Category: Tech Tidbits Daily
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Two things of potential interest from eWeek and Information Week. First, from eWeek is details about Sun’s new UltraSPARC T1 processor, and what it could mean to data-centers & competition to the "web tier" sector dominated by x86 running Linux. And second, from Thomas Claburn @ Information Week with an…
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We are going to end the week with some pointers to computer network security news and a special announcement. Links mentioned: Unix and Windows forensic tools [FCW] NIST and CSE push FIPS 140-2 for ANSI X9.66 [Network World] ActivCard’s SecureLogin Single Sign On v5.5 supports Firefox [FCW] The special annoucement:…
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After the last three days of all enterprise news, how about some good old fashion fun consumer electronics information based on recommendations from one of my favorite magazines MaximumPC. Here are the items mentioned in today’s podcast: Canon Powershot SD500 Logitech G5 Mouse Squeezbox 2 Streaming Audio Server Western Digital…
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Today we look at two short enterprise pointers: the first on new secure storage solutions from Decru (which is owned by NetApp), and the second on a new tool called InMotion from XOSoft to help with Microsoft Exchange migrations. Other product or vendor mentions in this podcast include: Decru DataFort…
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If you are in the market for a smartphone that requires what I’m calling "Enterprise Hooks" into your backend serves like Exchange, then you’ll want to check out Network Computing’s in-depth look at SmartPhones published in the Oct. 27th, 2005 edition. The units examined include: Nokia 9300 from Cingular {@Amazon}…
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eWeek for 31Oct05 had a pretty interesting eWeek Labs review of the open source portal tool Liferay Portal 3.6.1 that you might be interested in if you need to setup a prototype portal server for a demo or for small workgroup just getting started. This is a J2EE based portal…
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Network World recently had an interesting story on how Chevron is moving to an enterprise-wide smart-card based security system as they bring on the last 50,000 users into their two-factor authenticated network password system. The article is by John Fontana, and was published on Oct. 31, 2005. This system supports…
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Today we continue to look at USB storage solutions and cool hacks: The Gadgeteer.com has a Swiss Memory 1GB USB Victorinox Knife Review Make Magazine recently examined Computer-On-a-Stick (COS) Wired recently reviewed the 2-GB FBi Fingerprint Biometric Identity Drive Gizmodo and Engadget both have a pointer to Black Dog USB…
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Today’s podcast examines a host of technology blog and podcast sources that may be of interest. Unfortunately, the audio on this one is again a problem, like yesterdays. I think I now know what the problem is: (latest version of Mac OS X + Audacity 1.2.3 + Plantronics DSP-400 USB…
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Enterprise Magazine is reporting that VMware (owned by EMC) has announced plans to support an open virtualization standards process. [entmag] This article is written by Stuart Johnson . This initiative is called VMware Community Source that will offer up to their partners access to the source code and interface for…
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Steve Holden's Blog 