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I ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. Well Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior vice-president for Windows business may be the farthest thing from a corpulent vaudeville songstress, but if his recent pronouncements are to be taken at face value then this might be curtains for Microsoft's much maligned operating system Vista. Writer Gregg
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For many IT professionals certifications are seen as a badge of honour. For more practical reasons, certifications are also viewed as a ticket to a better and higher paying job. While most workplaces still place continue to attribute much weight on the piece of paper, not a few employers hardly care about them and put greater emphasis on "real
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Desktop distributions of Linux such as Novell Suse, Xandros and of course Ubuntu have grown to be paragons of open source polish, stability and usability. Recently, Dell has reported that its customer satisfaction rates for Inspiron Mini 9 notebooks sporting the Linux OS matches the rates of the company's Windows units. No less than Steve Ballmer
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The recent rollout of productivity and collaboration applications directly hosted by Microsoft will be a welcome development for small Canadian businesses, but the serviceslack the functionality and scale required by larger enterprise. On Monday, Canada and 17 other countries in Asia and Europe gained acces to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online
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What would you name an application that marries elements of desktop functionality with the online file sharingcapability of a social network-aided cloud structure? If you wereMicrosoft, you'd probably call it Social Desktop. The new proof-of-concept applications from the software vendor's research arm integrates elements from the Windows OS
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With his pernchant for recording everything, this probably wouldn't have happened during NIxon's time. But then again... With less than a week to go before BlackBerry President Elect-Barack Obama, family and mother-in-law move into their new digs, a U.S. judge has ordered a massive search and for missing George W-era White House e-mails. White
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The economic recession might have devastated many industries IP-based contact centres will still continue to see some growth in 2009 - although it will be a slow one compared to last year's stellar performance, according to analysts. Sales of IP contact centres will grow in 2009, but probably not as dramatically as they did in 2008 due to an expected
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Hackers used Twitter's own support tools to hijackseveral Twitter accountsincluding those US Presidential-Elect Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears. Although the attacks now reek of Hollywood celeb trivia, the incident holdsmuch more serious implications for other users. Twitter's system couldpotentially be exposing everybody's acount
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Overall demand for storage capacity is growing by as much as 60 percent per year, according research analysts. And the continuing economic woe is forcing many organizations to scale-back on storage budgets making it even harder for companies to wrap their arms around the ever growing amount of data their businesses generate. Read the article Taking
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It used to be one of the coolest job in tech. The James Bond, cloak and dagger version of IT. Visions of high tech covert teams "inserting" themselves inside highly portected corporate headquarters, hacking into network systems, stealing encrypted files. There was never any shortage of news stories about how penetration testing teams managed