Recent Articles
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PC Parts and Wal-Mart? No Match
When Wal-Mart moves into any new area, it spreads fear into the hearts of retailers, who see any move by the $312 billion store chain as inherently dangerous. But Wal-Mart’s recent effort to move more aggressively into the computer business is unlikely to merit panic. It will still cause a lot of it, but it…
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World Cup Virus Season Kicks Off
The FIFA World Cup 2006 tournament won’t get underway in Germany until early June, but computer virus writers are already attempting to cash in on the planet’s most popular sporting event with viruses aimed at deceiving eager soccer fans. Researchers at UK-based Sophos released notification of a new attack that infects Microsoft Excel files and…
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Startup Pitches Tech to Power Down Chips
Chip startup Multigig said that it’s got an answer to rising data center power bills. The 12-employee, Scotts Valley, Calif., company, which emerged from secrecy on May 8, has created new processor clock technology that it says can halve processor power consumption by recycling most of the electricity used to regulate processor clocks. The technology,…
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Avian Flu: Can IT Handle a Pandemic?
VeriCenter Chief Technology Officer Dave Colesante is a rare bird. Unlike many IT executives, Colesante has actually thought about a potential avian influenza virus, or bird flu, pandemic and reckons his company, which provides technology services, is relatively prepared if the virus becomes transmitted through human contact. After all, Colensante’s 225-person support staff is used…
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Does IT Need More H-1B Visas?
Few topics ignite passions as hotly as immigration. That’s because immigration touches everyone, directly or indirectly. It has always been so. Humans have always roamed, now assimilating, now displacing. More often than not, who is displacing whom causes the debate. In the current furor over immigration, the debate revolves around whether illegal workers who sneak…
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Customers Wait for Oracle Security Patches
Just call it Oracle’s May critical patch update. Three weeks after the database server vendor announced the release of its April 2006 CPU, customers are still waiting for the several important fixes. The update, which addresses 36 different product flaws, is still undergoing quality assurance testing and is not yet available for download. On April…
