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Large Nonprofit Cuts Development Time by 300 Percent Using xRM

With the support of nearly one million members and partnerships with large public and private supporters, the nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation carries out its mission as the world's largest tree-planting organization. As the Foundation expanded, leaders recognized the need to replace its aging system with a flexible solution that the...

Tags: Arbor Software, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Finance, Management, Marketing, Software

Case studies 2009-09-24

Arbor Networks abandons security space

I was actually in Ann Arbor last week when news broke that Arbor Networks had acquired Ellacoya a so called "deep packet inspection" technology vendor. I was perplexed. That's not security. First let me clear up some terminology. "Deep Packet Inspection" was...

Tags: Arbor Software, Sales Force, Arbor Networks, Telephony, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Content Management, Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-01-21

Four years later, SQL Slammer worm still squirms

More than four years after Slammer started exploiting holes in Microsoft's SQL Server and Desktop Engine database products, the worm continues to squirm in machines that some believe will never be disinfected.Over the past two days, SQL Slammer was listed as the number one threat on Arbor Network's new ATLAS...

Tags: Patch Watch, Hackers, Microsoft, Vulnerability research, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms

Blog posts 2007-02-21

iCamShare 2.0.3 (Mac)

iCamShare is your web cam companion! Use it to easily make videos or take snapshots that you can share in many ways. All you need is a webcam, such as Apple's iSight, Mac OS X, and iCamShare. The step-by-step interface easily guides you through the process of capturing and sharing...

Tags: Arbor Software, Apple Macintosh, Webcam, Video, iCamShare, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-04-04

Arbor Uncovers Worm Infections Inside One of the World's Largest Banks

Located in more than 100 countries worldwide, this major financial institution delivers banking, lending and investment services to individual customers and businesses. The bank needed to ensure that its security measures would meet government requirements, fend off increasingly complex security threats and gain better visibility into its internal corporate network....

Tags: Bank, Arbor Software, Infection, Arbor Networks, Financial Services, Routers & Switches, Networking, Security

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Arbor Peakflow X Provides Cost-Effective Security for Investment Bank Thomas Weisel

Thomas Weisel Partners TWP is an investment bank specializing in the growth sectors of the economy including the technology, healthcare and consumer sectors. TWP's IT staff was spending too much time in often unsuccessful attempts to identify and block a growing number of worms, viruses, Botnets and other malware, including...

Tags: Bank, Arbor Software, Security, Information Technology, Investment, Arbor Networks, Arbor Peakflow X, Thomas Weisel Partners, Strategy, Management

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RollerFlash (for 4.7+) (Mobile)

Generates flashing lights that remind of these vehicles:Police: International two alternating blue lightsPolice: New York ''76 (blue, white & red)Police: Ann Arbor ''88 (blue double-strobe)Police: Pull-over (alternating headlights w/ blue strobes)Police: Millennium (complex multiple blue & white strobes)Ambulance (red & white quickly-repeating & alternating)Fire Truck (like light from multiple rotating...

Tags: Mobile, Light, lsPhone, Engineering, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-02

RollerFlash (for 4.2.1-4.6.x) (Mobile)

Generates flashing lights that remind of these vehicles:Police: International two alternating blue lightsPolice: New York ''76 (blue, white & red)Police: Ann Arbor ''88 (blue double-strobe)Police: Pull-over (alternating headlights w/ blue strobes)Police: Millennium (complex multiple blue & white strobes)Ambulance (red & white quickly-repeating & alternating)Fire Truck (like light from multiple rotating...

Tags: Mobile, Light, lsPhone, Engineering, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-02

Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack; Koobface returns with a twist

Popular microblogging service Twitter was knocked offline for an extended period this morning by what appears to be a massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Twitter confirmed the outage was linked to malicious attackers in a brief status message posted around 11:00 a.m EST. We are...

Tags: Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-08-06

iPhone users don't use device for work, study says

iPhone users don't use device for work, study saysI use my iPhone for bothThough the "preponderance" of use is personal. I guess a good follow-up question would be, for those of us tho use it primarily for "play", is "Does the iPhone meet your business use needs?" For me the...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, U.S. Marine Corps, iPhone 3, business phone, Apple iPhone, soldier

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet

ICANN is leading the white hats in an "extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle" against the forces behind the Conficker malware, John Markoff reports in the Times. Dancho Danchev noted recently that: Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain...

Tags: Researcher, Malware, Conficker Program, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Will EDoS be the next DDoS?

A noted security analyst has proposed a new twist on the traditional denial of service model where attackers purposefully inflate the bills of cloud service users until they can no longer afford service. Christofer Hoff, the Chief Security Architect at Unisys, has recently been discussing the concept...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-01-25

After McColo, spam way down - temporarily

Spam plummeted by two-thirds, in the wake of the plug being pulled on alleged cybercrime host McColo, according to news reports. But virtually no one thinks spam will continue at today's low level of merely 60 billion spam messages per day. ...

Tags: Spammer, Eastern Europe, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year

Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this yearBingo - ! ntntBotnets = WindowsXP machines used by inexperienced people are the main backbone of botnets.Call me a zealot, but if everyone was using Linux - as user - this simply wouldn't be happening. The Linux platform is hostile to both the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, SECURITY, botnet, attack, Linux, virus, vaccine, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

In remembrance of scoundrels past

In remembrance of scoundrels pastSame mess - different scum.I agree. I did some consultancy work for a large brand name in sportswear and was horrified by their IT systems. It had been held in thrall by one man who started his IT career in the 70s and was still going...

Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, information technology, IT System

Discussion threads 2008-09-15

Kai's Alarm System.Net (Mobile)

This Alarm System acts on noises and informs you per SMS and/or Phone. Use this software solution absently at home, in your arbor or apply it as baby-phone.Responding to noise by using the built-in microphoneSensitivity adjustable (1-5)Automatic sending of a SMS and/or Telephone callEnter Telephone/SMS numberSetting of a pause (in...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, SMS, Kai, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking

Software downloads 2008-03-13

News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft’s unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...

Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-22

JotSpot to power new Google Sites in 2008

The usually tight-lipped Google revealed a few details on plans for Google Apps at a presentation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the company headquarters its AdWords team. Scott Johnston, a product manager for Google collaboration products, pitched members of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce on the benefits of...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, JotSpot, Scott, Wiki, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-01

Three things that could help you save some trees, or other raw materials

The three technologies I’m about to discuss really have no relation to each other than the fact that they could all help reduce our dependence on paper in our everyday work lives. So I thought them worth a mention to spark some creative thinking. 1. The Accellion Secure...

Tags: Tree, Accellion Green Award, LDAP, Financial Planning, Marketing Research, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-11-12

SAP to unveil Web-delivered business software

SAP to unveil Web-delivered business softwareSAP [i]Business byDesign[/i] may need redesignAfter four years of R&D and a $400-m investment, SAP has come up with a Software as a Service SaaS model which they say will address over 600,000 companies. They seem to have missed a key point in trying to...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Sales force management, Strategy, Web, SAP AG, software, business software

Discussion threads 2007-09-19