Opinion

Apple exceeds Wall St. expectations in tough economy, reports strong iPhone and Mac sales

Apple released its earnings for the third fiscal quarter earlier this afternoon, and like clockwork, it once again exceeded analyst expectations by a significant margin. Apple's quarterly profits were up 15%, with revenue coming in at $8.34 billion,

Solar storms have caused serious disruptions

* Summary of a recent National Research Council report Severe Space Weather Events – Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report

SaaS, cloud computing and the need for visibility

* The need for greater visibility is that most IT organizations are removing some servers out of branch offices and placing them into centralized data centers

Splunk powers enterprise search with Google-like scalability

Enterprise search vendor Splunk re-architects its flagship product to enable search capabilities to scale to Google levels.

Data Leak Prevention On The Cheap

Start with employee training and basic data safety

Feds may come up with cloud security standards

A look at cloud computing’s dark lining

10 Gigabit Ethernet and iWARP at heart of new supercomputer

Cisco reports earnings Aug. 5

Company expected to post another double digit drop in revenue

Let’s go back to Seattle – the 2009 PASS Conference …

SQL Server

NANOG46 and Cisco Live had Significant Focus on IPv6

IPv6 was a Key Focus Topic at NANOG46 and Cisco Live

EU to investigate Google Book deal

Google Books continues to be controversial and garner government scrutiny

New Zealand Postal Service ditches Microsoft Office for Google Apps

Google lands its largest commercial deal for Google Apps

Why analysts expect another painful Microsoft earnings on Thursday

Microsoft has a relatively easy fix: quit wasting billions on R&D

Password Cracking with CUDA

Using your video card to increase your password cracking speed.

Group Policy and OU Membership

The perils of drag-and-drop in AD

Microsoft releases collaboration plug-in under GPLv2

Moodle plug-in is the first time Microsoft has simply opted for GPLv2

Adobe ColdFusion 9 hits beta and integrates with Office, SharePoint

CF9 can generate native Office formats and build Flex front-ends for SharePoint

Move over Google, Microsoft is hogging search research event

Says it accounts for about 25% of papers accepted for this week's ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

Today’s TV news plus 1969’s moon landing equals?

"If the first lunar landing happened today, how would it be covered by TV news?"

When politics trumps public safety

Study of "distracted driving" was derailed by political concerns

All in 1 day’s work: Purdue IT team building 10 Gigabit Ethernet-powered supercomputer

Cisco, HP, AMD, Chelsio gear put to work for system boasting 90 teraflop peak performance

Podcast: Xobni’s New Quest. Revenue.

Will Xobni's revenue model prove out and who else wants to win in the social mining space?

‘Net makes getting published easier

*Publish on demand services have made old school self-publishing obsolete

Architecture firm speeds application access over the WAN

Plus, Riverbed upgrades its mobile WAN optimization options

A lesson in LoA

* A reader weighs in on level of assurance

Amazon fails to remember the physical

Removal of Kindle books yet another example of people doing things in virtual world that they would never think of doing in physical world

Toshiba exec sees increased demand for UC

* Says incentives and price reductions are key in these tough economic times

Indoor/outdoor network piece parts merge

* Proxim, Ruckus make outdoor announcements, unify management

A Look Inside a Green Data Center

Touring Emerson's St. Louis Data Center