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PlanningPME (exe): PlanningPME is a software designed to help small and mid-sized companies schedule all their resources from a single user-friendly interface. Resources might include people (employees, subcontractors), materials (overhead projectors, cars), or facilities (meeting rooms, training courses). With our software you take advantage of many features: avoid double booking, filter your...; Tags: Training, Target Skills, PlanningPME, Workforce Management, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management; Software downloads 2008-03-17

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Images: Mars is getting a new visitor: NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to search for life after it touches down near an icy region of the Red Planet on May 25.On the morning of May 25, Mars will receive a new alien contraption from Earth, the Phoenix Mars Lander. Its three month mission is to sample...; Tags: Surface, Earth, NASA, Phoenix Technologies, It', CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-15
Mobius Seattle 2008; First impressions of the HTC Advantage X7510: As I stated in my Mobius Seattle 2008 Day one post eric lin from HTC gave each one of the attendees the new HTC Advantage 7510 device. These may not come to the U.S. due to Qualcomm import issues, but you will be able to pick them up from U.S....; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobius, Key, HTC Advantage 7510, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Commercialising the Semantic Web: Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...; Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw: So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys. Well, HD Moore set a new record...; Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-14

European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?: Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...; Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect: Established North American Semantic Web company TopQuadrant today announced that Jeremy Carroll is joining the company as Chief Product Architect. Whilst at HP Labs, Carroll was lead architect on the open source Jena toolkit that lies behind much of today's commercial and non-commercial work on the Semantic...; Tags: Toolkit, TopQuadrant, Semantic Web, Software Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Greetings from Lesotho: It's amazing how dependent we become on technology. Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted. When they are gone, however, you feel oddly disconnected. You can't pop online to check news. You can't check email. Without a working mobile phone, you...; Tags: Phone, Mobile, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean, Telecom & Utilities, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today: Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine. The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself. To be fair to...; Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches: Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains:...; Tags: Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Zero Day Initiative, Security, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
A U.S military botnet in the works: Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...; Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Still ranting about interfaces: Still ranting about interfaces[b]Mr. Murphy, You are such an idiot...[b]The real reason WordPerfect lost is simple.[b]WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get [/b]You are such a biased moron that you can't get your ego out of the way to see the truth. WordPerfect lost the battle because...; Tags: Word processors, Corel WordPerfect, software; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Toshiba Regza 32CV510U: One of Toshiba's least expensive flat-panel TVs for 2008, the 32-inch 32CV510U defines the phrase "good enough." Its picture outclassed that of the cheapest such set we've tested this year, the Insignia's NS-LCD32-09, but many people buying at this screen size are probably shopping more on price than picture quality...; Tags: Monitors & displays, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba 32CV510U, picture setting; Product reviews 2008-05-12
HP to take out EDS: does it make sense?: We've heard these rumors before but this time it seems HP is in serious hunting mode with EDS as the target. Larry Dignan offers his take on the rationale behind the story. Fellow Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani adds to the debate suggesting both pluses and minuses: HP could use a...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Call for military to operate botnet: Call for military to operate botnetI'd volunteer my PCs to help.If they did this above-board, with a SETI screen saver style app we could install deliberately, I'd bet they could have 50 million machines ready to help with this in a matter of weeks.RE: Call for military to operate botnetI'd...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet Service Provider, attack, Internet; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
Call for military to operate botnet: Filed under bold proposals: Col. Charles W. Williamson III. staff judge advocate, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, writes in Armed Forces Journal that what the military really needs is an offensive bot-net. (via /. The world has abandoned a fortress mentality...; Tags: Cyberspace, America, Productivity, Robots, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services: Updated: Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems in a move that would reshape the technology services and outsourcing market. In a statement Monday, HP and EDS confirmed the talks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal: HP said: HP today...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, Data Centers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
New version of Windows Presentation Foundation released: Microsoft released a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation, their next generation windows application UI framework. The new version will ship as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Tim Sneath has a very long and detailed post of the features but I'll try and break down the...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5: Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack SP 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...; Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Astoria, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-12
IntelliCustomResumes (zip): Whether you are looking for a job or not, you can keep adding to your list of accomplishments and thus track your achievements on an ongoing basis. When you are ready to apply for a Job, this software allows you to manually select the accomplishments that you want on your...; Tags: Job, Accomplishment, IdeaTalent, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Software downloads 2008-05-12