Date: Fri, 29. August 2008 13:00:00

The nation's major cellular network providers say they are prepared for trouble from tropical storm Gustav, saying they have spent millions in emergency management, permanent generators and cell towers to maintain wireless connectivity in the event of a disaster.

Date: Fri, 30. May 2008 13:00:00

Kevin Kelly's "Better Than Free" essay has been burning up the Internet for months as readers debate which concepts hold value online (and how to monetize those values). Geoff Leeming tackles the question from the security point of view... and comes up remarkably optimistic.

Date: Wed, 18. June 2008 13:00:00

Years of extinctions -- the Alpha chip, Tru64 Unix, the HP e3000, to name but a few -- have made some HP customers understandably nervous about the fates of OpenVMS, HPUX and the Integrity architecture. Attendees at this week's Technology Forum got a bit of direction on that front from the HP powers that be.

Date: Mon, 14. July 2008 13:00:00

For the past seven years, the federal government has been pushing the adoption of a Web-based system that public health agencies nationwide could use to report and track infectious disease outbreaks. But even now, only 38 of the 50 states are fully compliant with the systems technical requirements.

Date: Thu, 24. July 2008 13:00:00

(Source: Brocade) This essential book shows you how to create an easy-to-manage IT infrastructure that allows you to move data freely, adapt to changing business needs, cut IT management costs, minimize downtime, and improve productivity.

Date: Fri, 23. May 2008 13:00:00

Microsoft and Symantec are squabbling over whose code caused the uproar after upgrades to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) emptied Device Manager, deleted network connections, and packed the registry with thousands of bogus entries.

Date: Thu, 5. June 2008 13:00:00

From the 8086 through the 186, 286, 386, 486 and various Pentium models, right down to today's multicore chips, the x86 family of processors has dominated large swaths of computing. Why has the architecture been so successful for so long, beating back and in some cases completely vanquishing competitors?

Date: Wed, 23. July 2008 13:00:00

A district judge in Washington state handed down a 47-month sentence to notorious spammer Robert Soloway, whose conviction the court felt presented an excellent opportunity to send an unfiltered message to other cybercriminals.

Date: Thu, 29. May 2008 13:00:00

Reversing an earlier warning, Symantec today said that "suspicious behavior" by a captured exploit led it to mistakenly conclude that the latest stand-alone versions of Adobe's Flash Player are vulnerable to attacks from Chinese servers.

Date: Fri, 11. July 2008 13:00:00

Making good on an earlier promise, the ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and allied organizations filed suit Thursday to combat the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act.