A physician accidentally revealed the sensitive personal information of several hundred patients in the latest potential IT security breach to hit the medical field.
Server Snapshot: In the past year, Lenovo launched its second generation of ThinkServers, equipped with more memory and storage capacity, the latest Intel processors, and virtualization capabilities. Yet the company remains in the "other" category in the various server measurement surveys.
<b>Sure, It's Secure:</b> "I'm no friend to Windows. I know the operating system too well to trust it. But, I did think that even though Windows is defective by design, you could keep it relatively safe by installing patches quickly and using anti-virus software religiously. I was wrong."
Visual Studio 2010 marks some dramatic advances in Application Lifecycle Management tools at the same time that its new edition structure makes these features more accessible. Learn how your team can benefit from tools that help manage the process of software development.
Having already sold an astounding million units domestically, analysts estimate that Apple will sell a 8.13 million iPads worldwide by the end of this year.
A university computer holding the social security numbers and other critical data for 15,800 students was communicating with a botnet's command-and-control center for months.
<b>jd:/dev/blog:</b> "Two years ago, while working on awesome, I joined the Freedesktop initiative to work on XCB. I had to learn the arcane of the X11 protocol and all the mysterious and old world that goes with it."
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Recently (in my Pardus Linux article) Ghacks reader PeterB mentioned one of his favorite distributions Greenie Linux. Of course I had to give this a whirl and see what it was all about."
Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are both very good platforms for writing and deploying scalable applications in the cloud, but they present different sets of challenges for developers.
It's easy to write queries that will show data in the database that matches a criteria. However, if no data in the database matches the criteria, it becomes more difficult. This article examines two different scenarios where it's necessary to create data in order to be able to report zero values in queries.
<b>Stop:</b> "One of the solutions Assinform proposes to fight the crisis is what you may call a "cash for software clunkers" program: state-financed discounts for all companies that replace with newer applications obsolete software that isn't working well anymore."
<b>The H Open:</b> "The most important development in this release is the shift from booting with the traditional System V init scheme to the newer Upstart system."
<b>Network World: </b>"Talend is an open source data integration company that is a poster child for successful open source business models. In just a few short years they have risen to be one of the up and coming stars in a 13b dollar market."
Database administrators are often faced with the need to learn where features of his/her system live or reside on a less familiar system. Steve Callan approaches this need by mapping SQL Server features back into Oracle Database.
Whether it’s data warehousing, MDM or business intelligence, metadata is added to the project plan, is downgraded and eventually dropped from the project plan. The impacts of not including metadata and metadata management as part of the project have far-reaching and costly repercussions throughout the organization. Read on to learn more...
<b>Desktop Linux Reviews:</b> "The .iso file of Puppy Linux 5.0 weighs in at an incredibly petite 128 MB. It's much, much smaller than all of the usual desktop heavyweight distros. But don't let its small size fool you, Puppy Linux 5.0 is anything but an also-ran in terms of functionality and usability."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "Intel announced six new 32nm processors intended for ultra-thin laptops. Topped by the Core i7-660UM, with a clock speed of 1.33GHz and "TurboBoost" frequency of 2.4GHz"
<b>Engadget:</b> "the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking for importation and sales of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod be halted due to alleged infringement of five patents."