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Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
Reviews Nokia's Internet Tablet is getting better, adding a GPS receiver and a QWERTY keyboard. It's still difficult to recommend as a business tool, though, as it lacks integrated 3G/HSDPA connectivity.
Data warehousing: Seven don'ts
Insight Yesterday, we posted seven tips to a better data warehouse. Here's flipside: seven tips on what not to do when developing a data warehouse project.
SmoothWall SmoothGuard 1000-UTM
Reviews By porting its established security tools onto a powerful dual-core hardware platform, SmoothWall has come up with a highly effective and very scalable appliance that will appeal to a broad spectrum of buyers.
Monitor project progress with micro-deliverables
Techguide Micro-deliverables allow you to effectively gauge the health of a project. Here are four simple rules to follow when planning for and using micro-deliverables.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Project, Deliverable, Paul Glen, monitoring, black hole, IT administration, leader, monitor
Hackers break into Large Hadron Collider computer
News CERN says hackers accessed a computer system that monitors the particle accelerator experiments and analyzes data, according to a newspaper report.
Tags: Hacking, Networking technology, Network security, CERN, E-mail Message, Computer, phone, theory, black hole, Earth
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News A large helium leak resulting from an earlier transformer glitch has forced the world's largest particle collider to close temporarily on just day nine of its operation.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, Particle, theory, black hole, News.com, blog, analysis, Large Hadron Collider, Networking technology
Large Hadron Collider downed by faulty transformer
News Not long after the world's largest particle collider became operational, a transformer that helps cool part it malfunctioned, forcing operations to be suspended.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, E-mail Message, phone, e-mail, theory, black hole, Earth, blog, scientist
Date set to fire up world's most-powerful particle accelerator
News Large Hadron Collider, which sits in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel that lies beneath the French-Swiss border, is set to start circulating particles next month.
Tags: Particle Accelerator, CERN, Beam, Particle, black hole, leader, Large Hadron Collider
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
'Digital black hole' threatens your documents
News A project by the European Union aims to stave off the loss of digital data as file formats become obsolete and inaccessible.
Tags: Digital media, Government
Harvard professor mutes antitrust skepticism
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Protecting the financial industry: Best practices
Insight Banks and other financial institutions are popular targets for hackers, phishing scams, internal leaks, and other cyberfraud. What are the best practices for bank security, and how much is too much to spend on IT defenses?
Tags: PC security, IT Management, IT Governance
Set up a basic e-mail server with Postfix as the MTA
Insight Here are the steps you need to take to get a Linux-based mail server configured using Postfix as the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).
Know your resources in the war against spam
Insight If you've made the decision to filter your organization's incoming e-mail, your next step is to determine exactly how. This rundown of spam control methodologies can help you in your decision on which path to take.
Four Net filters reviewed
Insight Always a contentious feature, server-based Internet content filtering may be a boon or bane for your organization--depending, for most parts, on its culture. We look at four products.
Tags: Business applications
