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Fake Steve Jobs outed by New York Times

It's a sad day for impostors everywhere.The New York Times has outed Fake Steve Jobs and he is Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes.Times reporter Brad Stone quotes Lyons:“I’m stunned that it’s taken this long,” said Mr. Lyons, 46, when a reporter interrupted his vacation in Maine on Sunday...

Tags: Brad Stone, Daniel Lyons, Fake Steve, Fake Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, New York Times Co., Reporter, Steve Jobs

Blog posts 2007-08-05

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Hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs Amazon account

Cult of Mac's Leander Kahney was approached by a hacker looking to sell access to Steve Jobs' personal Amazon account "with all his purchase/interest details for 6-7 years." The hacker going by the handle "orin0co" claims to have phished the Apple CEO in a new...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Hacker, Attack, Hacking, Security, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-14

Forbes: Microsoft Vista: Not "People Ready"

Forbes' Daniel Lyons was at the Microsoft"People Ready" event in New York last week. He has a veryinteresting take.... No one mentioned the fact that in1997, Microsoft held a similar event in New York City to declare that IBM's"big iron" was dead, because Windows...

Tags: People Ready, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-03-22

de Raadt, the suits, and the rebellion

I stumbled into a fascinating question the other day while looking at an identity management implementation requiring near total reliability and enormous resilience against external network attack; but not a lot of capacity. Here's the background. The software selected is all open source, so it can run on just about...

Tags: openBSD

Blog posts 2006-03-16

A paragraph about Cell

A Forbes article last week by Daniel Lyons under the title Holy Chip! included this paragraph about an IBM cell processor demo: An IBM demo shows the contrast. A terrain rendering program lets you fly over Mount Rainier at 1,300mph. Cell crunches through millions of lines of...

Tags: Processors, Cell

Blog posts 2006-01-19

Is open source a scam against itself?

Forbes says it so it must be true. Open source software is a scam that open source software companies are running on themselves. The "news hook" here is IBM offering its recently-acquired Gluecode code free, in a move that seems aimed at JBoss. Author Daniel Lyons finds himself practically laughing...

Tags: open source, JBoss

Blog posts 2005-06-16

Forbes: Linux, now an asset for Microsoft

Has Linux been helping Microsoft close deals?  Microsoft, nearing its 30th anniversary next year, is often coming out on top in its battle to show that it is a more logical choice when compared to Linux. An article from Forbes says that it's not just Microsoft's price cuts, but rather...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux

Blog posts 2004-09-08