USB flash drives, or memory sticks as they are sometimes referred to, are immensely popular with information workers as a portable storage device. USB flash drives have consistently followed the general IT hardware trend of increasing the size, improving the speed and constantly reducing the price of each unit. For example, a 4GB SanDisk flash [...]

Absolute Software*1 and Intel deliver a new level of theft deterrence and data defence through integrated hardware and software technologies for notebook PCs. Computrace,* a leading IT asset-management and security solution from Absolute Software, is taking advantage of Intel® Anti-Theft Technology (Intel® AT),2 which is designed into system hardware. Through Computrace, an authorised information technology [...]

This paper is written for OEMs that market networking, telecom, and network security solutions to Information Technology (IT) departments in companies of all sizes and industries. For our purposes here, OEMs are organizations that combine hardware computing platforms and software applications into solution-level products. WIN Enterprises networking platforms are typically used to support networking, network [...]

These days we’re always hearing about the “information age,” “information technology,” and how “information rules the world.” We have come to feel that information is everything. But what does that mean, and is information in itself so important? Not completely. We need information to make decisions – that’s what is truly important. A proper decision [...]