The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation has been looming for sometime already. Today, I got email that the deal has been completed. The acquisition would allow Oracle to become a player in the cloud computing business. The merger would deliver various technology innovation with the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, Solaris operating [...]

Clever IT professionals do not settle on knowledge and experience acquired over the years. They work and take action to be on the top of their ever dynamic industry. Many picking up new certifications, while others are maximizing their earning potential by expanding their skill sets. I read an article from ComputerWorld, which reports that [...]

Many rumors have been moving around Apple’s next big thing, which is a tablet computer. Some computer geeks and sleuths have guessed it to be Apple iTablet. There’s even a website which offers money to give a photo or video of the most anticipated Apple technology. However, all of that is now irrelevant after Steve [...]

Most niche blogs start usually as a hobby and are hosted on free web hosting. People write daily online about their interest and the things they like. Niche blogs that have very interesting topics catches new and loyal visitors fast. Keeping the contents of the blog fresh requires a huge task of writing and publishing [...]

Computer servers are dedicated machine to handle high demand software applications. The concern most small time businesses face is that more computing power packed computer servers don’t come cheap. There are times that an inexpensive desktop computer would be used as a server of various software applications. In our office, cost is a primary factor [...]

Windows XP update is needed to make a computer run up with the latest hardware drivers and security software patches. The same helpful software could also sometimes break your computer system. The symptoms for a system update going awry ranges from desktop settings reset, unable to detect devices, and worst to failure to boot. That’s [...]

DVD disk are common data storage medium of choice at offices and homes. Storing video data on DVD disk is a logical thing as it have up to 4.7Gb capacity of storage space. That’s about 2 hours or 120 minutes of DVD quality video playing time stored on one regular DVD disk. Recently, I was [...]

Computer software installation sometimes present some surprises especially on the Linux system. I have encountered such case when installing Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on a Redhat Enterprise Linux version 4. Expecting for an Oracle GUI for a Universal Installer, I was prompted by a series of text. It’s good to read closely those text [...]

Internet is a great source of information for everyone from kids to adults a like. Yes, toddlers as young as 7 years of age do use computers and Internet at home. There is a particular concern of kids opening up webpages which is not appropriate for their age. Symantec study reveals kids under 7 even [...]

The problem of the Internet becoming as a tool for malware authors, spammers, and phishers could not be denied. As social networking gains more popularity cases of email scam, Internet fraud, identity theft and a lot more are getting prevalent. I got even a surprising email this morning from a friend who asked a huge [...]