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Apple likes jailbroken iPhones too

Somebody in Cupertino's in a lot of hot water Monday morning. In fact, they might as well not even show up to work tomorrow. Apparently some genius at Apple submitted a patent application for iPhone biometric security to the USPTO with evidence of jailbreaking all over it....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Patent Application, Apple Inc., Gaff, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-29

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Moffat no longer with IBM as fallout from insider trading scandal continues

ORLY?![pre]In 2002, he was on Fortune?s list of the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America.[/pre]Mmmm.... I don't think so. Rodney C. Adkins is on Fortune's list of [b]Black[/b] Executives.Glancing is dangerousAfter showing a coworker what a hilarious gaff I'd found, I realized I had skimmed over the fact that...

Tags: Glancing, Moffat, IBM Corp., fallout

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

TIBCO and SAP: place your bets

Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Microsoft Hotmail blocking GMX mail for some in Europe

Microsoft Hotmail blocking GMX mail for some in EuropeBye MS... joinging GMXThanks ZDNet.. for setting us free.UIsn't interoperability one of Microsoft's pet words?The Microsoft definition of interoperability means to conform to one of their bastardized standards or suffer the "consequences". This may be a case of consequences suffered but...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, GMX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Inauguration pass or fail? Social network, streaming video report card

Inauguration pass or fail? Social network, streaming video report cardCNNCNN's streaming worked because they were smart enough to only accept as many viewers as they could handle.When MSNBC failed on me, I went to CNN, and was told via a banner on the screen something to the effect of "Glad...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Web browsers, social networking, Inauguration, CNN, network, streaming video, video

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

The BIG iPod touch review

A few weeks ago I got my hands on two 16GB iPod touch devices.  Having spent a lot of hands on time with these devices it's time for a comprehensive review. The iPod touch was for me the first Apple device to come out when I eagerly...

Tags: Touch Screen, Device, Apple iPod, Screen, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-23

Help! My OPML has fallen down and it can't get up!

Last week, on the Dan and David Show, although the service is still an early prototype, my colleague Dan Farber heaped praise on Googles RSS reader imaginatively named Google Reader. I decided to finally give Google Reader a look but wanted to save myself the trouble of having to...

Tags: NewsGator, OPML, RSS, RSS reader

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Day 4: Callisto, Callisto, Callisto.

The theme of the final session of EclipseCon 2006 on Thursday was the upcoming Callisto simultaneous release. (Note: all the previous draft reports have been edited and updated. --Ed) Figure 1. The new Callisto logo, by Walter Myers. It's the artist's rendition of a Jovian eclipse as...

Tags: Callisto

Blog posts 2006-03-24

Sony rootkit: The untold story

In light of the way Bruce Schneier has published Sony's DRM Rootkit: The real story -- a story that recounts how quickly things have gone from bad to worse for Sony, I thought it would only be fitting to publish the untold story (does our industry have the equivalent of...

Tags: Sony Corp., rootkit

Blog posts 2005-11-18

Sony offers removal and replacement for rootkit DRM

By way of ZDNet reader Barb Bowman comes news that Sony BMG is moving quickly to clean up the PR disaster that ensued after Mark Russinovich provided an incredibly detailed account of how the company was including Digital Restrictions Management DRM software on its artists' CDs that, like Trojan horses,...

Tags: rootkit

Blog posts 2005-11-03

Apple: Not a DRM monopoly yet, but behavior is monopolistic

Apple: Not a DRM monopoly yet, but behavior is monopolisticNot just SonosAll of the other wireless music systems (Squeezebox, Soundbridge) are also incompatible with Apple's DRM (then again, they're also incompatible with Microsoft's WMA DRM as well, so it's not just Apple).Once I bought a Squeezebox, I stopped purchasing...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2005-11-01

Final Excuse Pro 1.3.1 (Mac)

The premier excuse confabulation solution for people bereft of credibility and imagination, Final Excuse Pro can make excuses for transgressions ranging from late assignments and social gaffs to war-crimes. Specify your own scapegoat, or rely on the pre-installed library encompassing pets, subordinates, relatives, highly paid advisors, the Global Monkey Conspiracy...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Prepared Statement, WANs, Investment, Network Technology, Desktops, Networking, Finance, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-10-17

If you could be HP's CEO for a day...

In his relatively new gig Grassroots Journalism, Dan Gillmor is developing a knack for calling out over-the-top excessiveness when it's begging to be called out. It's the main reason I follow Gillmor's blog. As the master aggregator and editorializer of financial impropriety, few people seem to cross borders (industries,...

Tags: Dan Gillmor

Blog posts 2005-04-07

Microsoft ponders open-source database

Microsoft ponders open-source databaseTruth in AdvertisingThe headline says "Open Source" but MS "Shared Source" isn't "Open" in any meaningful way. Either the article author made that up (incompetence?) or if it came from MS they're more desperate than I had previously thought.Spell checkers and editingZDNet Editors, please notice the...

Tags: widow, Going open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-02-23