The outage that took Google offline for scores of users on Thursday was caused by a traffic routing error, the company now says. The Google outage affected users across the United States and in numerous other countries. The vast majority of Google services became unavailable, including Gmail, YouTube, Google News, and even the google.com home [...]

“Lockdown” must be the Department of Defense’s middle name. As a worm seems to be making its way through the military’s computers, the DOD has responded by banning flash drives, CDs, and just about everything else that can store data and be moved from one machine to another.
DOD Prohibits Removable Storage Devices To Stop [...]

Programmers care about languages. Opinion on the topic is generally divided into two schools of thought. One holds that a good programmer will be versed in a selection of different languages, to be better equipped to handle a variety of coding styles and challenges. The other school maintains that the best way to remain marketable [...]

Earlier today I received an email from a good photographer friend of mine. She was asking me about a new online back up service that I was not familiar with after having almost lost a hard drive at 4am this morning.
As a photogeek, but even more as a geek dad, the importance of photo [...]

Aruba Networks has announced a new family of branch office wireless access points it says can be used to build a cheap but powerful remote access system based on virtual principles.
Dubbed the ‘virtual branch office’, the system uses software-upgraded versions of the company’s current range of data centre-based hardware controllers connected to one of [...]