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Criminals carried out more but smaller data thefts last year than in previous years, indicating a shift toward simpler exploits that run lower risk of punishment, according to Verizon’s latest data breach report. In 2010 the number of breaches skyrocketed to 760 from 141 the year before, according to the […]
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Open source programming tool on the rise: Emacs LISP Every so often, I come back to emacs and recognize just how wonderful it is, 20-odd years after it first took hold. Even today, it is easier to record macros, rebind keys, and customize the tool kit than many of the […]
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There are few good reasons for Microsoft to be happy at the moment. Windows Mobile 6.5 Phone Final– New UI, Zune like has at last been announced for availability from October 6th. Also opening Oct. 6 is the Windows Marketplace, Microsoft’s app store for all 6.X Windows phones, which we’re […]
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We’ve been hearing about Windows mobile 7 for a while now. The launch will mimic Google’s Nexus one strategy: Launch Zune Phone Microsoft’s long-rumored ‘Pink’ phone project has started to get up again. In a note to clients few days back, Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert claimed that Microsoft is gearing […]
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Here’s an interesting take on how an enterprise application can be made to achieve high performance, scale and high availability, using mid-tier caching. Modern enterprise applications are being pushed to become faster, with a higher scale. Consequently, the 3-tier architecture model is changing to move data closer to the applications […]
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Android pioneer Andy Rubin has a message for developers carping about Android fragmentation: Calm down. Posting on Google’s Android Developers blog, Rubin said that Android owed much of its success to the fact that it could be modified by device manufacturers and thus isn’t a “one size fits all” platform […]
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Want to get tech fans fighting? Ask them to pick the 10 products that most shaped the industry. It’s an experiment we attempted earlier in the week, to fairly disastrous results. Since our very opinionated editors and analysts couldn’t whittle the list down to anywhere close to that number, we’ve […]
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These handy add-ons do everything from automatic spell-checking to easy image cropping and resizing Hard-to-find IE9 enhancers Microsoft’s just released IE9 offers many improvements, particularly in the area of security. On the other hand, none of the new features blew us away. One unfortunate thing about Internet Explorer is that […]
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GUI Industries starts its cutover on a Friday after hours. The new circuit tests clean and they’re ready to do the cutover. Armed with printouts of the spreadsheet, the DNS and firewall admins sit down in front of their workstations and painstakingly go through each record in DNS, and each […]
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A while back, I wrote about the critical roles CLIs (command-line interfaces) play in just about every facet of the IT infrastructure. I got plenty of nods in agreement via email and in the comments, but I still receive emails claiming that I’m trying to drag computing back to the […]