Finding a Mentor
In the 1990 movie "Joe Versus the Volcano," starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, Joe's boss says repeatedly, "I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?" If you're new to the IT field, you might be asking yourself that same question.
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Date: 2003-03-28
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The Future of Web Services Security:
Sun Microsystems' Eve Maler, chair of the Security Work Plan Working Group of WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization), is a leading mover and shaker in the world of Web services security. She co-founded, formerly chaired, and is currently coordinating editor of the SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) committee, which brought together divergent XML-based security efforts in an effort to develop a common standard.
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Date: 2003-03-26
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The first taste of Liberty: Sign on once, log in everywhere
What annoys you most on the Web today? For me, having to remember dozens of Website usernames and passwords surely surpasses all other inconveniences. Whether you wish to chat on JavaWorld's forums or keep up with the news on your favorite current affairs Website, chances are you will be asked at some point to enter your username and password.
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Date: 2003-03-26
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PC vs. Mac Revisited: Adobe Says PCs are Faster
The debate between PC and Macintosh partisans over which platform performs better reached an interesting impasse this week when longtime Apple Computer partner Adobe Systems published a document on its Web site that supports claims that the PC is indeed faster.
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Date: 2003-03-26
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HP asks kids to design calculators
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a contest aimed at allowing elementary, middle school and high school students to help plan features for the company's next generation of calculators.
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Date: 2003-03-24
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CTIA Wireless show opens
The dangers of regulation in the wireless telecommunications industry and the issues surrounding the roll out of e911 were among the first items on the agenda at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show in New Orleans Monday.
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Date: 2003-03-21
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Army Denies Hacking Incident
The U.S. Army is denying that its systems were compromised by a recently discovered buffer overflow vulnerability in a component of Microsoft Windows 2000 used to manage the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol. However, Pentagon sources acknowledged that an investigation into the compromise of a "military server" is now under way.
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Date: 2003-03-21
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The Cell-Phone Folks Face a Wi-Fi World
The new technology is bound to become another leg of wireless providers' strategy. Getting to that point is the hard part. At the annual Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Assn. meeting in New Orleans Mar. 17-19, the buzz was, as you would expect, all about wireless communications.
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Date: 2003-03-21
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Intel developing robot technology
In the future, it might not just be "Intel Inside" personal computers, but -- if the company's research efforts pay off -- Intel inside robots, home furnishings and even inside the outdoors. Intel Corp. has opened small labs near four universities and is working with students and professors on research on a variety of technologies, including embedding its chips into increasingly smaller devices and substances.
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Date: 2003-03-21
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Wi-Fi is Hot at CTIA, Hope Remains for 3G
Hype and whiz-bang technology ideas haven't been much in evidence at the CTIA Wireless 2003 show in New Orleans this week. Instead the show has been dominated by real products, real engagements and partnerships designed to integrate existing technologies to make a more seamless whole.
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Date: 2003-03-21
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Apple to switch to Itanium says columnist
IT'S THE MARK OF A GOOD April fools day joke that there might just be a grain of truth in it. So when PC Magazine's columnist John C. Dvorak says that Itanium will be the next Apple processor, where do you turn? It could all be hokum but then again...
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Date: 2003-03-21
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The Joys of Wireless Local Loop
WiFi, or 801.22b as it was called until common sense prevailed, took the world by surprise, and Wireless Local Loop or WLL, looks set to do the same. It is hard for new technologies to establish themselves in the telecoms world, especially during a telecoms slump, but WiFi managed it and WLL is likely to do the same, for some of the same reasons. So what is it?
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Date: 2003-03-21
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WinTel trips on Linux?
AS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE the WinTel alliance used to work pretty well. Intel lived up to Moore's Law by building ever larger and more complex chips, while Microsoft executed Gate's Law by churning out ever more bloated and serially incompatible versions of its software.
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Date: 2003-03-21
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E-mail worm pretends to have spy satellite images
A new e-mail worm has surfaced that purports to show screensavers of U.S. spy satellite pictures of Iraq or animations that are either patriotic or that mock President Bush, a computer security company warned Thursday. The worm, dubbed Ganda-A, spreads by sending itself to e-mail addresses on an infected machine and tries to disable anti-virus and other security software and infect certain files on the hard disk, according to Sophos.
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Date: 2003-03-21
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Microsoft warns of firewall vulnerability
Microsoft Corp. warned customers of another security vulnerability on Wednesday, this one affecting its Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 firewall and Web cache product.
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Date: 2003-03-20
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