An IP address. Also known as a "dotted quad address" and "dotted decimal notation," it refers to the four numbers separated by dots (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). See IP address.
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- Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday
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- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascend
- who's going to maintain the workstationsyeah it's a cloud system, but the hardware at the desk still needs to be maintained. Waiting for your 3rd party IT people could waste valuable time in the office.RE: BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascendI think...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- King of the QWERTYs: T-Mobile Dash 3G
- King of the QWERTYs: T-Mobile Dash 3Gdenialyou microsoft sheeple and "serious mobile phone enthusiasts" really live in deep denial. a phone with a tiny screen, an ancient os and a myriad of tiny plastic buttons glued all over it? unbelieveable that they are still produced. let alone that someone is...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices
- This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- NSA will monitor private-sector networks
- The Bushization of Obama continues with a plan to involve the NSA in screening private-sector networks, The Washington Post reports. The plan not only uses the NSA to monitor private networks but it does so in a way that makes it unclear who exactly is in charge...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- The Groundswell of Social Media Backlash
- There appears to be a fully fledged backlash against 'social media' marketing emerging, with commentary in both areas you'd expect and in places you might not. This is tough on the people who have solid foundations for what marketing messaging is all about,...
- Blog posts 2009-05-23
- 'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was
- Long the subject of countless articles, blogs, and seminars: Do IT folks "get" the business? How do we achieve "business-IT alignment"? Perhaps its time to put this tired argument to rest. IT folks not only "get" the business, they are the business. The business...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant servers
- HP to distribute Sun's Solaris on its Proliant serversI'm looking to move away from Solaris.I'm a big Sun guy. I own a number of Sparc and x86 Sun servers running Solaris. However a bug in patch 139139-07 (released in 11/2008) has resulted in a situation where the boot archive becomes...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- Think before you fire: The cost of replacing IT talent
- There’s currently a certain sense of déjà-vu within the IT community, as companies look at shaving even more cost out of a function that has been battered since the 2001 dot-com bust. However, when we look at the lessons of the past, you do have to question companies which decide...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Manes: in today's climate, be specific about SOA-related requests
- In the second half of our recent BriefingsDirect podcast, hosted by Dana Gardner, we heard more from Anne Thomas Manes, who provided more perspective on her recent proclamation that SOA -- at least as we knew it -- is dead. (Link to podcast here, full transcript here.) The...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- The questions Satyam must address
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- Discussion threads 2009-01-08
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?Can't trust it yetWhile seeing the tech world lose their mind via Twitter due to the gmail outage, I agree that it shows the need to not rely on a single source for anything deemed "critial", whether it's cloud, hardware, software,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder
- LAS VEGAS -- Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wants to open-source much more than the Firefox browser. During a sit-down chat at the Black Hat security conference here, Snyder announced plans to launch three new initiatives around threat modeling, training and vulnerability metrics that push the envelope...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- MobileMe Button 2.2 (Mac)
- Dot Mac has been upgraded to Mobile Me, and so has the Dot Mac Button. Now you can access all your MobileMe Mac apps and web pages from this tiny widget. Click on the left or right sides of the widget to move the widget in your dashboard. Click on...
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- MobileMe: iPhone finally gets OTA syncing - for a price (updated)
- Ever since the iPhone was released a year ago I complained that it had to be cabled to a Mac to be synced. Here we had one of the most amazing mobile phones on the planet â€" with three radios (WiFi, Bluetooth and EDGE) â€" yet it had to be...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Qik launches video streaming client for Windows Mobile devices
- Qik launches video streaming client for Windows Mobile devicesInvitesI've been waiting for this for what seems like ever. Pleaes, if you have any left.. lee_e_carlson AT Yahoo DOT COm.MotoQ Invite PleaseI would love an invite for my MotoQ. Got it. Email Address removed.would love an invite...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3; includes Google contact sync (updated)
- Apple today released Mac OS 10.5.3 via Software Update advisory. The 10.5.3 Combo Update weighs in at 536MB while the regular 10.5.3 Update is 420MB. The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Adobe patches 7 issues, including Pwn2Own contest flaw and DNS rebinding issues
- Adobe published an advisory covering issues, including a fix for the Pwn2Own flaw that we previously discussed here. Adobe's details are published here. One of the issues that was patched was discovered by myself and fellow researcher (and co-worker at Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center) Rob Carter, see the picture to the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Six degrees of separation in instant messaging
- According to Nature in 'Six degrees of messaging,' computer scientists at Microsoft Research Redmond lab have logged a full month of instant messengers using -- logically -- Microsoft Messenger. 'The compressed dataset occupies 4.5 terabytes, composed from 1 billion conversations per day (150 gigabytes) over one month of logging," according...
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice
- Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOfficeHave BothI have both and the short comings are slim but there are a few items that stand out for me. In iWorks there is not a way to use an external database like Filemaker--a user is limited to importing fields only from...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
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