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- Bot
- (1) roBOT A program used on the Internet that performs a repetitive function such as posting a message to multiple newsgroups or searching for information or news. Bots...
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- Google Hacks: Google Over IM
- Instant messaging is no longer solely the domain of teenagers with too much spare time on their hands. IM has morphed from a fun toy to a serious productivity tool. Google offers its own IM client called Google Talk. Thanks to the Google Talk and the Google API, one can...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Talk, IM, Bot, IM Client, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Book chapters 2006-08-01
- AOL IM bot cloaked in encryption
- AOL IM bot cloaked in encryptionJust clicking on a link compromises you?Sad, really sad.What is a mother to do?Seems we can't win this game, so lets go back to un-networked mainframes.its all about setting rules.Rules of the road to be known and understood. Explain the rules, inforce the rules...
- Tags: Instant messaging, AOL Instant Messenger, bot, IM, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-02
- Botnet drama: database theft, IM attacks, financial fraud
- Are you a victim? If not, the guy next door might be. According to the story, two botnets claimed over 150,000 compromised machines, some with RATS remote administration tools installed and one machine being used "as a vehicle to fraudulently scan desktop and back-end systems to obtain credit card...
- Tags: BotNet
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
Additional Resources
- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp., Azure, server
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Google Wave: The Microsoft Bob of the New Millennium
- Google Wave uber-whelms meHi Jason,I agree that the beauty (one, at any rate) of gmail is its simplicity, but that aside, I think you're giving Wave short shrift. It's not so much an application as a platform for other apps and ultimately a way to drown Microsoft Bob, as well...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., e-mail, convo, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Google Wave: Begging for a classrom
- Using Wave to interconnect academic institutionsI think, the first large-scale Wave deployment should be used to interconnect all academic institutions around the world.This would be attractive because:1. younger generations are very adaptable, to new technology.2. there is a great deal of collaboration, in the academic world.3. technical glitches are likely...
- Tags: Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Google Inc., classrom, IRC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Meet Google Wave: a new way to communicate and collaborate
- The second day keynote address at Google I/O was sure to be full of surprises. After all, at yesterday's keynote, the company gave attendees an unlocked Google Android phone so developers could start tinkering immediately. Then, a buzz filled the conference as word spread that Wednesday's keynote was a "must-attend"...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Conversation, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- JaikuEngine released as open source project
- Jaiku is a competing well not really service to Twitter -- it's not nearly as popular, and that's the reason Google has decided to release it as an open source project for the community to develop. JaikuEngine -- the new open source project --is different from Jaiku...
- Tags: Google Inc., SMS, Twitter, JaikuEngine, Jaiku, Micro-blogging, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fast
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dan Glass A recent blog proclaiming that Twitter could soon become a rival to PayPal made me shudder in fear. The blog author postulated that Twitter could offer a method to...
- Tags: Payment, PayPal, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- No, Vista DOESN'T scream past XP in gaming tests
- No, Vista DOESN'T scream past XP in gaming testsok vista doesn't scream past xp but..vista has a lot more to offer with its 64bit OS unlike XP, and when it comes to gaming it doesn't matter how good your computer is if you can run the game on the lowest...
- Tags: Games, Microsoft Windows XP, vista, Microsoft Windows Vista, game, console, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- JBuddy Developer Tools 6.1.0520 (Mac)
- Create interactive IM applications and IM Bots with ease using JBuddy IM Toolkits. JBuddy now includes a powerful, yet easy to use Bot Builder IDE as well as an IM Bot Framework so building and running IM Bots is a snap. JBuddy IM Toolkits support public IM networks such as...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, IM, JBuddy IM Toolkits, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-21
- JBuddy Developer Tools 6.1.0520 (Windows)
- Create interactive IM applications and IM Bots with ease using JBuddy IM Toolkits. JBuddy now includes a powerful, yet easy to use IM Bot Framework so building and running IM Bots is a snap. JBuddy IM Toolkits support public IM networks such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Google Talk...
- Tags: IM, Microsoft Windows, JBuddy IM Toolkits, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-21
- Open+source+gains+business+credibility
- Open+source+gains+business+credibilityWell...Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the guy you have issues with with a law firm? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they seem hardly more likely to need anything other than what Office/Exchange can give them in a somewhat turnkey manner.Not that there's not better solutions out there,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Operating systems, ROI/TCO, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., open source, law firm
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Blogger hit by Skype porn spam, plays along for a bit
- Well, if Austin Powers happened to be on the Skype session that blogger Jeremy Wagstaff participated on the other day, "hey bybee" might have been his first reaction to a very solid citizen named Veronica Sexy popping up. Instead, it's Jeremy that fields...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Blogger, Jeremy Wagstaff, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Web Site Development, Cyberthreats, Spam, Internet, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Counter-notification intelligence (or, getting your wrongly removed clip back on YouTube)
- Lawyer, assistant professor, and Chilling Effects founder Wendy Seltzer chronicles the process of combating an overreaching DMCA takedown notice, and gets her initially removed clip, a Superbowl excerpt highlighting the NFLs copyright notice, restored. Nothing like coming out swinging. In order, from Wendy:2/8/07, My First YouTube: Superbowl...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, DMCA, Free speech, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- How Adobe started winning developers
- Theres a post over on Scobles blog that takes on the topic of developers and how Microsoft is hemmoraging them while Adobe seems to be gaining them. It really has been astounding to watch this company known for its "uppity designers" (kidding!) take the developer world by almost total surprise....
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Flash, WFP/E, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- News to know: Wi-Fi hacking with PDA; Jobs on DRM; RSA
- Notable headlines:Wi-Fi hacking, with a handheld PDA. Images.Google Web Toolkit GWT 1.3 goes gold.Key Net servers in suspected attack. Data breach bills resurface in Congress.IBM Research: Mining for the future of search.The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Mac migration a breeze, Vista’s migration is a headacheSteve Jobs thoughts on music. Jobs on...
- Tags: General, migration
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- The good, the bad of bug campaigns
- The good, the bad of bug campaignsGreat quote"These initiatives are always more about the egos of the bug finders than anything else,"I think that says it all.Response and responsibilityWhether or not computer users are happy about the release of exploits for the system they use, it's going to keep on...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Apple Mac OS X, vulnerability, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Moab
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Critical Mac QuickTime zero-day exploit released!
- Critical Mac QuickTime zero-day exploit released!Shoot the messenger?When you should be shooting Jobs...No need to lose sleep over thisI mean literally. This was posted at 3:00 AM George.I hope when the MoWB comes out you'll be just as enthusiastic to provide blow by blow accounts.Hurray!That'll show those obnoxious smug...
- Tags: SECURITY, exploit, OSX, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- More on ending SPAM
- Number five in my top five VC proposals Id like to write blog from a few weeks ago was a proposal on ending SPAM. Frequent contributor CobraA1 challenged me on this: Youll have to explain this in detail - Im not sure I see...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
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