While everyone is still dilly-dallying over the recent price augmentation of VMware products, customers now have a reason to celebrate.  VMware is reminded of the value of customer satisfaction, having boosted the limited vRAM allotment from 30% to 100%, following the vSphere 5 launch. A good portion of the announcement was read on ZDNet: “Nonetheless, these ...

I go to Youtube.com to check out my favorite band’s singles. But before even getting hold of the official music video, I often come across numerous fan vids—a variety of multimedia creations that’s sometimes better than the original.  This art becomes a peculiar thing on YouTube—creating a masterpiece video using a song without permission and ...

The hunt for hackers continues. But, what do you do when a conference at the heart of the Sin City circles around the topic of hacking security breaches, awards the premier hacker and rewards still innovative ways to breach security?  Defcon 2011 has just ended and people are still babbling about the highlights of the ...

Security threats attack the ozone layer of the tech world with a mission to spread terror and destroy privacy on the internet. This issue has been bugging the online community for a long time now, but it is only recently that it has reached a certain pinnacle of fame because of high profile menaces in the ...

Looking at a flash memory storage system is like staring at the future of technology. And we’re approaching that era at a record pace. With more and more companies searching for innovative data management and storage solutions, flash is gaining a solid stance in the industry. At the frontier of this market is the shared ...

One of the not-so-fun things about college professors is that they talk like they are being chased all the time. As a result, I always find myself gazing off, later having to unlock the mystery of my penmanship.  And this could lead to some academe disaster come exams. How I wish Livescribe was born a ...

Learn from other’s mistakes—this is currently Microsoft’s mantra, at least for their mobile location and data tracking strategy. By adjusting their geographical positioning services, Microsoft vows to their customers that Windows-based devices will now be very difficult to track. With this development, phones and laptops will no longer be constantly updating with a user’s exact ...

Google is a lemon being squeezed to the last drop, with all the lawsuits they are being slapped with this year.  But perhaps the biggest and toughest challenge has yet to come.  Today, the EU strikes at the heart of Google with 9 antitrust court cases, according to a Reuters report.  Fighting in a foreign land, many ...

IT economics’ consistent interest in virtualization attracts organizations that are serious in implementing cost-savings in their infrastructure and storage systems. This is what Hyundai Australia has explored beginning eight months ago, now reporting on some positive upshots.  And because they are utterly ecstatic about their decision to virtualize all of their servers via VMware’s ESXi ...

When we let cloud and virtualization cross the threshold our society, we welcomed these two breakthrough technologies to improving the quality of our lives, medical concerns being at the top of our priorities. It’s a good thing that the planet has not only 24/7 convenience stores, but also round-the-clock hospitals that are ready to provide ...