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- Opera 10 will be 'prettier'
- Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier. The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company. ...
- Tags: Opera Software, Lawson Software Inc., Hicks, Web Browsers, Internet, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Opera, browser, Opera 10.0
- News items 2008-10-13
- FCC: Free wireless spectrum won't harm T-Mobile
- Back in May, the FCC was to vote on rules for a national free wireless spectrum along the lines of a proposal by M2Z Networks. But rather than handing over 25MHz of spectrum to the Kleiner Perkins-based company, the FCC decided to auction the spectrum off to...
- Tags: FCC, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Federal Government, Wireless, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- ISP snoops slink away: Adzilla quits US market
- The bottom is falling out of the market for spying on Internet users. Adzilla says it is leaving the North American market to focus on a part of the world with a seemingly limitless appetite for snooping – Asia. Adzilla's home page says: ...
- Tags: Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Adzilla, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Government, Security, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment
- Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...
- Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Seesmic snags Washington Post
- Just after tonight's McCain/Obama debate ended I received a Tweet message from Cathy Brooks, head of business development at Seesmic telling me the company has snagged the Washington Post as a customer. Seesmic has developed a 'white label' version of its service for the Washington Post's political...
- Tags: Washington Post Co., Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Strategic Planning, Marketing, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The Secrets of CEOs
- I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...
- Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Find speed traps online
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Find speed traps onlineAlternatively, don't break the law??It's good of ZDnet to help people who want to be able to break the law without being caught. It's almost as cynical as the British authorities claiming that the 3,300 fixed speed cameras and 3,400 mobile speed cameras in...
- Tags: Policies and procedures, speed camera, speed trap, Weekend Gadget Guidance
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Apple wins royalty rate showdown
- Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...
- Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Schwarzenegger terminates new data breach bill (again)
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed data breach notification legislation for the second time in the last year. The bill, dubbed the Consumer Data Protection Act, would have required retailers that take card transactions to disclose more detail about any data breach. Schwarzenegger's veto comes after the...
- Tags: Bill, Payment, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Agency, Schwarzenegger, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Texting? Pull Over ...
- Texting? Pull Over ...re: Texting? Pull Over ...It's scary. I went through line in a grocery store, everytime the cashier had two seconds between ringing up customers her head was down texting. I can't imagine that kind of person on the road.RE: Texting? Pull Over ...TST: None of...
- Tags: Cellular phones, stat, headset, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- California governor: Silicon Valley should go to Germany
- After more than a hundred years of talk about the Pacific Rim economic opportunities for California, Silicon Valley and other California businesses are firmly focused on the west rather than the east. But Thursday morning California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at Intel's HQ in the heart of Silicon Valley...
- Tags: California, CeBit, Transportation, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How to read your FBI file
- As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...
- Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
- Steve Ballmer was next door in the Queen Elizabeth Hall talking to the TechNet/TechEd people about Office Live, and mentioning that there would be a major announcement at the PDC on the 27th October. Once he finished there, he popped next door and told us a similar thing. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Collaboration, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- The 'Social Media' Conundrum
- I'm fascinated by '30's depression era attempts to foster business innovation, not least because of the financial challenges that seem likely to dominate our coming years. Surprisingly I've found The Rotary International Club is in many ways a precursor to the looser social media movement which has been a feature...
- Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Brian, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Mac Pro owners, listen up. A french newspaper Liberation.fr has published a report English translation stating that Mac Pro owners run the risk of getting diseases as dangerous as leukemia blood cancer simply by using their computer. The newspaper was warned by a national agency scientist...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Benzene, Mac Pro, Libération, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
- Most members of a silicon.com CIO jury say they're not even testing Google's Chrome--choosing to stay with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Chrome, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, CIO Jury, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-30
- Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloads
- Hole in Adobe software allows free movie downloadsWho wrote this?!?Because whoever did needs to take a quick look at their article and proofread it.This article makes it sound like this vulnerability will mean certain death to content providers' business model and no one is going to pay for it unless...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Fair Use, Adobe Software, movie download, movie, Adobe Systems Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
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