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Mozilla kills Firefox Pwn2Own bug

Mozilla has won the race among browser makers to fix code execution holes exploited during this year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker contest. The open-source group today shipped Firefox 3.0.8 with fixes for two separate vulnerabilities, including a drive-by download issue used by a hacker named "Nils" to win...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Community Member, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Picking the Fleas from Community

Just how many people can we be "close" to online? Clive Thompson's piece on the New York Times site, "Brave New World of Digital Intimacy," raises some interesting points about digital relationships for those of us engaged in remote work with thousands of community members. Just how many "grooming" relationships...

Tags: Bond, Relationship, Clive Thompson, Community Member, Investment, Finance, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-10

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Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags

Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...

Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

HTC HD2 coming to major US carrier in early 2010

I hope Sprint gets the HD2!I'm not holding my breath, but I really hope Sprint gets this phone!Sprint Community member ASM has created a "Petition for HD2" in hopes that a Sprint exec will take notice: http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/23213RE: HTC HD2 coming to major US carrier in early 2010Well, I would like...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, HTC HD2, phone, ATT, T-Mo, 3G, Sprint Communications, High Tech Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.

My kids know Linux, OSX, and XP, and will obviously learn Windows 7, butskip Vista, though they will have contact with Vista. My son prefers OSX, my daughter Ubuntu.But, just like every kid should be taught at least two languages at home, they should also learn multiple OSes. Learning multiple...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, desktop Linux, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

The best protection for software assets

Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...

Tags: asset, patent, Fight Club, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

America backs away from the Internet with a whimper

Just like how the EU workswhen they do not agree on something, the bargining, voting, referendums, treaties, et cetera begin.And nothing gets done. I guess the internet will now become another thing to be bargin, bantered, discussed, and not agreed apon.Yes, the future looks so bright for it. I wonder,...

Tags: Mediterranean, Internet, parody, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Community management: The 'essential' capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 efforts

Community RoundtableThanks Dion. Community Management is one area our members have identified requires much more attention in the process of successfully deploying a large-scale effort. For a great resource for Community Managers, I recommend Rachel Happe and Jim Storer's Community Roundtable. This member group provides isight on how...

Tags: successful Enterprise 2.0 effort, Enterprise 2.0 effort, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance

Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...

Tags: Pay-to-play

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers?

Can't we all just get along?[nt]He has no right to be upsetThis is code that is being released [b]for free[/b] to the Open Source community. It will be released on MS's timeline and not some arbitrary timeline specified by someone who is on record as hating MS. No other open...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, GPL v2, kernel, Microsoft Corp., open source, open-source community, GPL, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

OpenID, meet the U.S. government

The U.S. government has now joined the OpenID effort. Ten technology players said Wednesday that they will support President Obama's initial pilot programs to make it easier to register and work with government Web sites. OpenID is an identity system for the Web that lets people use...

Tags: Web, Web Site, U.S. Government, OpenID, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-09

EU right to investigate Oracle's MySQL buy

Devaluation of intellectual propertyYou said: "And there are many who believe that ?free? software undermines the value of intellectual property."Of course if does. It is not a question of "believing", it is a fact. But so what? Intellectual property is devalued all the time when something better comes along -...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Improves Visibility and Extends Reporting With Integrated Financial System

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. wanted to integrate disparate financial systems - resulting from rapid growth through several acquisitions - for more visibility and enable the organization to record financial information from various systems in a single location. The challenge was to accelerate and improve the level of detail in...

Tags: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial System, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2009-09-01

Colbert heats up global warming

Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...

Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

SAP unplugged: Vishal Sikka and John Schwarz on deck

Jeff Nolan and Vinnie Mirchandani have done a sterling job in reporting our meeting Vishal Sikka, SAP's CTO and John Schwarz, executive board member in charge of BusinessObjects. To my eternal shame, I was asleep for most of the meeting with Vishal having completely miscalculated the effects of jetlag, turning...

Tags: SAP AG, Leadership, Financial Planning, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Microsoft submits Hyper-V compatibility code for Linux kernel

Microsoft recently announced that it had contributed source code allowing a Linux system to happily exist in a virtualized environment hosted by Hyper-V. While this code may not make it into the Linux kernel for a number of reasons, it is significant that Microsoft chose to develop this code, protect...

Tags: Linux Kernel, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Patient HandChart (Mobile)

The Patient Palm Chart is an electronic medical record for patient data management and assessment. Although this application can be utilized for any type ofpatient management system, the program provides all the necessary tools a Senior Care Practitioner requires to manage the geriatric patient. This program was designed to be...

Tags: Patient, History, Mobile, Patient Palm Chart

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Celebrating 10 years of TechRepublic

ZDNet sister site TechRepublic is celebrating its 10th anniversary and, today, the TR family out in Louisville, Kentucky -  the same city where the site has been based since its inception - is hosting a community event to celebrate the occasion. Editor-in-Chief Jason Hiner, who also posts...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., IT Professional, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-26