud, could significantly change the tech landscape. Tags: policy, Intel, video, cloud computing, malware Apple Rumor: Video Record for iPhone? By David Needle | Article Published April 07, 2009 A mysterious job listing suggests that video recording may be in the works for the iPhone. Plus: better image for the iPod? Tags: policy, video, iPhone, iPod, wireless Living with a Netbook: Battery Life to Screen Resize By Michael Horowitz | Article Published April 06, 2009 Okay, so you've bought that new Acer or Samsung netbook, but how do you extend the battery life, get the best apps and easily resize the tiny screen? Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer, netbooks, battery, policy Software Lobby Pushes for Bigger Role in U.S. Security By - Reuters | Article Published March 23, 2009 Software industry reps are seeking more influence as the U.S. government creates a policy to protect against attacks on the nation's communications infrastructure. Tags: Senate, security, policy Consumer Electronics Honcho: Gov Spending "Panic" By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published March 15, 2009 The head of the influential Consumer Electronics Association says that technology and innovation, not government spending, should led US from recession. Tags: Google, Congress, Cisco, policy, consumer Why We Need More H-1B Workers By Mike Elgan | Article Published March 11, 2009 Instead of harming American competitiveness by blocking companies from hiring the world's most skilled workers, let's instead open the floodgates and let American companies hire whomever they please -- and issue the visas that will make that possible. Tags: H-1b visa crisis, policy, technology, economy, IT Sex Ads on Craigslist Draws Fire By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published March 07, 2009 Midwestern law enforcement claims it's not going to stand for it anymore. Tags: services, policy, software, IT, sex Facebook 'Borrows' Twitter Tools By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published March 05, 2009 Although Facebook's efforts to buy Twitter has broken down, the social networking site is still inspired by Twitter. Tags: Facebook, social networking, networking, Twitter, policy Iron Mountain Offers Virtual File Archive By Judy Mottl | Article Published February 24, 2009 The venerable document archiving company touts its new "storage-as-a-service" offering. Tags: policy, IBM, search, Iron Mountain, e-Mail Experts: Cyberweapons a Must for U.S. Safety By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published February 19, 2009 The U.S. needs aggressive cyber-measures to ensure its national network security, an expert claims. Tags: services, management, security, cybersecurity, policy Google, GE Tout 'Smart Grid' By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published February 18, 2009 Given the government stimulus for a smart grid, General Electric and Google peer into the future of this new energy regime. Tags: search, Google, Senate, broadband, policy Facebook Struggles with Privacy Uproar By David Needle | Article Published February 17, 2009 Users still own and control their own information, contends Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But what about that onerous change to its Terms of Service? Tags: Google, social networking, Facebook, privacy, policy Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? By Bruce Perens | Article Published February 16, 2009 Open source advocates have approved a jaw-dropping 73 licenses, yet companies and individuals need no more than four, and in many cases just two. Tags: Linux, open source, software, policy, GPL Cisco's EnergyWise Upsets Competitors By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published February 11, 2009 The networking giant's plan to manage power though network hardware is a strategy for vendor lock-in, rivals claim. Tags: VoIP, HP, Cisco, networking, policy My IT Network Stimulus Package By David Strom | Article Published February 05, 2009 Tips to help IT administrators improve network performance, addressing issues like latency, unneeded apps and employee usage. Tags: policy, security, networking Security Players Take Aim at Anonymous Proxies By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published January 30, 2009 What your users are hiding could hurt your network. Tags: marketing, SaaS, security, policy, networking Windows Server 2008: Discover the New Active Directory Domain Services By John Policelli | Article Published January 20, 2009 Learn how the revamped Active Directory Domain Services features in Windows Server 2008 offer expanded user management flexibility and security, including fine-grained password policies. Tags: policy, server, Windows, services, Microsoft China Shuts Down 91 Web Sites By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 12, 2009 Political blogs are lumped in with sites for porn and other 'vulgar' content in China's latest 'morality' push. Tags: Microsoft, Google, media, Copyright, policy How China's '50 Cent Army' Could Wreck Web 2.0 By Mike Elgan | Article Published January 08, 2009 A mass of paid Internet commentators working for the Chinese government threatens to upend hopes for an improved online community. Tags: media, YouTube, Yahoo, policy, Digg Case Study: Leveraging Next-Gen Wi-Fi to Transform Healthcare By Lisa Phifer | Article Published January 06, 2009 Five-site rural medical center replaces legacy WLAN with new cooperative mesh to improve the quality of patient care with reduced cost and complexity. Tags: VoIP, policy, voice, Microsoft, wireless Heading Toward HAL, Creating a Single Compute Fabric By Drew Robb | Article Published January 05, 2009 With virtualization coming into the data center at warp speed, vendors are moving toward integrating all data center components into a single structure. Tags: virtualization, workloads, HP, policy, IBM Is Your iPhone the Next Virtualization Battlefield? By Amy Newman | Article Published December 19, 2008 Virtually Speaking: When it comes to virtualization, the iPhone is becoming the