OpenFlow opens new doors for networks
With a new industry organization to promote it, routing protocol OpenFlow is about to give users unprecedented ease of control over the way their networks operate.
How to solve Windows 7 crashes in minutes
Everything is perfect; you've upgraded to Windows 7. It's fully patched, all drivers are updated, security is tight, maybe you even have new hardware...yet the old Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) taunts you from your new high definition-screen.
Curse you, users
Gibbs has had it with users!
IRS e-file system turns 25
Today is Tax Day and many a procrastinator is descending upon their Post Office branch in a mad dash to beat the deadline. However, their numbers are but a fraction of what they were a quarter-century ago, thanks to the remarkable success of what started in 1986 as a three-city IRS pilot program called e-file.
Four things RIM's PlayBook got wrong
For all of the PlayBook tablet's hardware triumphs, its software troubles could be its undoing.
Improved mouse control for users with disabilities
Novel software makes fine control of a mouse much easier for users with motor control problems.
Security fragmentation needs to end
A new week, a new rash of attacks against security vendors, email marketers and banks. It would be easy to point fingers and laugh at the irony, especially in the case of security vendors, but that would be both petty and shortsighted.
Honey, they shrunk the scanners!
Keith Shaw reviews the Visioneer Mobility scanner, by Visioneer, and ScanSnap S1100, by Fujitsu
Epsilon breach: When should almost public info be private?
A press feeding frenzy followed the somewhat vague April Fools Day announcement by Epsilon Data Management that someone had hacked into its systems and stolen a bunch of email addresses. The addresses were of people who had "opted in" for email marketing by a bunch of major vendors such as Target and Red Roof Inns, and many of the vendors sent announcements of the breach to their customers (I got such an announcement from a vendor I had purchased a present from for my wife. The announcement did not say all that much, essentially it told me to "be careful".).
Can IPS appliances remain useful in a virtual-machine world?
Intrusion-prevention system (IPS) vendors have not found it easy to recast their appliances for use in the virtual-machine (VM) environment. But now McAfee and Sourcefire claim to have overcome some hurdles, at least with VMware's VM.
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