Information Technology Articles

Computers » Information Technology | By David Link @ Monday, 6th October 2008 @ 11:05 AM

Doug McClure, Senior Managing Consultant for Business Service Management (BSM) and IT Service Management (ITSM) for the IBM Software Services for Tivoli (ISST) team at IBM Tivoli (part of Software Group (SWG)) answers questions on Business Service Management (BSM)\"lite.\" He currently leads the Virtual BSM Practice within IBM Software Services for Tivoli. Question: What is \"BSM Lite\" and how is it different from \"heavy\" BSM? Doug McClure: \"I think ... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Wayne Cutforth @ Monday, 29th September 2008 @ 3:38 PM

Anonymous surfing is simply the ability to browse the World Wide Web but having your identity hidden from the outside world. From the outside world I am referring to the websites you visit. You identify can be hidden successfully by using an anonymous browser based proxy. These are just sites on the Internet that you can use to type in the address of the site you want to visit and the service will then take you to that website but keeping your information like your MAC address and your IP addres... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Wayne Cutforth @ Thursday, 25th September 2008 @ 6:13 AM

This article is aimed at people that wish to keep their Internet activities as private as possible. With all sorts of viruses and spyware, keeping your Internet activities private is no longer just desirable, but a necessity. So how is are your details in danger in the first place? Well, first of all, every time you visit a website is collects various pieces of information about you. The information that is collected varies but at the least what is collected is your IP address, geographical loca... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Joel McLaughlin @ Monday, 22nd September 2008 @ 11:03 PM

Unfortunately I see so many people performing search engine optimization services in this day and age, however they don\'t understand the basic website structure to perform well in the search engines. This may seem like a no brainer article, however after you read this article take a look at your site. It may possibly help! When a site is built and submitted to the search engines, the search engine bots are going to crawl your page. They are going to grab your title, and then move o... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Gregory Smyth @ Thursday, 18th September 2008 @ 2:09 PM

The percentage of small businesses with platforms for image and video capture, music storage and playback has grown significantly in the past three years. Concurrently, the number of media hubs, or electronic devices that can access premium content services has grown. In a number of industries, this capability has made business dealings possible that never were before - almost all of us have encountered a business that is completely dependent on their information technology infrastructur... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Wayne Cutforth @ Wednesday, 10th September 2008 @ 10:52 PM

A proxy is a useful tool to use. There are literally thousands of them out there on the Internet today. They allow you to surf anonymously without the fear of your personal details getting into the wrong hands. A proxy acts as a middle man that sits in between your computer and the Internet. Because of this, it handles all data on your behalf so protected to the outside world. When you browse the Internet, the websites can only see the proxy and not you personally. It is easy to find a p... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Debbie Allen @ Wednesday, 10th September 2008 @ 4:23 PM

The computer days are here! It seems everyone spends time on the Internet on a regular basis, and in most cases that is a daily basis. Perhaps that is why Satellite TV for PC has become so popular in recent years. Think about it, you already have a great monitor in front of you and you probably have a comfortable chair, so why not enjoy your favorite TV programs from your computer screen, maybe you already do. I would like to warn you that there are scams in this marketplace just as th... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Amy Nutt @ Wednesday, 10th September 2008 @ 12:18 PM

While the data centre as we know it was perfected during the dot com boom of the late 1990s, data centres actually have their roots in the earliest beginnings of the computer era. Early computer systems, which were huge, room-sized machines, required a lot of space and a controlled environment. The complexity of operating and maintaining these machines also led to the practice of secluding them in dedicated rooms. Computer security became a consideration during this era. These early com... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Wayne Cutforth @ Wednesday, 3rd September 2008 @ 10:31 PM

Using a proxy has its advantages as and in this article we are going to talk about how to use proxies, how they work, the best ones to use, and their disadvantages. Proxies have been around for as long as the Internet. A proxy is best defined as a middle man that handles data and communications for another entity on their behalf. The most common type of proxy is in the form of an Internet website. You simply visit the website, enter your web address that you want to go to and you are away... more...

Computers » Information Technology | By Gregory Smyth @ Saturday, 30th August 2008 @ 4:29 AM

You may remember the things that seemed impossible when you were a child: talking to somebody on the other side of the world, for free and anytime you like was probably one of them, along with a cure for AIDS, and being invisible. All of these boundaries have been broken, completely or at least in effect. Surely we will be flying, teleporting and living to our two-hundredth birthdays, within the next century! However, sometimes the simplest advances are the most amazing, not least because they a... more...