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- Engineering Firm Builds Mobile Tracking Technology For Romanian Postal Workers
- CASON Engineering provides real-time monitoring and communications technology for critical industrial applications. In 2007, G4S, the world's leading security services firm, contracted the company to create a new location-aware monitoring system for the Romanian Post Office, whose mail carriers often make cash deliveries. CASON decided to use this opportunity to...
- Tags: Mobile, Microsoft Corp., CASON Engineering, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Storage
- Case studies 2008-03-13
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- Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack
- In the wake of the recent malvertising attacks where malicious flash ads were appearing at trusted web sites, evidence from multiple vendors and researchers indicates that spammers and malware authors have once again switched tactics, and are one again abusing legitimate services such as Google's Picasa and ImageShack. Whereas the...
- Tags: Technique, Spammer, Malware, Google Picasa, Attack, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- How important is boot performance?
- According to the Engineering Windows 7 blog, Windows 7 has a team dedicated to focusing on startup performance. But how important is startup performance? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Performance, PC, Reboot, 100+, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- The power of standard protocols
- I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...
- Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)
- Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?
- Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?Where has this been?Oh, hello, MS, is that you? Did you remember that little OS side-project that you've had going on for a couple decades now? I'm so glad to see a renewed interest, please stick around to...
- Tags: Operating systems, Boot-time, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds?
- Over the Labor Day weekend in a post to the "Engineering Windows 7" blog, Microsoft seemingly dangled one tangible tidbit about Windows 7 regarding improvements to initial system boot time. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
- Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flawjust proves that no software can ever be without any flawsntmore typical ZDnet FUDChrome prevents access to user folders including the desktop using permissions. R-E-A-S-E-A-R-C-HRE: Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw"Raff's code shows how a malicious hacker can use a clever social engineering lure...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, SECURITY, Google Chrome, Google Inc., carpet-bombing flaw, flaw
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
- Google's shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities -- a flaw in Apple Safari WebKit and a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Safari, Web Browser, Flaw, Raff, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Can Google not do evil?
- Can Google not do evil?So happy"We are so, so happy with Google Chrome," mumbled Mozilla CEO John Lilly through gritted teeth. "That most of our income is from Google has no bearing on this statement." - http://notnews.today.com/?p=57RE: Can Google not do evil?Your vision of Microsoft being the dark side and...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Free trade, Google Inc., Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- NASA confirms infection, 'not the first time'
- As I noted a few days ago, the International Space Station has a virus, which NASA now confirms. From eFlux, a spokesperson explained: "This is not the first time we have had a worm or a virus," said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries during a press...
- Tags: Infection, NASA, Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Could Google's Chrome be death blow to Firefox?
- No doubt, Google's forthcoming open source browser -- known as Chrome -- is going to challenge other open source browsers, most notably Firefox. It could be a devastating blow to Firefox, which has amassed and taken roughly 18 percent of browser market share away from Internet Explorer in a short...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Application, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Chrome, V8 Javascript Virtual Machine, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Community managers and corporate structure
- Stormy Peters reflects on where community managers ought to reside in the corporate structure. According to Bernard Golden, community managers ought to be in the support structure of a business. I've heard sillier things, but I'm not convinced by a long shot. Right now, most of the...
- Tags: Community Manager, Stormy Peters, Marketing Research, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer?
- Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer?Splintering of non IE usersI suspect that this in fact will cause an immediate splintering of non IE users (causal users and ones that are anti-MS). Furthermore there is only so many OSS developers and now a bunch of them are basically replicating the Mozilla...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome, Google Inc., IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari, IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- StatusHQ: another Twitter clone for enterprise
- Twitter clones are starting to come out the woodwork. The latest candidate is StatusHQ, which surfaced last Friday and which my pal Luis Suarez describes as: "What Twitter could have been." Maybe, maybe not. The central premise behind StatusHQ is that individuals can...
- Tags: Twitter, StatusHQ, Susan, Pete, UI, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Structures, RSS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentumNovell is on life support[i]He added that Microsoft is buying up to $100 million in SUSE certificates in $25 million chunks.[/i]Novell will be arround as long as M$ provides the cash.The best bet is on companies that stand on their own feet and built everything from...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?
- I'm really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath because the chances of seeing an open debate on pricing is highly unlikely, but I can dream, can't I? by Adrian...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into
- I've been following the Engineering Windows 7 blog closely and I've come to the conclusion that while Steven Sinofsky is a man of many words, those words don't say an awful lot. However, the other day Sinofsky did say something quite interesting. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Basic, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Software, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Perot: Making sure "everybody has access to the truth"
- He doesn't "do a lot of Internet work." He's not on Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace. He's not an iPhone guy. He prefers to get "instant feedback from the people,'' from face-to-face contact and phone calls. But Ross Perot, now 77, is back and using...
- Tags: Nominee, Ross Perot, Truth, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Tapulous developer fired
- Mike Lee, founder of Tapulous and developer of Twinkle was fired recently after a disagreement with management. According to Daring Fireball he was forced out. Lee blogged his side of the story in an appropriately titled post. So it came to pass that when my Engineering...
- Tags: Developer, Team, Photograph, Team Management, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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