Feds race to the cloud

The government sector is on a fast march to the cloud, but Robert Rosen wants to pause for a breath. “I’ve been looking at the cloud for a long time, and it’s not as simple as all the vendors want…

Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches On Final Flight

Space Shuttle Atlantis has just launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. STS-135 marks the final flight for the shuttle program, 30 years after Columbia touched the sky during STS-1. The mission summary (PDF) outlines STS-135’s crew and event…

IBM claims breakthrough with 'liquified' memory

IBM already has pretty good memory for a hundred-year-old, but now it has gotten even better. The company?s research division in Zurich, Switzerland, just announced a breakthrough that will enable manufacturers to use a type of memory that was previously…

California targets Kindle lab in Amazon tax spat

Amazon.com said today that it’s reluctantly severing ties with affiliates in California, a move that it hopes will let it continue shipping products to state residents without collecting sales taxes. But a little-noticed clause in the legislation that Gov. Jerry…

Today's computer word of the day

MITM This Abbreviated stands for a man-in-the-middle attack is an active Internet attack where the person attacking attempts to intercept, read or alter information moving between two computers. MITM attacks are associated with 802.11 security, as well as with wired…