http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog Tek Tips Whitepaper Library Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:41:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After I posted a blog on software energy efficiency recently, I realized from some of the comments from readers that most people did not get it. When I talk about software energy efficiency, most people think I am talking about using software to make other things greener. Yes, software can ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/energy-star-for-software-again Today’s Wall Street Journal lists the top 50 Venture-backed companies as The Next Big Thing. After hearing about and reading about how bad things are here in California, “worse fiscal shape than Greece,” and how “unfriendly” California is to business, it makes you wonder how 60% of the 50 ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/hot-tech-companies "After a busy February with 13 security bulletins, Microsoft is easing off the patching throttle a bit this month. Microsoft released two new security bulletins addressing 8 vulnerabilities, all not publically known at this time. It is not uncommon for Microsoft to have a large patch month followed ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/shavlik-technologies-statement-on-march-9-patch-tuesday-releases Six years ago, NetHawk began dipping its toes into the social networking waters with a CEO blog and a site called ITFeedstore.  The goal was to aggregate relevant Information Technology content and syndicate it to our existing communities.  The process was automated picking up RSS and ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/internet-economics-traffic-trumps-ethics-and-content-quality In a stack of new articles published yesterday, Silicon Valley Insider claims and documents a trail of deception and greed around how Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg appropriated the technology for Facebook.  The stack lists emails and IM's from Zuckerberg to his earliest confidants and paints a picture ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/when-does-idea-theft-rise-to-level-of-crime Source: Global Times [03:11 March 05 2010] By Fu Wen The former senior tobacco official whose purported sex diary was posted on the Internet has asked local police to arrest whoever was responsible for the leak and charge the hackers with invasion of privacy. Han Feng, a former official in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/official-claims-sex-diary-on-net-is-invasion-of-privacy   China to accelerate development of Internet: Wen Source: Xinhua Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao set forth an ambitious plan Friday for the country to mount the commanding height of science and technological innovation, such as in the field of Internet of Things and new energy-powered vehicles. "The global financial crisis ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/china-to-accelerate-development-of-internet-wen Quickly see differences between brands like Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, ShoreTel, 8x8, Panasonic, etc and compare over 94 phone systems by 52 brands for small to big business. Our latest Spring 2010 edition of the chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side so you can make an ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/buying-a-phone-system-compare-the-top-27-business-phone-systems Green IT means two different things. One is to make IT itself greener, and the other is to make other things greener. Let's focus on the former. As everyone knows, IT consists of hardware—such as servers, storage equipment, and network gear—and software. Up until now, energy efficiency has been focused ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/energy-star-for-software Okay, we wrote yesterday about Congressman and Senate Republican candidate Tom Campbell's strong response to how he would respond to the attacks on Google, even though we tried to qualify the facts as we know them.  Tom is a great guy and a great supporter of ... http://tek-tips.nethawk.net/blog/china-everyones-favorite-whipping-boy