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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
RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits
News Recording Industry Association of America launches ninth wave of "pre-litigation" letters, offering students the chance to settle copyright infringement claims out of court "at a discounted rate".
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
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
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, teacher, computer, Programming, spyware, researcher, private data, 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
Google.org exec leaves to tackle urgent threats
News Dr. Larry Brilliant is leaving the search giant's nonprofit arm for the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund to tackle nuclear proliferation, water shortages, and other issues.
Tags: Human resources, Inconvenient Truth, Google Inc., Officer, University of Michigan, Al Gore, Global Warming, Middle East, exec, advisor
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
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
New security firm targets denial of service attacks
News Launched close to the anniversary of the crippling denial of service attacks that struck some of the nation's largest e-commerce sites, a new security firm says it can reduce the impact of such attacks.
Investors losing their faith, reports say
News Confidence in the markets is falling, according to a pair of investment bank reports, and investors may have a good reason to feel this way.
Microsoft shows off improved search
News Microsoft scientists reveal new "3D" analyses and machine-learning algorithms for search at conference.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Search
