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When 2.0: Bring on calendar interoperability

When 2.0: Bring on calendar interoperabilityUnwarranted generalization about softwareDan, there are plenty of examples of existing software interoperability that your generalization ignores. More thoughts here:http://calendarswamp.blogspot.com/2005/12/calendars-as-general-case-not-so-fast.htmlScott MaceCalendaring is harder than it is given credit forI was VP of Engineering for a while at Meeting Maker, and experienced the hell of offering...

Tags: administrative domain, calendar interoperability, domain, data representation, calendaring

Discussion threads 2005-12-06

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Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

iPhone hits another security speedbump

Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone.  According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses that expose millions of users to phishing and spamming attacks. [...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Image, Spamming, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware

Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malwareLarge networks are increasingly...being used to comprimise the Internet. These commercial networks are too large to be managed by hands-on real people and are being managed by technology. Things are only going to get worse. If these networks can't be properly managed they...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Google Trends keyword, Google Trends, cybercriminal, malware, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

14 ways IT screws up projects

Successful projects require decent project execution. Look, no one's asking IT to save the world, but delivering projects really well should be a core IT function. Some projects are so bad that IT seems to deliberately shoot itself in the head. Sorry, but...

Tags: Project, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Webcast: Intrusion Prevention Systems - Securing Network Traffic and Productivity

Firewalls alone are no longer enough to protect networks from outside attacks and malicious behavior. Companies of all sizes must now consider other measures to secure network traffic and productivity. Network-based Intrusio Detection System IDS products have for a long-time promised to help IT but have fallen short...

Tags: Intrusion Prevention System, Webcast, Network, Intrusion Prevention, Networking, Security

Webcasts 2008-10-02

Autumn NetSpy (exe)

Autumn NetSpy is the useful utility for test of existence of computer in network. Generate the list of interesting systems and you will have a feature to supervise the moment of occurrence of system in networks or loss from it. After starting the program is minimized in system tray (area...

Tags: Network, Vauchok Dzianis, Networking

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages

China is running a massive operation to track and store text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, The New York Times reports. China has about one million censored messages, many of which contain personally identifiable information, according to...

Tags: Message, China, Monitoring, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-01

How to read your FBI file

As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...

Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-01

There is no pony plan for health care

There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, surcharge, pony plan, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!

Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!RE: Apple to music industry - It's our way, or iTunes gets the bullet!One can only home apple shuts iTunes downMusic Industry to AppleLOL!disagree strongly"one appeal of the iPod is how easy it is to buy music for...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, music industry, music

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

How SocialText is breaking the collaboration mold

How SocialText is breaking the collaboration moldDignan Replaces HowlettSorry about that Dennis. Per your notes here Dignan has now replaced you on my "frumpy-old-guy-thinking" list. He's clearly the king of old-thinking. I'm disappointed. I was sure you had a lock on that title. :)Signed: RotkapchenRE: How SocialText is breaking the...

Tags: Groupware, Socialtext, collaboration

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to veto

Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to vetoGee...What a surprise that a bunch of compromised congresscritters pass another attack on the People with the backing of the "Copyright Alliance". (read, BSA, MPAA, RIAA, MS, Time Warner, Disney...)It's good that Bush will veto it. Even though he's only doing it...

Tags: Blogging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Bush, Pro-IP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Escalation in the storage wars

Escalation in the storage warsSun's competitors' strategyWere Sun to produce a superior storage product, would you expect it to come to dominate the market?I would expect not, because Sun has neither the products specialized for defined uses nor the controlling connection with a wide range of customers to implement it.Yes,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology, SAS HBA, storage, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Walmart to pull plug on DRM servers

Walmart to pull plug on DRM serversThe lie in their emailBeginning October 9, we will no longer be able [b] [i] refuse [/b] [/i] to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.Edit: Whoops! How do you do a strikethrough in Talkback?Edit edit:...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, server, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-28

Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome

Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's ChromeWhat to do?I can find loads of information on what it is this vulnerability can do. But as a user what can I do to minimize the risk of this happening to my machine?www.GetFirefox.comReally, why even bother with Chrome, especially when there are solid...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, DoS vulnerability, vulnerability, DOS, exhaustion, Google Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

Firefox + NoScript vs Clickjacking

Firefox + NoScript vs Clickjacking"near impossible to fix properly"That sounds very promising to those who want to build online apps on top of HTML. NOT.RE: Firefox NoScript vs ClickjackingIf the "noscript" plugin might help prevent some exploits, what about the script-defeating mechanism in WebWasher Classic (a free program...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, US-CERT, domain, NoScript, Clickjacking, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit

[ UPDATE: See e-mail from NoScript creator Giorgio Maone on a possible mitigation ] Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms -- Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple...

Tags: JavaScript, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-25

EA Spore backlash could help end DRM

EA Spore backlash could help end DRMPirate = Potential Lost Sale. Myself = Definate Lost Sale.I am not buying this game because of it, and I really wanted to as well.I don't understand the mentality of EA. If EA consider a pirate as a lost sale why not...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Games, Removing DRM, digital-rights management, Electronic Arts Inc., EA Spore, piracy, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

Times repeats Google spin on Yahoo ad deal

Randall Stross, a business prof at San Jose State University, offers a full-throated defense of the Google-Yahoo pact, in the NYT today. Stross is currently working on a book called Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know and has...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Auction, Stross, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-24