<b>IT World:</b> "Look around you. If you're in an office or coffee shop where people are using Windows, chances are someone's PC is now, or recently has been, part of a botnet."
As the transition from Yahoo's advertising system to Microsoft's adCenter approaches, users of Yahoo's tools wonder aloud whether key features they like will make the transition, too.
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Do you feel jealous of your Android-using friends? Are you sick and tired of your iPhone's locked up OS? Are you fearless enough to install Android on the iPhone?"
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "OpenOffice.org isn't the only game in town for open source word processing. One of the best, and underexposed, open word processors is AbiWord."
L-Soft's Listserv has been providing email list management to enterprises nearly as long as Windows has been an OS. Despite a complicated setup and configuration, for organizations looking for mailing list power and flexibility, Listserv is one for the short list.
The MySQL EXPLAIN statement provides insight into MySQL's query execution plans. This video demonstrates how you can use this powerful feature to boost your MySQL database performance.
The MySQL EXPLAIN statement provides insight into MySQL's query execution plans. This video demonstrates how you can use this powerful feature to boost your MySQL database performance.
Two new products, Forefront Protection 2010 and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, are designed to provide secure collaboration for users of Microsoft's SharePoint.
<b>LWN.net:</b> "The deployment of Linux on the desktop and in the server room is well served by the general-purpose distribution. In the embedded world things are very different: although Linux is used widely, the concept of the general-purpose distribution is much less in evidence."
<b>IT World:</b> "The Linux marketplace has matured. The heavy lifting has been done," she said. "Working with the CodePlex Foundation is addressing the next generation of challenges."
<b>Motho ke motho ka botho:</b> "I tease the Gnome crowd a lot for being chubby, but I didn't realize that the weight problem had exceeded 256Mb. That's not overweight, that's clinical obesity."
<b>Packt:</b> "We will begin by creating the terrain for the underwater environment. In the sequel of the article, we will learn how to add vegetation, pebbles and corals. After which we will discuss how to add distant terrains, lighting effects and finally composition."
<b>Daniweb:</b> "Google does a lot of things well, maybe too well, and it's adding to its portfolio of tools on a weekly basis. At some point you have to look at the number of pies in which Google has its fingers and start to get a little frightened of this company."
The latest Sun customers to need reassuring from Oracle are the StorageTek data tape customers, who are told of Oracle's long-term commitment to the technology.
When it comes to securing the enterprise, much of what is done has been in vogue for so long and makes sense on the surface. But probe a bit deeper, and much of what has long been held sacrosanct now makes little sense.
The social networking site has plenty of security problems of its own making to resolve and, in the interim, professional cyber thieves are exploiting other vulnerabilities.