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Source: Reuters Shares of Apple fell as much as 2 percent on Tuesday after technology Web site Gizmodo reported a rumor that CEO Steve Jobs’s health was declining. A spokesman for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) declined to comment on the rumor. When asked about Jobs’s health, the spokesman said, “If ever Steve or the board of […]

Today’s users require secure remote access from an increasingly diverse collection of devices, many of which are unknown, unmanaged, and potentially dangerous. In this series, we illustrate how providers can use SSL VPN appliances to deliver flexible-but-safe “anywhere” access to network resources. In the late 1990s, IPsec emerged as a standard for enabling Internet-based remote […]

Most recent converts to Linux spend most of their time in the GUI — the graphical desktop (whether Gnome, or KDE, or XFCE, or some other interface) that’s made to look and act somewhat like Windows and Mac. But if you spend all your time in the GUI, you’re missing out. The Linux command-line gives […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp, the world’s No. 2 maker of NAND flash memory, will halt chip production at two plants for nine days due to weak demand, in its first output break in seven years, broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. Toshiba shares rose nearly 3 percent after the report, but company spokeswoman Hiroko Mochida […]

tcpdump is a packet sniffer — it captures the network packets (traffic) that pass through a machine, enabling you to examine and analyze the traffic afterward. It is capable of becoming very complex, but the basics are pretty straightforward and useful for network troubleshooting. To invoke it, you must be root. The absolute basic command […]

It begins. Now that the turkey has been gobbled up and geeks of all stripes have perused Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals to treat their loved ones (and themselves, who are we kidding?) let’s look at gifts that make a digital lifestyle worth living. In this list, we incorporate 10 product types that represent […]

NEW YORK — U.S. retail sales online rose 1 percent on Black Friday, the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, to $534 million, tracking firm comScore said on Sunday. Combined with Web sales on Thanksgiving the previous day, the figure rose 2 percent, but sales are down 4 percent to date in November from […]

Touchscreen phone users are discovering that much of the fun in their devices stems from applications — those little nuggets of convenience, amusement and distraction available for download on the slightest whim. A good example is Google’s newly updated Mobile App for Apple’s iPhone, which has been generating a lot of buzz for one main […]

Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have become enormously popular among consumers. But are businesses really prepared to embrace them? Many businesses aren’t ready to throw open their networks to Web 2.0 traffic unless it meets certain thresholds. There must be a clear business value and assurances that services don’t pose a security threat. “I […]

Think of it as a way to tell lies using technology. But they aren’t lies to you, or anybody else for that matter. The reality of memory address management in virtualized systems is that the virtualization software — usually the hypervisor — gives each operating system (OS) a fictional story about where its memory actually […]