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- WiFi, Cancer, and Legal Liability
- The big problem with the allegation that cell phones and other RF energy emitters can cause cancer is that there's no good way to know who's right. On one side we have an industry with lots of money and public support and on the other a few lone voices...
- Tags: Phone, Industry, Radio, Health Care, Cell Phone, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- The future of tech IPOs
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs
- Videos 2008-07-25
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...
- Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Speculation over possible Skype backdoor
- There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion deal
- Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion dealEthernet Simplicity WinningThis acquisition confirms to me that Ethernet simplicity will be the long-term winner in the data center. http://blog.tmcnet.com/the-hyperconnected-enterprise/data-center/brocade-foundry-acquisition-confirms-ethernet-simplicity-will-win.asp
- Tags: Ethernet, Network technology, NETWORKING, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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