Baseball season openers hit with Web video problems
Major League Baseball's fee-based MLB.TV game video-streaming service is having technical problems that are affecting the quality of the Web broadcasts.
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Using Instinct to Make Business, Career Decisions
When CIOs discuss the worst candidates they've ever hired for jobs, as they often do in CIO.com's Hiring Manager Interviews series, their hiring mistakes almost always come down to this: I didn't trust my gut. The CIO knows deep down that the candidate isn't right for the position or the IT organization, ignores his instincts and hires the individual anyway. The hire ends up being a waste of time and money, confirming the CIO's instinct on some level that it wouldnâÃ'¬"t work out.
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Unified communications applications coming to the cloud
Expect more communications services from cloud-computing providers such as IBM's LotusLive Engage that becomes available tomorrow, according to makers of unified communications gear and providers at the recent VoiceCon Orlando show.
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VMware View is good news, bad news
VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is seen by many to be an answer to the age-old problem of delivering a solid desktop experience to users without the administrative burden or costs associated with maintaining a physical desktop. Using a mixture of existing technologies, VDI enables users to log into a server-based Windows desktop session via a Web browser or Java client running on thin or fat client hardware. The virtual desktop promises users the same familiar Windows experience, while giving administrators central management and greater control.
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Merry Widow in the land of milk and honey: An acquisition disaster
Acquisition due diligence should include an in-depth IT assessment as a matter of course. So what were we thinking when we left IT on the sidelines as we set about acquiring a technology-based company?
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SNW: Solid-state disk adoption to be swift in corporations
Experts from disk drive, storage components and systems companies at Storage Networking World agreed that large corporations will quickly adopt solid-state disk to replace high-end hard disk drives for niche applications, but that the technology still faces many challenges.
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AP takes aim at Web sites over unlicensed news content
The Associated Press, one of the world's largest news providers, plans to take legal action against Web portals and other sites that use its content without paying for a license.
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Economy forcing 'spoiled' generation to grow up
Two years ago, employment experts advised enterprises that to attract sought-after young workers they must exploit new technologies and relax corporate rules. Today, those same experts are now coaching young job-seekers to compete with more experienced applicants by becoming more, well, corporate.
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Afraid of losing your job to a younger, cheaper IT worker?
You've been in the IT industry for 30 years, gaining knowledge and experience that's valuable to you and your employers at every step. Now we're in a recession and a new crop of younger, perhaps techier, and definitely less-expensive employees are entering the workforce. Should you be worried about losing your job?
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How Gen Y job seekers can stand out in the job market
Thanks to the recession, Generation Y job candidates are competing not only with one another, but also with older, more experienced candidates. Here are a few ways Gen Y'ers can fill the gaps in their resumes to put them on more equal footing.
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Vista Gets Control Alt Delete from Texas Politician
I love being a Texan. I don't love explaining Texas politics to outsiders, but now I have to. It appears a member of the Texas State Senate added a rider to the budget, proposed and argued about every two years here. ComputerWorld's headline of “Texas State Senate Bans Vista From Use in Government Agencies†isn't quite correct yet, but that's the intent of Sen. Juan Hinojosa, a Democrat from south Texas
Read More ...Internet-wide problem to be revealed at conference
Organizers of next week's Black Hat Europe conference are promising a security presentation that could impact anyone who uses the Internet.
Read More ...Start-up HyTrust debuts policy enforcement for VMware
Start-up HyTrust Monday launched its first product, an appliance for enforcing security policy related to administrative use of VMware ESX servers and the VirtualCenter management console
The Tripwire HIPAA Solution: Meeting the Security Standards Set Forth in Section 164
HIPAA requires businesses that handle personal health information (PHI) to set up strong controls to ensure the security and integrity of that information. Learn how Tripwire Enterprise helps meet the detailed technical requirements of HIPAA and delivers continuous compliance.
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Configuration Assessment: Choosing the Right Solution
Configuration assessment lets businesses proactively secure their IT infrastructure and achieve compliance with important industry standards and regulations. Learn why configuration assessment is so important, why organizations find it difficult to control system configurations, and what types of configuration assessment solutions are available.
Read More ...Beyond PCI Checklists: Securing Cardholder Data with Tripwire’s Enhanced File Integrity Monitoring
How do organizations pass their PCI DSS audits yet still suffer security breaches? Paying attention to PCI DSS checklists only partially secures the cardholder environment. Learn the next steps for fully securing your data.
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Addressing Compliance Initiatives with Tripwire and the Center for Internet Security
Learn the basics about security benchmarks, and specifically how the security benchmarks developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) can help you with your compliance initiatives
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File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments
Learn how integrity monitoring software solutions enable IT organizations to achieve and maintain configuration control. Tripwireآ® Enterprise is the first solution to effectively combine configuration assessment and file integrity monitoring, enabling automated and sustainable configuration control throughout virtual and physical infrastructures.
Read More ...Kaiser Fires 15 for Peeking At Octuplet Mom's Records
In the latest example of employee data-snooping, a Kaiser Permanente hospital located in a Los Angeles suburb has fired 15 workers and reprimanded eight others for improperly accessing the medical records of Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January.
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Are Linux netbooks really returned more than Windows models
MSI, maker of the popular Wind netbook, said last fall that its research showed Linux netbooks were returned four times more than those running Windows.
Read More ...Windows 7 upgrade options limited for some enterprises
Microsoft will restrict Windows 7 "upgrade rights" for Vista and XP users to 25 machines at any single street address, meaning that larger companies will have to go through volume licensing for their migration plans.
Read More ...Leaked HP memo details XP reprieve until 2010, report says
Microsoft acknowledged Monday that it has "broadened the options" for PC makers to continue offering the eight-year-old Windows XP as a downgrade from Vista, and potentially from the upcoming Windows 7.
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Report: XP downgraders to receive free Windows 7 upgrades
Microsoft will provide free or discounted Windows 7 upgrades not only to users who buy Vista PCs between June 2009 and January 2010, but also to people who buy a system that's been
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US trade office releases information on secret piracy pact
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has released some new details about an anticounterfeiting trade agreement that has been discussed in secret among the U.S., Japan, the European Union and other countries since 2006.
Read More ...Baseball season opens with Web video problems
Major League Baseball acknowledges a variety of issues affecting its MLB.TV streaming service
Read More ...Big changes coming in Defense spending
Yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates released information about an overhaul of weapons priorities. According to today's Wall Street Journal, Gates said his proposed budget would "profoundly reform" military spending. Almost every big defense contractor is going to be affected.
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Apple updates Xserve with Nehalem Xeon processors
Apple's new 1U rackmount server, Xserve, is based on Intel's latest Nehalem Xeon Processors, giving it twice the performance of its predecessor, according to Apple.
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UK gov't webpage links to porn site
A link has been removed from a Government webpage after it appeared to link to a Japanese porn site.
Read More ...Sun's future up in the air after talks with IBM break down
The next step for Sun Microsystems Inc., after its apparent failure to reach an agreement with IBM on an acquisition, is to continue looking for a buyer, change its management - or just keep plugging along and pretend that nothing ever happened.
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Solid state disk adoption to be swift in corporations
Adoption of SSD has taken on a 'gold rush' mentality
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