GCN Lab Reviews

• Grading the latest in mail servers

  

  The GCN Lab takes a look inside five mail servers and finds they all have their strengths and weaknesses — and Exchange still rules the roost.

• Netbooks prove worthy of a second look

  The Lab tests six new netbooks and finds that they have come a long way, with performance and features that exceed netbooks' early reputation. Although all performed well, there is one clear winner.

• Arabic language app walks the talk

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GCN Lab Impressions

• Open source comes to Army Go Mobile program

  

  The Army’s Maj. Keith Parker demos the Go Mobile kit to the GCN Lab.

• Bird is the word for 2009
• Hold off on that Windows 7 installation

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Tech Product News

• 5 steps to secure your data center

  With the advent of cloud computing, rich Internet applications, service-oriented architectures and virtualization, data center operations are becoming more dynamic with fluid boundaries. The shifting form of computing adds layers of complexity that have broad implications for how IT managers secure the components that make up a data center.

• DOT lifts the veil on its IT portfolio
• A-Space melds social media and intelligence gathering

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Tech Blog

• Readers defend PDF format against critics

  

  Readers were of two minds in responding to our report on the Sunlight Foundation’s criticisms of PDF. Several stressed the need for better-educated users. Others contended that data shouldn't always be easy to get at.

• Plasmonics: A new hope for the post-silicon era
• Can your computer read a Web page without your help? Soon it might.

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Another View from Industry Thought Leaders

• 8 myths of cloud computing

  

  The hype around cloud computing has made vendors so desperate for a piece of the action that they have blurred distinctions and adapted definitions to suit their own ends. Cloud computing expert Tarak Modi dispels eight myths.

Guest Columnists

CyberEye | Bill Jackson

• Identity crisis: The threat of bulk thefts

  

  Most reported cases of identity theft come from old-fashioned theft of wallets, purses and PCs, one study shows. But the sheer bulk of data available on servers and company computers makes those types of risks frightening.

Editor's Desk | Wyatt Kash

• The path to cloud computing is beginning to take shape

  

  Cloud computing still has a lot of uncertainties -- among them a lack of maturity among many of its potential services -- but the path toward this nest era of enterprise computing is beginning to take shape.

Internaut | Shawn P. McCarthy

• Fusion center approach could be effective in other areas

  

  The fusion center approach used in antiterrorism operations could also be applied to other civilian uses, such as bridge and road monitoring and electronic business reporting.

Reality Check | Mike Daconta

• Why Web 2.0 is still not pixie dust

  

  Web 2.0 is great technology that has a role in all public-facing government Web sites and in the next wave of application development, but don't confuse its use with the less glamorous side of transparency.