Forrester Research predicts decline in IT global spending for 09
2009 will not be a good year for IT goods and services according to Forrester Research. The company released a forecast which predicts that purchases by businesses and government of IT goods and […]
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Canon‘s new copy machines will be able to identify keywords in text and prevent a copy or print from being made if a blacklisted keyboard is identified. Canon’s document management software, UniFLOW 5,...
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Pentagon’s chart of cybersecurity regs will make your head explode
So you think your company has a lot of rules and regulations around network security? You may change your tune once you check out all of the cybersecurity regulations which are enforced by […]
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Windows 7 SP1 update in the wild, sys admin package available
Unless you belong to one of Microsoft’s secret clubs, in which case it’s already been made available to you, the very first service pack for Windows 7 should be popping into your Windows […]
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Baltimore IT guy sentenced for hacking boss’s PowerPoint with porn
Sometimes getting fired from a job will leave you with vengeance boiling in your blood. After all, movies like Office Space and the upcoming Horrible Bosses are all about getting revenge the work […]
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HP enterprise switches shipped with malware on flash cards
According to a new security bulletin from HP, some of their ProCurve 5400zl switches may have shipped with malware-laden compact flash cards. While HP does state that inserting one of the infected...
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Microsoft promises to be carbon neutral from July
Microsoft is no small company, with around 92,000 employees spread across 100 countries and providing software and services that run on the majority of computers around the world. So when they...
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Windows 8 RTM is being downloaded right now
You have probably heard that Windows 8 will officially be released on October 26th but, as you assumed, lots of people will be getting it ahead of that date. Just like with Windows […]
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GM creating 10,000 new jobs bringing IT in-house
New jobs in any economy around the world right now is good news, and the US got exactly that late last week when General Motors announced it was creating 10,000 new positions to […]
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Windows 8 performance entices CTO to upgrade 4,000 PCs
It’s very rare that IT administrators jump on the early adopter train. When a new operating system arrives, the general rule is that you ignore it until at least one service pack has […]
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Internet Explorer 10 will soon be auto updated to Windows 7 users
Internet Explorer 10 will soon be delivered to Windows 7 users who have IE9 installed. Microsoft hasn’t officially announced when the push will begin, but the company has issued a new IE update […]
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Economic Development Administration destroys keyboards and mice to get rid of...
All Americans are free to grumble about where their tax dollars are going without irony today. The internet is abuzz over a story of monumental government waste with a technological slant. Back in […]
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The director of Stephen King’s two-film adaptation of It just quit
When Pennywise the Clown, an embodiment of pure evil (also a clown that becomes a giant spider, so…same thing?) tries to lure little Georgie into the sewers, he tells him he’ll float like a balloon […]
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11 Stephen King adaptations caught in development hell
These projects run the gamut from hitting minor snags to being notoriously entangled in a hell worthy of one of King’s novels.
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The It Trailer Is Here to Remind You that Clowns Are Still Terrifying
It’s rare that a remake of a horror classic actually looks decent. They’re usually pointless, shallow and often forget what made the original so scary, to begin with. (Looking at you, 2015 version […]...
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Staggering New Botnet, ‘Hajime’ Discovered
A team of security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detected something a bit peculiar. A virulent worm has compromised hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-of-Things (or IoT)...
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Privacy Advocates are Losing Because Convenience is Nice
Much as I hate to say it, privacy, as we once knew it, has been all but eradicated. Think about it. How often do you actually clean out your cookies? What groups and […] The post Privacy Advocates are...
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DNA Could Power the Hard Drives of the Future
So we all know DNA stores the code that makes us… well… possible, right? Those Gs, Ts, Cs and As might not seem like much, but they’re effectively the same as computer code. […] The post DNA Could...
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The Poisoned Chalice of Stephen King’s It: From Book to TV Series to Film
When It came out in 1986, it was the longest book Stephen King had ever written. (It has since been surpassed by The Stand which runs 1,153 pages to It’s 1,138.) There are […] The post The Poisoned...
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Europe’s Been Hit by Another Huge Ransomware Attack
Last month Europe was practically brought to its knees by one of the worst ransomware attacks in history. Tens of thousands of systems were affected by the “Wanna Cry” attack. And now it […] The post...
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