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End-user GPS failure - tree surgeon needed: Project failures are usually defined in terms of technical and business impact -- non-functional systems, missed schedules, and over-run budgets. But how do failures affect users? Depending on the circumstances, the impact can be dramatic, inconvenient, or sometimes even comical, as in this story. ...; Tags: Lane, Failure, Daily Mail, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-11-04

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DIY phishing kits introducing new features: What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but also infect with malware by embedding client-side vulnerabilities at the pages? It's all a matter of perspective, which in this...; Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-15
News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!: Pursuing a career in Information Technology comes with certain responsibilities and baggage -- among these are having to act as a personal, unpaid member of the Geek Squad whenever a friends and family computer is ill. Yesterday I got a phone call...; Tags: America Online Inc., Internet, E-mail Providers, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-14
The death gap: The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young...; Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14

Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support: Having launched in late 2005 amidst a tsunami of web 2.0 hype, it was always going to be difficult for social web browser Flock to keep up with expectations. But after getting through what seemed like an unhealthy period of stagnation, update by update the software is really starting to...; Tags: Digg, America Online Inc., Twitter, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Frequent open source miles: Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...; Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Google grabs for billions in pharma gold...: Google has asked all hacks to assemble at the Googleplex Monday 19th to hear about the state of search and also Google Health. That sounds like hearing about the health of Google and also its new service Google Health. Health is a tricky area for Google. I remember chatting...; Tags: Google Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-13
The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues: The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continuesMaybe it is because OS X isn't a good OS?[i]I long ago gave up on Entourage for Exchange, and just use Outlook in a Parallels virtual machine.[/i]Funny how when bugs or lack of features in things like the Windows versions of iTunes, Quicktime,...; Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Groupware, Entourage, MS Office 2008, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?: Will Jobs unveil a new iPhone at the WWDC keynote on June 9th?I think you're rightWhy else would the current stocks be dried up?Another Blow To Windows MobileI'm getting my next gen IPhone this fall and giving Windows Mobile the boot.I've had it with a second rate garbage OS....everyone I...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Keyboards, Handhelds, Cellular phones, job, Apple iPhone, WWDC, mobile, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Greetings from Lesotho: It's amazing how dependent we become on technology. Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted. When they are gone, however, you feel oddly disconnected. You can't pop online to check news. You can't check email. Without a working mobile phone, you...; Tags: Phone, Mobile, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean, Telecom & Utilities, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?: Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches: Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains:...; Tags: Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Zero Day Initiative, Security, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers: The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...; Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Magic iPod (exe): All data recovery software, data recovery services for hard drive/disk recovery and remove bad sector from hard disk/drive. Password recovery utility from tally. NTFS/FAT partitions recovery. We provide physical data recovery training, cyber forensic training, tracking e-mail accounts, ip tracing, recovering deleted evidence. We provide physical data recovery training, cyber...; Tags: Data Recovery, Apple iPod, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-05-13
Major career web sites hit by spammers attack: Major career web sites hit by spammers attackStealing data is one thing and spamming is anotherThe only way to stop spam is at its orginating point.If ISPs were encouraged to follow a mandate for testing the validity of a source e-mail (vis-a-vis test for PGP MIME signature) all non-comformant email...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, spammers attack, career Web sites, e-mail; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
(OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta): (OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta)be very caefulI had a crash and had to reload my OS (Windows XP. That went okay, but I had no backup for Windows Offoice. I was on deadline so I downloaded had no backup for Office so I downloaded Open Office 2.3. When...; Tags: OpenOffice, OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta, OpenOffice.org 3.0, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, object-oriented; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
Blackberry users to get Windows Live services: Blackberry users to get Windows Live servicesRim and MicrosoftThis is good news for BlackBerry users.that is really going to p*ss offcorporate support teams when they've been doing their best to lock out Hotmail from corporate desktops and PDAs etc. They are going to get inundated with calls from users requesting...; Tags: E-mail providers, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Live-Mail, MSN Hotmail, RIM BlackBerry, Blackberry Users, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Live Services, Microsoft Windows Live; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund: RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fundI guess in one fashion or another the iPhone hasmade an impact on the entire industry. Still kind of a small screen.Pagan jimRE: RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million developThe only thing missing on...; Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, blackberry, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Bold, development fund, Pagan Jim, phone; Discussion threads 2008-05-12
Lalim Windows Mail Password Recovery (zip): Lalim Windows Mail Password Recovery is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Windows Mail, which comes in very handy if you forgot, lost, or misplaced your password. Although the password is constantly stored in your computer, the operating system doesn't allow you to watch it. If...; Tags: Password, Recovery, Lalim Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software; Software downloads 2008-05-12