Articles by Andrew K. Burger

Mobile application developers are a busy lot these days as organizations look to put the latest applications in the hands of mobile employees. However, as organizations' networks extend ever outward and "over the air," data and application security are primary concerns. Enterprise networks are a potential treasure trove for increasingly organized...

HP on Tuesday launched HP Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses, a suite of products and services designed to enable businesses with anywhere from 100 to 999 employees to more efficiently and cost-effectively manage their evolving network and IT needs Aiming to optimize systems performance, adaptability and business continuity whi...

Location-based mobile and Web services are increasingly delivering value and gaining adherents as service providers devote greater time and resources to developing them further. For example, Sprint's Xohm wireless broadband unit is working with a group of leading mobile Web application development companies to develop a set of personalized "geobro...

Six federal banking regulators, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, FDIC and Office of Thrift Supervision, last November issued final rules clarifying what U.S. banks and credit institutions would have to do to comply with Red Flag provisions of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (Facta). The rules are crafted to ensure that banks ...

Part 1 of this two-part series laid out the challenges faced by NBC and its partners in handling the massive amounts of video generated at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Part 2 examines how they have done Online media coverage of this year's Summer Olympic Games on MSN is shaping up to be a breakout event for Internet TV, as well as quite a big hit ...

The 2008 Summer Olympics kicked off in Beijing Friday, and this year's Summer Games will serve up highlights outside of athletic prowess and national pride. China's hosting of this year's Games has made them a flash point for a wide range of issues having to do with China and international relations, from freedom of the press, human rights, Tibet and terrorism to pollution and climate change.

Part 1 of this two-part series highlights the growing use of job boards such as those listing English as a Foreign Language teaching positions as favored haunts of Internet con artists A troubling up-tick in the frequency of Internet fraud attempts and the growing use of more sophisticated botnets and crimeware is leading a growing number of organi...

Good con artists make an art of preying on people's fears, hopes, dreams and good intentions, and there's probably no end to the list of con schemes being perpetrated via the Web. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and the Web's openness is proving to be a seduction too strong to resist for ever-greater numbers of largely self-taught Web fraudsters around the world.

Good con artists make an art of preying on people's fears, hopes, dreams and good intentions, and there's probably no end to the list of con schemes being perpetrated via the Web. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and the Web's openness is proving to be a seduction too strong to resist for ever-greater numbers of largely self-taught Web fraudsters around the world.

Good con artists make an art of preying on people's fears, hopes, dreams and good intentions, and there's probably no end to the list of con schemes being perpetrated via the Web. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and the Web's openness is proving to be a seduction too strong to resist for ever-greater numbers of largely self-taught Web fraudsters around the world.

The Web continues to play a central role in affecting radical, disruptive change in the music industry as musicians latch on to the latest Web 2.0 tools and bypass traditional producers and distributors. High Street music and video chains -- all the rage not that long ago -- seem to be closing outlets as quickly as they once opened them This techno...

Part 1 of this two-part series examined the real estate industry's emerging adoption of CRM tools, thanks largely to the newfound popularity of on-demand applications As more buyers and sellers look to the Web and as other parties in the real estate value chain move to Web-enabled business software platforms, the real estate industry has begun to e...

Though their IT needs are fundamentally the same as larger organizations, small and medium-sized business owners may feel particularly challenged when it comes to rolling out a new operating system. The increasing complexity of IT system architectures combined with a relative shortfall of resources -- capital, IT expertise, etc. -- can make implementing a new or upgraded OS an anxiety-ridden experience...

Part 1 of this two-part series looked at the constant behind-the-scenes refinement of the technologies that enable the compression of audio and video files for online distribution. Part 2 delves into the specialized, somewhat arcane world of A/V compression and the role open source plays in standards development, and in the overall marketplace The ...

The explosion in Web-delivered music and video we're seeing today just wouldn't be possible without the use of sophisticated encoded compression algorithms, or codecs, and the file storage formats in which compressed audio, images and data are saved. As Internet bandwidth and broadband access has expanded, so has the transmission of much denser digital audio and video files. Compression algorithms and file format development has had to keep up and in-step...

Part 1 of this two-part series covers the increase in demand for videoconferencing, collaborative software and virtual telepresence technology due to rising transportation costs and concerns about social and environmental responsibility. Part 2 examines what telepresence and collaboration service providers are doing to ramp up and meet demand Busin...

Rising transportation costs and concerns about social and environmental responsibility are spurring corporate demand for videoconferencing, collaborative software and virtual telepresence technology. Wider access to broadband Internet is a key enabler Changes in business and social attitudes toward air travel are also contributing to rising demand....

Attracting and retaining fans are the keys to success in the crowded, competitive online gaming industry. The Net's growing multimedia communications capabilities are providing not only game developers but businesses of every size and stripe a vastly richer yet less structured environment for CRM; something game developers and distributors are very much aware of and keen to plug into...

Malware has yet to plague smartphones to anywhere near the extent it has PCs, it's only a matter of time before cyber-criminals start targeting mobile networks ESET, developer of the NOD32 antivirus solution for PCs and computer networks, is the latest IT security specialist to enter the fray....

IT security provider Kaspersky Lab has issued a security alert following the detection of a particularly malicious piece of "ransomware." Kaspersky researchers were the first to detect and issue warnings that a new, stronger version of the Gpcode virus was on the loose Even though it doesn't appear to have spread widely -- to date at least -- the n...