HP’s new Digital Learning Suite includes six solutions, such as a tablet and "pocket" whiteboard, that can be paired depending on the classroom’s need. – Hewlett-Packard, the worldwide leader in PC sales, is introducing a
suite of education-focused products aimed at helping quot;schools prepare
students for greater achievement and success, quot; it said in a Feb. 2
statement. Called the HP Digital Learning Suite, it includes six components,
from…
A survey in the "Archives of Internal Medicine" by Stanford researchers is stirring debate on the benefits of electronic health record applications. – Researchers
at Stanford University
in California have released a
report saying that electronic health records may not improve patient care, even
if they include a feature called clinical decision support. CDS is a software
function that provides alerts or reminders to doctors on how to care for…
Each year, Fortune magazine comes out with its list of "The 100 Best Companies to Work For." And this year, IT companies are well-represented on the list. Four of them even made the top 10 including: No. 4, Google; No. 5, NetApp; No. 10, DreamWorks Animation and taking the #1 spot as the best company to work for is SAS. So what makes these companies so great? Host Ashley Daley breaks it down; And speaking of jobs to fill. This month, Google announced that CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down and co-founder Larry Page is taking over as chief executive. Almost immediately, Google announced a 6,200-person hiring spree; Starting Feb. 2, Apples iPad will host a tablet-only newspaper called The Daily. The digital publication will be created by News Corp and cost readers 99 cents per week; Google has penciled in a big Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet demonstration at its Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., for Feb. 2. The new OS build, named Honeycomb has been "redesigned from the ground up" to fit the larger screens populating tablet computers; On Friday, Microsoft issued an advisory on a Windows security vulnerability after exploit code for the bug went public. The bug, which lies in the MHTML protocol handler, can be exploited to cause data leakage. Specifically, it would be similar to that of server-side cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, where for instance, an attacker could construct an HTML link designed to trigger a malicious script and somehow convince the targeted user to click it. We let you in on how to protect your company.
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Tcl is known as a powerful yet succinct programming language. It originally derives from "Tool Command Language," but was then rendered as "Tcl" rather than "TCL." When spoken of, the language is pronounced as "tickle" or "tee-see-ell." Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout, founder and chairman of Electric Cloud, and a professor at Stanford University. Ousterhout created Tcl while he was a professor at University of California, Berkeley. Originally "born out of frustration" with programmers devising their own "poor quality" languages intended to be embedded into applications, according to the author, Tcl gained acceptance on its own. It is commonly used for rapid prototyping, scripted applications, GUIs and testing. Tcl is used on embedded systems platforms, both in its full form and in several other small-foot printed versions. Tcl is also used for CGI scripting and as the scripting language for the Eggdrop bot. Tcl is popularly used today in many automated test harnesses, both for software and hardware, and has a following in the Network Testing and SQA communities. The combination of Tcl and the Tk GUI toolkit is referred to as Tcl/Tk which is often pronounced "tickle tock." – …
A sophisticated group of malware attackers often categorized as "Advanced Persistent Threats" are increasingly using Web services and social networking sites for command and control operations. – An increasing number of sophisticated cyber-criminals are
using social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to manage targeted
attacks, according to report from security firm Mandiant.
In Mandiants latest “M-Trends” report, released Jan. 27,
researchers observed more examples of “Advanced …
Authorities continue their campaign to catch people involved in a spate of denial-of-service attacks against companies that cut ties with WikiLeaks. – The FBI executed 40 search warrants across the country Jan. 27 as part of an
ongoing investigation into distributed denial-of-service attacks launched in quot;Operation
Payback. quot;
The raids came the same day U.K. authorities
arrested five people believed to be tied to the loosely affiliate…
With the new offerings, HP is positioning itself in the cloud-computing business for the midrange and SMBs as the purveyor of so-called "Instant-On" enterprise computing. – Hewlett-Packard
has launched a plethora of cloud-based IT packages during the last three
years. These include such diverse offerings as cloud-based management for smartphones, a hosted
business-application service (Cloud Assure), and cloud-based mobile-printing services, among
others.
On Jan….
The proposals to address privacy concerns tied to online behavioral tracking each face their challenges. – In the movie quot;Minority Report, quot; the characters inhabit a world where billboard advertisements call out their names and tailor their pitches to the individuals walking by. A far cry, to be sure, from the targeting advertising seen in the streets, subways and shopping centers of the physical…
"We have established that all broking firms had trades done on SGX securities market in the first half hour when the market opened promptly at 9 a.m. this morning," said a spokeswoman for the Singapore bourse.
Apples record-shattering first quarter left analysts expecting all good things for Apples future, despite Jobs indefinite leave of absence. – @font-face {
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Apples Jan.
18 announcement of its fiscal first quarter 2011 results was summed up
nicely by Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil. In a research
no…
Apple COO Tim Cook explained during the company’s earnings call why Apple doesn’t fear tablet competition from Microsoft Windows and Google Android machines. – Basking in the
glow of a record first quarter, Apple COO Tim Cook labeled Android tablets
quot;bizarre quot; and characterized Windows 7-based tablets as quot;big,
heavy and expensive. quot;
Apple reported earnings of $6 billion, or $6.43 cents a
share, up 78 percent from a year-ago. Revenue…
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Apple,
Motorola, Samsung and other vendors are fueling a trend that will mark 2011 as
a “tipping point” for tablet sales, consultancy Deloitte said in a Jan. 18
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Western
Digital
is offering its second-generation WD S25 server-attached-storage drives and its latest WD RE server-attached-storage 3.5-inch drives for the trad…
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Talari
Networks announced the addition of the Mercury T750 appliance to its family of
adaptive private-networking products for WAN Virtualization. Aimed at midsiz…
RIM is looking to its PlayBook as a higher-security tablet, and emphasizing its WiFi abilities in addition to BlackBerry tethering. – @font-face {
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Motion is positioning its upcoming PlayBook tablet as mostly a WiFi device,
walking a delicate line between touting the devices BlackBerry tethering a…
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Google’s $700
million acquisition of ITA Software may be halted by the U.S. Justice
Department, which is reportedly preparing for a possible antitrust lawsuit to
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CipherOptics released its
multilayer 10G bps network-encryption appliance, the CEP10G. With the CEP10G,
organizations can help secure their high-speed network …
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Cloud-based backup appliance
specialist 3X announced the latest version of its 500 and Tera series RBAs (remote
backup appliances).
The appliances act as p…
The archive contains 40TB of material–some 200,000 document pages, 300 reels of audio tape, 300 museum artifacts, 72 reels of film and 1,500 photos. – A half-century has gone by since President John F. Kennedy declared his famous call to action on that frigid Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1961: quot;Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. quot;
Next week, the Boston-based John F. Kennedy Library amp; Museu…
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Just as breaking into a bank
is pointless without a getaway plan, so too is breaking into a net…
