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Last weekend, I went with my wife and kids to see Avatar. (I was amazed at how realistic animation has become. My guess is that they won't need actors and actresses one day. They'll just "roll out" the characters they want.) We arrived early and while we were waiting, I looked around the theater, which was filling up quickly.

IBM announced its new POWER7 CPUs and servers and Intel announced the new Itanium 9300 series (formerly 'Tukwila'). Odd that they should both be announced on the same day, eh? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers watch them fight it out. Not to mention Cpt. Dave lands an Airbus...
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It's easy to see why Google built Buzz, but harder to figure out why anybody would want to use it.

How would you like to never reboot again? That's what ksplice promises for Linux users.

Google Buzz looks like it will be an interesting application. But those who use it need to be very aware of how much information they are releasing in public.

In today's podcast: IBM announces new Power7 processor; PayPal suspends payments in India; and Google reduces Nexus One termination fee.

This executive-floor user calls newbie pilot fish to complain that her monitor has mysteriously gone blank. Can fish help her recover what she was working on?

Ever since the MacBook Air, a machine made for 3G wireless access, was released without built-in ability to connect to mobile wireless, I've been waiting for Apple to put 3G access in their laptops.

Will my wait be over soon?

A couple of things have happened in the last month that give me a bit of hope.

The new method of optimizing IT takes a more holistic view of problems and leverages innovations in technologies and services to increase efficiency and get better return on existing assets. This in turn enables IT management to combine the budgets of multiple projects to provide better purchasing power, and through innovations such as virtualization or cloud computing, provide data services at commodity prices.

Software glitches may be behind sudden acceleration and braking failures in Toyota vehicles. Can software quality ever match what Toyota achieved in hardware manufacturing?

There are those who claim that Microsoft has been too slow to bring innovative products to market --- and now an ex-VP joins the chorus, delivering a devastating critique. It makes for eye-opening reading.

From time to time, I hear security vendors make claims that make no sense. In fact, let's not mince words: I sometimes hear security vendors lie. There, I said it. This week on Security Levity, I want to talk about one such example...

The road to SQL started with Dr. E.F. Codd's paper, "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", published in Communications of the ACM in June 1970.

Cisco Press sponsors massive library giveaway to help you prep for the new CCNP tests.

Missing software engineers have joined iGDP economy