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PwnageTool vs. Apple arms race

PwnageTool vs. Apple arms raceJailbreak but keep using their software?It seems a strange concept to me. Jailbreaking an iTouch or iPhone means you can use innumerable and usually superior products to manage your hardware. Why go back to using iTunes?On the escalation front, someone needs to explain to...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital media, PwnageTool, Apple Inc., arms race, App Store

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

The community wars

The struggle to build open source communities is, I'm convinced, one of the biggest stories of 2008. (This illustration is selling the Devicescape developer community.) The trend began two years ago when major projects broke away from Sourceforge and began launching their own forge sites. This began...

Tags: Community, Arms Race, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Intel rolls out new server, high-end PC chip lineup; Green arms race heats up

Intel rolls out new server, high-end PC chip lineup; Green arms race heats upGreen Contest???Regarding the "green" one upmanship mentioned in the article, one historical method of reducing power consumption is simply to avoid using it; you know, like Ebenezer Scrooge rationing coal, i.e., turn off the lights, install fewer...

Tags: PC processor, Intel Corp., server

Discussion threads 2007-11-12

Trojan horses steal bank details, passwords

Trojan horses steal bank details, passwordsThe arms race continues...It was about a year or so ago that one-time passwords were being presented as the end to password hijacking programs, by the security 'experts' in the financial industry.It is likely that no other methods have been looked into by any bank...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Financial services, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, PayPal, Nothing, arms race, fingerprint reader, bank, password, trojan horse

Discussion threads 2006-03-24

Finns tout new anti-P2P tool

Finns tout new anti-P2P tooltitle is all wrong p2p is wonderful its the contentyes everyone knows that copy protected files/information is widely shared on the p2p networks but aside from that the p2p structure is wonderful you can download large files quickly and easily has apposed to the standard single...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), arms race, RIAA, P2P, anti-P2P tool, anti-P2P, tool

Discussion threads 2005-04-19

Additional Resources

Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Yahoo: Major businesses have stabilized; update on Microsoft deal

Yahoo delivered a bit of a surprise for its third-quarter earnings, beating Wall Street’s expectations handily and offering signs that CEO Carol Bartz is turning the company around. For the quarter, the company reported net income of $186 million, or 13 cents per share, on revenue of...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Branding, Finance, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-20

The Apple-Palm cat-and-mouse game: How long can it last? [poll]

Reflects badly on both companiesI think this whole ordeal reflects badly on both Apple on Palm.It makes Apple out to be hypocrites. I mean, wasn't the whole reason for the lack of interoperability with other players a DRM issue? Didn't Steve Jobs say this himself the last time Apple was...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, game, itune, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Percentage of Internet users clicking on display ads halved in two years

maybe users have wisen upand don't believe what the ads tell.I wish the same was true for spam.What is a display ad?Maybe people are blocking them.Ads? No thanks.I've been running NoScript and AdBlock Plus (The new "ABP element hiding helper" add-on is great, as well.) for as long as...

Tags: Internet, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Microsoft: Google Books is illegal 'joint venture,' not settlement

M$ is enviousThey could not embrace and extend, so it sound like sour grapes.oh the tragedy..... Sounds like a win-win for everyone. I am quite suprised they came up with a deal that didnt transfer money.I wonder if they pulled the old.. virutal library card. The one that...

Tags: Litigation, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Book, settlement

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Logitech Gaming Mouse G500

Logitech might have a firm grasp on luxury mice, but the gaming mouse market is a much more competitive space. We like Logitech's new $70 Gaming Mouse G500 quite a bit, too, but we can't say that we find it an unequivocally better product than its chief competitor at this...

Tags: Mice, Games, Logitech, Gaming Mouse G500, mouse, game, scroll wheel

Product reviews 2009-09-08

Sony Bravia KDL-46W5100

Photo gallery: Sony KDL-W5100 seriesThis year most major TV makers are using interactive features to distinguish themselves from the others, and unlike differences in black level performance and off-angle viewing, it's easy for shoppers to tell the various interactive add-ons apart. Whether they actually want said add-ons is...

Tags: Performance management, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sony Corp., W5100, Sony KDL-W5100, Sony KDL-W5100 series

Product reviews 2009-09-08

Save money: buy from the enemy

I can see your point butis the processor arms race not still being pushed more by what is happening in the consumer rather than server space. Also are the processors in datacentres starting to move to desktop/mobile processors rather than server ones as they are more energy efficient. If we...

Tags: Processors, processor, server, CPU, PPC

Discussion threads 2009-08-22

News to know: Apple; Salesforce.com; CRM; Microsoft; PayPal

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable? DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PayPal, CRM, Sales Force Management, Sales

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Smartphone vs. feature phone arms race heats up; which did you buy?

I have a feature phone, and it works ok. The only things I'd like to see improved on it is a better web browser and apps. The browser is ok, but still doesn't give as good of a web experience as one would like. That Verizon web browser...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Cellular phones, Smart phones, phone, data plan, Web browser, Smartphone, smart phone

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Smartphone vs. feature phone arms race heats up; which did you buy?

Smartphones such as the iPhone and the BlackBerry might get all the headlines, but most Americans continue to opt for less-expensive feature phones. Feature phones, which are dumb phones that have elements but not the full connectivity of smartphones,...

Tags: Phone, Smart Phone, Handset, Smartphone, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Security Reference Guide

For better or worse, the security field changes rapidly. It differs from mainstream IT work in that predicting the next challenge proves quite difficult. Threats appear to come out of nowhere, and incidents seem to strike at random. On the other hand, like all areas of IT, security as...

Tags: CDW Corp., Security, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-07-22

Google, Microsoft and Zoho

The Battle for the Desktop and Beyond Microsoft is in the news lately with its Office 2010 announcements. It contains, no surprise, a number of tidbits to make more of the application suite more cloud friendly and less costly. Implicit in this strategy...

Tags: Google Inc., Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Software Purchase, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Management, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Can we engineer insect-free crops?

The promise of bio-engineering and genetically-modified crops is that we'll get better yields, more food or cotton for us, less for our six-legged opponents. Now comes research that insect evolve more quickly than expected and may rapidly overcome any pest-repelling chemicals in our genetically modified plants. Evolutionary escalation...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-07

China's 'secure' OS Kylin - a threat to U.S offensive cyber capabilities?

Picture a cyber warfare arms race where the participating countries have spent years of building offensive cyber warfare capabilities by exploiting the monoculture on one another's IT infrastructure. Suddenly, one of the countries starts migrating to a hardened operating system of its own, and by integrating it...

Tags: China, Operating System, Operating Systems, Linux, Software, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-13