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Archive for April 2007

And the Winner Is…

Posted by: Admin on: April 26, 2007

Fortunes List of Most Admired Companies for 2007
by: Jerry Liao
Fortune Magazine recently published America’s most admired companies for 2007 from different industries. Fortune and its survey partners at Hay Group asked 3,322 executives, directors, and securities analysts to select the 10 companies they admire most. Since TechNews101 is all about technology – I will [...]

VIRGINIA TECH MASSACRE

Posted by: Admin on: April 23, 2007

Technology Becomes a Coping Mechanism
by: Jerry Liao
“It can’t be happening again”, this was my intial reaction while watching an international TV news program on cable reporting about the shooting incident in Virgina Tech. The incident reminded me of the Columbine High School shooting incident. At the time of the report, the report [...]

The Clean Machine

Posted by: Admin on: April 17, 2007

Greenpeace Gives Grades to Electronics Manufacturers
by: Jerry Liao
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the cleanest of them all? This seems to be the question Greenpeace was asking when it conducted a study who among the top electonic manufacturers ranks the best in as far as on their global policies and practice on eliminating [...]

Small Wonders

Posted by: Admin on: April 16, 2007

Opera Launches 9.2 Browser with Speed Dial
by: Jerry Liao
According to a website called W3Schools.com, for the month of February 2007 – the most widely used browser is IE6 with 39.8%, followed by Firefox with 31.2%, IE7 with 16.4%, IE5 with 2.5%, Safari with 1.7%, Opera with 1.5% and Mozilla suite with 1.4%. With [...]

Security Depends on You

Posted by: Admin on: April 11, 2007

Gartner – Virtualization Can Weaken Security
by: Jerry Liao
Virtualization offers organizations the opportunity to reduce costs and increase agility, however, if this is
done without implementing best practices for security, virtualization may actually increase costs and reduce agility, according to Gartner, Inc.
Virtualization software allows users to simultaneously run multiple operating systems (OS), or multiple
sessions of a [...]