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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

How (and why) to surf the Web in secret

  Revisiting Top IT Turkeys of 2011 | AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years
 
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How (and why) to surf the Web in secret
They say no one can hear you scream in space, but if you so much as whisper on the Web, you can be tracked by a dozen different organizations and recorded for posterity. Simply visiting a website can allow its operators to figure out your general physical location, identify details about your device information, and install advertising cookies that can track your movements around the web. (Don't believe me? Check this out.) Read More


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Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds
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Revisiting Top IT Turkeys of 2011
We're busy compiling our 2012 list, but thought it might be fun to revisit our 2011 list of the people, companies and products that earned the label of 'turkey'. Read More

AT&T to invest $14B for wireless and wired networks over three years
AT&T will invest $14 billion over the next three years for wireless and wired capital improvements, including an expansion of 4G LTE service to 300 million people by the end of 2014. Read More

Wi-Fi security do's and don'ts
11 tips for protecting your wireless networks Read More

Apple iPad mini a parody magnet
Apple is showing no signs of slowing down, and either are parody video makers taken with the company's latest tablets, phones and computers. Two new parody videos from Cinesaurus making the rounds -- one pitting the iPad vs. Microsoft Surface -- poke fun at the iPad mini ad that Apple execs debuted at the company's recent dog-and-pony show. Read More


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See how Oracle was able to save 835 DBA hours its first year due to its pre-configured nature, ability to automatically bring a system up to its proper patch level, validate an environment and quickly gather all necessary log files and more. Learn More

CloudStack releases first code under Apache license
OpenStack has grabbed a lot of headlines recently, but competing cloud management platform CloudStack made some news of its own this week with the project releasing its first open source code as part of the Apache Software Foundation. Read More

Black Friday could be big for Android device buyers
While you're unlikely to find a lot of cut-rate Apple iOS devices during the holiday shopping season, Black Friday sales of Android tablets and phones will abound according to leaked circulars from big-name retailers. Read More

Security tech debate: On-premise or in the cloud?
There are many things that are easier to do in the cloud, but is security one of them? Proponents argue that basing security tools in the cloud provide all the benefits of any cloud-based resource, including low cost of entry, simplicity of maintenance/upgrades, etc. But critics say not so fast. Getting security is hard enough when you control all the resources. Moving them to the cloud just further complicates the job. Read More

Online Voting: A Challenge to the Tech Industry
Whether who you voted for won or lost (and I do hope you voted), whether you live in a blue state or a red state, no matter your political beliefs, as Americans I think there is one thing we can all agree on. It is ridiculous that in this day and age people should have to stand on line for 4, 5 or more hours to cast a vote. Read More


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10 Ways Telemedicine is Changing Healthcare IT
Telemedicine mixes teleconferencing, document-sharing and mobile technology in order to improve healthcare quality, largely for those who lack access to care. Here are 10 ways that telemedicine implementations are changing the delivery of healthcare services. Read More

You + Big Data = Not Anonymous; Microsoft develops Differential Privacy for everyone
Too often, we hear how researchers can take supposedly anonymized or obfuscated PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data and exploit "linkability threats" to re-identify individuals such as in I know where you are and what you are sharing and deanonymizing you after one mouse click on a website. Read More

Security experts push back at 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' warning
The nation's top national security leaders have not convinced every expert in the cybersecurity community their warnings over cyberattacks are valid, and there is now some increasingly vocal push-back from some of them. Read More

Big Data Leading to New Breed of Service Provider
Big data is giving rise to a new breed of services aimed at helping over-burdened IT departments take on the challenges of data analytics without investing in additional infrastructure. And vendors of all sizes are getting in on the action. Read More

 
 
 

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