Nov 5 2009 9:37PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is paradox.
Nov 4 2009 6:33PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
SuperSpeed USB,
USB 3.0
 |
“If you are downloading a 27 gigabyte HD movie today from your desktop to your note book to take on a plane — with HighSpeed USB, that would take 15 minutes. With SuperSpeed USB end-to-end, you can make that same transition in 60-70 seconds.”
Jeff Cravencraft, CES 2009 |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is USB 3.0 — also known as SuperSpeed USB.
Nov 3 2009 6:48PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Amazon,
PayPhrase,
POS
 |
“PayPhrase is less fun than it might be due to Amazon’s content restrictions. PayPhrases can’t use trademarked terms. Nor can they use language that is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable.”
Thomas Claburn, Amazon Introduces PayPhrase Payment Shortcut |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Amazon PayPhrase.
Nov 2 2009 2:48PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Operation Phish Phry,
phishing,
Security
 |
“Criminally savvy groups recruit here and abroad to pool tactics and skills necessary to commit organized theft facilitated by the computer, including hacking, fraud and identity theft, with a common greed and shared willingness to victimize Americans.”
FBI Los Angeles acting assistant director Keith Bolcar, Operation Phish Phry: FBI Arrests 33 for Internet Scam |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Operation Phish Phry.
Oct 30 2009 12:51PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
zombie,
pulsing zombie,
Security,
Spam
 |
“IT security and data protection company, Sophos, has called on computer users around the world to participate in “Kill-A-Zombie Day” on Saturday 31st October, also known as Halloween. Billions of spam messages are sent every day, with over 99% determined to be relayed from innocent users’ computers that have been hijacked and turned into a zombie.”
Kansas City InfoZine, International Kill-a-Zombie Day Will be a Thriller for Halloween |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is pulsing zombie. Happy Halloween!
Oct 26 2009 3:03PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
mobile marketing,
CRM
 |
Mobile marketing isn’t just mobile Web sites. It also includes banners, short codes (like the codes you send text messages to when voting on American Idol), ads in phones’ video programming and even little two-dimensional codes (like bar codes) that when photographed, send mobile customers to Web sites.
Josh Bernoff, Don’t Screw Up Your Mobile Marketing Opportunity |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is mobile marketing.
Oct 23 2009 4:42PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
micro-botnet,
Security,
botnet,
phishing,
social engineering
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I suspect that a sizable percentage of small botnets are those developed by people who understand or are operating inside a business as employees who want to gain remote access to corporate systems, or by criminal entities that have dug deep and gotten insider information on the environment…We’ve seen a growth in the number of sites that offer the sale of corporate documents that were extracted from the bots.
Gunter Ollmann, as quoted in Up To 9 Percent Of Machines In An Enterprise Are Bot-Infected |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is micro-botnet, also known as baby botnet.
Oct 22 2009 1:33PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Data Center,
Cooling,
hot aisle - cold aisle,
Green computing,
green datacenter
 |
In any push air-conditioning arrangement, two components need the most amount of power: the compressor and the fan. In a hot aisle - cold aisle arrangement, the need for cold air is reduced drastically because it’s needed only for the servers and not the entire room.
Smrutiranjan Das, Hot aisle - cold aisle design best practices for data centers |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is hot aisle - cold aisle contaiment.
