What Digital Footprints Do You Leave Behind?
Over the course of your day, you create an electronic trail of your decisions, activities, and locations through computer and mobile phone usage. This “digital footprint” of your online encounters adds up to a revealing public record. Controlling what information you leave behind can be complicated. Start with your mobile smartphone. A phone with wifi, [...]
Global Authentication Service Fights Counterfeit Drugs
HP has launched its Global Authentication Service to protect consumers against dangerous or ineffective drugs. The service is a cloud-based track-and-trace solution developed from technology used to fight the global problem of counterfeit and stolen drugs. The HP Global Authentication Service allows pharmaceutical companies to monitor the movement of products through their global supply chains with a much [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid
The 3.8-pound IdeaPad U1 Hybrid is an 11.6-inch laptop with a retractable multitouch screen. When the screen is locked into its upright position in the laptop’s chassis, it’s powered by a CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. What makes this new model interesting is that when the screen is [...]
Google Apps in Los Angeles: A Closer Look
Google Apps in Los Angeles
RedEye turns your iPhone and iPod touch into bona fide universal remote (video)
By Darren Murph posted Dec 2nd 2009 2:27PM Apple’s ‘Remote‘ application was a good start, but we’ve known for some time now that the platform was capable of far, far more. ThinkFlood is stepping up today and proving our assumptions right, as the RedEye universal remote control system effectively converts your iPhone or iPod touch into a [...]
Top data center challenges include social networks, rising energy costs
Data growth will hit 650% over next half-decade, Gartner says By Jon Brodkin , Network World , 12/01/2009 Enterprise data needs will grow a staggering 650% over the next five years, and that’s just one of numerous challenges IT leaders have to start preparing for today, analysts said as the annual Gartner Data Center Conference kicked off in [...]
Successful virtualization: The “Central Vac” versus the “Dust Buster”
12 November, 2009 By Joanne Moretti, SVP Product Marketing & Analyst Relations, CA, Inc. Data center virtualization is here to stay, as enterprises seek to lower IT, energy and real estate costs while also improving their ability to support changing business demands. One estimate from Forrester Research is that 31 percent of [new [...]
How Safe is Your Data?
Data thieves today are hustling to position sniffers inside retailers, financial firms and health care companies, in particular. “Anyone who keeps sensitive information on their networks is actively being targeted,”
Multitouch Mice On The Horizon
Originally posted at Engadget Rather odd timing, given some recent developments in the Apple camp, but Microsoft Research has just surfaced some of its incredibly wild multitouch mouse prototypes. Each one uses a different touch detection method, and at first glance all five seem to fly in the face of regular ergonomics. The craziest two [...]
Disruptive Change Predicted for Health IT Market
By: Roy Mark 2009-09-11 While the Obama administration’s drive to dramatically increase health IT spending portends a financial bonanza for vendors, the boom will not come without risks, says Input. The U.S. health IT market is set for disruptive change, predicts a report by Input released Sept. 10. The key drivers of the change will [...]
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