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Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatened

Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatenedSecurity through obscurity never works...They should have learned that by now one would hope. It doesnt matter if he talks about it or not, there are lots of people who already know it's weakness and how to profit by them !!!!!Call me confusedI don't get...

Tags: SECURITY, RFID, Carroll, hacking, Black Hat

Discussion threads 2007-02-27

More on software patents

More on software patentsNo threat of EU patents; they're there.Better than 30,000 and more flying out the door of the EU patent office every day.A survey from Duke law indicates there's no effective difference between the software patent systems in the US and the EU.My opinion is a bit nuancedBack...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, patent holder, core question, Hollerith, patent, Stallman, software patent, software, Carroll

Discussion threads 2005-06-22

Additional Resources

Counting vulnerabilities is pointless

Suddenly it doesn't matter any more? Vulnerability count is an indication of software qualityIt goes directly to the process the vendor went through to root out vulnerabilities before shipping. At least if you compare products with the same general purpose and which receives the same amount of scrutiny.Time to fix...

Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, malware, risk period

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

eBook Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Mobile)

eBook: Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.Tap on the cover page to start reading. You can flip the screen horizontally or vertically. Turn the page by swiping the screen or by tapping either edge of the page. Choose chapter either from table of contents or by swiping bottom of...

Tags: Page, Screen, Mobile, eBook Alice, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions

United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.   You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...

Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Wattpad 1.4.0 (Mobile)

Wattpad gives you free instant access to over 100,000 titles including: - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; - War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; - Printcrime by Cory Doctorow; - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; - The Curious Case of...

Tags: Touch Screen, Mobile, Wattpad, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components

Software downloads 2009-07-09

GOP to go with McCain plan

GOP to go with McCain planMcCain was defeated, not his health care planWhile it's become commonplace for pundits to treat electoral defeat as the equivalent of personal repudiation and the rejection of everything the candidate stands for, that is not and never has been the case. If it were,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

The cause of swine flu

The cause of swine fluas I said beforeThe origin of this virus and many others is in the promiscuos way of life of the homosexuals.Church leaders and conservative bloggers saw it comming.Unfortunately Obama does nothing to eradicate the root cause of this disease that is homosexuality, and panders to these...

Tags: antibiotics, H1N1 flu, virus

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Wattpad for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

The Wattpad ereader has been downloaded over two million times and now you can be a part of this exciting, new way of reading on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Wattpad gives you free instant access to over 100,000 titles including Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, War of the Worlds by...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Wattpad, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-04-28

Alice in Wonderland 2.0 (Mobile)

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a world populated by peculiar and fantastic creatures. It is one of the most widely read stories of all time and around the globe. Instead of paging, the BeamItDown iFlow...

Tags: Mobile, Story, Experience, BeamItDown Software, Scrolling Speed

Software downloads 2009-03-25

News to know: Google antitrust; Bin Laden; Yelp Mafia; HP pay

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 Garett Rogers: Will Google be targeted by new Attorney General for Antitrust? Sam Diaz: Where's Bin Laden? New theory,...

Tags: Google Inc., Osama Bin Laden, Hewlett-Packard Co., Antitrust, Dana Blankenhorn, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Law, Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Public Relations, Marketing, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Corporate Communications

Blog posts 2009-02-20

The message from GSMA Barcelona: fragmentation

The GSMA World Congress was this week in Barcelona. Though its difficult to identify themes in a conference as large as the GMSA extravaganza, the sense I got from four days wandering its halls was that fragmentation will rule the smartphone market for many, many years to come. by...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Conference, Telecom & Utilities, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2009-02-19

Don't give me special treatment

The US Congress wants to include "Buy American" provisions in the stimulus bill. I say "no thanks." Protected industries aren't going to pull America out of recession. by John Carroll

Tags: America, Bailout, American, Globalization, Free Trade, Government, Strategy, Management, Finance, John Carroll

Blog posts 2009-02-06

News to know: Microsoft's killer instinct; Google's blunder; Palm OS; Windows 7;

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 Jason Perlow: Why Microsoft's Killer Instinct Must Return Ryan Naraine: Google flags entire Web as 'malware' Google blames 'human error' for search...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, Operating System, Palm OS, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-02

What is American?

What is American?hear hearI agree wholeheartedly, JohnCompletely agree! Great post.I completely agree with your post, John. I hate it when people try to impose what being an American means. Being American means being someone who is willing to learn and word hard to achieve his dreams, not someone who thinks...

Tags: H-1B program, H-1B

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

What is American?

A recent post by Brian Sommer noted that H-1B visa holders might be in for a rough ride in 2009 as the weakening economy invites calls for special preferences for the accidental citizens of the United States of America (I say "accidental," as most of us were bestowed our rights...

Tags: Massachusetts, H-1B, Productivity, Human Resources, Labor Relations, John Carroll

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Tough times for H-1B visa holders

Tough times for H-1B visa holdersGood send them back homeGood bye and don't come back!Had to happenUsing off-shore and imports to do work on the cheap undermines the local worker. This, along with human rights and environmental issues will bring back duties and tariffs to level the playing field. We...

Tags: H-1B visa, H-1B, worker

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Hiatus till January

Not that I think crowds of angry people will descend on my West Hollywood apartment because of this, but I am going to be off until January.  As noted three weeks ago in my last post I am a very bad blogger, a startup I co-founded recently received an important dose...

Tags: Blogging, Corporate Communications, Investment, Financial Accounting, Internet, Marketing, Finance, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-12-17

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-04

News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-11-25