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180solutions explains new technology

Yesterday 180solutions announced "Safe and Secure Search", their new technology to help stop non-consensual installations, without giving any details about how it would work. I received permission from Sean Sundwall of 180solutions to post his email to me explaining how the new technology works. Hi Suzi,Although I was disappointed...

Tags: consent box, 180Solutions

Blog posts 2005-09-08

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Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Psystar releases 'build your own Hackintosh' kit

there a few brain who will throw a fit big time Will nice i really wanna see what will happen on the legal side .but its a bit too late how many people already have the appz .... Well like many people ask for so long osx...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, EULA, EFI

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business

M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?

Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I've been saying this for a while.[i]When it comes to trade-offs between security and convenience, convenience always wins.[/i]security = 1 / convenienceRE: Who's to blame for unsecured WiFi connections?I can't believe that you're endorsing having the police in any country "wardriving" around to detect...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, LANs, Wi-Fi, WLAN, router, Wi-Fi connection

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

R.I.P., NebuAd. But, What If You Had Just Asked For The User's Consent?

NebuAd, the controversial company that had sought to target online ads based on user behavior, is dead, at last. The company's services were actually appealing to some cable companies who act as Internet service providers, such as Charter Communications and Bresnan Communications. But...

Tags: User Behavior, Consent, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contact

Outrageous Comcast customer agreement - finding a contactThanks for the pointerI guess that if they don't respond, I'll continue to comment here on what I learn from others...Dan KYou'll never hear back from themunless you sent them numerous certified letters. I sent Comcast a few certified letters back in October...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Comcast Corp., Outrageous Comcast customer agreement, Outrageous Comcast, customer agreement

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

EasyFiller 1.3.16 (Windows)

Fill new and saved Web forms automatically. Login to protected Web sites without having to remember a gazillion passwords. EasyFiller makes it easy to save any forms you fill on Web sites, and fills them in later without you having to type. Your logins, passwords and personal data are securely...

Tags: Web, Password, Microsoft Windows, DDSoftware, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-02-22

EPIC ready to sue Facebook over terms

EPIC ready to sue Facebook over termsSue?! On what grounds?!It's their service, if someone chooses to use it then they need to accept the terms. In what way are Facebook's terms in any way illegal?Already changed backI logged in to Facebook this morning to find a message above...

Tags: Facebook, EPIC

Discussion threads 2009-02-17

Google plugs ‘high-risk’ holes in Chrome browser

Google plugs ‘high-risk’ holes in Chrome browserBig Brother (spy-eye) is monitoring you.....With the Google desktop search, google tool bar, google toilet paper you are covered from head to toe monitoring!Plus, ALL of the private data is being scanned and sheep follow it because it is so cool.I use a scrapper...

Tags: E-mail, Social Security, Benefits, Web browser, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Google's great Christmas mystery

Google's great Christmas mysteryRE: Google's great Christmas mysteryCold fusion? One of them looks vaguely like Einstein.Doll Factory?Looks like grand-pa here is working his magic to produce gifts for the kid. I wonder if grand-pa is Google. LOL!RE: Google's great Christmas mysteryby looking at gears, it seems that Google is...

Tags: Geppetto, Google Inc., Christmas, private information

Discussion threads 2008-12-25

Could this be the problem driver? (Apple's sneaky iTunes 8 install)

Could this be the problem driver? (Apple's sneaky iTunes 8 install)Apple Sneaky???How can this be? Apple? The greatest supplier of software "that just works" in the world. Shows me Apple is no different than Microsoft. I have always thought it underhanded that you agree to install X and as a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., sneaky iTunes 8, problem driver, iTunes 8

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Microsoft contracts stymie IBM laptop Linux plans

Microsoft contracts stymie IBM laptop Linux plansWhere had you read that?[i]When it comes to new hardware, most makers charge you for Windows even if you don't get it. They do this to maintain their relationship with Microsoft[/i]Actually, I hear that these companies charge you for FreeDos, (though they claim it...

Tags: Operating systems, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., OEM, Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Windows, agreement, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time

Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software vents, intelligently, about Windows Vista's UAC conundrum: UAC could certainly have been handled better. It does something the security industry has been well aware of for a long time â€" it creates the “cry wolf” problem of popup fatigue (people turn off or ignore...

Tags: Dialog Box, Permission, Window, Control Panel, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Construction, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Why I called Mozilla's change to the Firefox install process "sneaky"

Why I called Mozilla's change to the Firefox install process "sneaky"It got me, and I read the article!I don't know where it was, but the option to not take over as the default browser is something I never saw. I even did a custom install.It was easy to fix...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released

Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...

Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC

The User Account Control feature in Windows Vista has been known to drive normally level-headed people over the edge with frustration. If you find it annoying, you might be tempted to turn it off. According to Microsoft research, somewhere between 12 and 16 percent of all Windows Vista users do...

Tags: Program, Account, Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, Dialog Box, OK, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Can Apple stop Psystar from selling Mac clone?

To hear Psystar tell it, they can install MacOS on their own hardware, despits Apple's end user license agreement to the contrary, because said EULA is an illegal "monopoly." "What if Honda said that, after you buy their car, you could only drive it on...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Windows Update setup (Apple Software Update versus Microsoft Update)

Windows Update setup Apple Software Update versus Microsoft Update6 of one/half a dozen of the other.Both systems have their pluses and minuses. Both have levels of obscurity and I have had issues with disclosure on both systems. Personally, I find the Apple one a bit better laid out...

Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Windows Update setup, Microsoft Windows Update, Apple Software, Apple Software Update, Microsoft Update

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates

Last summer, I looked at Apple’s announced plans for its Safari web browser and wondered out loud, Is Steve Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop? Apple’s decision last week to begin aggressively pushing Safari to any Windows user running iTunes (in other words, anyone with an iPod or an...

Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Digital Music, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-03-24