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How to start a business continuity program

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:34:11 GMT

Sometimes you pull the short straw.

Google Knowledge Graph: Search Gets Smarter and More Direct

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:30:29 GMT

Move over, 10 blue links. Google Knowledge Graph is the search giant's latest attempt to provide direct answers in its results instead of just sending people elsewhere.

Remains of the Day: Walk the walk, talk the talk

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:30:04 GMT

Environmental activists want Apple to clean up its cloud act, Cupertino wants to silence Siri complainers, and a noted screenwriter gets ready to put words in Steve Jobs’s mouth. The remainders for Wednesday, ...

Google+: No Comments

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:29:36 GMT

Google+ now has , but data shows that once we’re signed up for Google's social networking site, we lose interest in it quickly.

MSI GT70 Review: Large Display, Long-Lasting Performance

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:29:02 GMT

The MSI GT70 is a formidable everyday performer, as well as an excellent gaming machine. When the unit's closed, it even looks the part. Flip it open, and MSI might have been better off shooting for an ...

Disaster recovery is a success just waiting to happen

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:28:32 GMT

Security--the topic, and thus the department--sometimes gets pigeonholed as a downer. Maybe from time to time you notice a coworker avoiding getting in the elevator with you. A CSO once told me it's even ...

How to Make Your Viral Video Go 'Kony2012' Crazy

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:24:21 GMT

Anyone who has spent time trolling social networks, reading a newspaper or just browsing the Internet recently has probably heard of , the mega-viral cause, marketing video that seemed to pop up out of ...

How to Align Your IT Services Strategy with the Business

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:20:17 GMT

Today, as companies seek to both consolidate their vendor relationships and multisource, they tend to engage with a small number (typically two to nine) of preferred, very large IT services vendors that ...

Equifax Eyes Are Watching You--Big Data Means Big Brother

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:17:42 GMT

As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into ...

Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:44:24 GMT

Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

Smartphone security is heading for 'apocalypse'

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:33:26 GMT

The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security - one that may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an "apocalypse."

Google's new Knowledge Graph: Three key features

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:33:24 GMT

Google today unwrapped the first of its long-promised semantic search capabilities, dubbed Knowledge Graph.

From what to watt, Emerson aims at total information awareness

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:22:24 GMT

Someday soon the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as data centers, that are they may be partly robotic.

Intel launches third generation Core vPro processors

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:11:33 GMT

Chip maker Intel today announced the launch of its third generation Intel Core vPro processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge, designed for use in business laptops, desktops and "intelligent systems".

Lens/Focus Shifter Is The Simplest $45 Follow Focus Attachment You Can Buy

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:11:04 GMT

Today's DLSRs can capture high-definition video with sharp lenses that make your movies just as crisp as a high megapixel image. The only problem is that those same lenses weren’t exactly made track focus ...

Wunderkit for iPhone

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:09:59 GMT

helps you work. That’s what a productivity app should do, of course, but some unnecessarily bog you down in details. In contrast, Wunderkit—a free iPhone offering from —makes it easy to create projects ...

CrashPlan+: Reliable cloud backup and online storage

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:09:24 GMT

With the upon us, you’ll need to come up with a new backup solution if this Apple service is your current backup method of choice. If you’re a fan of online, cloud-based backups, then CrashPlan is one ...

InDesign CS6

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:26 GMT

Adobe has a winner of an upgrade in . The combination of improvements to its digital publishing tools, PDF forms authoring, language support, and dozens of workflow refinements make this an upgrade that ...

SoundBest Audio May Improve Music Playback

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:06:05 GMT

The music listening experience is highly personal. Witness the subwoofer: I hate it, some people love it. Having said that, most folks want to listen to the music the way it was recorded with just a little ...

Why Facebook Marketing Doesn't Work for GM

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:05:27 GMT

General Motors has announced that it will no longer advertise its cars and trucks on Facebook according to a report in the . The poor performance of GM ads on the social network isn’t necessarily an indictment ...

Condense Icons on Your Google Chrome Bookmarks Bar

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:04:37 GMT

I'm a big fan of Chrome's Bookmarks Bar, which puts my most frequently visited sites across the top of the browser, just one click away.

Nvidia Makes the GPU Virtual

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:03:11 GMT

Virtual machines is one way enterprise IT departments addresses the issue of security when users want to use their own platforms. Virtualized solutions like and allow users to run approved applications. ...

AMD Trinity APUs to compete with Intel Ivy Bridge processors

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:02:42 GMT

AMD has announced its second generation 'Trinity' Accelerated Processing Units.

AMD launches Trinity APUs to take on Intel’s Ivy Bridge

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:01:42 GMT

AMD has announced its second generation 'Trinity' Accelerated Processing Units.

GM Will Stop Paying for Ads on Facebook - Because They Don't Work

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:55:04 GMT

Just days before Facebook's much anticipated initial public offering, one of the largest advertisers in the U.S. has decided to stop advertising on the platform. General Motors will stop advertising on ...