Mozilla's new Firefox 3.5 puts this popular browser ahead of the pack with significantly better performance, improved tab handling and a number of nifty new features.
Cloud-based disaster recovery has become a viable option for safeguarding e-mail, but IT shops need to ask tough questions about data security and resiliency before committing to a vendor, analysts say.
Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn. Some of you are using all of the above, and using them hard, even IT security practitioners who know better.
Wireless LANs rarely allow for simple direct cost comparisons. In addition to variable pricing structures among vendors, one reason is that product architectures differ. That means some systems have different components than others. So how can you compare them, tit for tat?
A wide-ranging group of trade associations has urged China to lift its requirement that an Internet filtering program be distributed with all new PCs, with the order set to take effect this week.
In another blow to customers, Microsoft says free Windows 7 upgrades--for companies that purchase new hardware between now and the Oct. 22 release date of the new OS--will be limited to 25 machines.
Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but they aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships between people, according to the executive chairman of World-Check, a company that maintains a database of individuals that banks and other companies might want to think twice about doing business with.
European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared to U.S. users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe, according to Microsoft.
Google moved to boost its Android mobile device software platform this week by offering developers a kit that enables them to call native code from Android applications.
Lots of announcements hitting the wires over the past couple of weeks, so we'll do a quick roundup in this issue and the next, and then go in depth in later issues for the announcements that warrant it.
To the average IT security practitioner, the idea of disabling antivirus on new machines might seem blasphemous. After all, weren't we all told in IT Security 101 that everyone needs AV to keep the malware and data thieves at bay?
Open source IT automation and management software maker Reductive Labs secures $2 million in venture capital funding from True Ventures and other private investors to further develop its Puppet product.
Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.
This week represents an important inflection point for the Enterprise 2.0 market, a set of software vendors that sell social networking technologies to businesses. Analysts say the number of competitors will consolidate in the coming year as Microsoft captures greater market share. The start-ups that will survive must carve out a longterm place for themselves by building applications that are far more innovative and cheaper than those of the incumbent software giant. In addition, they must convince businesses that Microsoft SharePoint's "good enough" strategy is not, in fact, good enough for today's enterprise collaboration needs
Analysts say the technology is not for everyone, but some IT managers are turning to open-source routers in an effort to gain capabilities while cutting costs.
XCast Labs caught our attention earlier this month when it closed on a $2.7 million financing deal. The company targets smaller cable operators, competitive local exchange carriers, and others who want to offer integrated IP-based services to their users.
Over the past decade video surveillance has migrated from analog closed circuit television systems with point-to-point connections to modern digital systems that run on IP networks. Enterprise video surveillance systems can scale to hundreds or thousands of cameras spread across geographically dispersed facilities, but this presents bandwidth, processing and storage challenges.
Hey, Palm Pre owners--are you enjoying the ability to sync your smartphone with iTunes? Do you get a giddy little thrill each time you plug the Pre into your computer and Apple's music jukebox application recognizes it as if you were syncing an iPhone or iPod? Do you agree with PC World's review of the Pre which listed iTunes syncing as one of the factors that made "syncing your media with the Pre... a snap?"
IBM is expanding work on applications for use in Chinese hospitals after spotting an opportunity in the country's massive spending plan for healthcare reform.
In this interview Erlang creator Joe Armstrong took some time to tell Computerworld about Erlang's development over the past 20 years, and what's in store for the language in the future.
Salesforce.com is hoping to drive more interest from corporate developers and ISVs in its Force.com development platform by offering limited, no-cost access, the on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor announced Monday.
The surging popularity of the Twitter messaging service has broken some or all of several Twitter client applications as a part of what is being called “the Twitpocalypse.”