E-wallet vs. traditional wallet: Electronics trump the leather
Will the day come when you will routinely leave the house every day without your leather or faux-leather wallet? You bet, at least for many folks.
Stories by Michael Cooney
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US intelligence group wants to change the way chips are made
The cutting-edge intelligence research development arm of the government wants to take advantage of the world's semiconductor manufacturing capacity but make sure that U.S. <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> and intellectual property protection is baked in.
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IBM turns up Watson-like natural language healthcare analytics
IBM today said it was rolling out software that will help doctors and insurance companies reduce costs by better analyzing and managing huge amount of patient data.
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Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill
ORLANDO -- With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it's time to offer up some sacred caws for sacrifice.
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Gartner: The top 10 strategic technology trends for 2012
ORLANDO -- The technology that makes up many of the systems in the ITworld today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to servers and social networking will impact IT in ways companies need to prepare for now, Gartner Vice President David Cearley says.
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Gartner: The future of IT? Get ready to blow stuff up
ORLANDO -- If IT is to successfully move into the future it's going to need to blow up its current way of thinking and the way it supports mature technologies.
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In face of massive cybersecurity threat, government security dawdles
At a time when the cyberthreat level is at its peak, many federal agencies continue to struggle with IT security.
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Romance scams pick on divorced, lovelorn
Research out of the UK today says that perhaps as many as 200,00 people have been victims of online romance scams and the same study says over 1 million people personally know someone who has been scammed by one of these heartless fraudsters.
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GM's OnStar feels heat, reverses controversial privacy changes
Only a few days after it made what U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) called "<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-wants-build-cybersecurity-protection-plan-">brazen" changes to its privacy policy</a>, General Motors subsidiary OnStar has backed down and said it would revert back to its previous terms of service.
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Security roundup: Privacy ground war; malware taunts; Massachusetts data loss stink; is SIEM dead?
Personal privacy or the growing lack thereof was one of the hot <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> buttons this week.
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Facial recognition security, privacy issues grab FTC attention
The Federal Trade Commission the week said it will hold a workshop that examines how burgeoning use of facial recognition technology impacts privacy and security.
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IBM, 3M team to glue together high-powered silicon bricks for servers, smartphones
IBM and 3M today said they will jointly develop a new line of adhesives they hope will let them make it possible to build commercial microprocessors composed of layers of up to 100 separate chips.
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Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT
How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds have adopted a number of practices that are useful not just for government IT but all manner of private and public company IT groups as well. These include everything from dedicated funding for green products, to improved employee training and reducing use of paper.
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IN PICTURES: 20 of the weirdest, wackiest and stupidest sci/tech stories of 2011 (so far!)
From IT geeks winning millions to Google mush-brain syndrome, 2011 is shaping up to be one wacky year
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Google: Five data center energy saving ideas you can implement
When it comes to saving data center energy few companies would have the expertise of Google, which has some of the largest data centers in the world. It has or is experimenting with some interesting ideas to cool data centers more efficiently as well - it will soon open a seawater-cooled data center in Finland for example.
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