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- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting
- I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...
- Tags: Accounting, Small And Medium Enterprise, Advisor, GoBootstrap, GoBootstrap.com, Tax Estimate, General Usability, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising
- Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...
- Tags: MSN, Advertisement, Portals, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- Online storage service MediaMax, also called The Linkup, went out of business following a system administration error that deleted active customer data. The defunct company raises questions about the reliability of cloud computing. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Data, Failure, Storage, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Purebuds
- Of almost all gadgets, earbuds have the least surface area to work with, which means external design innovations are often incremental and minute. Color and style are the most noticeable physical characteristics that manufacturers tweak, but neither has an effect on the performance of an earphone. So, what's a new...
- Tags: Digital music, Purebuds, earbud, earphone
- Product reviews 2008-08-26
- LG 50PG20
- The LG 50PG20 is the company's least expensive 50-inch plasma, competing against similar entry-level models from Samsung and Panasonic. It doesn't have the 1080p resolution of higher-priced plasmas, but we didn't really miss that extra detail. What we did miss with this LG, namely deep black levels and more accurate...
- Tags: LG Electronics Inc., LG 50PG20, plasma
- Product reviews 2008-08-26
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
- The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team CERT has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to...
- Tags: Linux, SSH, Attack, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.Yep, going green allrightIt's called moss growing over all the abandoned homes and industry as Colorado slips into economic depression.The question now becomes how much misery will Americans allow greens to foist upon us until we've finally had...
- Tags: serious greening, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flaw
- Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flawFixed.Looks like Facebook has fixed the bug. I just clicked the link and saw this text: The bug is fixed :)RE: Facebook refuses to fix obvious security flawSuch as the fact that applications completely ignore any user privacy options and have the ability to...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, Facebook, obvious security flaw, security, security flaw
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
- In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and MoveWow, just wowSo, a party supposed to govern USA can be bought out by Microsoft to support a flash wannabe plugin.I am speechless. Will they make Windows only policy in Govt. agencies too? Perhaps they should use "OOXML" instead of PDF too?What???The liberals...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Office Open XML, Active-X, Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- JiJi Active Directory Reports (msi)
- JiJi Active Directory Reports ADR enables IT organizations to extract vital data from Active Directory in seconds after installation. ADR provides the best solution to meet Active Directory Reporting requirements. ADR has an extensive reports list with over 100 out of the box reports. Armed with thisinformation, organizations can quickly...
- Tags: ADR, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-25
- I'm a Wii Fit believer
- I really thought Wii Fit was a gimmick. And those phys ed classes that used Dance Dance Revolution to get sedentary teenagers jumping around? Talk about a waste of taxpayer money. Then my kids bought Wii Fit this weekend and I was absolutely, instantly impressed. ...
- Tags: Nintendo Wii, Wii Fit, Games, Operational Planning, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- Mandatory email
- Is it wrong of me to expect teachers and administrators to check their email once a day? We all check our boxes regularly for paper notes, mail, handouts, and the like, so email seems an easy step, right? A lot of my teachers are fairly savvy...
- Tags: Teacher, E-mail, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- Will the EMR movement become a political divide
- Will the EMR movement become a political divideFYI: Its now EHR, not EMR...the change is to include dental, pyschological and other healthcare services.Electronic Health Records.We are in the middle of deployment strategy planning. The cost of deploying equipment and personell to get this up and running is staggering. ...
- Tags: Vertical industries, E-health, HEALTHCARE, Practical Reality, EMR, EMR movement, political divide, divide, government
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners
- An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England...
- Tags: Data Loss, Data, Worker, Spokesperson, Government Department, Government, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, security, UK, memory stick, Home Office
- News items 2008-08-22
- Sprint Airave
- Since a cell phone is practically useless without good signal strength, a signal booster is sometimes required to boost it. We've seen plenty signal boosters here at CNET, from the Wi-Ex zBoost YX510-PCS-CEL to the ARC Freedom Antenna. However, Sprint has decided to release device to boost the signal of...
- Tags: Handhelds, Sprint Airave, Sprint Communications, GPS
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
- Vizio SV470XVT
- Budget flat-panel powerhouse Vizio is breaking into the lucrative realm of high-end HDTVs with its XVT line, comprised of a 50-inch plasma we detailed at CES and a pair of LCDs, including the model reviewed here, the 47-inch SV470XVT. Equipped with a lot of glossy black, a slicker menu system,...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, button layout, Vizio, Vizio SV470XVT
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
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