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The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Most of us carry more computing power in our trouser pockets these days than it takes to put man on the moon, so it's worth remembering that in the olden days computers used to be quite large, mechanical beasts. [04 Sep 2009]
Best Practices for Leveraging Business Analytics in Today's and Tomorrow's Insurance Sector
White Paper The franchise model provides a straw man for having this discussion internally by removing the either/or elements from the discussion. The use of business analytics continues to permeate the insurance marketplace. [02 Sep 2009]
Sustainable Operation and Management of Data Center Chillers Using Temporal Data Mining
White Paper In the absence of a "First-principles" approach to man-age these complex components and their interactions, data-driven approaches have become attractive and tenable. Data centers are a critical component of modern IT... [29 Aug 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and... [18 Aug 2009]
New CTO provides Devine inspiration for Yell
News Yell has appointed a new UK chief technology officer. Rorie Devine, who has twice featured on silicon.com's CIO50 list, joined the directories company at the end of last month. Yell's new CTO, Rorie Devine (Photo credit: Yell) [11 Aug 2009]
Mahindra Satyam's new CEO on the road ahead for the outsourcing giant
News For a man at the helm of a business that has been through so much in the course of this year, Mahindra Satyam's new CEO CP Gurnani looks remarkably relaxed. With his smile and immaculate suit, Gurnani has been away from... [10 Aug 2009]
Structural Monitoring: Making Bridges Safer Across the United States
White Paper At any given point in time, bridges may also be threatened by natural disaster, man-made events, and defective materials or simply by long-term "Wear and Tear. High-Speed Wireless Networks are Helping State and Local... [07 Aug 2009]
Inside the SpinVox Brain
Comment Filtering out the omnipresent swoosh of lorries and vans on the walk to work to eavesdrop on the conversation of the man on his mobile behind you? Natasha Lomas was invited to the company's HQ to see a demo of the system. [06 Aug 2009]
Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more
News silicon.com's top stories for July are an eclectic bunch - from calls for an offshoring tax, to work on cows that don't fart to one man's epic struggle to get an all-in-one printer simply to work. Even if Bill Gates... [03 Aug 2009]
Adding Scale, QoS and Operational Simplicity to Ethernet
White Paper However, in the MAN and in the WAN, it was a different story, with service providers offering leased lines, Frame Relay and ATM services - all significantly more complicated and offering less bandwidth. [31 Jul 2009]
Introduction to the Solaris Developer Documentation
White Paper Learning About Development on the Solaris OS, Map to the Solaris OS Man Page Collection, Building Applications in the Solaris OS, Programming to Specific Hardware and Configurations. The Solaris Operating System (Solaris... [31 Jul 2009]
Better, Stronger, Faster: The Windows 7 Taskbar
White Paper Sort of like the Six Million Dollar Man - better, stronger, faster. One knows what the Windows taskbar is, isn't it? It's that familiar horizontal strip at the bottom of the desktop where the open files and programs appear. [31 Jul 2009]
Web security warnings being ignored - even by the most tech-savvy
News While SSL certificates often expire for benign reasons, an expired certificate can also indicate that the user could be the victim of a man-in-the-middle attack. Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an... [28 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up The Round-Up had a vague idea it was a group of high tech superheros with names like WebserverMan and Domain Name Administrator Girl who would fight their arch enemies the 404 Monster and Poweroutage Man. [24 Jul 2009]
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group picks newspaper man for CIO
News Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group has hired a new CIO. The insurance and risk management company announced today that Ian Cohen will take up the head of IT role with immediate effect. Cohen, who has featured on silicon.com's CIO50 list, was... [24 Jul 2009]
