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- Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?
- I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech. But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers'...
- Tags: ZIP Code, Bureau, Database Company, FTC, E-mail, Government, Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- DB Maker (exe)
- DataBase Maker allows you to extract specific data from HTML and TXT documents and create text databases. The program lets you analyze and search a selected document for specified data, and convert the unstructured results into a text file for further processing in a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel and...
- Tags: HTML, Database Company, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-11-15
- Salesforce.com: Blame the database vendor
- Salesforce.com: Blame the database vendorsemantics may be importantWhile I don't disagree that Salesforce's statement seems to incriminate some database vendor, it's important to point out an alternative interpretation of the statement.written: "Salesforce.com addressed the issue with the database vendor."possible interpretation: "Our database-driven application had a significant performance problem and our...
- Tags: Databases, Sales force management, Storage, database, database company, Salesforce.com Inc., DBMS, performance
- Discussion threads 2005-12-22
- Salesforce.com: Blame the database vendor
- Phil Wainewright writes about the salesforce.com service outage that happened this week. He inlcudes some comments from victims and salesforce.com's press statement about the problem and resolution. Here is a portion of the salesforce.com statement:On Tuesday, December 20th,, some salesforce.com users experienced intermittent access (between approximately 9:30 am and 12:41...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., database
- Blog posts 2005-12-22
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- Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?
- Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may be seeing a little tipping point for virtual worlds. There may be even a few corporate uses in the future....
- Tags: Google Inc., Virtual World, Avatar, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V
- It takes one to know one. At least that's what EMC hopes as it appoints former Microsofter Paul Maritz to head up its lucrative VMWare unit, not coincidentally on the same day that Microsoft formally released its much anticipated Hyper-V to market. The departure of longtime...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Microsoft addresses 9 security vulnerabilities with 4 "Important" bulletins
- Microsoft announced 4 "Important" security bulletins today that cover 9 separate vulnerabilities. Of note were vulnerabilities reported in Windows DNS server and client, and within SQL Server. Briefly, the vulnerabilities involve: Cache poisoning and insufficient socket entropy flaws in Microsoft DNS Server A remote...
- Tags: Attacker, Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Outlook, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Microsoft delivers 'important' patches
- Microsoft on Tuesday delivered nine important patches to fix vulnerabilities in SQL Server, Exchange Server, Vista and Windows Server. Among the details, which were previewed last week. CVE-2008-0085: A vulnerability in the way SQL Server manages memory page reuse. An attacker with database operator...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Checkpoint friendly laptop bags should help with airport screening
- Regular air travelers may be interested in ways to speed up the screening process and having a laptop bag that lets you leave your laptop inside and protected may be a good first step. There are some important guidelines about the "checkpoint friendly" bags that meet the technical requirements set...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakes
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Aviv Raff Apple's Safari for Windows is a nice browser. It really is. It has slick user interface, some pretty cool features, and benchmarks show that it is really fast. But, saying that...
- Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark
- I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?
- Diane Green Greene has been shown the door at VMWare, the company she founded. Another victim of open source? Possibly. Ironically, Green Greene told our Dan Farber two years ago "the industry goes at Microsoft's cadence," and she's being replaced by a former Microsoft executive,...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Diane Green Greene, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Acer announces $499 home theater-friendly mini PC
- If your geek tendencies have ever desired to shoehorn a computer into your home theater, now's the time to give in. Acer introduced the Aspire X1200 this morning, which for $450 includes on-board NVIDIA GeForce 8200 graphics, an AMD Athlon (remember those?) X2 2850e processor and, thankfully,...
- Tags: Acer Inc., mini-PC, Serial ATA, Home Entertainment, Digital Video, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- VMware: CEO Greene out; Revenue light
- VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware's board....
- Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Web 3.0 - the future of social networking
- Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...
- Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom
- Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...
- Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- SAP's TV budget: more waste
- Regular readers will know that I'm pretty hard on enterprise vendors, especially when I believe they are wasting customers' money. Last month for instance I dinged Oracle for wasting money on English language advertising at Madrid Barajas airport. This morning SAP gets my attention. They are sponsoring...
- Tags: SAP AG, TV, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- Last week I blogged about a problem that had emerged relating to a "significant quantities" of older mobile GPUs suffering premature death due to heat exhaustion. Well, since then the company's stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn't seem to be willing to talk about the problems...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Notebook Computer, OEM, Supplier, GPU, Notebooks, BIOS, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0
- PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the acquistion. Why would they go to such great lengths to mention that? They want to convince the market that PlatSpin will continue to be...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Center, Migration, PowerConvert, Aragorn, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Document Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
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