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Photos: The latest Windows Phones from HTC, Sony Ericsson
Photo While Microsoft's share of the mobile OS market may have waned of late, Windows Mobile continues to find its way onto shiny new hardware. The 3.2-inch touchscreen Xperia X2 runs the latest iteration of Microsoft's... [13 Nov 2009]
Using NitroView and NitroGuard as an Anomaly Detection System (ADS): Benefits of NitroView and NitroGuard for Network + Security Anomaly Detection
White Paper The data collected may be sourced from virtually any relevant network device, including: network traffic flows (from Netflow or Sflow capable routers and/or using Nitro-Flow); alerts and events generated by NitroGuard; from any of the... [12 Nov 2009]
On Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Consolidated Servers in Virtualized Data Centers
White Paper Server consolidation based on Operating System (OS) virtualization technologies aims to increase the total resource utilization in data centers. However, efficiently capitalizing on the available resources requires tools... [12 Nov 2009]
Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo Google Android is also featuring on netbooks, with Acer recently launching a device that can dual boot both the open source OS and Windows 7. Here's the OS' Action Center, which provides links to deeper... [12 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News None of the IT chiefs surveyed said the latest iteration of the Mac OS - Snow Leopard - will push their business to adopt Apple desktops.silicon.com readers also had their say on the matter - with voices raised both for... [09 Nov 2009]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News Is it the latest OS or a golden oldie that has won a place in their technological hearts? Windows Vista, the operating system between XP and Windows 7, unsurprising scored poorly with a mere five per cent of readers... [09 Nov 2009]
Photos: Android marches onto even more smartphones
Photo It's two years since Google announced it was building an open mobile OS platform - and the number of smartphones with Android inside is on the up. The Xperia X10 runs version 1.6 of the Android OS - aka... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no surprise - but just how much more love is Microsoft's latest OS getting? If the prediction is correct, it would mean Windows 7 would have been adopted by business more... [06 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment Eventually, Apple software supported contextual clicking in late versions of OS 8 and the company eventually released a couple of multi-button mouses. The Apple mouse has long been the weak link in its hardware set-ups. [03 Nov 2009]
Upgrading to Windows Vista: Is Your hardware ready? Are You?
White Paper With Windows Vista® finally shipping, customers who want to upgrade or migrate to the new OS have a number of choices to make. Before you decide, you need to know if it will work with your current system's hardware and... [03 Nov 2009]
VMware Training
White Paper VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing.vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS,... [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: The Apple mouse through the ages
Photo Initial reviews have been favourable; users can set a whole range of preferences in the OS to control the mouse and the touch interface will no doubt appeal to the iPhone generation. Apple's Lisa of the early 1980s was... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News There's no debating that the Symbian platform remains the daddy of the smartphone world: one in every two sold today carries the Symbian OS. New entrants to the market including Google's Android will continue to snap at... [02 Nov 2009]
Lumension Vulnerability Scanner
White Paper Lumension's Vulnerability Scanner assesses and prioritizes your vulnerabilities by criticality and delivers actionable information through an intuitive user interface, where users can easily create a variety of PDF-based reports about... [29 Oct 2009]
Laying the IT Security Foundation - Corralling Conficker and Other Threats in an Evolved Environment
White Paper Automate the detection and remediation of OS and application vulnerabilities and mis-configurations The traditional security approach addresses each individual attack as it crops up through a detect and blocking schema. [29 Oct 2009]
