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Green adds bucks to corporate savings
News Cost-reduction initiatives tagged with green IT benefits provide more reasons for businesses to implement such tools, says analyst.
Tags: Green IT, Budgeting/cost control, Cost control, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Outsourcing, University of Michigan, Server, e-mail, Hardware
Delivering IT as a service
Insight City University's CIO Jerry Yu is gearing his team to deliver IT like a utility service, where the service is available to users at the flip of a switch.
Tags: IT Management
E-commerce in hot water
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'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to four years
News Alan Ralsky and many of his gang of spammers have been given prison sentences in the United States for a pump-and-dump spam operation.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Legal, Prison, U.S. Department Of Justice, attorney, Stock, Michigan, U.S. Government, Internet
Easy parallel columns in Word
Techguide Newspaper columns are easy to create in Word, but parallel columns can be troublesome. The solution? Use Word tables.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Column, C, Borders Books & Music, command button, Michigan, vbCrLf, e-mail, Microsoft Excel
Budget PC brands see biggest gains in consumer satisfaction
News Compaq and Gateway gain ground in the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index, but Apple maintains a wide lead.
Tags: Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC Company, University of Michigan, computer, Compaq Computer Corp., marketing, brand, PC
China orders plug for hole in Green Dam
News The Chinese government orders makers of Green Dam censorware to rush out a patch, after researchers discovered gaping security flaws in the program.
Tags: Security applications/tools, University Of Michigan, Web Site, Researcher, China, Censorship Software, general manager, information technology, Security applications/tools, Green Dam Software
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
News Green Dam blocking software has errors that could be used to build botnet and allow uploading of programs by an outsider, say University of Michigan researchers.
Tags: Security, University of Michigan, computer, Programming, spyware, researcher, private data, teacher, Web Site, Web
'Napping' data centers could cut energy use by 75 percent
News "Sleeping on the job" could help power-hungry computer data centers save up to 75 percent of the energy that they currently use.
Tags: Data centers, Power Supply, University of Michigan, computer, PowerNap, Server, energy efficiency, power consumption, researcher, data center
Expert: China's Green Dam software is unsafe
News Security expert says content-filtering software Chinese government wants installed on all PCs is poorly developed and puts users at risk of having their computers compromised.
Tags: Security Management, Regulations, Software, Security, C, Buffer-overflow, Attack, SecureWorks Inc., computer, Government
Mobile: The holy grail at security conference
News Security experts launch successful exploits against browsers at the CanSecWest conference, but fail--or fail to even try--exploiting smartphones despite a US$10,000 prize.
Tags: Hacking, Security, Mobile, Conference, Web Browser, Mobile Device, Symbian Inc., phone, TippingPoint Technologies, Google Android
Tech innovations for tough times
News Companies like GE are using alternative techniques, such as a method pioneered back in Stalin's Soviet Union called "theory of solving inventor's problems", to make R&D more efficient.
Tags: Innovation, Business development/management, R&D, General Electric Co., Training, Tool, Innovation, Soviet Union, TRIZ, GEN3 Partners
Why ribaldry could earn you prison time
News Send a raunchy e-mail to a minor, and you may wind up in jail.
Tags: Privacy, Email marketing
Privacy issues with Google library search
News Google's contract with University of Michigan for Web-based library searches lacks privacy protections.
Tags: Web sites
States, federal government conduct DoubleClick probes
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