Archive for April, 2009

CEWIT Selects Motorola for its Wireless Network

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

New York’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) at Stony Brook University has deployed a Motorola 802.11n wireless network, making use of Motorola’s RFS7000 wireless switches and tri-radio AP-7131 802.11n access points (AP). This facility is expected to help CEWIT’s faculty and students to conduct next generation ...

Conficker Worm Starts Attacking PCs

Monday, April 27th, 2009

  After several false alarms, it looks like the Conficker worm has finally begun turning an unknown number of computers into servers of e-mail spam, according to Reuters .Vincent Weafer, a vice president with Symantec Security Response, said Conficker is now installing a second virus named Waledac that sends ...

Shut Down an XP System That Won’t Shut Down Itself

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

"When I attempt to turn off my computer, it will not power down all the way. Instead, it goes to the Windows XP logo that says, 'It is now safe to turn off computer.' Other PCs, including my wife's, turn off altogether. How do I eliminate this extra step?" You didn't ...

How to protect Wireless Networks?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Even though wireless networks can be hacked, you can protect yourself and have a safe Internet experience. First of all, if you can, enable WPA2 on your wireless router. This will make you less of an obvious target. Now down to the the specifics: Emails Email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird or ...

Apple Tops PC Customer Service Rankings

Monday, April 20th, 2009

When it comes to customer service, PC manufacturers aren’t held with quite the same contempt as cable companies, health insurers and Internet service providers –- but they don’t have much to brag about, either. Forrester Research’s 2008 customer experience index, a survey of some 4,500 consumers, ranked the PC makers slightly ...

Exchange Server 2010 beta

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Microsoft has released a beta version of Exchange Server 2010, the first to be designed by the company to work on-premise and as an online service, and has also detailed its forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007. Exchange Server 2010 will be available in the second half of this ...

Exchange Server 2010 beta

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Microsoft has released a beta version of Exchange Server 2010, the first to be designed by the company to work on-premise and as an online service, and has also detailed its forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007. Exchange Server 2010 will be available in the second half of this ...

Sun Expands Computing Server Range

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Spearheading the range is the next-generation Sun Constellation System, designed to address a broad range of HPC applications requiring high throughput, large memory and fast I/O. The system combines the dual-node Sun Blade X6275 server module powered by Intel's Nehalem processor, along with the Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand Quad Data Rate ...

Cox Readies Wireless Network

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Cox has been dreaming of wireless for a long time. It had been involved in a joint venture with Comcast, Time Warner, and other cable companies to build a new wireless company. The plan was to use Sprint Nextel's network to provide the service. But in fewer than three years, ...

Apple Unveils Nehalem-Based Xserve Server

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Apple on Tuesday unveiled the newest member of its Xserve server family, a model based on Intel Xeon 5500 Nehalem processors. The new Xserve servers come in a 1U-high rack-mount server format and can be configured with one 2.26GHz or two 2.26GHz, 2.66GHz or 2.93GHz quad-core Nehalem processors. They have up ...