Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The biggest seller of home wireless LAN equipment is set to launch its gear for the next technology generation on Monday, introducing three products based on a draft of the IEEE 802.11n standard.
The still-emerging standard is designed to deliver at least 100 megabits per second of real throughput. That's more ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The reorientation of hard drives has begun: The first drives to use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to pack more data into less space are out. And our tests reveal that they not only boost storage capacity but perform faster as well.
In our tests of the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 and ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Dell has agreed to purchase high-performance PC vendor Alienware, the two companies announced Wednesday.
The acquisition will "complement Dell's own line of high-performance computers," while giving the Alienware products the benefits of Dell's "supply chain and operational efficiencies," the companies said in a statement.
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The purchase, which was rumored for weeks, is ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Hackers are likely to release more than 6000 keylogging programs this year--up 65 percent from the number in 2004--according to Reston, Virginia, security vendor iDefense. Such software illegally records every keystroke pressed on a victim's PC and then transmits the data to the hacker, making it an effective way to ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Which operating system, embedded in more than 80% of enterprise IT environments, represents one of the fastest-growing hacker targets and potentially the most-devastating information-security vulnerability? Hint: It ain't Windows. Cisco Systems' Internetwork Operating System now sits at the center of the information security vortex. Because IOS controls the routers that ...
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