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Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment Whether it's a rather deft bit of marketing by Apple to remove devices from the channel as anticipation builds for the 3G model at the San Francisco Worldwide Developer Conference next month, or a slightly clumsy bit of inventory management, the... [23 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up The San Francisco Department of Public Health warned that several people had become ill after attending or working at conferences at the city's Moscone Convention Center between 30 April and Thursday. [16 May 2008]
Food Company Improves IT Security System View and Management Using New Solution
White Paper Del Monte Foods, based in San Francisco, California, sells popular, premium-quality branded food and pet products throughout the United States. The organization's employees rely heavily on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office... [13 May 2008]
Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps
News Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week with a series of keynote presentations designed to showcase JavaFX, the company's new rich internet-application (RIA) technology, due to be launched to developers... [08 May 2008]
Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'
News These comments echoed earlier statements by Microsoft product unit manager David Cross, who said in a speech at the RSA Conference in San Francisco earlier this month that UAC was deliberately designed to "annoy users", in order to put pressure on... [29 Apr 2008]
School District Adopts New File Backup System, Expects to Save $100,000
White Paper The San Francisco Unified School District needed a reliable method for backing up important files. The district had used tape backups, which relied on schools to manually change tapes and check data. But even when files were recorded properly... [26 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco recently, Cross said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up. [18 Apr 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as... [17 Apr 2008]
Olympic tech getting fit for Beijing 2008
Case Study Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Yan Noblot, principal consultant at Atos Origin, said: "It's interesting to see how information security has developed since 2002 and the winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the one in... [16 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. [16 Apr 2008]
Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'
News Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of... [14 Apr 2008]
Experian embraces open source
News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Barbara Fennell, business information security officer at Experian, said: "We began to see a bit of a culture clash forming. Experian is embracing open source software as a major part of its... [11 Apr 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing with the phishing problem. [11 Apr 2008]
How Google keeps its tech security tip top
News Google director of product management Scott Petry - founder of Postini, which is now owned by the search giant - gave the low-down on the web giant's approach to security at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. [10 Apr 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Ira Winkler, said: "The statistics are... [10 Apr 2008]
