Net ad group to unveil new billing rules
The new guidelines to be introduced Tuesday are aimed at settling a dispute over how online ad bills are tallied, but friction remains over unresolved details.
The new guidelines to be introduced Tuesday are aimed at settling a dispute over how online ad bills are tallied, but friction remains over unresolved details.
In response to yesterday's Tech Shakedown of McAfee's personal firewall product for issuing a useless dialog -- one that asks me to allow or block some behavior but that doesn't give me any idea, clues, or hints as to which of those two options to pick -- one ZDNet reader has reminded me of the need or lack thereof for outbound blocking in a personal firewall.
Why aren't sysadmins securing their servers? Because until there arepenalties for poor security, little will change.
A new group will try to settle the differences among competing methods of thwarting spam with a kind of caller ID for e-mail.
When is a click really a click? A standards body is set to resolve the dispute that's caused many migraine headaches for Web publishers and advertisers.
TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware. But IT consultant Erik Eckel suggests that trying to coast on failing or outdated equipment will cost you more in the long run.
Is there anything more depressing than being forced to consider just how uselessly some professional lives have been spent? I just heard from an old acquaintance and his problems today, and his ideal solutions, really haven't changed in 15 years. Sysiphus had nothing on this guy: he keeps pushing the rock, the rock keeps rolling back and he absolutely refuses to consider either dynamite or a bobcat.
I am a big fan of highly portable devices and I just saw a new device announced by Sony that may just have me putting my MSI Wind up on ebay soon. Sony announced their new Vaio P Series ultra-compact notebook that has some good specs and an interesting design. The tagline is that the P Series is the lightest 8 inch notebook in the world. Rather than go for a large display in a small form factor, Sony looks to have targeted maximization of the keyboard with sacrificing the screen size and going for a small form factor.
High lease prices, limited space and a lack of power may be combining to make the capital increasingly unattractive as a data-centre location
Wind farms and server farms, energy-efficient couple. That's according to a study from a British academic.