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Asian TLDs bide their time on DNSSEC
News update Thailand goes ahead to adopt security protocol for country-code top-level domain, but other countries in region continue testing and may not follow suit yet.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Network security, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, DNS, Registry, Thailand, Web Browser, browser company
The truth about zombie projects
Techguide Zombie projects are failures that won't die because they are a hassle to fix. But anyone capable of killing such a project is likely to be able to manage a complex project successfully.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Project, Tool, Consulting, Michael Krigsman, CEO, blog, consulting company, team
Researchers prove kernel is secure
News Australian research organization says it has absolute mathematical proof of the security of an operating system core.
Tags: Components, Kernel, computer, aircraft, University of Cambridge, high-performance, researcher, buffer-overflow vulnerability, team, Components
Cambridge takes supercomputing to the cloud
News The democratization of high performance computing gets underway later this year, when Cambridge University begins leasing processing time on its Darwin supercomputer.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Pharmaceutical Company, Server, Hardware, processor, supercomputer, high-performance computing, Cambridge
IBM urges service innovation
News A report challenges private and public sectors to support more technological innovations for service systems such as transport, communications and healthcare.
Tags: Innovation, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IBM Corp., Service Innovation, Report, Business Model, Innovation, University of Cambridge, BAE Systems Plc., career path
UK scientists demo graphic passwords
News Doodles on touch screens could replace numbers and letters as online passwords. According to their creators, doodles are easier to remember and harder to crack.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Security, Mobile, Microsoft Windows 7, Password, Computer, Touch Screen, software, U.K.
Autonomy snaps up Interwoven for US$775M
News The Cambridge company known for enterprise search believes purchase of the US software maker will strengthen its compliance reach.
Tags: Content management, Acquisitions, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Enterprise Search, Interwoven, compliance industry, compliance, software, Cambridge, industry
Facebook hits 175 million user mark
News Social networking site adds 25 million active users in little more than a month.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Web 2.0, Antarctica, Nigeria, Massachusetts, Japan, social networking, Russia, Harvard University
OLPC slashes workforce in half, cuts salaries
News Founder of the project tasked with giving laptops to children in developing nations, blames tough economic times for restructuring.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Best strategies, Budgeting/cost control, Funding, Workforce, One Laptop Per Child Project, operating system, Salary, developing country, Microsoft Windows XP
Facebook hits 100 million users
News Less than five years after then-college student Mark Zuckerberg created the site in his dorm room, the social network has 100 million active users, most of whom are outside the United States.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, social networking, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc., network, founder, Cambridge
IBM opens 'social software' development center
News Based in Cambridge, Mass., it is designed as a research hub for everything from cloud computing to social search.
Tags: R&D, Business applications, IBM Corp., Social Software, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, venture capital, social search, Dow Jones & Company Inc., internal network
Microsoft, Novell partner on virtualization
News As part of the companies' nearly 2-year-old alliance, the two say they are working together to support Novell's Suse Linux operating system running on Microsoft's hypervisor.
Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., Hypervisor, IT environment, Cambridge, Linux, information technology, Dell Computer Corp.
Microsoft outlines the future of computing
News Software giant's research and strategy chief Craig Mundie says "spatial computing" will see people and sensors spewing trillions of bits of data, with programmers scrambling to mask complexity.
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computing, 3D, software, processor, software development, Microsoft Surface, Cambridge, strategy, data service
Seven fundamentals of IT project success
Techguide These points cover areas such as conflicting agendas, multiple perspectives as well as a range of business-oriented conditions.
Tags: Leadership techniques, IT project management, Project management, Software Implementation, CEO, software, Information Technology, Project, project manager, Consulting
Penguin unveils Linux-based HPC in the cloud
News Penguin Computing has begun allowing researchers, scientists and engineers to lease its high-performance computing capabilities through the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, Computing, Intel Xeon, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., high-performance computing, University of Cambridge, high-performance, financial, Linux