smartphone of choice. Tags: VMware, virtualization, policy, search, iPhone 2008: Bigger Networks and the DNS Boogyman By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published December 18, 2008 We may take how we connect to the Internet for granted, but 2008 was a very big year for networking, good and bad. Tags: policy, Cisco, Facebook, IPv6, Linux Build a Smart Smartphone Strategy By Paul Rubens | Article Published December 16, 2008 From iPhones to BlackBerries, smartphones are penetrating the enterprise. A sound strategy is crucial to get the most out of them and prevent rogue applications from taking root. Tags: Google, iPhone, open source, Microsoft, policy Keep Systems Safe With These Holiday Shopping Tips By Vangie Beal | Article Published December 11, 2008 Your employees will shop online from work this holiday season. Creating an acceptable-use policy lets you keep computers safe and employees happy without being a big old Scrooge. Tags: malware, e-Mail, policy, marketing, security eFileCabinet 4.0: Manage Documents, Compliance and Backup By Lauren Simonds | Article Published December 05, 2008 This document management software aims to help SMBs tame the paper tiger, adhere to tough compliance regulations and protect vital assets. Tags: services, search, policy, datacenter, e-Mail Microsoft, Please Release Windows Server as a Workstation By Jason Perlow | Article Published December 02, 2008 Making Windows Server 2008 into a workstation would serve many purposes and wouldn’t require too many changes. Tags: policy, virtualization, Vista, Windows, Microsoft Happy Together: Smartphones and Mobile Apps By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published December 01, 2008 Cash-strapped users are getting a lot more out of the latest mobile devices, thanks to their embrace of downloadable applications. Tags: iPhone, voice, search, Google, policy Moore's Law for Broadband or Homes With Tails? By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published November 27, 2008 Google policy analyst and Columbia professor pitch individual-ownership model to bring fiber directly to the home. Tags: Verizon, wireless, policy, Google, Intel Windows 7, More Than Just a Name Change By Paul Rubens | Article Published November 14, 2008 Windows Server 2008 has been out for just nine months, but Microsoft is already talking about the next releases of its desktop and server OSes. What it's saying speaks volumes about Redmond's thinking right now. Tags: virtualization, VMware, Linux, policy, Microsoft 12 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Don't Want You To Know By Mike Elgan | Article Published November 13, 2008 How to use technology to score the best deals on the big shopping day. Tags: software, policy, Amazon, search, e-Mail WPA-Enterprise for Small Businesses (Part 3) By Eric Geier | Article Published November 11, 2008 This third installment will continue by walking you through installing and configuring the Elektron RADIUS server. We’ve chosen this server software due to its relatively low cost ($750) and its user-friendly interface that’s quite easy to understand. Tags: Microsoft, policy, wireless, services, Windows Huffington: 'Obama Not Elected Without Internet' By David Needle | Article Published November 10, 2008 S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom complains about 'YouTubeification' of the world. Tags: Facebook, Congress, media, policy, services Windows 7 IT Pro Feature Watch List By Dries Janssens | Article Published November 10, 2008 Windows 7 promises tons of bells and whistles for users, but here are the features IT professionals will want to keep a close eye on until the OS finally ships. Tags: Vista, Windows, IPv6, policy, Microsoft Should Apple Free the iPhone? By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published November 08, 2008 Harvard law professor takes aim at device makers' restrictive app policies. Tags: Google, iPhone, Facebook, policy, wireless Who Will Be Obama's CTO? By Christopher Saunders | Article Published November 05, 2008 At least one observer thinks Google's Eric Schmidt could be tapped. Tags: economy, services, security, policy, politics Big Shifts for EMC Into Server Management By Erin Joyce | Article Published November 03, 2008 Storage giant says the move makes sense. Tags: virtualization, datacenter, policy, VMware, Storage Where Do McCain and Obama Stand on Tech? By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published November 03, 2008 With one day to go until the election, do you know the candidates' stances on key IT issues? Tags: search, policy, spectrum, Net Neutrality, privacy Report: UC Aims to Combat 'Human Latency' By Brian T. Horowitz | Article Published October 30, 2008 As many as 84 percent of companies are deploying—or planning to deploy—unified communications. Tags: policy, unified communications, voice, e-Mail, services 50 Must-Have Open Source Tools for Security By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published October 29, 2008 Software for anti-spam, firewalls, forensics, encryption, log monitoring, passwords, and more. Tags: Linux, e-Mail, policy, open source, Windows Mr. Wi-Fi Goes to Washington? By Jeff Goldman | Article Published October 23, 2008 Obama’s and McCain’s policies regarding wireless technology and the Internet may not be front and center in media coverage of their campaigns, but their differences are worth a look. Tags: FCC, policy, spectrum, services, wireless Managing Servers in the Cloud By Amy Newman | Article Published October 09, 2008 Virtually Speaking: Load balancing is tricky stuff, but it gets even more complex when the workloads are a mix real and virtual. Tags: policy, Windows, virtualization, Linux, workloads Fears Spread About Online Bank Runs By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published October 08, 2008 With the rise in Internet banking, officials at home and abroad caution about how rapidly Web users can spur massive withdrawals after a loss of confidence in their bank. Tags: consumer, Copyright, policy, media, server |
