- Follow this blog:
- RSS
- Email Alert
IT News Digest
-
Quote of the Day -- 5/24/2005
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."-- Jim Ryuh
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 24, 2005, 9:43 AM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 5/23/2005
"It's surprising how much you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit." -- Abraham Lincoln
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 23, 2005, 5:43 AM PDT
-
WiMax is ready?
WiMax has the potential to make broadband Internet access faster and more accessible for a lot of people. However, it was supposed to be a year or two away from any type of serious deployment....
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 05/11/2005
"Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."-- Winston Churchill
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 05/04/2005
"Always aim for achievement, and forget about success."-- Helen Hayes
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 05/05/2005
"Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."-- Lord ChesterfieldThis post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Bill Gates has been reading my blog again
Remember the post I made on April 12 about the U.S. education system falling behind in science and high-tech education? Well, on Monday, Bill Gates gave a talk to the Society of American Business...
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 05/06/2005
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" -- Leonardo Da Vinci
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 05/03/2005
"Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment."-- Maxwell Maltz
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 4/26/2005
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 4/28/2005
"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 04/13/2005
"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."-- Peter DruckerThis post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 04/14/2005
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."-- Alfred North WhiteheadThis post originally appeared on an external website
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
A theologian who loves robots?
I was quite impressed with this interview of theologian Anne Foerst. It turns out that Ms. Foerst is not only a ground-breaking thinker in religious and theological fields, but has also had a...
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
I guess the PC just isn't cool any more
I've recently read a very persuasive argument that the PC isn't much fun any more and that the coolest stuff in tech is now centered around all these small gadgets like iPods (of course), PDAs,...
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Quote of the Day -- 4/15/2005
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."-- Helen Keller
Posted by Jason Hiner | May 18, 2005, 1:43 PM PDT
-
Google hack to instantly search for files
Thanks to Jimmy Ruska's video on YouTube, there are several quirks about phrasing search queries for Google that can find you files in a jiffy. I will detail the method and include it as a Firefox...
Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 11, 2007, 9:35 AM PDT
-
Toshiba's battery recall and tips on maintaining your laptop's battery
IDG News service and SlashGear report that Toshiba is initiating another series of battery recalls due to risk of fire. The models that may be affected are Satellite A100/A105 and Tecra A7 and...
Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 20, 2007, 6:57 AM PDT
-
Are the rewards of ERP systems worth the risk?
The country's biggest trash hauler, Waste Management, has announced that it is suing SAP for $100 million as a result of the failed implementation of SAP's ERP package. The suit claims that,...
Posted by Andy Moon | March 28, 2008, 3:59 AM PDT
-
IronKey flash drive "self-destructs" on too many failed password attempts
Remember a month ago when I wrote about the SanDisk flash drive that comes with on-board hardware encryption in "SanDisk launches Cruzer family of USB flash drives with hardware encryption"?...
Posted by Paul Mah | July 28, 2007, 11:59 PM PDT
-
Wal-Mart issues RFID mandate
Wal-Mart has decided to ratchet up the pressure on its 15,000 suppliers to comply with a 3-year-old inventory technology mandate. Beginning January 30, 2008, it will charge suppliers a $2 fee for...
Posted by Paul Mah | January 20, 2008, 11:59 PM PST
-
The advantages of Sun's ZFS filesystem
Recent weeks have seen some waves created in the normal placid waters of filesystems by the inadvertent announcement of the inclusion of the ZFS into OS X by Sun's CEO, denial by Apple, then...
Posted by Paul Mah | June 17, 2007, 8:01 PM PDT
-
OSI Layer-2 Encryption: Security goes one layer deeper
Encryption over Ethernet is emerging as a new solution for powering secure networks. Increasingly being adopted for military and critical networking infrastructures, Layer-2 encryption helps...
Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | June 20, 2007, 7:53 AM PDT
-
Share USB 2.0 devices over your LAN
Weary of running a desktop just to keep USB devices online or of connecting them to your wireless laptop by entangling cables? Keyspan has upgraded its three-year-old USB Server design with its...
Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | August 6, 2007, 10:40 PM PDT
-
IT departments - Centralization vs. Decentralization
One of the big debates raginig within many organizations right now is whether to centralize or decentralize IT. Some companies are consolidating services such as help desks into one location and...
Posted by Jason Hiner | March 30, 2006, 8:18 PM PST
-
My ex put naked photos of me on the Web...
News.com started a series in July called "Police blotter," which intersects technology and the law. If you're easily sucked into the TV show "Cops," then you'll find this series even more...
Posted by Sonja Thompson | December 12, 2005, 7:47 AM PST
-
Standalone gadget wipes your hard disk to DoD standards
As IT professionals, you already know that merely clearing the Recycle Bin from within the operating system does not guarantee that the data can no longer be retrieved. In many cases, a 100...
Posted by Paul Mah | November 14, 2007, 8:43 PM PST
-
Dell introduces desktop power in a laptop form
Last October, Dell announced its plans to release a 19-inch wide-screen notebook in 2006: "Ready for a 20-inch laptop?" I also discussed the novelty (and possible awkwardness) of these...
Posted by Sonja Thompson | June 7, 2006, 12:03 PM PDT
-
Permanently deleting files at work could result in a lawsuit
Before you permanently delete a file at work, you should know that it could potentially come back to bite you in the butt. Check out this news story: "Police blotter: Ex-employee sued for...
Posted by Sonja Thompson | March 29, 2007, 8:25 AM PDT
-
OLPC used by students to access porn
Remember the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program? IT News Digest ran a few pieces on OLPC in the last a few months, the most recent by John Bartley - Intel inside $100 laptop? - in which Intel...
Posted by Paul Mah | July 23, 2007, 11:30 PM PDT
-
BitTorrent plugin for Mozilla Firefox
The UK/Prague-based open-source firm AllPeers has developed a BitTorrent plugin for Mozilla Firefox that lets users search and share files through torrents in a process as simple as downloading a...
Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | September 15, 2007, 1:43 AM PDT
-
Wake up at the right time with a bio-alarm clock
At the end of August, I published a blog post about how technology (specifically, electronic gadgets) is responsible for "junk sleep." Right around the same time, another news story surfaced about...
Posted by Sonja Thompson | October 18, 2007, 5:13 AM PDT
-
Do you need a cell phone to survive?
If you have a message that needs to be delivered immediately, such as a security alert, e-mail isn't the medium of choice -- or at least that's what cell phone providers will argue. Why?...
Posted by Sonja Thompson | April 20, 2007, 7:37 AM PDT
-
IT news for April 16: Microsoft-Yahoo saga; Zune VideoX; MySQL 5.1
News to know for April 16, 2008, features stories about: the epic Microsoft-Yahoo saga, Zune VideoX, MySQL 5.1, Pystar's Mac clones, and much more.
Posted by Sonja Thompson | April 16, 2008, 5:19 AM PDT
-
Free iPhone unlocking tool released with full source code
I was wrapping up my news posting for the day when I saw the news exclusive from Gizmodo that yet another team has managed to unlock the iPhone via software. This time around, the unlocking was...
Posted by Paul Mah | September 12, 2007, 10:38 PM PDT
-
Cell phones have more effect on the world than computers
It's hard to imagine that cell phones could actually have more effect on the world than computers, but IBM software developer and blogger Sam Ruby made a great argument as to why this...
Posted by Sonja Thompson | July 25, 2006, 6:22 AM PDT
