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RSS osPrison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News X is for OS X Mobile phone use will be blocked and Bodily Orifice Security Scanner (Boss) chairs will be fitted throughout non-high security prisons from March 2009. The technological measures were announced by the government on the back of a... [08 Jul 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack targetting Access
News X is for OS X An attacker would have to lure a victim, via a link in an email for example, to a specially crafted web page that could exploit the security hole to allow remote code execution. This would provide the attacker with as much access to... [08 Jul 2008]
10-Gigabit iWARP Ethernet: Comparative Performance Analysis With InfiniBand and Myrinet-10G
White Paper iWARP is a set of standards enabling Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Ethernet.iWARP supporting RDMA and OS bypass, coupled with TCP/IP Offload Engines, can fully eliminate the host CPU involvement in an Ethernet environment. [08 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News Vista has only been about for 18 months but talk has already turned to Windows 7 with shaky video shots of the OS in development emerging on the internet. Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft... [07 Jul 2008]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News X is for OS X The British Air Transport Association (Bata) said aviation workers were being used as guinea pigs for the scheme. ID cards for 'airside' workers - those who work beyond airport security checks - will become compulsory in 2009. [07 Jul 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News X is for OS X In a speech at the Homeland & Border Security Conference 2008 in London on Thursday, Admiral Lord West, parliamentary undersecretary of state for security and counter-terrorism, said that terrorists were increasingly harnessing... [04 Jul 2008]
Viacom vs Google: YouTube privacy fears
News X is for OS X Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its $1bn copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service and its deep-pocketed parent, Google. [04 Jul 2008]
Google Talk finds a home on iPhone
News However, while Apple continues to release new applications for the iPhone, a leading Mac OS X researcher, Charlie Miller, says Apple has not kept the iPhone operating system up to date with patches it has issued for the desktop. [04 Jul 2008]
Main Memories Interaction W/Dual Core, OS, Graphics, Audio, and Power
White Paper This presentation provides an understanding of Intel's Main Memory Roadmap and provides importance of main memory with dual core, audio, graphics, power and OS. The intended audience for this presentation is OEMs, ODMs, memory suppliers and... [03 Jul 2008]
Secure to the Core - OS Hardening
White Paper This white paper defines and describes a Hardened OS. Later, it describes the Patched OS and compares the two. It describes it as the one in which the vendor has modified the kernel source code to provide for a mechanism, which clearly provides a... [03 Jul 2008]
Getting Started With MIDP Programming on Symbian OS
White Paper This paper is intended as a starting point for developers planning to undertake MIDP development on Symbian OS. The aim of the paper is to smoothen the way for developers migrating to MIDP by pointing them in the direction of essential resources... [03 Jul 2008]
IBM eServer zSeries z/OS Upgrade From SAP Release 4.6C: Measurements, Advice, and Sizing
White Paper At this point only Windows 2000 and z/OS are supported. But at this time z/OS is the preferred method as it minimizes network time and has the potential for significant reductions in elapsed time. However, the question has come up: “How much time... [03 Jul 2008]
Sun Net Talk: SolarisTM 10 OS Technical Roundtable: No Marketing Allowed
White Paper If you love serious technology talk, you’ll appreciate this interactive Webcast that offers a technically focused look at the latest version of the industry-leading SolarisTM OS. Featuring experts in Dynamic Tracing, N1TM Grid Containers... [03 Jul 2008]
Sybase and Sun Microsystems Deliver Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise on Solaris OS X86 Platform Edition
White Paper Sybase, Inc.and Sun Microsystems, Inc.announced the general availability of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) on the Solaris Operating System (OS) x86 Platform Edition. Additionally, Sybase ASE 12.5.1, Developer Edition is now co-packaged... [03 Jul 2008]
DB2 Data Replication for z/OS: Performance Evaluation and Analysis
White Paper This white paper describes a set of DB2 Replication performance measurements collected on a single zSeries LPAR, non-data sharing z/OS system environment. Replication is the process of maintaining a defined set of data in more than one location. [03 Jul 2008]
