Encouraging econmic news as online retailers exceed $27 billion in holiday sales. Here are the stats via www.coremetrics.com CoreMetrics

This document describes what storage area networks (SAN) are, how server clusters can be deployed in a SAN, and how the Microsoft® Windows® platform, and Windows clustering in particular, take advantage of storage area network technology.

He is the rare businessman with legitimate worldwide celebrity. (His quirks and predilections are such common knowledge that they were knowingly parodied on an episode of “The Simpsons.”) He pals around with U2’s Bono.

Yet for all his hanging out with copywriters and industrial designers and musicians — and despite his anticorporate attire — make no mistake: Steve Jobs is all about business. He may not pay attention to customer research, but he works slavishly to make products customers will buy.

Apple was worth about $5 billion in 2000, just before Jobs unleashed Apple’s groundbreaking “digital lifestyle” strategy 10 years ago. Today, at about $170 billion, Apple is slightly more valuable than Google (GOOG, Fortune 500).

How this $550,000 watch works  – or costs — is alot easier to understand than Google Wave. http://bit.ly/3ZCiSK

Is it true that 54% of surveyed companies ban Twitter and Facebook at work.  Does yours?
http://bit.ly/3sSo6

Here’s a handy calculator for figuring out MS server licensing when costing virtualization servers
http://bit.ly/12ZbkY

By TechInfoGuy
Windows 7 is the latest version of Microsoft Windows operating systems.  It was released to manufacturing in September 2009 and made available to general business and consumer users a month later.  The TechInfoGuy sees this latest Windows versions as a long time coming, being about 2 1/2 years after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista, which never caught [...]

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Spyware
The term itself suggests programs that sneak into computer and monitor a your internet behavior.  Not good.  Spyware programs can collect personal information such as a user’s surfing whereabouts.  But this nasty stuff can really flex its muscles by doing other crafty things like installing even more unwanted software on your machine or sending [...]

By TechInfoGuyShockwaves throughout the business world were felt two years ago when TJX, parent company of retail stores T.J. Maxx and Marshalls reported that 45.7 million customer credit cards on file were compromised from January 2003 to November 2003.  (The TechInfoGuy still can’t fiugure out why it took so long to report)

The massive security breach resulted in an [...]

TechInfoGuy says:  There are two things to know when booting up Windows on a Mac w Boot Camp: Windows upgrade licenses won’t work and NTFS partitions prohibit dual access