Paul Mah

Billed as the largest Infocomm event in Asia, CommunicAsia was held last week at the Singapore Expo from the 17th (Tuesday) to 20th (Friday) of June. CommunicAsia is actually a number of events in one, involving BroadcastAsia, EnterpriseIT and InteractiveDME as well as the CGOverdrive and imbX Ministerial Forum.

A good system admin is like a boy scout: always prepared. Paul Mah puts together a list of items that belongs in every system administrator’s survival toolkit.

When ALT-TAB no longer cuts it for navigating the half dozen or more application windows you have in use at any given time, you typically solve the problem by switching over to a multi-monitor setup. It’s usually a trivial matter to slot in additional video cards for a desktop. But what if you’re dealing with a small form-factor PC that doesn’t have the slot for more video cards, or a laptop to which you need to add two or more external monitors? That’s where the Matrox TripleHead2Go enters the picture. View this gallery of TripleHead2Go in action.

Google finally unveiled its cell phone strategy at a press conference earlier today with the announcement of a new open mobile software platform called Android.

According to James Bannan over at APC Magazine, even a simple device driver update could result in an installation of Windows Vista to be deactivated. This could be especially problematic on an overseas business trip, as Vista is bumped back into reduced functionality mode when it fails to activate within three days.

Here’s a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which include vulnerabilities discovered in Lotus Notes and Domino as well as multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities discovered in Oracle interMedia.

Facebook users might be interested to know that it is currently experiencing a bug that allows “notes” designated as private to be read anyway. This has been confirmed privately to The Register by a Facebook customer service representative, though the site has yet to issue any public notification of this flaw.

There’s no word yet on the official schedule or road map for IMAP support in Gmail. Google appears to be doing a silent rollout of this feature. Some users already have it, but others don’t.

According to James Gosling, often called the father of Java, the Java Micro Edition (ME) will gradually supplanted by the Java Standard Edition (SE). He said, “We’re trying to converge everything to the Java SE specification. Cell phones and TV set-top boxes are growing up.”

Here’s a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which include cross-platform flaws discovered in the Java Runtime Environment, vulnerabilities discovered in Thunderbird in Ubuntu, and a local buffer overflow in IBM AIX.

A “highly critical” vulnerability has been reported in the popular TikiWiki software. It can be exploited by malicious parties to compromise vulnerable systems.

The University of California, Berkeley, has begun posting its entire course lectures onto YouTube. Over 300 hours of videotaped courses will be available at http://youtube.com/ucberkeley.