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McAfee: Watch out for 'island-hopping' spam

McAfee: Watch out for 'island-hopping' spamWhy don't we just...Go with a registration of ALL email addresses... period! And FINE the heck out of an ISP not validating their email...not so fast..Who would fine them. i.e. define "we". Who would collect the money, and what would be done...

Tags: e-mail, not-so, McAfee Inc., Best Bets

Discussion threads 2006-11-01

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Salesforce.com: Worries emerge

Salesforce.com on Friday was downgraded from a buy to a sell by UBS analyst Heather Bellini because software as a service companies are likely to face the same headwinds as larger applications vendors. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com is targeting larger enterprises and that means it faces a slower buying cycle. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-03

How is the credit crunch impacting your economy?

The economy is mired in a slowdown, Wall Street allegedly needs a bailout and stocks are on a roller coaster that is mostly headed down. What's less clear is how all of this turmoil is impacting the tech industry and your personal economy. A simple question was...

Tags: Wall Street, Economy, Consulting Client, Deals, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Did Oracle burst the enterprise 2.0 startup bubble?

Is the bubble about to burst for the startups shouting "enterprise 2.0" from the rooftops? TechCrunch50 and DEMO and Office 2.0 were full of young, eager companies with fun and frilly applications touting themselves as the next enterprise 2.0 heroes. Some offered white label social network applications...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Microsoft confirms PDC attendees to get pre-beta Windows 7 build

Microsoft confirms PDC attendees to get pre-beta Windows 7 buildWindows live messenger betaThey completely tanked on the design of messenger beta. It now looks like a stoneage app compared to nice shinny design of the last release.Explorer and WMP12 have no icons because their UI is not yet completedCurrent...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft confirms PDC attendee, Microsoft confirms PDC, Microsoft Confirms, Microsoft Corp., pre-Beta, beta

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Oracle's Mix Network, thoughts on remote conferencing

A couple of thoughts on the large scale Oracle OpenWorld Conference, which has a downtown San Francisco street closed, over 40,000 people in attendance and 1,700+ sessions. The logistics of catering to this number of people is huge, and so is the associated airlift. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Mix Network, Web 2.0, Blogging, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Google's Android: Following the money on mobile search

Google's Android: Following the money on mobile searchI will NOT place any bets either, but, I did NOT expect all of thisexcitement. When you led with how gPhone would not be any where near as exciting as iPhone, I had to agree. But, I am shocked by all of the...

Tags: Smart phones, SEARCH, Cellular phones, Google Android, mobile search, Google Inc., phone, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Google's Android: Following the money on mobile search

Google launched its G1 Android powered phone with T-Mobile Tuesday and it didn't take long for Wall Street to make some guesstimates on mobile search revenue. What's it worth in revenue to put Google's search on handsets? First up, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster reckons that Google...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google Android, Mobile, Mobile Search, Collins Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-23

News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, BEA Beehive, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Open World, Help Desk, Java Development Tools, E-books, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Software

Blog posts 2008-09-23

VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets

VMware vs Microsoft: Place your betsDoes History Not Repeat ItselfOver and over again, we have seen Microsoft saturate markets, working from the bottom rungs of those who can't afford, and raising the needed capital to choke those who are to superior for their own good. VMWare is no exception...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Blogging, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets

At this year's VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft's hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Brett Winterford ZDNet Australia, VMware, Microsoft, virtualization, hypervisor

News items 2008-09-22

Fedora and our security attitude

Fedora and our security attitudeAttitude toward maintaining security.An indication about people's views on what is acceptable to maintain security may be found in their attitude toward torture. More than half the people in the US polled in 2007 believed it could sometimes/rarely be justified:... national polls conducted by the...

Tags: security, torture, security attitude, Fedora Project

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Commercial development strategies

Commercial development strategiesMy own two centsYour presentation, while quite interessting, miss, I think two points.first solaris, as I already stated on your previous post, is not anymore generic than any other operating system, be it windows, linux or AmigaOS. It is one specific operating system among other. I can...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, operating system, GUI Front-end

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upGoogle Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile upFile this in the "No Surprise" category. The shoddy programming at Google which has been reflected on many of their applications and services should come as no surprise to anyone on Chrome. Google is trying to live...

Tags: SECURITY, Google Chrome vulnerability, Google Inc., Google Chrome, vulnerability, Chrome, programming

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

(First look at Google Chrome)

First look at Google ChromeRE: First look at Google ChromeI guess I am an early installer of Google Chrome from South Africa, and all I get is the Aw! Snap message trying to get ZDNet and even South African sites like ananzi.co.za. I can't keep any web site...

Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Google Chrome, First Look, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Google Chrome: Steal this browser

Google announced a new web browser today called Chrome. Analysts who wonder if this spells "doom" for Firefox, or if it's an "IE killer" are missing the point. Like Gears, Chrome is Google's latest attempt to lead by example, and push the envelope of the web experience. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Google Chrome: The enterprise playbook

Google Chrome: The enterprise playbookR&DThey are essentially a R&D company. So it just makes since they will put out loads of products and see what consumers bite on. I don't think it is a shotgun approach, just a product of their structure.Will Live Search work with Chrome?That should...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Software, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?

Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-01

Partnoy's Complaint

Partnoy's ComplaintI don't think Wall Street will take that bet....Wall Street bets on financial performance, not processor performance. A bet on pure processor performance, assuming we can agree on a measure for that, would ignore all kinds of financial issues with the companies involved.Why is performance significant?Are sales determined by...

Tags: Performance management, Financial accounting, financial, performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Partnoy

Discussion threads 2008-08-30

News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-22