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BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx

BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company PrevxDid the BBC break the law?Surely what the BBC did was in contravention of the UK Computer Misuse Act?They made unauthorised changes to people's computers without their permission. Sophos has been asked many times by the media to take part in...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Team management, SECURITY, Spam, team, British Broadcasting Corp., botnet, BBC team

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx

Update: BBC Click's tweet states that they took legal advice following comments on the potential violation of U.K's Computer Misuse Act. There's a slight chance that you may have unknowingly participated in a recent experiment conducted by the BBC. In a bit of an...

Tags: Team, Cybercrime, Experiment, British Broadcasting Corp., BBC Team, Team Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Backups, Security, Management, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Additional Resources

How do you look on the Internet? MIT Sociable Media Group's "Personas" shows how you look

A friend (yes, I have a few) pointed out an interesting "installation" that can be found on MIT Sociable Media Group's website.  It's called Personas. Personas was created by Aaron Zinman, with help from Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba and Judith Donath. This installation allows a person to...

Tags: Team, Media, Reference, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Personas, Internet, Team Management, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-24

International Cricket Captain 2005 1.15 (Windows)

International Cricket Captain 2005 is the ultimate cricket management sim, allowing you to take charge of any domestic or international team and steer them to victory through every match of the season. You control all aspects of the team s progress, from transfers, team selection, and training: to detailed match...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows, Childish Things, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-08-19

How will Silverlight light up Microsoft's Web-based Office apps?

minor typo"But a the Office Web Apps team has been saying since last fall" should be "But as the Office Web Apps team has been saying since last fall"Feel free to delete this. :-)I expect the web based Office...to go the way of so many more of their web services....

Tags: cloud computing, Office 2010, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Office Web Apps, Office Web, Office Apps, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hit

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hitIf they suck so muchWhy competitor can't manage to significantly increase market share in many fields where Microsoft is keeping(O.S) or even increasing(Server,B.I) its market share, like O.S market ?Could it be that much of the negative perception people has of Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Product marketing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

America's #1 global warmer

America's #1 global warmerThe Biggest Global CoolerBack in the late 1970's, Hansen was also the father of the Global Cooling scare. Nobody seems to want to talk about how he was wrong back then too.Science of Fear = Government FundingWhat else needs to be said? Even a third grader...

Tags: Hansen

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed

There's always been an inverse relationship between density and durability when it comes to data storage. Today's silicon memory chips contain a lot of density, but with a lifespan of just a few decades, they lack durability.  Yet primitive forms of storage such as information carved in stone are highly...

Tags: Shuttle, Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Nanoparticle, Memory Chip, Chip, Memory Device, Shuttle Memory, Nanotechnology, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-04

HP Relocation Team Delivered a Seamless Move for BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC. It manages seven operating businesses - Global Channels, Sales & Distribution, Content & Production, Magazines, Home Entertainment Global Brands and Digital Media and its profits are delivered back to the BBC, supplementing the Corporation's licence fee funding. When BBC Worldwide decided...

Tags: Team, Hewlett-Packard Co., BBC Worldwide Ltd., Team Management, Home Entertainment, Sales Strategy, Management, Personal Technology, Sales

Case studies 2009-06-01

Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?

Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?Not Even CloseIt is very lacking in knowing dates of history. Take for example that it doesn't know that May 6th, 1937 is the day the Hindenburg crashed at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. That is a major day in history and any Google search...

Tags: Wiki, PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia-killer

Discussion threads 2009-05-17

PirateBay founders guilty

The Pirate Bay founders have been found guilty and ordered to spend a year in jail and pay a $4.5 million fine, according to the BBC. Peter Sunde had some choice words at a pre-imprisonment press conference. Basically, the record companies won't see a penny. ...

Tags: Founder, Piracy, Digital Media, Team Management, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-17

BBC: Botnet purchase experiment was in 'public interest'

The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC is defending its decision to purchase and experiment with a powerful botnet as a public service to expose the inner workings of the underground malware economy. The controversial move, which has been widely criticized, included posing as a customer to buy a...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-23

BBC botnet buy: What were they thinking?

Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg As Dancho Danchev pointed out, the BBC leased itself a botnet. I couldn't quite believe it when I read it. The BBC, arguably one of the very best TV producers in the world, surely should have known better? There are so many...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-16

News to know: AOL's new CEO; Windows 7; Cloud computing

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. Ed Bott: Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now? Brian Sommer: A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, America Online Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Social Networking, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Business Operations, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook...

Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England was fired from her job at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited after she wrote that her job was dull on her Facebook profile. "all i do is shred holepunch n scan paper!!! omg!'" ... "im so totally bord!!!" 16-year-old...

Tags: Firing, Job, Facebook, U.K., Kimberley, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Own a Successful English Football Team!

Minor League Ebbsfleet United have a big day on their calendar on February 19th, with ownership of the club in the balance. The difference from all the other run of the mill sports stories is that the team are the world's first and only web-community owned...

Tags: Team, Drupal, Football, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Getting on the wavelength

There's a solid, wide focused article by Tim Weber on the BBC News website's Davos coverage which articulates well the challenge many companies have in understanding and engaging with the internet on the most basic strategic level. Readers of sophisticated technical sites like...

Tags: Knowledge, Social Media, Accountability, Perception, Internet, Public Relations, Blogging, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-30

The Macintosh turns 25 (and how it was almost a Bicycle)

Tomorrow, 24 January 2009, is the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. On that fateful day in 1984 Apple released a little toaster of a personal computer that went on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. The embedded video...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Some Linux backers upset about selection of Silverlight to stream Obama inauguration events

Some Linux backers upset about selection of Silverlight to stream Obama inauguration eventsActually, there are a lot of solutions that are much better than what MS isoffering that run all platforms. This is MS just paying money to exclude competition. If MS controls the standard, they can make sure that...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Silverlight

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

Satellite TV Media Player 4.3 (Windows)

Amazing PC TV Player offering 3.000+ TV channels, 2.000+ Online Movies and 1.000+ Radio stations. Watch TV from all over the world (150+ countries, 32+ languages) and watch full length "ready to watch" movies with online streaming technology no movie download required. This is the only PC TV Player with...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Channel, Microsoft Windows, Satellite, Satellite Television, Satellite-TV-Player, Satellite-TV-Player.com Program, Image Definition, TVs, Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-01-07