IT Vs. the Permanent Energy Crisis (Wednesday 10th of September 2008 08:00:01 AM)
Snydeq writes "Organizations looking to remain profitable in the face of escalating energy
costs may lean even harder on IT to achieve energy efficiencies in the years to come, InfoWorld
reports. But instead of limiting IT's efficiency role to the datacenter, ...
(more)Are There Any Smart E-mail Retention Policies? (Sunday 27th of July 2008 01:45:03 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "In an age of action and costly find obligations, many organizations
are blanket* policies which call for the forced purging of e-mail in an attempt to limit the
organization's exposure to legal risk. I work for a large club ...
(more)Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels (Saturday 17th of May 2008 12:30:03 AM)
Diomidis Spinellis writes "Earlier today I presented at the 30th International deliberation on
os sociology a probe paper comparing the code quality of Linux, Windows (its experimentation
kernel distribution), OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. For the comparison ...
(more)Folders vs. Tags For Shared Email Accounts? (Sunday 04th of May 2008 09:24:28 AM)
Binarybum writes "I run a student organization with a 10-member 'board of directors.' We hardly
ever all have time to attend meetings and a large part of how we connect with the student body
is through email. We have a shared email account (accessible ...
(more)Governments Prepare for Cyber Cold War (Monday 03rd of December 2007 08:45:03 PM)
Superglaze writes "ZDNet UK has an analysis piece on the growing threat of a "cyber cold war".
It's got some interesting examples and it seems everyone is up to something. "...attacks are
not limited to any particular countries, or by alliances between ...
(more)IBM Seeking 'Patent-Protection-Racket' Patent (Sunday 21st of October 2007 12:15:04 AM)
Theodp writes "Wikipedia defines a protection racket as an extortion scheme whereby a powerful
non-governmental organization coerces businesses to pay protection money which allegedly serves
to purchase the organization's 'protection' services against ...
(more)US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban (Friday 12th of October 2007 04:45:02 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes with the news that the World Trade Organization is seeking billions of
dollars in compensation from the United States from their ban on internet gambling. The view of
the WTO is that the US has reneged on commitments to the organization. ...
(more)Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps? (Saturday 29th of September 2007 01:45:03 AM)
KSobby writes "The organization that I work for is going to be redoing our website in
.Net/AJAX. On the site, our members will have profile pages listing where their organizations
are located (our members are scattered everyplace the world) as well as ...
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