Category: Technology
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Passwords: young people are lax, rich people are careful
Younger people less secure online than their elders new study suggests: Are younger people less aware of online security risks, or do they simply prefer to take more risks with their personal information? That’s one of the questions raised by the findings of our recent poll of 2,129 U.S. adults (aged 18 and over) by…
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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore: You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you. Soon on this blog: why rich people…
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The Insourcing Boom
I recently read about The Insourcing Boom: After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States. And now Apple reportedly to move Mac mini production line to the US:…
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Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities
Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities: Red Hat today acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. ManageIQ getting acquired was just a matter of time… although I didn’t contemplate as much who it’d be…
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Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption
Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption: Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn’t start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly…
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Impala: Cloudera makes SQL a first-class citizen in Hadoop
Cloudera makes SQL a first-class citizen in Hadoop: Not content to watch its competitors leave it in the dust, veteran big data startup Cloudera is fundamentally changing the face of its flagship Hadoop distribution into something much more appealing. Monash also writes about it: Quick notes on Impala and More on Cloudera Impala.
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Status Symbols: Palm V
Status Symbols: Palm V: Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They’re things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. I loved my Palm, and also my Psion before that. Don’t…
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Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs
Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs: Take everything you think you know about displays and throw it out the window. It’s time for a clinic on what display specs really mean—brace yourself for the alarming truth Vision is our most amazing and complex sense, so it’s no surprise that display…
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The keys to Oracle…
The keys to Oracle…: This is a question I get on asktom frequently – what are the things I need to know, what do I have to do to become expert, where is the list of key things I need to do with regards to Oracle. It is a hard sounding question that has an…
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