Stories about: No Fear

The Internet has 1.3 billion users, but that's not enough for Lynn St. Amour. As CEO of the Internet Society, she is expanding the nonprofit group, which promotes development of the Internet globally. St. Amour doubled the group's staff in 2007 and beefed up its outreach activities in Africa, South America and Asia in her bid to add another billion Internet users worldwide. National Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan sat down with St. Amour this week at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force, an ISOC-funded standards group. Here are excerpts from their conversation:

For security to get the financial backing that it deserves in the corporate budget, security managers need to stop the fear mongering and start making the business case.

So, you've just installed Ubuntu 7.04, otherwise known as the "Feisty Fawn" release of everyone's favorite (for now) flavor of Linux. You booted the installation disc , looked around the test environment to discover that your hardware was working, and double-clicked the Install icon on the desktop. The Ubuntu installer helped you make room for Linux on your hard drive, and even copied over some of your documents and settings from Windows.

Virtual computing is the flavour of the moment. Scott Spanbauer lets you in on the best ways to keep your os at arm's length.

Olympus is well known for creating interesting and unique cameras, and the latest entry into their weatherproof range of compacts, the MJU 740, fits this mould nicely. Featuring new anti-shake technology, their highly recognisable wedge shaped design, Bright Capture video mode and some extremely high ISO settings, the MJU 740 is a feature packed bundle. Its images, while not the best we have seen, were above average, and only suffered from some minor chromatic aberration issues.

Offering free Wi-Fi can get a cafe more customers, and they're browsers not table-hogs, according to a study of Paris coffee shops.

Before the RV-8, American high-end audio manufacturer Lexicon hadn't done much in the way of home theatre receivers; in fact, it had done nothing at all. So the release of the RV-8 seven-channel receiver marks something of a milestone for the company as it ventures out of the civilised world of audio separates and into the lawless Wild West of all-in-one home theatre amplifiers/processors. However, if the multichannel market is the audio world's equivalent of the town of San Miguel, then Lexicon need hold no fear because the RV-8 is undoubtedly a gunman of considerable talent.

Spam can threaten your network, however big or small and lost time through the delays spam causes can cost your business money. Here's a bundle of utilities and services to help you fight spam, plus the tools you need to carve through the digital luncheon meat.