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Photos: New BlackBerry Bold-ly goes for European design
Photo The trackball has also been swapped for a trackpad which Lazaridis said is better suited to singled-handed operation using the thumb. "A little less bold" is how RIM's co-CEO has described the latest incarnation of its... [21 Oct 2009]
Rid your business of weak passwords and get collaborating
Comment Passwords are notoriously insecure and, as a rule of thumb, a password that can be easily remembered is unlikely to be a strong password. How can businesses collaborate with partners and customers securely? [15 Oct 2009]
Weekend Gadget Watch: Logitech Wireless Mouse M505
Photo Pricier than many other mobile mouses; no thumb buttons Considering hitting the shops at the weekend? Looking for inspiration? Check out the latest in our series of gadget mini-reviews, courtesy of silicon.com's sister... [11 Sep 2009]
Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization
White Paper Once virtualized, applications become a single, isolated file that runs instantly from anywhere, including a thumb drive. Introducing new applications for deployment into an established IT environment is a time and... [30 Aug 2009]
Virtualizing Contact Centers: The EDS-Avaya Approach - The Inevitability of Data/voice Convergence in Contact Center Environments, and How Companies Today Are Benefiting From It
White Paper All technology evolves over time And in the same way it took a few years to evolve PC storage - from floppy disks to CD-ROMs to thumb drives in a USB port - in the midst of a similar phenomenon with voice-based... [07 Aug 2009]
IMS Database Tuning: Reactive Vs Proactive
White Paper Lets compare IMS database tuning using basic tuning rules of thumb compared to database tuning using BMC tools that assist both new and seasoned IMS DBAs manage complex environments. [01 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.07.09
Round-Up Rather than slumping on a sofa playing games, building up unfeasibly large thumb muscles from all that button bashing, gamers could soon be able to leap around the room to kick virtual balls and wrestle their enemies on... [17 Jul 2009]
Microsoft fingers thumb drives for Windows 7 netbooks
News Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines, a source has told silicon.com sister site CNET News. Microsoft also sells a downloadable version... [26 Jun 2009]
Sizing Oracle on Microsoft Windows and Dell PowerEdge Servers
White Paper The focus of this paper is on providing "rules of thumb" for sizing Dell PowerEdge servers for first-time Oracle database deployments. Sizing server requirements for deploying a new corporate application is one of the... [18 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment Using our rule of thumb, we see roughly the same figure for 1 to 10GHz, and again for 10 to 100GHz. For the purposes of my study I focused on the use of a single handheld scanner of limited span, and a really useful rule... [09 Jun 2009]
X-Wire Resistive Multi-Touch Screens
White Paper It is equally debilitating when wanting to ignore un-intended touches, e.g.a resting palm or a gripping thumb while writing. Resistive single-touch screens have been then workhorse of the touch screen market for 20 years. [14 May 2009]
Photos: The watches with tech appeal
Photo The watch hides a USB flash drive which pops out - shown on the right of the watch - and can be used like a common-or-garden thumb drive. For a watch from a company better known for its phones, it's no surprise that the... [01 May 2009]
10 questions to ask before building a datacentre
Comment While industry standard TIA 942 is often cited, many companies use The Uptime Institute's 4 Tier availability guidelines as a good rule of thumb in early design stages. To create a successful datacentre, you need to do... [30 Apr 2009]
Windows 7: Now with one-third fewer annoying prompts
News Windows 7 boosts remote connectivity to corporate networks, protects data on thumb drives, and offers fewer user account control prompts to annoy users compared to Vista, Microsoft said on Monday. BitLocker To Go extends... [21 Apr 2009]
i5/OS LPAR Performance on POWER4 and POWER5 Systems
White Paper The goals of this white paper are to: examine processor partitioning (LPAR) performance from two perspectives, whole processor partitioning and partial processor partitioning, provide guidelines and tips to help optimize LPAR performance... [16 Mar 2009]
