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- Microsoft patches Windows worm holes, drive-by download flaws
- HolesIt is like trying to patch a rotten ship!Does that mean Linux is a rotten ship too?NTAnd unfortunately most of the world is on that ship And unfortunately most of the world is on that ship RE: Microsoft patches Windows worm holes, drive-by download flawsAll OS are subject to "Intrusion...
- Tags: Linux, Patches, Construction, Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft patches Windows worm hole, Microsoft patches Window, worm hole, Microsoft Patches, flaw, Microsoft Corp., patch management, attacked, window, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Demand this from software vendors
- I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...
- Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Two Views of the Software Market
- A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...
- Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
- As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...
- Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Open source and forced obsolescence
- You gutted your own articleFirst, no one forces you to update your software, period. There *are* companies that won't support antiques, and who can blame them? Support costs are very high, especially since one person or team can't be expected to be expert in a dozen different versions of the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), obsolescence, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Shouldn’t services firms have their own ERP?
- I caught up this week with Morris Panner, CEO of OpenAir now part of NetSuite. One aspect of our wide-ranging conversation concerned the continuing evolution of businesses, the economy, etc. towards a greater services orientation. Drawing on that, we discussed how services firms need their own version of ERP. ...
- Tags: Staffing, ERP, Services Firm, Service Firm, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Microsoft responds to the Zune Originals issue in a big way
- Nice to see someone owned up.Its always tough when you launch something and something goes horribly wrong.Like when blockbuster launched their new website, then promply reverted back to the original for a month until they fixed issues.High DemandThe fact they brought in more people and FedEx trucks tells me that...
- Tags: High Demand, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication
- Ok, ill buy that..Yes Two-factor authentication doesnt help avoid the already infected. Now what the bank SHOULD have one other than the user having a fully patched system and AV if hes on Windows is when the website detected that there was activity from another IP address - represented another...
- Tags: Financial services, Security administration, bank, two-factor authentication, banker malware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Modern banker malware undermines two-factor authentication
- Once pitched as an additional layer of security for E-banking transactions, two-factor authentication is slowly becoming an easy to bypass authentication process, to which cybercriminals have successfully adapted throughout the last couple of years. Modern banker malware, also known as crimeware, is now fully capable of bypassing...
- Tags: Bank, Two-factor Authentication, Antivirus, Malware, SMS, Cybercriminal, Banker Malware, Zeus, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Security Administration, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
- Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- It's Official: Avaya Acquires Nortel Enterprise
- Hot off the e-mail wire: Avaya today announced it was selected to acquire Nortel Enterprise Solutions for US $900 million in proceeds to Nortel and an additional pool of $15 million reserved for an employee retention program. Today’s announcement follows the completion of an...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Avaya Inc., Research & Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Citizens Financial sued for insufficient E-Banking security
- If a fraudulent transaction ever takes place on one of your bank accounts due to their compromise, who's to blame - the bank, for not providing you as a customer with state-of-the-art security mechanisms that could have prevented it, or you, as a customer whose insecure online behavior led to...
- Tags: Bank, Citizens LLC, Electronic Banking, Financial, Two-factor Authentication, Online Banking, Banking, Security Administration, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- How to share sensitive documents and maintain control over them
- Businesses need to share important or sensitive documents on a daily basis, whether it's quotes or RFP responses sent to customers, intellectual property or specs shared with contractors, or financial information shared in the context of an M&A transaction (e.g. Deal Room). But once recipients receive the documents, you lose...
- Tags: Document, Financial, Confidela, E-mail, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property, Financial Accounting, Security, Online Communications, Investment, Finance, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-09-02
- Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay Only When It Matters
- Cloud storage solutions promise high scalability and low cost. Existing solutions, however, differ in the degree of consistency they provide. Its experience using such systems indicates that there is a non-trivial trade-off between cost, consistency and availability. High consistency implies high cost per transaction and, in some situations, reduced availability....
- Tags: Consistency, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-08-28
- Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let's be fair to developers too
- Price floors don't help anyoneFirst, setting a minimum price is a price floor. Basic microeconomics teaches that this lowers demand and raises supply, generating an inefficient surplus. I don't see how that's good.Second, you seem to imply in this article that $0.99 apps are Apple's fault. They...
- Tags: Action Games, developer, cent smartphone app
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Deconstructing United Airlines: Where Customers are Transactions
- United Airlines: Customers are Merely Transactions If you're a loyalty marketer and look at my United profile, you find something that would make you 4.5 on a scale of 5.0 when it comes to warm and fuzzy.  You'd see hundreds of thousands of United Airlines frequent flier FF miles;...
- Tags: Customers Ltd., Mile, Customer, United Corp., United Airlines, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Marketing, Human Resources, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- My PayPal credit card beef, Part II: PayPal responds
- Ebay & PaypalDoesn't it equal "double-dipping" when both Ebay AND Paypal charge a seller when (1) an item sells on Ebay, and (2) a seller receives his payment through Paypal? A seller pays to post an item, pays when/if it sells, then has to pay Paypal again when he receives...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, PayPal, credit card, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- My PayPal credit card beef, Part II: PayPal responds
- Maybe my PayPal whining will result in some sort of change, after all. In a post yesterday, I wrote about what I felt were unfair policies involving credit card fees on PayPal. Specifically, I was frustrated about the fees incurred when using a credit card. Currently, a...
- Tags: Credit Card, PayPal, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Lawyer files a full-throated attack on Google Books deal
- Lawyers and the New York Times are sitting up to take notice of a new "sweeping" objection to the Google Books deal. The objector is Scott E. Gant, an author and partner at the Washington law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner. In an interview, he told the Times: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Class Action, Attack, Gant, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
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