Cisco has announced that Free, a part of the French Iliad Group, has deployed the Cisco Carrier-Grade IPv6 Solution using Internet Protocol version 6 rapid deployment technology for more than four million Free residential broadband customers. The Iliad Group (Euronext Paris: ILD) provides telecommunications and Internet access via Free [...]
Mims Bits on MIT’s Technology Review reports that researcher from UC San Diego have figured out how spammers use low-cost workers in Russia, Southeast Asia, and China to solve millions of CAPTCHAs in near real-time.
A CAPTCHA is that bit of distorted text you have to type back at a webpage when you’re [...]
Another school year is starting up and security firm WatchGuard has a list of the top threat to school IT systems as classes start-up again. Eric Aarrestad, Vice President at privately held WatchGuard Technologies says, ”With so much at risk and so much to gain by cybercriminals, today’s campus is one of the most dangerous IT environments [...]
I recently wrote about the troubles at Dell. Here is more proof of the downturn at Dell. BusinessInsider is reporting that Acer (LSE: ACID), the Taiwanese computer maker has posted another solid quarter of global PC sales, according to new data from Gartner.
The Asian and emerging markets drove Acer’s growth. It has also successfully [...]
The U.S. Labor Department recently reported that the unemployment rate held steady at 9.5%. The analysts at Chart of the Day crunched some numbers and it looks like the U.S. is not out of the economic woods yet. According to Chart of the Day, assuming that the depression, economic uncertainty, recession ended [...]