General technology information from around the world.
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29/11/11
Europe’s Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos, Europe’s Largest IT Company, wants a ‘zero email’ policy to be in place in 18 months, arguing that only 10 per cent of the 200 electronic messages his employees receive per day on average turn out to be useful, and that staff spend between 5-20 hours Read more…
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29/11/11
Free Software Activists Take On Google Search
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search. Rather than using a central server, its search results come from a network of independent ‘peers,’ users Read more…
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29/11/11
Terahertz Wireless Chip Will Bring 30Gbps Networks
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Rohm, a Japanese semiconductor company, has created a silicon chip and antenna that’s currently capable of transmitting 1.5Gbps, with the potential to scale up to 30Gbps in the future. While this is a lot faster than anything currently on the market, the significant advance here Read more…
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29/11/11
Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Instructables Member ‘Dimovi’ utilized a spare LCD monitor and converted it into a ‘privacy’ monitor. He took apart the monitor’s plastic frame, cutting out the polarized film with a utility knife and removed the film adhesive from the glass panel before reassembling the monitor, which now Read more…
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29/11/11
Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“A yet-to-be-patched flaw discovered in the Apache HTTP server allows attackers to access protected resources on the internal network if some rewrite rules are not defined properly. The vulnerability affects Apache installations that operate in reverse proxy mode, a type of configuration used Read more…
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29/11/11
UK ISP Disconnecting Filesharers
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“A small VPN service, Koppla, has had its service terminated by its host, Santrex Hosting Solutions. Despite actively advertising their services to be oriented toward file-sharing including torrents and XDCC, even going so far as to put ‘Seedbox Hosting | An Effective Solution’ in the title Read more…
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29/11/11
Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display?
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“According to reports from Macotakara, Hitachi Displays Ltd and Sony Mobile Display Corporation has started shipping the screens for the iPad 3 and a 4-inch LCD screen for an unnamed iOS device. It would be fairly safe to assume that the 4-inch display will be for the next iPhone – the iPhone 5.”
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29/11/11
London Wires Up For 2012 Olympic Games
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“While London’s massive Olympic park is still very much a frenetic construction site, IT engineers are fine-tuning the equipment that will be used to transmit scores, let athletes send e-mail, and broadcast high-definition video of the Games. The Olympic Games are set to kick off on July 27 Read more…
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29/11/11
Why Everyone Hates the IT Department
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Why are IT staff treated with near universal contempt? This article discusses why everyone hates the IT department. From cultivating a culture of ‘them and us,’ to unrealistic demands from end users and senior management, to the inevitable tension created when employees try Read more…
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17/11/11
BT Fiber Infrastructure Plans ‘Fatal’ To Competition
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“BT today revealed it is to start selling its Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA) for fiber broadband product to other providers later this month, but the announcement was met with one particularly cold response. Geo Networks, which is helping deliver superfast networks in Wales in partnership with the Welsh Assembly, said it was going to withdraw bidding for Government-provided BDUK funds and in all next-generation access Read more…
