TechWeb - InformationWeek - Forrester Research expects Apple to focus on the Mac, a home server, a universal music controller, a network-enabled "clock radio" and digital photo frame, and a more capable Apple TV. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - These approaches may beat out conventional databases in price and performance. Here's how to find products that fit with your company's data analysis needs. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Almost all of the workstations and servers that GAO examined on the TVA's corporate network lacked key security patches or had inadequate security settings. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Doors, for example, is a set of requirements management tools that track not only the software changes required in a product but any other changes as well -- read full article
PC Magazine - Facebook and MySpace need to watch their backs, because micro social networking is the next big thingand it's right around the corner. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Yahoo claims it has the largest SQL database in a production environment and that it will grow larger. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Microsoft expects half of all Exchange e-mail customers to subscribe to a software-as-a-service version within five years. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - the new analytic appliance is built on EMC CLARiion midrange CX-3 UltraScale networked storage and ParAccel's analytic columnar database. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The social networking site launched a new feature this week that helps members raise money for victims of natural disasters. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Gartner predicts that networking functionality will soon become commonplace in consumer electronics, freeing entertainment-based home networks from the PC. -- read full article
AFP - Facebook on Wednesday unveiled revamped profile pages overhauled to make the hot social-networking website faster, less cluttered and more spam-resistant.
AP - People who use their cell phones to surf the Web tend to steer to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook ahead of news, maps or weather, mobile browser company Opera says. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Many pieces of IT infrastructure have temp sensors in them--servers, UPSes, appliances. But these invariably measure the temperature in the device to make sure CPUs, power supplies and similar components aren't overheating. But what about the ambient temps in the server closet? -- read full article