Paul Mah

A 75-year-old woman from Karlstad, in central Sweden, has been bestowed with what we can only salivate and dream about at the moment — the world’s fastest broadband connectivity. At the blistering speed of 40 Gigabits per second pumped straight to her home, Sigbritt Löthberg is now able to enjoy 1,500 simultaneous streams of HDTV …

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According to eWeek, Microsoft will be announcing its plan at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week about the impending release to manufacture its new Systems Centre Remote Operations Manager 2007 (ROM 2007). Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter Catch up on the latest tech innovations that are changing the world, including IoT, 5G, …

Baseline has an article that caught my eye just the other day. It was a provocatively titled piece on Opinion: Why CIOs Should Pay Attention to Hewlett-Packard. Essentially, the author noted that the designation of No. 1 IT vendor now belongs to Hewlett-Packard, which has seen its sales climb past IBM’s. Subscribe to the Executive …

If you are new to the IT profession and do not know it yet – shipment of laptops has already surpassed that of the traditional desktop over a year ago. It is therefore interesting to note that even with such a huge installed base – and the price of an additional laptop battery costing upwards …

Barracuda Networks, the creator of the famed Barracuda anti-spam hardware appliance, is adding real-time malware protection to its line of products. Called Barracuda Real-Time Protection, the technology leverages on the strength of the company’s installed base of 40,000 spam firewall appliances to monitor for malware breakouts. This capability is achieved by creating unique binary signatures, …

At the risk of stating the obvious, caffeine addiction is something well understood by the IT professionals and gurus reading the IT News Digest blog on TechRepublic. It is the absolutely essential stimulant necessary for proper functioning, especially when frantically fixing NOC outages or the million and one other IT emergencies that never seem to …

It has been less than a week since the iPhone’s release, and my head is still spinning from all the iPhone unboxing and cracking open galleries. Already, it appears that the hacker crew of IRC #iPhone channel has managed to gain shell access to the iPhone. As the iPhone’s 30-pin dock connector features the same …

Spotted this one over at PCMag’s Security Watch blogs. It appears that Symantec has just posted public beta test copies of its upcoming Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Norton Internet Security 2008 products. Subscribe to the Cybersecurity Insider Newsletter Strengthen your organization’s IT security defenses by keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best …

Gizmodo has a piece which alleges that a new multi-touch device (aka a multi-touch mouse) that extends the iPhone concept into desktop computers might be on the horizon. Extrapolating from a recently filed patent at the U.S. patent office, it seems to have a transparent shell with a light source that will illuminate it from the …

Hot from Bloomberg, SAP AG, the world’s largest maker of business-management software, has came clean and admitted it made “inappropriate” downloads of Oracle’s documents, in response to a lawsuit that claims it stole files belonging to Oracle. Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter Catch up on the latest tech innovations that are changing the world, …

ZeroPaid has a new report on an alleged attempt by MediaDefender Inc, self-touted as the “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention industry,” of launching a new Web site that attempts to what amounts to an entrapment operation. After being Slashdotted, the site in question, “MiiVi,” has apparently been taken down. A simple …