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While analysts share with us their bravest forecasts concerning the growth of the mobile market, Google is doing its best to stake its future on mobile devices right now. The head of the European Google, John Herlihy, in an interview with the SiliconRepublic Web site, said that in about three years from now traditional desktop systems [...]
Vaporware: It’s the venerable term for products which are announced but never reach the market. What lessons can IT pros learn from the mistakes that developers of vaporware make? How can you make sure that your company’s important products aren’t vaporous?
I can’t think of a better example of vaporware than Duke Nukem Forever, a game [...]
It’s an unfortunate reality: Windows is constantly under attack by a never-ending barrage of viruses, exploits, and myriad other malware. And even the most cautious users will find their machines infected from time to time. For those lamentable occasions, it’s usually necessary to run a handful of third party applications to assist in the clean-up. [...]
Security breaches that get a lot of attention usually stem from human error.
The most common breach occurs when a hacker tricks someone into giving up their user name and password. Pretty soon, the password is hacked across multiple sites.
It is astounding that some applications have such low security thresholds for password recovery. Some applications will [...]
Most servers today are 2-4 socket systems (2-4S)–this is the sweet spot for both Intel and AMD. There are very few vendors who can design the custom chipsets (the glue) needed to scale up Intel systems to 8 sockets (8S). The most notable example is IBM, who has developed four generations of scalable chipsets and [...]
Different operating systems have different pros and cons, and customers make their mobile device purchases based on various criteria. Lately we’ve all been wondering what operating system we will be using on mobile phones in the future. RIM and Apple try to tie up users to their platform, while Google, Microsoft and Nokia try to [...]
One of the biggest challenges IT managers face is how to keep their teams working efficiently and productively. Being online, it’s natural for many IT professionals to fully embrace social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. So, many managers are concerned that productivity is lost to these engaging applications. A study by [...]
PC power supplies usually come with some protections. The savvy user will always try to pick one that provides the most protections possible. But having protections available doesn’t mean that the power supply will in fact protect your equipment in case of malfunction. Let’s see why.
To start off, you need to know that most protections [...]
It doesn’t matter if you are a newcomer to the IT industry or a veteran with over 30 years of expertise: there are some movies that I love and think that all people working on the computer industry should watch. They are entertaining and educative at the same time.
The most famous is, of course, Pirates [...]
MTBF stands for Mean Time Between Failures. It’s a term that IT professionals use this number to predict the reliability of hardware devices, especially hard disk drives. But this idea is usually flawed. Here’s why.
To understand why comparing MTBF of different equipment may be misleading, we first need to understand how this parameter is measured.
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