Data Center

What Bing Can Learn from Google: Don’t Piss Off Publishers

The recent rift between Rupert Murdoch and Google gives Microsoft an opportunity to earn the trust of Google-weary publishers.

20 Mobile Trends and Future Technologies

Spokespeople from Info-Tech Research Group Ltd., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sony Corp. and Research in Motion Ltd. provided food for thought on upcoming uses for mobile devices at a Technology Town Hall meeting in Toronto Tuesday.

How to Keep Your Data Center Happy for the Holidays

Shoppers are mobbing online stores, boosting traffic numbers and making it even more important that e-commerce firms handle the demand well. Data center gurus better make a list of holiday traffic lessons and check it twice.

BlackBerry-Maker RIM Hit With Another Patent Complaint in U.S.

RIM, maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, has been served yet another patent-related complaint, and the motion could potentially lead to the barring of sales of certain BlackBerry products and/or services in the United States--though that outc

Fighting Fraud with Social Network Analysis

Fighting Fraud with Social Network Analysis

Fraud from organized criminal groups hurts financial institutions the most, the best way to fight a criminal network is to take it down as an organization and analytics software helps institutions do this by providing insight into the big picture, ac

Falling PC Prices Pit Microsoft Against PC Makers

Plummeting prices of PCs are great news for consumers, but are a disaster for hardware makers. Microsoft isn't cutting them any slack with Windows pricing. Will PC price drops catch up with Microsoft in other ways?

RIM to BlackBerry Admins: Beware New BES Security Flaw

RIM has identified another critical security flaw in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software, and the BlackBerry-maker is suggesting all organizations running BES 4.1.3 or higher update their software immediately or at least disable the probl

Why Benchmarking Cloud vs. Current IT Costs is So Hard

Cloud providers make their services' costs quite transparent, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. The trouble is, for most companies, current data center costs remain opaque. Will new tools help?

Safer Online Shopping: Eight Tips

Black Friday sales results show holiday shoppers flocking to the Web this year in unprecedented numbers. To avoid this season's crop of security threats to your browser and computer, check out these eight suggestions from Microsoft.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0 SP1 for Exchange, Lotus Domino Now Available

BlackBerry administrators can now download the latest version of RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BES 5.0 SP1, for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino deployments. The update includes a number of valuable fixes and improvements, including