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Neutrality perspectives

Here's a roundup of various points of view on net neutrality as Congress turns the hot air machine towards net neutrality. Of course, you've seen News.com's wrapup article, too. Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge, writing on ZDNet's Wired & Wireless Blog: This is an...

Tags: Internet, Net Neutrality, broadband, Dixon

Blog posts 2006-02-07

Additional Resources

Students sue over "sexting" case

Students sue over "sexting" caseAmster, Amster, d@m-d@m-d@mCould it be that puritanical American society is becoming closer to European society? Every new generation seems to be less conservative and more willing to explore/experiment. The "free love" of the 1960's is a good example of this behavior.Kids today are realizing just how...

Tags: pornography law, R@PE, nudity

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Customer Effective - Partner Grows 1000 Percent Over Three Years with Focus on CRM Solutions

Customer Effective delivers Customer Relationship Management CRM solutions based exclusively on Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The Microsoft Gold Certified Partner uses the product to help customers develop and support the relationships that are critical in today's competitive market, especially in the professional services industry. For customer Dixon Hughes - a top...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, CRM Solution, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

Case studies 2009-03-24

From Drilling Oil for Exxon Mobil in the Caspian Sea to Building a Dream Home, SmartDraw Saves Time and Money

During his 30-year career at Exxon Mobil, Bill Dixon designed and built oil drilling rigs all over the world. When Dixon retired from Exxon, the company hired him back as a consultant on a huge project in the Caspian Sea. This was a very difficult drilling rig project and they...

Tags: Caspian Sea, Exxon Mobil Corp., SmartDraw, Professional Development, Career

Case studies 2009-01-26

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

I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...

Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Domain Names, Internet, Kaminsky, Nathan McFeters, Patches, Security, Server

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Kaminsky to discuss DNS flaw at Black Hat sponsored webcast

The Black Hat group on Twitter provided a message today alerting people to a webcast to be put on by Dan Kaminsky on the DNS vulnerabilities that I've heavily covered as follows: Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08 ...

Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, DNS, Flaw, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing up

Sorry Simon, but you're still screwing upSorry Dana, but you scewed upHi Dana,I totally agree that more transparency would be a good thing for Sun and its products and projects, and more openness would be the next big step. Beyond that I don't agree with much that you wrote here.>...

Tags: Team management, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Simon, non-development community, open source project, team, MySQL

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

GPL divide still lives, one year on

GPL divide still lives, one year onThe Freeware Ghetto"If the GPL just becomes a freeware license while "commercial" versions of the same programs are offered under commercial licenses, does the GPL risk becoming a freeware ghetto?"Amen - I was so pleased to see this question posed - as it seems...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Tools & Techniques, GPL, freeware, F/OSS

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Open source migration must be evolutionary

Open source migration must be evolutionaryI agreeThe risk and effort involved in a all-in one migration is very high. Open source works great with proprietary software so there is no reason to migrate the server-side all at once. The desktop is a little harder to do.James DixonThis is why FOSS...

Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, open source, migration, Open Source Migration, Microsoft Corp., desktop

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Cyber-Storm II is blowing through DC

It’s time, once again, for Cyber Storm, the "the largest-ever exercise designed to evaluate the mettle of information technology experts and incident response teams" from 18 federal agencies and nine states, The Washington Post. Jerry Dixon, a former director of the...

Tags: Player, Australia, Attorney General, Cyber-Storm II, Government, Strategy, Security, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Dad's sale of pot-smoking son's game sparks Web debate

Dad's sale of pot-smoking son's game sparks Web debateThe father must do what is right in raising his offspringbut whether that includes making it a public spectacle is another thing altogether. It, depending on country, state, providence or township may have different legal ramifications for not just father but...

Tags: Games, Dad, game, Web

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

Gates' Microsoft future of intense interest

Gates' Microsoft future of intense interestThey need SOMEBODY to be the public face of Microsoft. Balmer is viewed asa chair throwing idiot, they are keeping Ozzie sequestered, who else is there????But, this is an important role, as Microsoft is now forced to NOT give customers what they want in terms...

Tags: Leadership, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., deity, public face

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

McGuire Air Force base tries out a different shade of green

OK, let’s get one thing clear right away: New Jersey can be pretty darn cold in the winter. I know, I live here. And heck, it gets pretty darn hot here, too. Therefore, I was pretty intrigued last week when I got a press release item from...

Tags: Air Force, Business Structures, Sales Tools, Finance, Sales, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)

Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)Media business is growingand OF COURSE Microsoft want a piece of that pie.In recent news NBC left Apple's iTunes and have started their own service, heavily DRMed of course using Windows Media but with too restricted usage, so most of us...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVR, Media Business, DVD, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, digital-rights management, digital video recorder, DVD player, Microsoft Windows, TiVo Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

Smart cars... from Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories SNL are more known for their research on nuclear weapons than for making our cars safer. Still, some SNL researchers are designing safety features for cars that can analyze human behavior. This could lead to smarter cars which would tell us that we're tired or tell our...

Tags: Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-25

Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair use

Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair useDixon Peabody lawyers are being lame and stupid, but......I really don't see how the republishing/broadcasting/whatever of this song in full could be possibly be considered fair use. That'd be like broadcasting a full-length really embarrassingly bad movie in MST3K...

Tags: Blogger, fair use

Discussion threads 2007-08-23

How to make a vacation about Ed Tech

I'm writing this post from Ocean City, MD. I decided to take a vacation this year with the family that didn't involve large, disturbingly cheerful characters or sweltering Florida heat (some of you may remember my trip to Disneyworld last summer; I'm still having flashbacks). Before last year's...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-16

RED HERRING EAST 2007: Dixon Doll on Entrepreneurial Leadership Traits

Dixon Doll is a highly-respected and successful venture capital investor. At the Red Herring East 2007 conference, Dixon gave a talk and answered questions regarding his views on venture capital investing, global markets, and other sundry and related topics. Given his background and track record, you can be sure that...

Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Project management

Blog posts 2007-06-29

European Accounting Firm Regains Lost Files in Minutes Instead of Hours

Accounting firm Dixon Wilson, with offices in France and the United Kingdom, has established a leading position based on excellent customer service. As part of its continued drive to maximise client support, the company wanted to reduce the time needed to recover accidentally deleted files. Dixon Wilson rolled out Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Utility Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2007-06-01

Hillary Clinton plays winning hand in Las Vegas

Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton cant get enough of Vegas, thats why she has opened up a campaign headquarters there!Clinton vs. Edwards, not Obama: ‘User Generated Politics’ live from Nevada I reported in February, live blogging the “first...

Tags: User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Politics, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton

Blog posts 2007-05-10