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- Dreamforce 07: George Lucas pitches edutopia
- Dreamforce 07: George Lucas pitches edutopiaSocrates, not Aristotlealthough I applaud Lucas for his new mission in lifea but ironic that he used the wrong Greek in his samples about teaching by asking a question :)
- Tags: George Lucas, Dreamforce 07
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- Dreamforce 07: Cisco CEO, -- "Future is about collaboration"
- At the Dreamforce 07 conference in San Francisco, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, discusses new collaboration technologies that will drive innovation and productivity inside the enterprise, including, wikis, video and social networking.
- Tags: Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Internet, Groupware, Enterprise Software
- Videos 2007-09-17
- Dreamforce 07: Salesforce.com unveils Force.com
- At the Dreamforce 07 conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff talks about the new Force.com, which will act as a platform for the company's various software services.
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques
- Videos 2007-09-17
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- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUsIt's not surprising.The increased cost of the premium Office doesn't provide much that corporations need. Also, as linked, Vista Home Basic is not viable either, so they must, if they go Vista, get the premium product.I do think a clarification is needed. [B]He...
- Tags: Elop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another
- Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on anotherReputation has 100% American bias for nowI created a Knol today, but was unable to verify myself, as I don't live in the USA. For the moment, even though I have Gmail, amd on orkut, use Adsense and Google Reader, Google...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Google Inc., Knol
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit
- [Updated 07/24/2008: Gallery images of diffs of code revisions has been included and will be updated as things change, see here.] Earlier today, noted researchers |)ruid and HD Moore released exploit code for the Metasploit tool for attacking the DNS flaw that was originally reported by Dan...
- Tags: DNS, Domain, Server, Entry, Exploit, NS, NS Record, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Apple Q3 2008 earnings: revenue up 38%; Mac shipments up 41% (updated)
- Apple announced their fiscal third quarter 2008 financial results today in a conference call with analysts. A press release and a re-broadcast of the audio webcast is available on Apple's investor relations Web site and you can subscribe to the Apple Quarterly Earnings Call podcast in iTunes. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Earnings, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Hardware, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries
- Updated: Apple on Monday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 a share, on revenue of $7.46 billion, well ahead of Wall Street estimates as Mac sales continued to surge. However, Apple lowered its outlook and failed to allay concerns about CEO Steve Jobs' health. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Job, Apple Macintosh, Health Care, Apple Inc., Steve, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker
- Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hackerHackers Gone Wild?Hey - you beat me to the story - but I've been working on a piece on these guys as well. There is a very nationalistic thread through all the hacks they've done, whether it's the NeTDevilz, or the AyYildiz Team....
- Tags: SECURITY, Malaysian site, Kaspersky, Turkish Hacker, Turkish
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?
- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?FYI[url=http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/dell_adds_ubuntu_systems_updates_hardy_heron/]FYI[/url]Just curious Dana, are you running Linux? If so, why and which Distro?If not, why?Thanks for another 'good read'.P.S.[url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2660]This article[/url] isn't clear about what O/S you use.RE: Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?The simple answer is a reassuring NO! Put simply,...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, Notebooks, Ubuntu, Linux, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- #10 Eventful (Gallery: Top 10 free iPhone applications)
- #10 Eventful (Gallery: Top 10 free iPhone applications)rdp clientHi,Does anyone know if there's a RDP client for iPhone ?It would be cool to run Windows apps thru your iPhone via Windows server TS or XP based ThinServer http://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmRE:Wow, I am shocked BlackBerry was not at the tip top of that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone
- GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbonesupport central at geChcuk Hollis from EMC just wrote another equally laudatory blog on what looks like the same thing: http://chucksblog.typepad.com/a_journey_in_social_media/2008/07/a-humbling-expe.htmlDoes anyone know where we can get more information? Have any of the Gartners and Forresters written about Support central?The article doesn't say...what is the core OS,...
- Tags: collaboration, Enterprise Collaboration Backbone, Enterprise Collaboration, General Electric Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- iPhone as powerful as the Dreamcast, more powerful than the DS ... but is t
- iPhone as powerful as the Dreamcast, more powerful than the DS ... but is tawesomemy buddy showed me monkey ball and i was blown away. i saw a few other games and i think it could compete on some level with other portables if they get the buttons thing and...
- Tags: Games, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, game, Apple iPhone, Dreamcast
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Open source college revolution?
- Open source college revolution?Blackboard NG "Next Generation"Keynote speaker Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen demonstrated the power and direction of Blackboad NG at today's afternoon session of Blackboard World '08 in Las Vegas.TRULY a Next Generation product that makes any institution's 'learning' go everywhere.+ It will now wrap Moodle & Satai.+ Courses...
- Tags: Angel Learning, Moodle & Satai, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities
- Update 07/16/2008: Apparently I neglected to mention that this has been patched already. Reading over it again and a heads up from a reader pointed out the error to me. As always, great job by Window Snyder and the Mozilla Security Team for getting this patched quickly. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, URI, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Attack, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Time spent on social networking in May 2008
- Rank Name Domain May-08 May-07 YoY % Change 1 MySpace www.myspace.com 29m42s 30m02s -1% 2 Facebook www.facebook.com 20m21s 13m01s 56% 3 MyYearbook www.myyearbook.com 30m51s 23m43s 30% 4 Bebo www.bebo.com 30m17s 29m48s 2% 5 Black Planet www.blackplanet.com 24m54s 22m01s 13% ...
- Tags: Bebo, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Psystar.com offline ...
- It could just be a coincidence, but as of the time of writing (4:00am PDT, 07/16) Psystar's website appears to be down. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
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