Strengths of Open Source opposing Microsoft patent threats
Blog My contention is that the Windows server can take less load from thin clients because the applications cannot handle many users, while the open source applications are able to handle many simultaneous users without crashing.
[June 4, 2007, 3:35]
Enterprises get the Instant Message
News They all have their own domain systems, all separate from each other, and we handle all that. Do you handle encryption for the messages themselves? How do you handle subscriptions under SIP? Yet American company IMLogic, headed up by ex-Microsoft...
[October 8, 2003, 12:25]
Adware firm quietly settles suits
News The panel, a court based in Washington, D.C.was originally set up to handle special disaster-related cases. But it has since been used to handle intellectual property cases such as the ones surrounding Napster.
[September 1, 2004, 9:15]
Security breaches drive customers away
News Energis's advice to companies is that if they can't handle their IT security themselves, they should outsource it to a company that can. The way many UK businesses handle IT security is the equivalent of leaving a brand new Ferrari unlocked with...
[May 5, 2004, 17:45]
Look who's joining Linux bandwagon
News Netmachines, which says RedRak will handle a number of functions ranging from e-mail to FTP hosting, expects to begin shipping the product in December. Rebel.com's Netwinder starts at $895 and can handle e-mail, print serving, file sharing and...
[November 3, 1999, 8:21]
Tech-savvy shoplifters 'could alter RFID tags'
News While encryption could be used to hide data from unauthorised snoopers, not many RFID chips can handle the more-involved task of crunching cryptographic keys. Moreover, the RFID tags that can handle those tasks are among the most expensive on the...
[July 29, 2004, 8:40]
First '4G' services go live in Norway, Sweden
News However, these can only handle 4G and are unable to fall back to 3G networks when outside 4G coverage. The operator said that in the second quarter of next year, it will provide dongles that can handle both standards.
[December 14, 2009, 10:48]
Why 64 bit is the 'new' catchword
News The integer range that a 32-bit processor can handle natively is -2.1 billion to 2.1 billion. Modern application development can easily require several gigabytes of memory to handle the libraries. A 32-bit computer can natively handle only 4 GB of...
[April 8, 2003, 12:25]
Ellison steps down from chairman role
News Phillips was hired last year to handle areas that would affect customers and partners and to aid in setting corporate strategy and business development. Oracle is currently in the process of interviewing executive search firms to handle the task of...
[January 13, 2004, 16:25]
Intel inside e-business
News Itanium, under development for more than five years, is aimed at the market for the powerful servers that handle large databases, bringing it into head-on competition with the specialised chips that currently dominate the market, from companies...
[December 6, 2000, 9:24]
Centralise Windows administration with Hyena
News To see how much Hyena can handle, I'll start by focusing on the local system. Hyena can handle a whole host of services. Hyena is well equipped to handle almost any regular Windows administrative task.
[May 14, 2003, 12:12]
Sun chip to mix old and new
News The successor chip, called Niagara, will come with eight cores, and each core will handle four threads with one instruction per thread at once, for a total of 32 instructions. Gemini can be called a 2-1-4 chip, he said, meaning that the chip has...
[August 18, 2003, 10:10]
Should IT security be separate from IT?
Talkback And a costly one at that because more often then not the way companies handle their internal security is a good indication how they handle almost everything else. Liability and purchases are two things underestimated.
[May 12, 2006, 20:52]
Stakes are high for Xbox online play
News Instead of leaving it to game publishers to provide online options, Microsoft will handle all infrastructure needs for Xbox Live. The company has assembled four massive server farms to handle Xbox Live traffic, including a main data centre near...
[November 15, 2002, 8:10]
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (Public Beta) review
Reviews In terms of protocols and functions, OCS provides a full SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server to handle voice phone calls via VoIP, video conferencing and traditional phone networks, and data sharing capabilities.
[June 8, 2007, 10:57]
Sun talks up another chip
News Sun's dual-core UltraSparc IV can handle two simultaneous threads. Another chip, code-named Niagara, will be able to handle 32 simultaneous threads using eight cores that can each handle four threads, but it won't be able to execute a single thread...
[February 12, 2004, 14:05]
Intel comes clean on 64-bit server chip
News Although Xeons can directly handle only 4GB of memory, many customers are buying them with 5GB or more of memory and using special tricks to take advantage of the extra memory. Neil Hand, director of marketing for the enterprise server group at...
[February 18, 2004, 11:20]
Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs
News Some administrators might be at fault, but then some corporate managers might be at fault for understaffing, under-budgeting, and under-empowering their IT staff to be able to handle the security of their network," Maiffret added.
[January 27, 2003, 7:02]
Avoiding 10 common Web-application flaws
News Set some constraints for your parameters so that if an unexpected value is passed in, your application can handle it properly. Because you must logon to the database in order to validate the credentials, systems usually handle validation using what...
[February 19, 2004, 10:40]
ARM takes on Intel with Adobe partnership
News Hickman pointed out that most mobile phones that could handle Flash in any way were currently using Flash Lite, a cut-down version of the rich-media technology that is limited in the content it can play.
[November 17, 2008, 4:02]



