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Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pacts

Microsoft agitates for open-source patent pactsThat'll teach who? All the people that paid license fees to SCO?Has MS called all the people that paid extortion license fees to SCO in order to use Linux to see if they will be suckered again???And, MS bought Novel, they made is so sweet...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, BSD, Microsoft Corp., open source, Come-on Billy, open-source patent pact

Discussion threads 2007-05-14

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Latest Psystar wacky claim: OS X never copyrighted (!???)

Latest Psystar wacky claim: OS X never copyrighted (!???)HmmmmmmmHas anyone discovered who the REAL financial backers of Psystar are? I gotta believe that with all this legal stuff going one, there are some rather deep pockets involved. It would be interesting to know the rest of the story.WHO SHOT J.R....

Tags: Sales strategy, Apple Mac OS X, Psystar, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-23

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo as Ford, GM and Chrysler

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo as Ford, GM and ChryslerWell - Microsoft IS General MotorsDecades ago - Microsoft arrived - using a novel yet familiar business model.They rushed into new, immature markets with poorly designed products & aggressive marketing – and cornered us into accepting their design philosophies before we (or...

Tags: Microsoft Word, TVs, Word processors, TV & Home Theater, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler LLC, Microsoft Corp., General Motors Corp., TV

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

IPod shortage for the holidays?

Now now. There's no need to panic. And we certainly don't want any shopping mall stampedes. But, just between us, word is that there may be a shortage of iPods this holiday season - not that anyone out there is trying to fuel a buying frenzy to ensure that little...

Tags: Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who's buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Industry, SOA, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Interview: rPath’s Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use

Interview: rPath’s Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud useBuzz wordsWhy do they call it the cloud, i've been working with "cloud" technology for about 8 years and will soon be launching what we call an inner web server which according to the current buzz...

Tags: Wi-Fi, wireless, Internet, Billy Marshall

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Interview: rPath's Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use

The cloud forces the older notion of "write-once, run anywhere" into a new level of "deploy correctly so you can exploit the benefits of cloud choices and save a lot of money." by Dana Gardner

Tags: Dana Gardner, Benefits, Human Resources, Application, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Virtual Machine, rPath, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Data Centers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Kids NetLinks Bible Browser 2 (Windows)

Kids NetLinks Bible Browser gives quick links to every book of the Bible along with links to the top Bible sites. A great easy to use browser for Biblical research of all types. Links to Bible dictionaries, Bible encyclopedias, Billy Graham's official site, Promise Keeper's official site. Version 2 has...

Tags: Bible, Microsoft Windows, Kids NetLinks

Software downloads 2008-10-06

Microsoft bad cop is up against the wall

Microsoft bad cop is up against the wallEnough open-source propagandaIf this was about a technical violation of a license, focus on that and leave out the bias. I think we've all seen enough crappy and inept open source code that your comment about "being in retreat" against it is laughable.As...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., cop, open source, bad cop

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

Billy Frontier 1.0.2 (Mobile)

Billy Frontier is a space cowboy who's mission is to rid the galaxy of alien outlaws. This is the most diverse 3D game you'll find for the Apple iPhone / iPod Touch - it is a combination of adventure game and arcade game with a whole lot of blood spewing...

Tags: Mobile, Pangea Software, Billy Frontier, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-09-29

Apple plugs gaping holes in Java for Mac

Apple today released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2 with patches for a total of 25 documented security flaws that could expose Mac users to malicious code execution attacks. Two of the 25 flaws are specific to Apple and could be exploited to launch...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Programming Languages, Apple Mac OS X, Java, Desktops, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon

Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonExtended Length Version of New Ad UpThere's already a director's cut of the 2nd installation online now:http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=20040177-aa27-4f24-a1ae-140c865c81f9Bring out the talking Coke tongues!!:-)RE: Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soonThey missed a golden opportunity. We are in the midst of...

Tags: specific consumer ad, More Windows, consumer ad, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-end

Microsoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-endMicrosoft's Google Docs competitor to go final by year-endIf Google wasn't already crapping their pants about IE8 and the web then this should give them more than enough reason to fill their shorts. A final product that is released, not some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Word, Word processors, Channel management, Microsoft Office, Branding, Microsoft Corp., Google Docs Competitor, Google Inc., Google Docs

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Has Intel's Craig Barrett taken over Bill Gates' role as the chief ambassador of IT?

Has Intel's Craig Barrett taken over Bill Gates' role as the chief ambassador of IT?scape-goats?Scape-goats -- personifying all of the sins of the executives of the industry -- would be closer to the mark.There for a while Carly Fiorina and Billy Gates seemed to be competing for the title.

Tags: Strategy, Craig Barrett, Bill Gates, Intel Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2

Again, sorry for the late updates.  Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person.  Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference.  Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...

Tags: black hat, microsoft corp., applet, image, vegas, nathan mcfeters

Blog posts 2008-08-09

Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1

Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1Way to go Nate, Billy, and Rob.Congrats on the Pwnie, I read about it at Dark reading, but haven't actually read your current blog yet.That bit with Kaminsky was...odd. Booing? Really?edit: Now that I've read your blog, I've got to say that I really like...

Tags: Blogging, Black Hat

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1

Well, this is well late, but here's my recap of Black Hat Day 1. Sorry for the delay, but I've been terribly busy finishing up preparations for my Day 2 talk. The first talk I went to see, "Pointers and Handles, A Story of Unchecked Assumptions...

Tags: Black Hat, Billy Rios, Dan, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Google says AOL is a lemon, regretting $1 billion investment

Google says AOL is a lemon, regretting $1 billion investmentGoogle says AOL is a LemonYou would think that they would have done a bit more research on the company before making an investment. With all of the knowledge that Google has of the world, even with the ability to predict...

Tags: Social networking, America Online Inc., Google Inc., Google says AOL, investment

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Black Hat Sneak Preview

Rob McMillan from IDG interviewed John Heasman and I today about the presentation we will be delivering with Rob Carter at Black Hat Vegas next week. The article has a good teaser about one of the more interesting of the many attacks we will cover, namely what we've coined...

Tags: Black Hat, Java Applet, Web Application, Web Browser, Applet, Attack, GIFAR, Java, Programming Languages, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Airport security part 6: Skimming at airport kiosks

We've talked a lot about airport security here see other links at the bottom of this article, but one thing we haven't covered yet is airport kiosks.  Not that they haven't caught my attention, there's just so much wrong at the airport, it takes time to cover it all.  Richard...

Tags: Credit Card, Airport Security, Airport Kiosk, Stiennon, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28