Barely a month has gone by and we’re beginning to hear bold predictions befitting of the start of a new year. Ranking high up there is probably Bill Gates’ utterance at the recent World Economic Forum that spam will vanish in two years.The Microsoft chairman said his company was working on three different methods to… Read More »
This year, after a decade-long harassment, Santa Claus finally responded to my emails. Apparently, Santa has been experiencing problems with his Exchange server due to a rash of virus infections.I’m not sure if that meant the slightly bloated man-in-red had been taken down by flu or something, as I imagined someone in those freezing conditions… Read More »
Has anybody wondered how reliable so-called “independent research” is these days?You may not have noticed, but there were many occasions where research on the same topic by different research firms yields different results. That is to be expected, one may argue, because of the differences in the research methodoloy adopted and the sampling size used.… Read More »
Key message to customers: Whatever floats your boat. Not content to be left behind by the vision bandwagon, Dell has started to push its own agenda in the enterprise space. At a media briefing in Singapore in late October, Bruce Kornfeld, director of worldwide product marketing in Dell’s Product Group, touted the company’s Scalable Enterprise… Read More »
Which is worse? A marriage of convenience or a marriage of necessity? If pundits can have it their way, they would probably bet against both.Just for the purpose of illustration, let’s take a closer look at the tussle between The SCO Group and the Linux camp. To SCO, the open-source movement is probably a marriage… Read More »
The job of a cybersecurity administrator is unrewarding, to say the least. You get absolutely no credit for your successes (who’d know anyway?), whereas the slightest slip-up often gets magnified to epic proportion.In the aftermath of September 11, the tech industry jumped at the chance to marshal its strongest ideas in the war against terrorism.… Read More »