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- CRN sleuth Barb Darrow on IT vendor sports
- I began working with Barb Darrow back in 1988 at bi-monthly engineering trade pub Design News, and always respected her tenacity, verve, and newshound instincts. Barb went on to InfoWorld in 1993 but had left by the time I got there to run news for the website in 1995. Now...
- Tags: Barb Darrow
- Blog posts 2006-05-08
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- MS08-025: Microsoft Windows kernel vulnerable to local privilege escalation flaw
- MS08-025: Microsoft Windows kernel vulnerable to local privilege escalation flawCrumbsThe 10 year old mouse is out.Who'da thought?New news?Isn't this just rehashing news from three weeks ago? Not that it isn't a serious flaw, but it's old news. Can't we just wait for the next patch Tuesday, or is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Operating systems, Nothing, flaw, local access, MS08-025, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows kernel, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., window
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Google Health is Tom Sawyer work
- Anyone who wants to know how Google will build its Google Health portal needs to get themselves a copy of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain. (This particular Tom Sawyer picture is by Barb Cox, from Linn Grove, Iowa.) The idea is to let everyone...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Google Health, Tom Sawyer, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Ballmer%27s+swan+song
- Ballmer%27s+swan+songBetter keep your tin hat onI thought you would have had enough from the last blog you did on this.Anti-Trust Oversight / Kibosh?[url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206100319]FYI[/url]Google needs the competitionGoogle needs some good competition. I'm not sure if this will result in true competition for Google, but it's not a bad thing.Having said that,...
- Tags: Western Civilization, World of Warcraft, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Ballmer%27s+swan+song, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Analysts on RIAs, Microsoft Silverlight and Enterprise 2.0 trends
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. The still-maturing technology around Rich Internet Applications RIAs and rich media interfaces and video players was jolted last spring when Microsoft's Silverlight offering was unveiled. Already a Linux version is in the offing called Moonlight. The RIA news hit about...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Java, Rich Internet Application, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Flash, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Week in review: Apple of my ire
- Week in review: Apple of my ireWhining CrapWhat happened to shopping around, deciding your budget, and making the best deal you can at a given point in time.What makes us think we are somehow entitled to price adjustments after the fact?Get real. Do you buy a house and expect the...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Marketing research, Product marketing, Telecom & Utilities, job, Apple Inc., ire
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Freshwater Tank 3D (exe)
- Transform your computer into a freshwater aquarium and dive into a fascinating aquatic world. Observe a Black Molly, Tiger Barb, or colorful Neons as they swim along in the underwater world of a small river. Put together your own dream aquarium, choosing from 15 species of fish and 4 different...
- Tags: 3D, Aquarium, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-05-28
- Ubuntu - Direct from Dell
- Ubuntu - Direct from DellWell, I was wrongDell isn't charging a $100 premium for Ubuntu.It's only $60In a few months they'll be able to cancel the program with the "there's no demand for Linux" excuse again.FYIThe PCs will be available in the U.S. after 4 p.m. Central Time from Dell's...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Notebooks, XPS 410, Inspiron E1505, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu, Dimension E520, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
- Commenter:Windows Mobile BlackBerry app suite NO, HANDSET YES!
- With regard to todays announcement about a forthcoming "virtual BlackBerry UI" application suite on Windows Mobile devices, not everyone seems to be all that jumping for joy about the concept. "No, no, no!," writes David, a commenter on U.K.-based The Registers Reg Hardware site. David then qualifies that...
- Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry hardware, BlackBerry Software
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- There goes Dvorak again-telling Apple to forget the iPhone
- Writing in Marketwatch yesterday, columnist John Dvorak cites several reasons why Apple should reconsider putting out the iPhone.In fact, he makes his case that Apple should just can the whole project- which will see iPhone be released in June.John makes his argument on the basis that theres just too...
- Tags: General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Groklaw vs. the cookie jar
- Arrrrg! April 1st is on a Sunday - and April fools jokes just arent funny if read first on April 2nd, so Im forced to put off the first annual chutzpah in IT advertising awards until Hanukkah. Meanwhile InformationWeek released a howler last...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, cookie, Groklaw, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., Maureen OGara
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- John Edwards meets Bill Maher: 'User Generated Politics' TV campaign stop
- Edition Number 18 in this Digital Markets Blog special presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics.” Bill Maher does not need to subject himself to a lie detector test!His politically incorrect truth serum got him dismissed from ABC’s "Politically Incorrect" late night talk...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Government, Hillary Clinton, Marketing, Media, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Television, TV, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- Free Laptops for lapdogs
- Ed Bott, who writes the Microsoft Report blog here on Zdnet has an interesting comment on his own website about Microsofts practice of giving away free laptops to pro-Microsoft bloggers. Heres his introductory bit: Earlier today, my friendly DHL delivery person dropped off a small package...
- Tags: notebook, PC
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Number 3 most-read post in 2006: Crocodile Hunter posts hit YouTube
- This receding year was the year for YouTube. Just ask Michael Richards and George Allen (not that Id care to, though).In addition to clips from the general public, YT had a great year in terms of being the defacto place for news and celebrity junkies to watch videos starring...
- Tags: Crocodile Hunter, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Google profit nearly doubles
- Google profit nearly doublesWho's not happy about this?Our good friends in Redmond.http://one.revver.com/watch/79287/format/flv/affiliate/23672End is near...Windows Live will end Google fairly soon. We blocked Google here a long time ago and user productivity has skyrocketed because we are having better success with Windows Live Search. I had MCS come onsite and write...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web site development, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-19
- Crikey!
- Crikey!So let's learn somethingOK, let's learn one last thing from Steve:Never, [b]never[/b] remove an impaled object in the field. Cut the sucker off and head for ER, [i]stat[/i].At least one construction worker survived having rebar run clear through his chest -- and right through his [u]heart[/u] -- because the...
- Tags: barb, chest, Crikey
- Discussion threads 2006-09-05
- Two timely videos worth watching (on sting rays and hydrogen-powered cars)
- Two timely videos worth watching (on sting rays and hydrogen-powered cars)The show must go on?As a former supporter of Wildlife Preservation Trust International WPTI, I have to confess that I was never one of Irwin's fans. I visited the WPTI Zoo on the Isle of Jersey (in the English...
- Tags: Corporate communications, hydrogen, video, sting ray, ray, wishe
- Discussion threads 2006-09-05
- Evaluating podcasting business value with CHEN PR and Media Survey
- The latest BriefingsDirect podcast takes the pulse of how podcasting is being perceived as a business communications tool, with guests Barb Heffner, a partner and founder of CHEN PR, and Sam Whitmore, editor of Media Survey. The discussion comes on the heels of CHEN PR's news that it is...
- Tags: CHEN PR, podcasting
- Blog posts 2006-05-30
- According to a source who asked not to be named...
- I just finished reading Steve Gillmor's latest proclamation that Office is still, in fact, Dead. Not much new in his latest rant except the revelation that he thinks dropping Outlook from the new Home edition of Office is a good idea (and, not coincidentally, one he suggested some time...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Barbara Darrow
- Blog posts 2006-02-24
- Office Still Dead
- Watching That's So Raven with my 5 yr old Ella. It's slowly dawning on me that there are only 5 shows in the can. I've seen this one so many times I've taken to watching the passers-by extras' feet when the front door opens to see if they are using...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Dead
- Blog posts 2006-02-19
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