Articles by Jack M. Germain

Systems management appliances provider Kace announced on Monday the integration of the recently acquired AppDeploy Live service with its Kbox Systems Management Appliances The launch provides system administrators with access to two global communities of information to speed day-to-day maintenance tasks and the deployment of software throughout a n...

A sophisticated group of spammers has been targeting since late May high-salaried workers at selective corporations in a spam attack using e-mail disguised as messages from the Better Business Bureau (BBB), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) A fourth variation of the spam attack surfaced the second week of Jun...

Key kernel developers and more than 230 Linux leaders participated last week in the first Collaboration Summit hosted by the Linux Foundation to discuss solutions for the most pressing issues facing greater Linux adoption The nonprofit Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux -- formed in February as a merger of The Free Stan...

Small businesses, beware. Can your business survive a natural disaster? Chances are against your survival if you do not have a recovery and continuity plan in place A national survey conducted by custom market information companyTNSInfo reveals that many small businesses would not survive a natural disaster because they lack adequate, if any, disas...

Rochester, N.Y.-based Performance Technologies announced Tuesday additions to its NexusWare Linux-based operating system and development environment to include support for a wide range of single board computer hardware offerings The release of NexusWare version 12 expands Linux support to include both x86 and PowerPC processor architectures. The ad...

People who use popular file-sharing software at home, in school and in the workplace to download music and videos are likely to expose their own personal and corporate data stored on their computers' hard drives The ability of P2P (peer-to-peer) software to hunt for and grab personal and corporate information is now raising concerns by government a...

An innovative three-dimensional search program puts a unique spin on Internet searching. All results are displayed in a 3-D space that users can navigate and manipulate SpaceTime presents all search results, shopping windows and browsing activity in a continuous 3-D stack that merges results to save time and improve browsing efficiency....

A Congressional committee last month gave universities with high volumes of student piracy violations 30 days to return a survey on Internet piracy and network practices. The committee is scheduled to resume its meetings Tuesday in Washington The letter hints that Congress is stepping up its crackdown on Internet piracy by college students in an ef...

Red Hat's Fedora Project has released the Fedora 7 version of the Linuxoperating system, which features a new build capacity allowing for the creation ofcustom appliances to meet individual needs Fedora 7 offers users an appliance development platform that it says is 100 percent opensource, with an entirely free distribution build tool chain. The F...

The flap erupted earlier this month The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) started sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requests to Digg.com and a slew of other popular blogging sites on which users had posted a 32-hexadecimal digit code, a processing key that could be used to circumvent digital rights management (DRM) protecti...

Antispyware legislation awaiting Senate action offers little promise of meaningful prosecution against violators, said Ron O'Brien, a senior security analyst with antispyware firm Sophos The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an antispyware bill that would impose specific penalties for scammers accessing computers without authorization while ...

Turn on your monitor and boot up your computer, because class is in session. Many college students now raised on the Internet and mobile devices will not be limited to sitting in traditional "brick-and-mortar" classrooms as schools look to the latest offerings in virtual technology and Internet broadcasting to update education New developments have...

Senders of unsolicited electronic messages, also known as spammers, are deploying a new generation of image spam to outsmart e-mail filters and other technologies designed to thwart them. They're cutting corners by linking their spam message to a photo from a popular image-hosting site, instead of sending it as an e-mail attachment. This technique...

Barracuda Networks has added advanced reporting capabilities to its Barracuda Web Filter appliance, the company announced Wednesday The new in-depth reports provide network administrators deeper visibility into corporate Web usage, enabling better management and assignment of bandwidth....

Imperva specializes in data security and compliance solutions for the data center. Its product lineprovides an automated and transparent approach to protecting and controlling sensitive datathroughout transactional data systems. The Imperva database and Web application appliances aredeployed in leading financial, retail, telecommunications, healthcare and government organizations around the globe. CEO Shlomo Kramer, who founded Imperva more than five years ago, is recognized by someindustry publications as one of the 20 luminaries who changed the network industry...

Trolltech CTO Benoit Schillings sees the future of mobile phone communication in the cross-platform solution that Linux can provide. His vision was buffeted recently by a prediction by market research firm ABI that Linux will ship in more than 200 million phones in 2012, up from 8.1 million in 2007 Based in Oslo, Norway, Trolltech has 200 employees...

Zend CTO Andi Gutmans likes to tout the benefits of PHP and Web 2.0 development for business. In fact, he calls Zend "the PHP company." PHP, which stands for "Hypertext Preprocessor Platform," is becoming the language of choice for companies embracing service-oriented architectures, creating and mixing Web services into a whole new generation of sophisticated commercial applications...

Competition is pushing all types of businesses toward greater mobility as companies ready plans to adopt mobile applications for core business activities Business mobility has gone mainstream, according to a global survey conducted by Nokia and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in cooperation with the CIO Forum....

Red Hat announced at the Red Hat Summit this week its new operating system for the enterprise. Red Hat Global Desktop is a client product for the Linux operating system that delivers an enterprise-class suite of productivity applications The Global Desktop is part of Red Hat's strategy of building innovative solutions that change thetraditional not...

Lenovo unveiled on Wednesday three new notebooks built around a new processor and chip set announced the same day by Intel Lenovo engineered both the ThinkPad T61 and the ThinkPad R61 with its new Top Cover Roll Cage for enhanced durability, an improved thermal management cooling and efficiency system, enhanced wireless connectivity with Ultra Conn...