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- News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Nokia Ovi Store fails in many ways, buy with extreme caution
- I have now had two issues with the Nokia Ovi Store over the past couple of weeks and will no longer buy ANY application from the Ovi Store until I see some major improvements in how business is conducted and carried out. Andrew and I thought that the Ovi Store...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., Ovi Store, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Blacklists vs. whitelists
- Blacklists vs. whitelistsCommercial Site VettingMy concern with a vendor offering to optimize content is where else are they looking to monetize the relationship, perhaps through back doors?Data mine and sell to marketing? Take money from commercial sites or trade associations such as the dairy councils to improve the findability of...
- Tags: K-12
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens
- After more than two weeks (months?) of inexplicable silence on mitigations for a known code execution vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat product lines, Adobe has finally posted public information on the problem but the company's response falls well short of providing definitive mitigation guidance for end users. ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, JavaScript, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planet
- Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planetJust as soon...as I can find a way to pin this catastrophe on Microsoft I'll be back.RE: Forget the cockroach, jellyfish shall inherit the planetJust great.... and I have an extreme allergy to jellyfish as well, to the point where I am in...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, cockroach, Wikipedia article
- Discussion threads 2008-12-14
- US-CERT: Beware of airline ticket e-mail scam
- The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an alert for an e-mail scam targeting holiday travelers, warning that malware authors are using clever social engineering tactics to hijack Windows computers. In the e-mail scam, users get a .zip file attached to a message about...
- Tags: Malware, Social Engineering, US-CERT, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Google helps CDC track flu clusters
- Google helps CDC track flu clustersSo it has begunFirst they will track every search related to flu for the CDC.Then next they will track every search related to guns, and report back to th ATF.Then next Google will give the DHS all searches related to "terrorist'.How much of our souls...
- Tags: I-net, CDC, flu, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Free speech for students, revisited
- Free speech for students, revisitedThe rockFreedom of speech is the mother of all freedoms. Because by using it, you can win all the other freedoms back. It's the rock upon which our democratic political systems are built.It destroys tyranny at every level: political, corporate, educational and even psychological (political correctness,...
- Tags: Blogging, Avery
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Psystar offers 13 non-Apple Software Updates
- Yesterday, Mac cloner announced a series of Software Updates for their Open Computer: Safe updates, as well as bug fixes and workarounds, are now available in our Support section. We have released a couple of fixes for things like Time Machine as well as a fix for DHCP issues...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Update, DHCP, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Security, Keyboards, Digital Media, Networking, Apple Mac OS, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Leopard, Operating Systems, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Psystar, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2
- In my first post in this series, I discussed the Same Origin Policy and how it protects us from some very serious attacks, the dangers of domain name based trust, and how to attack implementations of the Same Origin Policy within the Java Virtual Machine JVM. In order to demonstrate...
- Tags: Permission, Applet, Attack, Programming Languages, Java, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Week+in+review%3A+Microsoft+the+magnanimous%3F
- Week+in+review%3A+Microsoft+the+magnanimous%3FMicrosoft the magnanimous?I'll believe it when I see it.Microsoft has lied, cheated and stole so many times before I don't believe a word off it and I'm sure there are many, many companies out there are looking at this the same way. Extreme caution.Microsoft the magnanimous? more like Microsoft the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- MacBook Air Diary-Day 13: Installing 10.5.2
- I generally wait at least 72 hours before installing any operating system updates from Apple but yesterday's announcement of 10.5.2 made me throw caution to the wind. I figured that I had a solid backup as Apple recommends and I wanted to see if the new update from Cupertino would...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Software, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Hardware, Mac OS 10.5.2 Update, Nothing
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- WPF versions of Calculator, Paint, and WordPad in Windows 7
- WPF versions of Calculator, Paint, and WordPad in Windows 7My biggest concern...Is how much junk is Microsoft going to try to load at boot that will have your system resources begging for mercy? That's my biggest complaint about Vista: I think I would enjoy my "Vista Experience" a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), .NET, WordPad, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- Is the boom in kiddie porn a Net effect or is 'victimless' behavior unduly punished?
- Is the boom in kiddie porn a Net effect or is 'victimless' behavior unduly punished?If the demand is chokedthen it will be much less profitable to harm the children. Simple economics.RE: Is the boom in kiddie porn a Net effect or is 'victimless' behavior undThe problem is how 100000 report...
- Tags: kind-of thing, Net Effect
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Microsoft confirms PDF attacks, urges caution
- In the wake of this week's malware attacks using rigged PDF files, Microsoft has updated its security advisory to stress that the underlying flaw -- in the Windows operating system -- is still not fixed. The advisory, first issued on October 10, points to an unpatched...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Which Mac should I get?
- Which Mac should I get?24" iMacGo for the 24" iMac unless you feel you can't do without slots, in which case go for the MacProWell...I'm guessing you think of yourself as a power user, so... If you're overly mobile, then I'd say you should go for the MacBook Pro, if...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Mini, Apple iMac, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Tunables for the Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Suite: Optimizing for Performance and Failover
- There are several areas of performance - failover times, SCSI queue depth management, and so on - that can be optimized by judicious and careful use of certain user-tunable kernel-level variables described below. Because many of these variables are interdependent with other variables and are global in nature, please approach...
- Tags: Sun StorEdge, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Failover, SAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Futility 1.0.5 (Mac)
- Futility: contextual menu and application for: Moving the data fork of a file into the resource fork, then deleting the data fork. Listing all resources in a resource fork by ID, type and name. Deleting a file's data fork. Deleting a file's resource fork. Deleting a file, folder or...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Resource, Limit Point Software, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-05-24
- One Office Suite please. Hold the mayo (I brought my own)
- One Office Suite please. Hold the mayo I brought my ownCongratsLooks like another well thought out article.Google apps is looking better all the time for small businesses. What agreat way to get up and running for a fraction of the cost. Also saves a ton of labor, with users focused...
- Tags: Google Apps, Gross Revenue, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Suite, Microsoft PowerPoint
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
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