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Chinese firms accused of 'Sexy Space' Trojan

Chinese firms accused of 'Sexy Space' TrojanI hope they are banned for life along with every employee at their company.That should send a message. It pisses me off to no end when i find out a company created a trojan/worm/virus.. i just want to see their heads bashed in...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Sexy Space, trojan horse

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Chinese firms get hold of Microsoft tech

Chinese firms get hold of Microsoft techUse Linux if you are patrioticMicrosoft is slowly moving both its technology (e.g. give Windows source code) and investment to China to help the communism out there. I recommend every patriotic fellow American to boycott Microsoft, as did by European Union.China is the super...

Tags: Linux, Government, Operating systems, Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., CHINA IS, Chinese firm

Discussion threads 2006-10-31

Additional Resources

Can Obama make science cool?

Give him a Nobel for Science for his science speeches!Please! Obama doesn't even deserve to be your President. All the promises he made have remained just that. What else can this world expect from a politician? And things are clear from his popularity ratings.Obama is good with one thing and...

Tags: Workforce management, Obama, education

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

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 D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Google open source strategy not just a patent dodge

Business and evil.The very first thing in Google's defense is that they make their money by providing advertising services, not by destroying the IT ecosystem with anti-competitiveness like a certain software vendor is hell-bent on doing.RE: Google open source strategy not just a patent dodge"Fact is Google has been a...

Tags: Patent Reform, strategy, Google Inc., patent, Google open source strategy, Google open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Beyond E-Tech Duet D8 (unlocked)

Photo gallery:Beyond E-Tech Duet D8We first came across a peculiar company called Beyond E-Tech when we reviewed the Duet D888. An importer of Chinese-made phones, Beyond E-tech offers a gallery of models seldom seen elsewhere. Like the D888 and all other handsets in the Duet line, the unlocked D8 is...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Duet D8, touch screen, Beyond E-Tech, Duet D888, phone

Product reviews 2009-07-02

Green Dam Watch: Software dates from '06, Sony is shipping, vendors will uninstall.

Item: Green Dam Youth Escort - the Chinese net nanny software that must be installed on PCs sold in China starting Wednesday - is largely stolen from a 2006 version of Solid Oak's CyberSitter software. For proof, see this post. Item: Rebecca MacKinnon...

Tags: Software, Sony Corp., McKinnon, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-29

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam fray

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam frayUh?Did our embassy forget that China is a communist country underneath it all? As sad as it is, the Chinese government can do practically anything it wants. Good luck. RE: US Embassy joins in the Green Dam frayAnd this from...

Tags: Manufacturing, Green Dam, Green Dam fray, Embassy, manufacturer, fray

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

No Surprise - Firms selling off Indian centers

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that major corporations are selling off their Indian IT and back office centers as part of belt-tightening moves. This really isn't a big surprise. Why? If well-designed and operated, these centers become assets of the firms they service. They would...

Tags: Firm, Center, Sales Strategy, Outsourcing, Asset Management, Financial Services, Sales, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Failure in Silicon Valley and the guild of entrepreneurs

Here is the second part of my conversation with Silicon Valley veteran Bill Coleman. The first part is here: How will the recession affect Silicon Valley? Mr Coleman is optimistic about Silicon Valley's long term prospects but he is pessimistic about the current situation. "These days...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-03-05

The Pre will be Palm's downfall

Palm said yesterday that sales will be well below expectations because customers are waiting for the company's fabled Pre to launch. The wait may be the company's downfall. I recall the electricity in the air as Palm revealed its Pre smartphone at International CES...

Tags: Palm Inc., Pre, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-04

The Pre will be Palm's downfall

Palm said yesterday that sales will be well below expectations because customers are waiting for the company's fabled Pre to launch. The wait may be the company's downfall. I recall the electricity in the air as Palm revealed its Pre smartphone at International CES...

Tags: Palm Inc., Pre, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-03-04

When things actually go right â€" Technology that works as advertised

A Small Scale Success - Big Lessons Fellow ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman writes a lot about project failures. He and I communicate frequently as these failures almost always involve package software and/or a systems integrator. Both of us wish we could find more success stories. ...

Tags: Software, Hard Drive, Product, Hardware, Laptop Computer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-02-16

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

Speculation among speculators: what's green under Obama?

I mean what'll be profitable, that kind of green. The Wall Streeters and those with money to invest are already gaming what sectors of the American economy look to benefit from the shift in the political winds. One piece in an MSM pub says green tech could do...

Tags: Solar Panel, Government, Transportation, Manufacturing, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-09

Foreign governments attack White House, Obama, McCain campaign systems

Hmm, anyone want to place bets on what "foreign entity" has been hacking into Obama and McCain campaign computers, as Newsweek reports? Could it be the same country China that penetrated the White House's email archive system and lifted email conversation between top officials, as the Financial Times reports? ...

Tags: Network, White House, Attack, Obama, Government, Phishing, E-mail, Hacking, Federal Government, Vertical Industries, Security, Cyberthreats, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-07

The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 1.0 (Mobile)

Written around the 6th century BC by the Taoist sage Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching is the fundamental text of the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy. The 81 chapters of short but profound verses teach Lao Tzu's timeless observations about life and the nature of being. Here's an excerpt...

Tags: Mobile, Tao, BeamItDown Software

Software downloads 2008-11-05

Microsoft aiming to deliver Vista SP2 before Windows 7

Microsoft aiming to deliver Vista SP2 before Windows 7You must be new around here.Providing details, specifics, or examples is not the way anti-Vista people work. They'll just re-word their vague "examples" and then start up with the personal attacks if you don't accept them.I sometimes get similar issueswhen I change...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Vista SP2, Service Pack 2

Discussion threads 2008-10-15

Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software

The latest high trafficked web site to fall victim into the continuing waves of massive SQL injection attacks courtesy of copycats and the ASProx botnet, is Sony's PlayStation U.S site according to a recent post at SophosLabs's blog : "Researchers at IT security firm Sophos have warned lovers of...

Tags: Sony Corp., Domain, SQL, Sony Playstation, SQL Injection, Hacker, Programming Languages, Game Players, Databases, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World

The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...

Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30