Fear
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Sloppy risk assessment raises Web fear factor
Insight perspective Web security experts must separate actual risk from theoretical risk, says a security researcher.
Tags: Risk Management, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Security, IT Manager, Attack, Tool, Risk, computer, InfoWorld
Certification to boost 802.11n adoption
News Finalization of Wi-Fi standard is expected to encourage wide adoption and migration of enterprise deployments to 802.11n, says Wi-Fi Alliance.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Network standards/protocols, Certification, Wi-Fi Alliance, network, Access Point, Aruba Networks, Manufacturing, Wireless
Office, Windows get critical patches
News Software maker releases nine patches in this month's Patch Tuesday, many of them related to ActiveX controls.
Tags: Network security, Security applications/tools, Microsoft Windows, Lumension Security Inc., Vulnerability, remote desktop, computer, Server, critical patch, patch management
Frustrated by a coworker's use of old-school methods?
Techguide What do you do when a veteran developer isn't open-minded about the benefits of modern programming techniques?
Tags: Authoring, Software engineering/development, Business applications, IBM Corp., Fear, Tool, object-oriented, Authoring, career, IDE
Learning to embrace Net without fear
Blogs Like some others out there, I was terrified of the dark and avoided watching horror flicks growing up. But, as I mat...
Navigating Intel's new 'road rules'
News As part of a landmark settlement, chipmaker agreed to change how it competes with AMD, while admitting no wrongdoing. So what's going to change?
Tags: Components, Antitrust, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PC Company, Chip, Settlement, payment, financial, marketing
What Y2K can teach us about 2012
Blogs Dec. 21, 2012. It's a big day on the calendar, particularly because some believe it marks the last day of the world as w...
Symantec warns on cyberterrorism
News Symantec played up cyberthreats at a NYC showcase of its latest security software. Is it a sales ploy or a serious concern?
Tags: Norton Co., FBI, Norton Internet Security, Internet Security, cyberthreats, Symantec Corp., cyberterrorism, Internet, Cyberattack, Web
Amazon, Facebook, and Google back FCC on Net neutrality
News Some of the biggest names on the Internet are throwing their support behind the FCC's plan to form new Internet openness regulation.
Tags: Facebook, Google Inc., Rule, CEO, network, Amazon.com Inc., Wireless, cable company, Cable, Net Neutrality
Sample influenza business continuity plan
Blogs My colleague and fellow IAEM Asia member Chew Lip Heng and I started writing a sample corporate incident action plan (IA...
Where's technology when the earth shakes?
Blogs This past week has been calamity filled. Following the freak dust storm in Sydney, Typhoon Kestana flooded into the Phil...
Phone calling coming to Twitter
News A beta service expected to launch Thursday will allow Twitter users to make voice calls to each other without needing to know someone's phone number.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Linden Lab, Voice Chat, social networking, Facebook, Second Life, Web 2.0, voice service
Report: Sony laptops can't use Windows 7 XP mode
News Sony intends to enable Intel's Virtual Technology, which supports Windows 7's "XP mode", only on select Sony Vaio models in future, says U.K. newspaper.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Intel Core 2 Duo, Sony Vaio, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer
Let's kill the OS upgrade disc
News Life would be easier if we paid for ongoing OS upgrades the way we pay for other digital assets--by subscription.
Tags: Windows 7, Mac OS, Upgrade, Apple Inc., Computer, Operating System, App, Microsoft Corp., software, Windows 7
User stories: The starting point in agile development
Techguide Rick Freedman explains how user stories can help agile developers understand users' expectations. He also discusses the three Cs, user role modeling and epic stories.
Tags: IT project management, Software engineering/development, User Story, NEC Corp., Story, Detail, Development Effort, C, Information Technology, Human Resources Inc.
