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Cartoon Company Uses Cloud Computing to Reduce Data Center Costs

Cookie Jar Entertainment, a producer and distributor of children's cartoons, turned to cloud computing in 2008 to meet the company's growing computing needs without having to grow its data centers.

16 Nov 2011 4 mins
Cloud Computing Server Virtualization Virtualization
opinion

4G Promises: Are Wireless Carriers Pulling a Fast One?

Verizon LTE wins speed tests, but the download speed of your “4G” phone, no matter what carrier, depends on wireless standards and location more than you think.

16 Nov 2011 4 mins
Data Center Small and Medium Business Smartphones
opinion

Poll: Do You Care If Your Gadget Maker is “Green”?

Vote in our poll to let us know what role electronics makers' environmental friendliness efforts play in your decision to purchase new gadgets, if any.

15 Nov 2011 2 mins
Computers and Peripherals Data Center Small and Medium Business
opinion

“Face Unlock” Feature Another Android Security Risk

The "Face Unlock" feature in Google's new Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" OS can reportedly be "tricked" into unlocking a user's device with an image of the device owner's face.

12 Nov 2011 2 mins
Data Center Mobile Security Smartphones
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Strategies for Pruning Data in the Cloud

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31 Jan 2017
Data Center
opinion

Strategies for Pruning Data in the Cloud

In terrestrial systems, you don't think about disk space. In the clouds, you have to, if you don't it will cost you.

9 Nov 2011 6 mins
Cloud Computing IT Strategy Virtualization
opinion

Cloud Computing and the Truth About SLAs

SLAs don't provide much protection against cloud-related outages, writes CIO.com blogger Bernard Golden. They merely credit customers against the cost of a service. To prevent outages, IT departments would better spend their time planning appli

8 Nov 2011 7 mins
Cloud Computing Enterprise Architecture Virtualization
news

Can Windows Play Well on the iPad?

A new Citrix SDK helps Windows software developers solve a big problem: How to extend desktop apps to the iPad and iPhone in a way that doesn't turn off mobile users.

8 Nov 2011 5 mins
Desktop Virtualization Healthcare Industry iPhone
news

iPad in Healthcare: Not So Fast

One hospital hasn't jumped on the iPad-in-healthcare craze yet. Critical desktop apps just don't render well on the iPad, while iCloud's security concerns cause "trepidation," the CTO says.

7 Nov 2011 5 mins
Browsers Desktop Virtualization Healthcare Industry
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The Future of Human Computer Interfaces

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group are prototyping new, novel and more natural ways for people to interact with computers and access and store information. Their innovations have been designed to improve and enrich our per

4 Nov 2011 5 mins
Innovation Internet Small and Medium Business
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At Houston Bank, Disaster Recovery Goes Virtual

Woodforest National Bank implements a replication system for its virtualized data center in the Gulf Coast

28 Oct 2011 3 mins
Data Management Disaster Recovery Risk Management