Rosie Lombardi

Technology to bridge the silos of information for logical and physical security is evolving, and helping to moving these two disparate areas closer together. Hopkinton, Mass-based EMC Corp has developed a system to convert analogue video from surveillance systems into digital streaming video, and to integrate the data within an organization

Many Canadian university students, who would be indignant if someone plagiarized their own work, apparently have no qualms about acquiring and using pirated software, a recent survey reveals.

Liberty Alliance, the 150-member association originally formed in 2001 to develop an open standard for federated network identity, created a working group in June 2005 to tackle identity theft.

A recent survey of the "cybercrime" situation offers some good news and bad news. However, overall trends remain relatively unchanged from last year, the 2005 FBI/CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey reveals. The survey is now in its tenth year. This year's findings are based on the responses of 700 US-based security practitioners.

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Hospitals should take care of patients, not paper. For many hospitals, however, the manual processes involved in managing the inventory of instruments and tracking them through sterilization cycles are prone to error and can lead to cross-infections.

Back in those heady, dot-com frenzied days in the late 1990s, contract project work for IT staff was plentiful, interesting and well-paying. But the nature and composition of contract work has since changed. While many IT workers made a conscious decision to pursue contract project work in the past, the reality today is that it is often a necessity, not a choice.

Science fiction TV shows typically portray people speaking when they interact with futuristic computers, not clacking away on keyboards or fiddling with mice. How close is speech recognition technology getting to this type of dream system? At a recent Microsoft forum held in Singapore, chairman Bill Gates said that giving instructions to PCs by voice will become mainstream in three to four years.