Practical Technology

The first million seller e-book is….

sjvn — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:31:23 +0000

knew e-books would be big. What I didn’t know would be that they would get so big, so fast. On July 28th, Amazon announced that Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoohas become the first e-book to sell a million copies. It won’t be the last. Stephenie Meyer and James Patterson are quickly closing [...]

Apple iPad’s rivals are coming

sjvn — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:35:13 +0000

I get that Apple’s iPad is hotter than hot with over 3-million sold so far, but, please, to say “Apple has won the battle for tablet computing already” is really over-reaching. I mean, come on, the Android Linux-based tablets, or if you insist, the iPad killers, were only supposed to start showing up in mid-summer. [...]

NAC decisions you need to make now

sjvn — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:04:44 +0000

One important piece of a multilevel security defense for companies of almost any size is network access control (NAC), which lets you enforce policies for end-user machines. The basic idea behind NAC — which can include hardware, software or a combination — is deceptively simple. Before any end user’s computer — an endpoint — is [...]