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- 10 common security mistakes that should never be made
- There's no shortage of difficult security challenges -- so why take chances and overlook the easy stuff? Chad Perrin describes some of the worst and all too common security oversights he sees on a regular basis.This download is also available as an entry in our IT Security blog.
- Tags: Chad Perrin, Security
- Download resources 2008-08-20
- 10 things you should do to ensure basic Web site security
- Using a security procedures checklist is your first step toward securing a resource -- a means of aiding your memory before you apply your critical thinking skills and imagination to the task of improving security for each item. Chad Perrin shares his list of far-too-common security failures on Web sites...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Chad Perrin, Security
- Download resources 2008-06-03
- Use open source Subversion for personal document management
- The open source version control system Subversion has rapidly become a developer favorite. It enjoys an excellent reputation and a wealth of free, online documentation, as well as a growing body of published texts on the subject of its efficient and practical use. It is stable, flexible, capable, security-conscious, free,...
- Tags: Chad Perrin, Document Management, Open Source, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Download resources 2007-03-14
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- 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
- YouTube profit (and revenue) watch intensifies
- Google has made profiting from YouTube a big priority in 2008, 2009 and beyond and the video site's potential is being monitored closely amid a weak ad market. Sure YouTube founder Chad Hurley wants to conquer every screen. In a blog post Hurley wrote: Our goal...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Resurrecting E-voting
- Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
- Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- 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
- News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught
- Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...
- Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Size matters: Verizon Wireless buys Alltel; Will claim most subscribers
- Size matters: Verizon Wireless buys Alltel; Will claim most subscribersSubscriber envy? That's a ridiculous assumptionVerizon's 67.2 to AT&T's 71? Wasn't that gap larger after the ATT/Cingular deal? Looked as though industry analysts were right at the time, that Verion would overtake them after a few years, so why would this...
- Tags: Cellular phones, ALLTELL, Alltel Corp., CDMA, LTE, Verizon Communications Inc., GSM, Verizon Wireless
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1 - Which is fastest?
- XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1 - Which is fastest?Most Excellent. Thanks Adrian!ntRE: XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1 - Which is fastest?It's a small point, but the question should read, "Which is faster?" The comparison is between two operating systems, not among three or more.Message has been deleted.Cool. I'll upgrade to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, XP SP3
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Cosmos: An open-source .Net-based microkernel OS is born
- Move over, Microsoft Singularity. There's another microkernel, .Net-based operating system in town. And this one's available under an open-source license. Known as Cosmos, the new, independently developed operating system OS is the brain child of former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member Chad "Kudzu" Hower....
- Tags: Open Source, Assembly, Operating System, Compiler, Microsoft Corp., Kudzu, Cosmos Frequently Asked Questions, MJF, C#, .Net, Operating Systems, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- The Steve Jobs Apple Revival Show
- It's been a busy day for the Apple tribe. Steve Jobs announced the thinnest notebook in the universe (I'm not sure that's what the universe needs, but he is at least pushing lowly competition to innovate more) and updates for the iTunes, iPhone, iTouch, AppleTV and Time Capsule wireless backup...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Bill Gates, MacBook Air, 3G, Notebooks, Blogging, Digital Music, Desktops, Digital Media, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Steve Jobs' performance: The big takeaways
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave his latest performance to the faithful and a few items stood out. He was in good form as usual, and his friends from Google, including CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin, as well as Chad Hurley and Steve Chen YouTube founders, were in the...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Performance, Idea, Apple MacBook, Engadget, Apple Inc., Video, Pricing Strategy, Apple TV, Time Capsule, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Live: Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld 2008
- Bookmark this page for live, real-time coverage of the Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld Expo 2008. This page will refresh every 150 seconds once the keynote begins at 9am PST. Scroll directly to the latest update. We've also compiled a live gallery of images. 7:53 a.m.: ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Podcasts, Keyboards, Photograph, Notebooks, Digital Music, Digital Media, DVD, Google Inc., Chip, Air, Competition, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, HD, Internet, Leopard, Library Title, MacBook Air, Newman, Notebooks & Tablets, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Setup, Steve
- Blog posts 2008-01-15
- Nanodisks used to encrypt information
- PhysOrg.com reports that U.S. researchers have used nanotechnology tricks to develop nanodisks which could be useful to create codes to encrypt information. This method, which conceptually is similar to barcodes, could be used for DNA tagging or tracking goods and people. Even if this looks interesting, the best part is...
- Tags: Researcher, Disk, DNA, Northeastern University, Strand, Northwestern University, Author, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?
- 2008: The year of hack the vote?It's only the free world at stakeStep A Open source, then step B Test, retest, test ongoing, test until the end of time and C Use the damn manual ballots until the system is infallable... Not infallable yet? Repeat steps A and B.What about...
- Tags: open source, ballot, democracy
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- 10 things you should do to secure every general-purpose operating system
- There are key considerations for system security that apply no matter which general-purpose operating system platform you happen to be using. As Chad Perrin explains, you should always consider these 10 precautions when securing your systems against unauthorized access and unfortunate disasters.
- Tags: Operating System, Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2007-12-13
- Report: Hollywood giants sue Chinese Internet site
- Report: Hollywood giants sue Chinese Internet siteHollywood giants sue Chinese Internet siteHow do these sites get the movies in the first place? Shouldn't the studios go after the people who upload instead? In my opinion, if it's available free on the internet then it should be a free...
- Tags: Chinese Internet site, Chinese Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-11-22
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