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Clearing potential Olympics network hurdle
News Deluge of online content streamed during the Games may affect corporate networks, but firms should not practise "draconian filtering practices", says Fortinet.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Fortinet Inc., Security, Hour, Symantec Corp., Internet usage, network, NBC, Internet
Solar uptake for mobile devices 'limited'
News Photovoltaic cells will not replace batteries in mobile computing devices for now, as performance and price issues continue to hamper adoption, say analysts.
Tags: Green IT, Development/design, Battery, Photovoltaics, Mobile Device, Sharp Corp., Gartner Inc., solar cell, performance, mobile computing
Apple's new data center foreshadows a cloudy future
Techguide Apple's new data center project is so big that it begs the question of whether Apple is simply planning for the growth of its current services or if it has more ambitious plans in the works.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Apple Inc., Tablet, Video, Storage, Apple Macintosh, Cloud computing, Apple iPhone, data center
Google wins over more Net users in June
News The Net leader gains on Yahoo and Microsoft when it comes to share of U.S. Internet users, but still lags in terms of time spent on the site.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Web services, Web sites, Microsoft Corp., Minute, Google Inc., Hour, Yahoo! Inc., Internet User
Facebook: We're going after scammy ads, too
News The social network reinforced in its developer blog that it's taking an active stance against the companies that have been getting bad press recently for deceptive advertising.
Tags: Internet advertising, Facebook, Social Networking, Ad Network, compliance, application company, Burger King Corp., Internet advertising, advertisement, network
New filters in Google search for speed, news
News Google adds several new filters to its search options panel unveiled in May, letting searchers find results from just the last hour, or results from within Google News and Books.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., advertisement, Web sites, Web Page, search engine company, product manager, Search Result
Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option
News Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar.
Tags: Databases, Web services, Database, Google Inc., Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server
The lowdown on India's Web 2.0 generation
Blogs India's demographics (50 percent of India's population is below the age of 25 years) has been perceived as both a boon a...
Windows 7 works great on the MacBook Pro
Blogs As a registered Microsoft developer, I had early access to the final release version of Windows 7, which I installed on ...
Norton AntiVirus 9.0 for Macintosh
Product Reviews Norton AntiVirus 9.0 for Macintosh
Tags: Word macro virus, LiveUpdate, Norton Co., Apple Macintosh, antivirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, virus, Symantec Corp., virus definition, disk
HSBC home banking Web site trojan 'false report', says bank
News Report on the U.K. Crypto security mailing list claims HSBC's Personal Banking Web site had been infected by malware.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, IT Management, Security, Portal, bank, trojan horse, Web Site, Web, Data security
PayPal suffers from e-commerce outage
News eBay's online payment system suffered outages for about two hours Monday, but the company says it's working for most people again.
Tags: Service level management, Web sites, E-commerce, E-business, PayPal, Web Page, eBay Inc., Online Payment, API, Outage
Another attack hits Twitter
News Less than a week after a denial-of-service attack knocked it offline, Twitter's servers went down again.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data security, Security Management, Hacking, LiveJournal, Twitter, Attack, Server, denial of service, Facebook
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News EC2 is the only strong contender to eventually emerge as the leading cloud platform because it has open-source implementations, according to the Canonical chief.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Open Source, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, Amazon EC2, British Telecommunications, Savvis Communications
Photoshop.com adds video hosting, group albums
News Somewhat behind the competition, Adobe finally adds video and group album capabilities to Photoshop.com.
Tags: Business applications, Adobe Systems Inc., RSS, Video, Terms Of Service, photograph, e-mail, online photo, Facebook, Flickr
