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Insecure about Wi-Fi security? Don’t be...
Comment Apparently, many hassles with WLAN security come from carefree users who do not turn security on, or who use the default configuration. Security is often cited as the main barrier to widespread use of Wi-Fi wireless networks, whether at work, at... [03 Apr 2003]
What will make or break Wi-Fi?
Comment Ease of use is not a great strong point (remember the wireless LAN of constant sorrow) but it hasn’t proved an insurmountable hurdle to business users, who are a large part of target market for mobile data, and generally have access to technical... [25 Mar 2003]
Farewell, floppy
Comment Company representatives added that Dell hasn't decided yet whether its website configuration tool will automatically include or exclude the floppy - meaning that consumers will either need to manually delete or add it. [07 Feb 2003]
The Ovum View: IBM-Rational - a threat to the industry?
Comment Coupled with Rational's well-integrated portfolio of testing, configuration management and analysis facilities IBM will get the integrated one-stop shop it desires. Most industry watchers know IBM is ending the year with a multibillion dollar... [20 Dec 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft takes the tablet, vertical platforms and ecommerce stats
Comment The first is coming from the services businesses who are taking their experiences of platform configuration and building them into the base products. On 7 November 2002 Microsoft and its partners will reveal the much-discussed tablet PC. [01 Jul 2002]
How we use our mobile devices
Comment Spacial configuration of using a laptop is quite different from a PDA or mobile so we see an increasing number of people doing what we call layering - linking information from a mobile to a PDA and then downloading it to a PC or laptop in the... [30 May 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Security - it's so simple
Comment Disregarding denial of service attacks, which are best tackled through concerted action by ISPs, the greatest security problem is simply the inadequate configuration of features that already exist. This week, Martin Brampton, director at... [05 Feb 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Gadgetry without innovation?
Comment Admittedly, there were messy questions of configuration and software support. Martin Brampton, director at consultancy Black Sheep Research, ponders this question. Am I being an old grouch? Or is there really very little of interest coming out of... [27 Nov 2001]
Windows XP: Five reasons to be cheerful
Comment Add that to the Universal Plug and Play feature in XP that supposedly enables auto-discovery and configuration of anything (including the office coffee machine, as long as Microsoft approves) and you have a tempting path to inextricable chaos... [24 Oct 2001]
Best of Reader Comments: An all-Microsoft special
Comment By taking more and more control of the software out of the hands of the user and placing it in the unreliable hands of configuration 'Wizards' that try to be intelligent, Microsoft are opening the fragile world of internet service provision to... [12 Oct 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Limited Wingspan, open source mobiles and Houston floods
Comment It operates on devices with footprints even smaller than the minimum configuration required by stripped down Linux platforms. Wingspan was an entrepreneurial internet banking start-up, launched in 1999 and soundly backed by Bank One - a large US... [03 Aug 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: LinuxWorld shenanigans, Psion trouble and what value stock options
Comment Also at the show Sun released a version of Java for small devices, called the "connected device configuration" of Java. At LinuxWorld, IBM's Sam Palmisano kicked things off announcing Big Blue has a 64-processor server capable of running existing... [05 Feb 2001]
Online cheaters beware
Comment Tuesday (PST), a Microsoft technician made a configuration change to the routers on the edge of Microsoft's Domain Name Server (DNS) network. The mistaken configuration change limited communication between DNS servers on the internet and Microsoft... [26 Jan 2001]
The Electronic B@zaar: Part 4 - Apples from Alaska
Comment In fact, there is already a strong trend for computers to be supplied direct from the factory, with the consumer specifying individual details of the computer configuration and software to be ready loaded. [30 Jun 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: How to do WAP, the death of the PC, and Baan's troubled times
Comment IBM is currently taking a few more steps in that direction with a free tool that captures a current software configuration to support large rollouts using a standard software model. WAP will be big - everybody now acknowledges that. [05 Mar 2000]
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