Date: 09/21/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

Master data management will be part of Office 14, a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of which is due in the first quarter of 2008. That's according to a September 19 blog post by Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist "PatricG." Master data management is technology...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=728

Date: 09/21/07 (Security)    Keywords: technology, security

Executive offers advice on how to combat growing security threats linked to use of Bluetooth-equipped devices. With Bluetooth wireless features fast becoming commonplace on mobile devices, users need to be aware of the security vulnerabilities linked to the technology, said a Symantec executive. A study by research...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6209361.html

Date: 09/21/07 (Security)    Keywords: technology, security

Technology to help tackle problem of data loss from corporate mobile devices, but the tools won't exist until 2012, Gartner says. LONDON--Virtualization will be a key technology to help companies beef up security on corporate mobile devices, Gartner says. The technology is predicted to be used to...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6209332.html

Date: 09/24/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology

Simple Thoughts has always been about technology. However occasionally I like to post something humorous. Today I was browsing through the archives looking for a smile at the end of my day. I collected the 12 best humorous posts since 2006. I present them to you in no particular order: Action Hero Gandhi 2 (trailer) - [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-12-best-of-humor-in-simple-thoughts/

Date: 09/27/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology, web

A newly published Apple Patent application entitled eCards from multiple users appears to describe technology that may point to Apple offering e-cards where multiple users could digitally sign the card. The Patent application specifically refers to an "ecard website" where this could be...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2459

Date: 10/01/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology

"This is a bigger shift with SOA. The need to integrate applications ourside your enterprise is more real. Ignoring the larger technology movement will be a real problem for vendors."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/163724775/

Date: 10/02/07 (Security)    Keywords: technology

Hypervisor technology cannot be used to hide rootkits from detection, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford researchers. Rootkits that use virtualization techniques should not present detection problems, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities. Working with virtualization technology vendors VMware and XenSource,...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6211166.html

Date: 10/03/07 (Security)    Keywords: technology, spyware

Center for Democracy and Technology's Ari Schwartz says the import of a recent ruling should be a boon to the global antispyware community. In a case that threatened to undermine the effectiveness of antispyware technology, a federal court last month sided with consumers when it ruled that companies...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2010-1009_22-6211302.html

Date: 10/03/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, technology, virus

Respiratory therapist, fired after porn bookmarks were found on a hospital computer, unsuccessfully uses the virus-did-it claim. Police Blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Hospital respiratory therapist files lawsuit against hospital for unlawful termination, blaming malicious software...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6211377.html

Date: 10/03/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology

EDS and Sabre Holdings extended and renegotiated a long running information technology services deal to 2014. Under the extension, EDS said Wednesday that it will garner new revenue of about $630 million. The new agreement requires that EDS support "Sabre's continued business transformation, including its move to open systems."...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6497

Date: 10/05/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: software, technology

This post is part of a series of myths I've heard mentioned during discussion with Kusnetzky Group clients. This time, the topic is expertise requirements. Often suppliers of virtualization technology in general and virtual machine software in specific leave the impression that their technology can be just dropped into the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=250

Date: 10/11/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology

Data centers now account for almost a fourth of carbon dioxide emissions caused by IT operations, according to analyst firm. The intense power requirements needed to run and cool data centers now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from information and communications technology, according...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6212965.html

Date: 10/13/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology

Two patent trolls, Technology Licensing Corp. of Nevada and IP Innovation, a unit of Acacia Technologies, haved filed suit against Novell and Red Hat for alleged violations of U.S. Patent 5,072,412, which covers a "User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects."

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/169384457/

Date: 10/15/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology

It was promised long ago, but today they finally released their "operational testing" version of YouTube's copyright filter. They have been testing the extremely complicated technology with media partners such as Disney, Time Warner and CBS. There are no clear details as to how content creators...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=770

Date: 10/18/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, technology

The IP firm that filed patent litigation against Red Hat and Novell mounted legal threats against many other U.S. software companies in 2007 including Oracle, SAP, Computer Associates, EMC, Adobe, Autodesk, Apple, SPSS — and Novell. That’s right. In late August, the Newport Beach, Calif. –based Acacia Technology Licensing’ subsidiary Disc Link Corp. [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/171698522/

Date: 10/22/07 (Code WTF)    Keywords: technology

krb5-1.6.2/src/kdc/kerberos_v4.c
* Copyright 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988,1991 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

static void
hang(void)
{
    ...
        char buf[256];
        sprintf(buf,
           "Kerberos will wait %d seconds before dying so as not to loop init",
                (int) pause_int);
        klog(L_KRB_PERR, buf);
        sleep((unsigned) pause_int);
        klog(L_KRB_PERR, "Do svedania....\n");
    ...
}

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/code_wtf/108532.html

Date: 10/25/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Apple's search technology Spotlight is getting a serious makeover in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: speedier performance, a greater reach for its searches and an overall improvement in its usability. However, the new version appears to use a different format for its indexing and some folks qualifying Leopard report trouble...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=976

Date: 10/26/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Move to put the artwork online in high resolution will let art lovers and conspiracy theorists alike scrutinize it from their own computers. A high-resolution image of Da Vinci's Last Supper will soon be posted on the Internet by an Italian technology firm. The move will allow...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6215435.html

Date: 10/29/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: technology

Hewlett-Packard has scored another real-world deployment of its Dynamic Smart Cooling technology, which became commercially available earlier this month. The project, located in Bangalore, India, consolidates 14 different research lab data centers into a 70,000-square-foot high density facility. The technology within the lab consolidates a mix of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=450

Date: 11/01/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: technology, security

I'm looking to exchange the laptop that I recently bought for something that will play Second Life more easily. The one I currently have freezes and crashes during the game and after some asking around, I discovered that the Intel graphics card isn't supported by Second Life.

Could someone please tell me if the specs under the cut will enable me smooth playing for the following recommendations from SL?

SL Recommendations:

• Internet Connection*: Cable or DSL
• Operating System: XP or Vista
• Computer Processor: 1.5 GHz (XP), 2-GHz (Vista) 32-bit (x86) or better
• Computer Memory: 1 GB or more
• Video/Graphics Card**:
  • Nvidia Graphics cards (6000 series: 6700, 6800; 7000 series: 7600, 7800, 7900; 8000 series: 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800; GeForce Go: 7400, 7600, 7800, 7900)
  • ATI Graphics Cards (X800, X900; X1400, X1500, X1600, X1700, X1800, X1900)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1122564.html