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News to Know: AMD benchmarks, iPhone hacking, SAP's new day

NEWS TO KNOW on a slow news dayGeorge Ou: AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaJon Lech Johansen: iPhone Independence DayAdrian Kingsley-Hughes: Let your iPhone run wild and free … free of AT&T that isPhoto Gallery: Cracking open the iPhone...and putting it back together againGigaOm: Why AT&T should offer free...

Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, News to know, Microsoft, iPhone, Google, General, eBay, Craigslist, Apple, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-04

News to know: SAP responds to Oracle suit; Outlook archive; Twinhead Durabook

Notable headlines:Dan Farber: SAP acknowledges inappropriate downloads by TomorrowNow in response to Oracle suit.David Berlind: Is it time for the battery life equivalent of a 'nutrition label?'Robin Harris: Outlook's risky archives - and how to fix them.Review right: Twinhead Durabook D13RY.Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-03

News to know: iPhone alternatives; Desktop virtualization diaries; Hacker's road to riches

News to know:Dan Farber: Powerset: The natural language search mashup platformDavid Berlind: The Desktop Virtualization Diaries prologue: The Good, the Bad, and the horribly UglyiPhone WatchMatthew Miller: What kind of choices do you have if you don't want an iPhone?David Berlind: Nokia's N95 costs more ($749) than the iPhone. But...

Tags: Personal Technology, News to know, iPhone, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-29

News to know: iPhone reviews; Pink Dell; Enterprise Facebook

iPhone Watch iPhone Reviews: Not perfect, but worthy of the hype Engadget: How does the iPhone stack up in total cost? Mary Jo Foley:The iPhone will be compatible with Microsoft Exchange, after all ZDNN: Switching carriers for the iPhone Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iYawn - It's not a tool, it's a shiny bauble Russell Shaw: Analysts predict...

Tags: Personal Technology, News to know, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-27

News to know: Tim Berners-Lee; mobile Ubuntu; Kitchen Windows; Latest MacBook Pro review

Notable headlines:Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux.David Berlind: Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged right: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access. Out of the box experience with Lenovo's Thinkpads is simply unacceptable.Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy. Dan Farber: iPhonomics and the post-PC era. Russell Shaw: Several iPhone presale...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-07

News to know: Ask3D; AMD; Smart watches; Browser holes

Notable headlines:Intel readies new chipsets. AMD hopes Barcelona demos whet IT's appetite.Matthew Miller: Are you sure there's not a place for a smart watch on your wrist? Gallery left.HTC beats Apple to the touch.Dan Farber: Ask3D brings a fresh look to search below. Ask launches new Web search site. ...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-05

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EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users

Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...

Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Images: NASA uncovers secret of the Northern Lights

NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites reveal that explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon causes the aurora borealis. by CNET News.com

Tags: NASA, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-25

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.

Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gateway stops selling PCs direct

Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...

Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?

Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...

Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up

Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...

Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24