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Monday, December 10th, 2007CompUSA has been undergoing a comprehensive restructuring of its company having both a new CEO and VP of sales and operations and many other senior executives being transitioned out. The investment group Gordon Brothers Group is more than likely behind the restructuring of the company. Gordon Brothers Group is discussing the sale of stores in [...]
SC07 – What a Blast!
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Two weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend SC07. SC07 is a huge, annual high performance computing convention that’s held at a different venue each year. As the main information website states, SC07 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. Following the traditions set with the first SC [...]
MySpace & Facebook watch out!
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Looks like there is yet another social bookmarking giant trying to enter the United States market. It’s called Cyworld, and it has almost 21 million users, 45% of South Korea’s population active on the social site. Contrary to MySpace, which is considered to be loud and chaotic. There are 4,000 servers that run the whole [...]
Data Center Goes Off the Grid
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I read this article today and its definately pretty cool. A small server-farm company called AISO.net (Affordable Internet Services Online) has gone completely off the grid and is powering their company with ground mounted Solar panels. Data centers are vital to the economy; just about any aspect of business deals with storing data electronically nowadays. [...]
MySpace mp3’s left wide open
Monday, August 27th, 2007I am not sure how many people know about this, but Dave Shanley has a very demonstrative and straight forward article explaining the ease of downloading protected music via Myspace. I do not encourage this at all, but I do believe that it should be known. This is very minimal for MySpace, considering the amount [...]
Identity Theft and Internet Fraud Expanding to Job Search Sites
Monday, August 27th, 2007Internet fraudsters have found yet another way to take your personal information and use it against you. This attack targets people that post their resumes on Job searching sites such as Career Builder and Monster Jobs. Security company Symantec, reported a new trojan named infostealer.montres, which was trying to access the job posting site monster.com. [...]