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Beware Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Hotmail, too

Beware Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Hotmail, tooMessage has been deleted.Other factors, besides corporate policy (advertising $$$) at work here?I haven't had much problems with Yahoo Mail, but then I don't use it much outside of job search agents and messages from family. I used to use Hotmail, but it...

Tags: E-mail providers, Recruitment & Selection, Beware Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Hotmail, Yahoo! Inc., e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-15

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News to know: VMWorld; Disney-Marvel; netbooks; Blackberry Storm; mobile banking; Apple

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. Dan Kusnetzky: Doing the VMworld Dance, Day 1 Jason Perlow: Frugal Tech Show: Speaking with Centrify at VMWorld 2009...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mobile, Mobile Banking, Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Netbook, BlackBerry Storm, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Wiki, Hardware, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-01

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

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. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15

News to know: Google vs. Mozilla; SaaS renewals; Microsoft; Cloud computing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google delivers another blow to Mozilla WSJ: Google wants its own fast track Google ditching network neutrality? Google: Net neutrality and...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer

Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammerwhat a moronquit get ride of the moronRE: Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammerMore! More! We need lost more of this kind of thing! Why isn't the news media picking up on any of this? We need to add pressure...

Tags: Cyberthreats, MESSAGE-ID, spam, Facebook, judgement, spammer, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

News to know: Windows 7; Google; Pepcom gadgets; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista? Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems Is the HTC Dream Google...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications

Blog posts 2008-09-22

News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, LinuxWorld, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Cloud Computing, Help Desk, Data Centers, Corporate Communications, It Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Websense: Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA hacked in 6 seconds

Websense: Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA hacked in 6 secondsYahoo is implementing CAPTCHA at the send...level. So every mail you send requires you enter a capycha response. Totally not acceptable.This is why large networks like Google, MS Live, etc. will simply not serve the enterprise like all the bloggers think.It is...

Tags: web computing, CAPTCHA, Microsoft Live Hotmail CAPTCHA, Websense Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Yahoo+officially+says+no+to+Microsoft%3B+It+could+get+ugly

Yahoo+officially+says+no+to+Microsoft%3B+It+could+get+uglyC# and VBif the board thought they culd have created more value they had all of last year, and the year before and teh year before to prove it. Obviously not. And the same goes for most of teh employees.Start learning c# and VB.Not that easy ...You have to remember...

Tags: Corporate governance, C#, Programming languages, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., board, Liddell

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

When it comes to secure e-mail, beware of George Ou's reality distortion field

Yesterday, I posted a blog about how secure e-mail simply doesn't exist.  It was an extension of another discussion regarding password recovery schemes that result in the transmission of your password back to you in clear text over insecure networks.In a post headlined E-Mail security has been around forever, you...

Tags: Web technology, Security, Personal Technology, Legal, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-07-26

News to know: Yang's debut; SP1 preview; Malware downloads; Social media ERP

Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Yahoo to lay out strategic plan in next 100 days. Yahoo's second quarter on target; outlook light. Yahoo profit down on slowed display ad growth.Still no cure for what ails Yahoo.Garett Rogers: Enterprise YouTube coming to Google Apps.Dennis Howlett: Build ERP on social media: not a joke.Intel:...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-18

News to know: Oracle goes shopping; Dell's new focus; Google and click fraud

Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Oracle kicks off business intelligence consolidation.Dana Gardner: Oracle and Hyperion combo moves them closer to the ultimate business dashboard.Inside AdWords: Invalid Clicks – Google’s Overall Numbers. Larry Dignan: Google: Click fraud costs us $1 billion a year.Dells new focus: Dont look back. ArsTechnica: Why Dell and other...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-03-01

Google Apps data risks: Security vs. privacy

A debate is underway: “Will you trust Google with your data?” Fellow ZDNet blogger Larry Dignan has been examining the prospective data security risks Google Apps Premier may pose. I propose that the debate be widened to encompass the data privacy risks that Google Apps, both Standard and Premier...

Tags: AOL, Google, Google Software Applications, Internet Data, Privacy

Blog posts 2007-02-23

Beware Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Hotmail, too

I recently asked “Is Gmail worth the risk”?The same question can be posed about the free email services it competes against, such as Microsoft Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, as Digital Markets readers have rightly noted:bughunter999:What about Yahoo and Hotmail. Yahoo and Hotmail are not any better. They both insert your...

Tags: Legal, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Government, Internet Data, Privacy, Google Software Applications, Metrics, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-15

Google vs. Microsoft: Do you want Google to be your 'librarian'?

"Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organize searchable online," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of Products, in announcing Google’s aim to digitally scan libraries’ book holdings two years ago.In "Google Library’ to world: give us ‘all...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Google Beware: Web delivery of applications can be fraught with peril

It may not be obvious to everyone that web delivery of applications is the next big thing, but after using web based applications to run my newly launched company I am convinced it is a revolution. Bill Gates caught on to this less than six months ago, demonstrating once...

Tags: Use, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-05

Google keyword infringement case to proceed

Google keyword infringement case to proceedlet the buyer beware? as long as users don't mind using search engines thatgive results based on the sale of keywords, there will always be the possibility of misuse. i usually just ignore the supported matches and just go the the real search results. but...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-03-30

Neighborhood watch for phishing launches

Neighborhood watch for phishing launchesSafe BrowsingGiven current events most recent IE exloit, users may wish to consider using an alternate browser, such as [b]Firefox[/b] which doesn't utilize [i]ActiveX Active Scripting.[/i]Moreover, there is a [i]Google Safe Browsing[/i] plug-in available for Firefox here:http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/[u]Safe Browsing Folks![/u]Great Idea, but will enough people bite?..Reporting PhishingI...

Tags: E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Yahoo! Inc., Chase Bank, Whois, phishing

Discussion threads 2006-03-27

Advocacy group shames adware advertisers

Advocacy group shames adware advertisersJust as Bad ...Is Adobe and Firefox ... what the heck is with automatically selecting to install Yahoo toolbar, or google toolbar - the general public doesn't read what they are saying yes to - that is just as bad as adware - the person should...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Center for Democracy and Technology, 180Solutions, adware, advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-03-20

Google to consider Gmail changes

Google to consider Gmail changesSometimes Free is not so Free but then again so whatLook a gig of free mail space for looking at a couple key words. I already get plenty of emails from cialis, teen girls, hot moms, and something from some farmer as it is....

Tags: E-mail providers, Spam, Cyberthreats, Google Gmail, e-mail, Google Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2004-04-13