Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
Additional Resources
- Judge nixes fair use defense in Tennenbaum filesharing case
- In a last-minute knockout punch, delivered just hours before the latest high-profile RIAA case was scheduled to start, Judge Nancy Gertner denied a fair use defense to Joel Tenenbaum, Ars Technica reports. Tenenbaum had sought to present his fair use theory to the jury but the judge...
- Tags: Defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, Peer To Peer (P2P), Team Management, Internet, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army. Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...
- Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics
- Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...
- Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Algorithm, Search Engine, Analytics, Knowledge, Data, Search Result, Wolfram/Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram/Alpha Search Engine, Search, Engineering, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- How to make Government 2.0 a reality
- Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...
- Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Internet stars come out for RIAA trial
- In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case â€" in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant â€" is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware sued
- The software purveyor behind AntiVirus XP, a fake anti-virus package, has been sued and will hopefully be put out of business. There has been plenty of information available on this organization for some time, yet unsuspecting consumers continue to hand over their own money for what amounts...
- Tags: Software, Antivirus, Microsoft Windows XP, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- EA Spore backlash could help end DRM
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day The backlash over DRM has finally started to gather serious momentum. Everyday consumers started a campaign to give the highly anticipated game Spore one-star ratings on Amazon. Thousands of Amazon users labeled Spore a poor choice because of...
- Tags: Game, Digital-rights Management, Electronic Arts Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I’ve had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...
- Tags: Password, Apple Inc., Oliver, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Measuring malware infections in the Chinese Internet
- Guest editorial by Oliver Day In June 2008, StopBadware published a report with statistics (.pdf) based on our sample of infected website data from Google. In those statistics we noted that over half of the infections came from addresses originating in China. We've received some attention for...
- Tags: China, Infection, Malware, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw
- The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally discovered than it is possible for a booby-trapped Web site to litter the user's Desktop Windows or...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Flaw, Google-backed StopBadware.org Coalition, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Instant Messaging, Cyberthreats, Internet, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Harvard organizer: No Comcast employees showed up
- Catherine Bracy, the administrative manager at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the host of Monday's FCC hearing into Comcast's P2P throttling actions, said the people that Comcast hired to "save seats" for employees never gave up those seats, according to the AP. "I...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Fact, Seat, Internet, Federal Government, E-mail, Peer To Peer (P2P), Recruitment & Selection, Government, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Comcast's "seat-warming" execs can't be trusted
- Comcast hired dozens of "seat-warmers" that kept others from attending a Monday FCC hearing held at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society meeting room for an FCC hearing. God forbid that the public be seen at a hearing intended to solicit public comment. Then they lied...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Internet, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Government, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- The Lantos/Yahoo! legacy
- Tom Lantos may have made his very last stand for human rights last November when he recalled Yahoo! executives to challenge their earlier testimony surrounding the Shi Tao case. Shi Tao is a Chinese activist serving ten years in prison on trumped up charges and Yahoo! stand accused of handing...
- Tags: Coalition, Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao, Policies And Procedures, Internet, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Defragging identity, disclosures and vendor relationship management
- In the afternoon session at the Defrag conference, some old friends took the stage to defrag some things. Dick Hardt is well known for his Identity 2.0 presentation on the state of digital identity. He is the CEO and founder of Sxip Identity, which focuses on Internet-scale identity and...
- Tags: Data, Identity, Tool, Productivity, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Defrag: Deconstructing the social Web
- David Weinberger of the Harvard Berkman Center and author of "Everything is Miscellaneous" kicked of the Defrag conference with a talk titled "The Rise of the Implicit." His thesis is that we have a natural tendency to focus on what's explicit, but the explicit has certain characteristics that mislead us...
- Tags: Web, Knowledge, Media, Intelligence, Conference, Weinberger, Semantic Web, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Internet, Management, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Companies need guidance to face censors abroad
- How should tech companies deal with nations that oppress their citizens? Professors Jonathan Zittrain and John Palfrey lay out their ideas. You've just decided that your technology company should expand into the white-hot Chinese market and then turn to Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. Each of these new markets...
- Tags: Google Inc., Regime, Censorship, Yahoo! Inc., Outsider, Internet, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain, Politics & government, Problem, Industry, Code, Cisco Systems Inc., Strategy, Management
- News items 2007-08-14
- Best definition of fulfilling work ever - TBIF
- Theres never been a better, more succinct statement of a fulfilling week of work that this mornings acronym form Doc Searls: TBIF - Too Bad Its Friday. Love it.This is my last day of a busy and fruitful week at the Berkman Center. (I fly home early tomorrow.) Theres...
- Tags: Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Embarrassed by MySpace foolishness or your criminal convictions? Erase them!
- Your reputation is at stake whenever you go online and shoot your mouth off. Your reputation is at stake when you end up drunk and half or fully naked on a MySpace page. And that, my friends, is life. Youre supposed to learn some lessons and move on, hopefully without...
- Tags: Web site development, Insurance, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
SmartPlanet
-
Thought-provoking progressive ideas on diverse topics that intersect with technology, business, and life, and matter to the world at large.
Visit SmartPlanet
- More from IBM
-
-
Innovate your business' process model, play against the market, compete against others on our scoreboards and WIN!
Try INNOV8 2.0: A BPM Simulator
-
Enabling Real-World Business Transformation through IBM Service Management
Read the EMA Analyst Report
White Papers and Webcasts