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- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?A reader repliesI received this in email from a user who apparently wishes not to go through ZDNet registration. So here's my policy: I will not engage in private debate through email on the content of blogs. I will post the...
- Tags: E-mail, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- When it comes to China, is Skype the new Yahoo?
- Any major Western company doing business in China is collaborating with the government to some degree. We know this. Chinese citizens know this. The best case scenario is probably Microsoft or Google's operations where access to certain information is limited. The worst case, until now, has been Yahoo's explicit cooperation...
- Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Tom, Government, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Wireless, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese serviceSo when do we clean up our own act?First we need to clean up our own operation, put a little sunshine into the dark corners of the domestic-"intelligence" "community", enact and enforce strong privacy legislation (at least on par with what's in effect...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Says, agreement
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- News to know: HP's Smartphone; Obama's iPhone app; Skype in China; Data breach bill
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: WSJ: H-P plans to unveil smartphone Jason D. O'Grady: Obama campaign unleashes iPhone app Track the Presidential election polls with...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Obama, Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, RSS, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Skype says Tom violated agreement for Chinese service
- Skype has a further response on the Chinese monitoring situation. And they don't sound that pleased about it. Here's Skype president Josh Silverman: In April 2006, Skype publicly disclosed that TOM operated a text filter that blocked certain words in chat messages, and it also...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Agreement, Tom, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messagescheaper solutionJust get the logs from NSA, or run a joint operation...viztorThe U.S. does the sameIs there really much difference?Zillions of warrentless wiretaps. Deep packet inspection on the backbones.Getting search records from search companies for U.S citizens.U.S. laws broken repeatedly.Who are we to call the kettle...
- Tags: Tom-Skype, Chinese monitoring, Tom-Skype message, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4
- Pirates plunder Adobe Creative Suite 4That's how they're the "de-facto" standard.Just like Microsoft would be screwed without pirated copies of Windows floating around street corners across the globe.Without pirated copies of Photoshop, it would have a truly limited market. Look at the bloody price of it to figure out...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., graphics, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe PhotoShop, piracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- 14 ways IT screws up projects
- 14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...
- Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- There's a good amount of scuttlebutt today on a report that highlights how the Chinese government is monitoring Skype traffic for keywords that may offend the Communist party. The report in question Techmeme, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China's Tom-Skype platform, details...
- Tags: China, Monitoring, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Tom-Skype, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
- China is running a massive operation to track and store text messages sent over Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless provider and eBay-owned Skype, The New York Times reports. China has about one million censored messages, many of which contain personally identifiable information, according to...
- Tags: Message, China, Monitoring, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Government, Vertical Industries, Web Servers, Security, Servers, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Anti-LHC lawsuit lands in legal black hole
- A lame-brain lawsuit to stop the Large Hadron Collider is dead. U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor has dismissed the suit because U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over the world's biggest atom-smasher based in Switzerland and France and built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research,...
- Tags: Black Hole, Lawsuit, CERN, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- How to read your FBI file
- How to read your FBI fileGood well-balanced articleNothing one-sided here. Those evil Bushies will stop at nothing when it comes to knowing everyone's secrets, won't they?Hey, pal, EVERYBODY thought Saddam had WMDs, even your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, and (shudder!) Pelosi. Seems that Saddam went to great lengths to convince...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- There is no pony plan for health care
- There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, surcharge, pony plan, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?So what is the source of the issue?It's one thing to make such a spectacular claim it's another to provide some real evidence. Why would they be emitting a toxic smell? Might this be the case with other computers too?No wonder MBP fans love...
- Tags: benzene, MAC Pro, Apple Inc., toxin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?
- Would you buy an all-screen notebook computer?Well, given that you could carry a folding keyboard, why not?But, how about touch screens that somehow gave you a feeling when your fingers were in the right place??? You could possible put at least a raised "dash" on the screen for the F...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, keyboard, notebook computer, notebook, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to veto
- Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to vetoGee...What a surprise that a bunch of compromised congresscritters pass another attack on the People with the backing of the "Copyright Alliance". (read, BSA, MPAA, RIAA, MS, Time Warner, Disney...)It's good that Bush will veto it. Even though he's only doing it...
- Tags: Blogging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Bush, Pro-IP, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
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