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- CES 2009: Storage vendors should embrace the cloud, Iomega rep says [day 4]Today
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I had a great discussion with Jeff Graham, Iomega's B2B product manager for network storage products, about what the cloud means for his company and other companies whose primary focus is physical storage. I asked him, "What will the cloud do to your business?" and he surprised me by saying that it would only make it better. According to Graham, a storage veteran, the cloud and physical storage can coexist peacefully, and in fact in many ways need each other. He suggested people should use the cloud as a backup for the physical storage backup already taking place with such products as external hard drives, so that if, say, a California wildfire whipped through and destroyed everything, you'd have an...
- Google adds HTTPS-only browsing to ChromeToday
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Google has quietly released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0 with a new HTTPS-only browsing mode. The new feature lets users add "force-https to your Google Chrome shortcut" to only load Web sites with valid security certificates. "Sites with SSL certificate errors will not load," the company explained. The newest Chrome release also updates the WebKit and V8 JavaScript engines, offers a better implementation for SafeBrowsing (malware/phishing protection), and new code for the HTTP network protocol. Google's release notes provide more detail on the changes. ALSO SEE: Google Chrome, the security tidbits Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw Google hires browser hacking guru
- CES 2009: Hands-on with Lenovo's dual-screen W700dsToday
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I mentioned seeing Lenovo's dual-screen W700ds, or "the beast," as Lenovo informally calls it, at CES Unveiled on the unofficial first day of CES. Well, now I got to play with it, and though it may not exactly be portable, it's a power user's dream machine. The hands-on tour, after the jump... Up top, the "slave" screen, if you will, manages to match the physical size and resolution/dpi of the master screen. The slide-out extra screen can be tilted for ergonomic (or visual) bliss. Down below, there's a seperate numerical pad in addition to the full-size keyboard, as well as a large stylus pad for pinpoint manipulation in addition to the standard touchpad (and Lenovo's signature red nub in the...
- Oracle planning Patch Tuesday whopperToday
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Microsoft may be offering a Patch Tuesday respite this month but, if you're an Oracle database administrator, January 13 will be a very busy day. The database server giant announced plans for a monster Patch Day next Tuesday with fixes for 41 security vulnerabilities in "across hundreds of Oracle products." The first CPU (Critical Patch Update) for 2009 includes patches for flaws that affect multiple products, the company said. "Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply Critical Patch Update fixes as soon as possible." The following products are affected: [ SEE: Microsoft planning quiet Patch Tuesday (1 critical) ] Oracle Database 11g, version 11.1.0.6 Oracle Database 10g Release 2, versions 10.2.0.2, 10.2.0.3,...
- CES 2009: Recession could be good to us, AMD says [day 4]Today
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AMD's global VP of advanced marketing and prolific blogger Pat Moorhead sat down with me today to discuss AMD latest products and their plan for 2009, and according to Moorhead, "AMD is positioned well for this economy," referencing the current recession. According to Moorhead, AMD is targeting what he calls the "sweet spot" of consumer: the $999 price point. With it, he's offering them an "enthusiast dream machine" in the form of HP's dv2, which I photographed last night at CES Showstoppers: What makes the dv2 unique is that it's not a Netbook, but a traditional thin-and-light that includes the juice to knock Blu-ray (and the latest first-person shooters) out of the park. Netbooks are wonderful, he says, but it's...