Stories about: Macs

CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college's students, administrative employees and teachers. She bought a MacBook Pro and tested new-fangled desktop virtualization software that allows her to run both Windows and OS X on a single machine.

If your company's computer clocks aren't in sync, forensics, backups, and much more can suffer. Simson Garfinkel on getting the time right.

Apple's patching process proves that the company isn't serious about moving Macs into the enterprise, security researchers said Monday.

As enterprises seek out ways to reduce IT costs, optimize resources and improve operational efficiencies, three technology trends have started to dominate: virtualization, service-oriented architecture and mobility. More promising yet is the intertwining of these unique technologies.

Internationally renowned security guru, Bruce Schneier, will be encouraging technologists at linux.conf.au to take a lesson from Luke Skywalker, and "feel the force" a little more when it comes to security.

Talk to anyone who attends Black Hat USA conferences and you'll hear about how boring the talks are, how nobody learned anything new, how the hacks were known last year -- not to mention the ridiculous posers. Ask those same attendees if they plan to attend next year, and they say "yeah" as fast as a poker player pushing all in with pocket aces.

A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a US$10,000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.

Headlines across several business news services this week read something like "Laptops prove weak point in computer security" that's not an actual headline, because I don't like getting flame e-mail from attorneys, but it's similar to several.

Sony, Apple and especially Microsoft illustrate differing approaches to Digital Rights Management.