Special Reports

Smarter IT

• An Operating System for the Cloud
  Google is developing a new computing platform equal to the Internet era. Should Microsoft be worried?
• David Blumenthal
  Health IT's billion-dollar man.
• Prescription: Networking
  A new urban network suggests how technology could remake health care.
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• Behind the Big Apple's Data Dump
  NYC releases a wealth of data--but with a positive spin.
• Delivering Security on Demand
  Companies are increasingly offering security products as services, but is it the best approach?
• Catching Spammers in the Act
  Researchers show how spammers harvest e-mail addresses and send out bulk messages.
• Computer Clusters That Heat Houses
  A novel water-cooling system makes it more efficient for computers to heat buildings.
• Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence
  Protecting an inalienable right in the age of Facebook.
• A Touch of Ingenuity
  An inexpensive pressure-sensitive pad could make surfaces smarter.
• No Reboot Required
  Ksplice uses new technology to build security updates for Linux that can be installed without restarting.
• Who's Typing Your Password?
  By watching how passwords are entered, a company hopes to make log-ins more secure.
• Cuil Tries to Rise Again
  Last year's "Google-killer" plans a comeback with social search.
• Sending Cell Phones into the Cloud
  New technology offloads processing from a mobile device to its cloud-based doppelganger.
• Bringing Books to Life
  Templar Publishing has released the U.K.'s first book to be enhanced with augmented reality.
• How Facebook Copes with 300 Million Users
  VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer reveals the tricks that keep the world's biggest social network going.
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• A More Secure, Trustworthy Cloud
  Virtual private clouds bridge real and virtual computing infrastructure.
• Big Blue Sees Clouds on the Horizon
  IBM's big cloud-computing plan starts with virtual desktops and software application testing.
• In Search of What Everyone's Clicking
  A real-time search engine bases its results on users' browsing habits.
• A Web Spider for Everyone
  A startup uses PC idle time to crawl Web pages on demand.
• A Better Way to Shoot Down Spam
  Junk mail can now be identified based on a single packet of data.
• Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality
  Augmented reality helps Marine mechanics carry out repair work.
• Adding Trust to Wikipedia, and Beyond
  Tracing information back to its source could help prove trustworthiness.
• A Smart Phone Built on Web Tools
  Palm's new smart phone targets Web developers as well as a loyal fan base.
• Moving Data around the Clouds
  A startup hopes to make it easier to hop between cloud-computing services.
• Netbook Chips Create a Low-Power Cloud
  A "fast array of wimpy nodes" could replace behemoth server infrastructure.
• A Way Out of E-mail Overload
  OtherInbox manages a user's automated e-mails.
• OurTube
  "Open video" could beget the next great wave in Web innovation--if it gets off the ground.
• Search Spammers Hacking More Websites
  The head of Google's Web-spam-fighting team warns that spammers are increasingly attacking websites.
• Firefox Aims to Unplug Scripting Attacks
  How websites can block code from unknown sources.
• Antivirus Protection Gets Social
  Can cloud computing and social networking improve security software?
• EmTech@MIT Preview: Greening IT
  A special notice from the publisher of Technology Review: as companies wake up to the need for datacenter efficiency, they are faced with a bewildering array of problems.
• Software That Fixes Itself
  A new tool aims to fix misbehaving programs without shutting them down.