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- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack
- Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren't able to do business through the service yesterday, due to the fact that AlertPay was under a large scale DDoS attack, according to a notice left by a company representative. Seven hours of downtime right...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, AlertPay, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home
- The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...
- Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks
- Actuate 10 and the Eclipse-based Open Source BIRT framework allows you to build rich reporting applications for your enterprise. Click on the photo to watch a video of the software in action. The title got your attention, didn't it? ...
- Tags: Reporting Tool, Actuate Corp., Open Source BIRT, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- More tidbits about electronics recycling and e-waste
- Goodness, they did it. As debate continues over nasty e-recycling behavior and the role of the government, businesses and the average U.S. citizen in fixing the situation, Massachusetts asset disposition company Converge has delivered on its promise to expand its international network with responsible partners. The company says it has...
- Tags: Asset, Recycling, Electronics, E-waste, TV, Alberta Recycling, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Symantec names Salem new CEO
- Symantec has named Enrique Salem, currently chief operating officer, as its new CEO effective April 4. Salem will replace current chairman and CEO John Thompson, who will retire at the end of Symantec's fiscal year. Thompson will remain chairman as Salem takes over. Under...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Mark Cuban accused of insider trading
- The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban today, charging that he engaged in insider trading by selling his shares in search engine Mamma.com based on insider information. (Statement | Complaint) According to the complaint, Mamma.com's CEO...
- Tags: Mark Cuban, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Investment, Sales, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Oh Mamma.com: SEC charges Mark Cuban with insider trading; Cuban responds
- Updated: The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it has charged Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of Mamma.com. Specifically, the SEC says that search engine Mamma.com, known today as Copernic, invited Cuban--owner of the Dallas Mavericks and former Yahoo and Broadcast.com exec--to...
- Tags: SEC, Mark Cuban, Mamma.com, PIPE, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- What's driving women out of computer science?
- When it comes to higher education, women have achieved parity with men in almost every technical pursuit...except computer science. With all science and engineering fields considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85,...
- Tags: Women, Computer Science, Computer, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?
- Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Leadership, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?
- Is there a better way to be handed a pink slip?How about this:"I'm sorry that the collateral debt obligations that were securitised as part of our ongoing risk amelioration program have resulted in a capitalisation issue that affects our human resources capacity"I sort of like the way the Brits put...
- Tags: Human Resources, pink slip, layoff
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Nortel's rerun: Another purge, another restructuring
- Nortel on Monday purged its executive ranks--Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Chief Technology Officer John Roese, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson are all leaving Jan. 1--and announced yet another restructuring amid a weak earnings. Continuity and Nortel are two...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- End the open source obsession with Microsoft
- End the open source obsession with MicrosoftM$ must GPL its codeand that will open communication with OSS.So Microsoft doesn't engage in this?[i]That scene did not happen. More likely some mid-level bureaucrat dealing with this particular show decided to show off his or her power.[/i]Most likely it did happen at the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source obsession, open source, Dana
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Samsung overtakes Motorola in U.S. mobile phone market
- Samsung has unseated Motorola from its throne as the leading mobile phone vendor in the U.S. In the third quarter, Samsung led with 22.4 percent of mobile phones in the U.S. while Motorola carried 21.1 percent, down from 32.7 percent a year ago. LG Electronics was in the third slot...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Handset, Cell Phone, Motorola Inc., Handset Division, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- It's up to tech to save the world
- Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google's philanthropic arm, says the IT industry has a major role to play in tackling climate change and global disease. The technology industry can play a major role in tackling global disease and battling climate change, according to the executive...
- Tags: Google Inc., Disease, Sales Force Management, Vertical Industries, Entrepreneurship, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Human Resources, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, Google, Dreamforce, WHO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, charity
- News items 2008-11-07
- WPA Wi-Fi encryption (partially) cracked
- WPA Wi-Fi encryption partially crackedWhat about CCMP?WPA2 is unaffected, right?TKIP Bad, AES goodCredit to George Ou for explaining this to me:"They significantly weakened TKIP encryption further, so this is different from the previous story which was a brute force dictionary attack on the Pre-Shared Key. This however does not...
- Tags: Network security, WPA2, AES, WPA, TKIP, encryption
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Schneier slams US border biometrics
- The Department of Homeland Security has disputed Bruce Schneier's claim that the US-Visit program has had no impact on reducing criminal and terrorist threats. Security expert and BT chief security-technology officer Bruce Schneier has attacked the US-Visit border-biometrics program, saying it has had "zero benefit" in terms of security....
- Tags: Program, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, US-Visit, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, security, biometrics, Homeland Security, fingerprints, retinal scans, Bruce Schneier
- News items 2008-11-04
- Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy
- On the surface, it would appear that a slowing economy might pave the way for increased Linux and Open Source software adoption by the unwashed masses, those who may want newer software than what their current XP system provides but don't want to pay the high...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- 73% of Americans go online in 2008
- 73% of the population uses the internet at least occasionally, up from 63% in the spring of 2004. Furthermore, on an average day, 72% of internet users go online, an increase from just 53% in spring 2004 and 69% last spring. Among all internet users, 93% use the internet from...
- Tags: Internet User, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- 73% of Americans go online in 2008
- 73% of the population uses the internet at least occasionally, up from 63% in the spring of 2004. Furthermore, on an average day, 72% of internet users go online, an increase from just 53% in spring 2004 and 69% last spring. Among all internet users, 93% use the internet from...
- Tags: Internet User, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
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