Reader Nick Bradsworth misses an option he once found in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. He writes: In Leopard you could right-click on a file, select More, and then choose an option to send the file to a Bluetooth device. In Snow Leopard this feature was removed, but I found it really handy. Is there [...]

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A new sugar-based polymer could be used to make common food containers compostable at home right alongside your potato peels and egg shells. A team of engineers and scientists at the Imperial College London led by Charlotte Williams in partnership with BioCeramic Therapeutics have created a degradable material from sugars derived from the breakdown of [...]

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Oracle Corp. has rekindled its Solaris love. Sun’s Solaris operating system will underlie new high-end data center appliances running the Oracle software stack. And Oracle EnterpriseLinux now becomes the preferred OS for lower-end commodity hardware. By making the Sparc/Solaris tandem the foundation of big-iron SMP appliances, the company is going back to its roots when [...]

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Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Presenter lets smartphone users stream PowerPoint slide decks from their BlackBerry phones to an external monitor or projector via a wireless connection. While many users will only be able to project presentations stored on the device, enterprise users with the right code on the device and in the data center will [...]

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The Florida firm that on Wednesday said most Windows 7 machines exhaust their physical memory, and as a result take a performance hit, defended its data and conclusions after naysayers dismissed its findings. “Everyone thinks that they’re a [Windows] performance expert,” said Craig Barth, the chief technology officer of Devil Mountain Software, a performance metrics [...]

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One of two Chinese academic institutions identified in a New York Times report Thursday as the apparent source of the recent attacks against Google, has also been linked to a hacker who may have been involved with the takedown of whitehouse.gov in 2001. The Times yesterday reported that the recent cyberattacks against Google and more [...]

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Adobe Systems is working to fix a glitch in software it uses to speed up downloads of its products that could give hackers a way to push malicious programs onto a victim’s PC. According to security researcher Aviv Raff, Download Manager — a small program Adobe users to speed up the initial installation of its [...]

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You’ve got cameras all over your facility. There are cameras in reception, the loading bay, the hallways, the data center … pretty much everywhere, and you accumulate footage by the gigabyte every day. So how do you find the bits containing people? Many video systems let you set up movement triggers to flag events. These [...]

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I’ve been a keyboard shortcut fan for a long time. Sure, icons and eye candy have their place — I’d rather double-click an icon than, say, type run c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12\Winword.exe. On the other hand, I’d sure rather click a file name and hit delete than drag an icon to my Recycle Bin (assuming [...]

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UC4, an IT automation firm, has announced the UC4 Agent for Web Services, an addition to its product line that seeks to extend a common data center utility, job scheduling, into the cloud or other company processing sites on the Internet. “We think we’re on the cusp of another wave of automation in the data [...]

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