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Interpol chief wants databases to track criminals

Interpol chief wants databases to track criminalsYour paperzzz ...I guess Hitler had the right idea after all, at least according to George Bush, Alberto Gonzalez, and now Interpol.The ends justify the means, even if it involves little things like torturing people, trashing the constitution, and intruding into every single facet...

Tags: database, Geneva Conventions, Interpol, POW

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

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Political party playlists

We know the Democrats and Republicans are split over policy issues, but does their musical taste fall down party lines too? And what kind of gadgets did they bring to the conventions to listen to their music? CNET reporter Kara Tsuboi finds out.

Tags: News, republican national convention, mp3, ipod, country music, christian rock

Videos 2008-09-04

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...

Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-27

News to know: Psystar vs. Apple; WGA; Linux under attack; FAA failure

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: News.com: Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue Sam Diaz: Does Psystar have a legit argument in Apple countersuit? Psystar countersues Apple, alleges anticompetitive business practices...

Tags: FAA, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Attack, Psystar, Linux, Bluetooth, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Huagati DBML/EDMX Tools (zip)

Huagati DBML Tools is an add-in for Visual Studio that adds functionality to the Linq2SQL/DBML diagram designer in Visual Studio 2008, adding options for comparing and synchronizing Linq2SQL designer diagrams with the database, for updating classes and properties generated using the Linq to SQL designer or Entity Framework designer to...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Huagati Systems, Huagati DBML Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, .Net, Databases, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-08-27

A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Geneva

A Microsoft Codename a day: Genevaballyhoo" ballyhoo "Microsoft Redmond Campus Windows Marketing internal name for "Windows 7" _post bynot graham.lv

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Marketing research, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Geneva

Today's codename-contest submission is "Geneva," one of a growing number of Swiss codenames in the Microsoft family. Geneva is related to Zermatt, a previously disclosed Redmond name and, like Zermatt, has to do with federated identity. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Geneva, Codename, Microsoft Corp., Zermatt, Digital Security, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Google brings election mobile as reporters become irrelevant

Worried you'll miss it the second John McCain announces his veep choice? After all, the GOP isn't offering a text-message alert the way Obama did. (Not that that worked so well.) Well, maybe young mothers won't be checking it at 2:38 a.m., but...

Tags: NBC, Google Inc., Mobile, Reporter, Shafer, Farhi, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, RSS, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Building Windows, not walls

Building Windows, not wallsBuilding Windows, not wallsHooray for ZDNet duplication! Now we only need 5 more articles about this subject which will coincide with ZDNet agenda.[i]will reinvigorate Vista’s image and make Microsoft less of an Apple chump.[/i]As of lately the chump has been Apple with their failures. This ad...

Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, wall, Building Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

An Event Apart 2008: Day 1

The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...

Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Programming note: Politics meets tech

In the next few weeks, CNET and CBS will be tag teaming the Democratic and Republican national conventions surfacing technology issues as they pop up. Dan Farber has all the details and ways you can submit questions. Dan writes: With the Democratic and Republican national conventions...

Tags: CNET Networks Inc., Convention, Republican, Programming, CBS Corp., Dan Farber, Dan, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-15

Cornyn illustrates U.S. health policy divide

Cornyn illustrates U.S. health policy divideThere He Goes AgainCornyn is my senator and I'm always writing to him to debunk the statements he makes. Cornyn is classic Marketing 101 -- all talk, no listen.Voting our economic interestYour economic interest is ALWAYS less government, more free enterprise. Regardless of your current...

Tags: Government, Lou Dobbs, middle class, Cornyn

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Facebook and MySpace: Walking the security-social networking line

Security--actually insecurity--is a very social thing. Get a cute malware infested email and forward it along to your contact list. See a site that's interesting--but is really just a phishing expedition--and you get hit with a virus/worm/rootkit. Social engineering makes the security world go around. So what do you do...

Tags: facebook, network, myspace, defcon, phishing, web site development, security, viruses and worms, spam and phishing, internet, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-08

World's first wind-powered vehicle race

World's first wind-powered vehicle raceKewl but sorta done already.Sorta like sailing, but without wind, your dead in the water, guess you could pedal.. lolRE: World's first wind-powered vehicle raceNot even the first LAND vehicle, wind powered race. The ice boats on Lake Geneva WS. were racing at 40+MPH, 50 years...

Tags: first wind powered vehicle, wind powered vehicle

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Should Microsoft become more Apple-like?

About a week and a half ago, Mary Jo Foley wrote a piece where she argued that Microsoft was planning to get more "Apple-like" in the PC and phone space, based on various statements from Microsoft executives. I intended to write a response that following Monday, but work intervened, which...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-08-04

VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits

Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...

Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Identi.ca fires pure open source against Twitter

Micro-blogging is best at conventions, meetings and other gatherings. It's shared IM, instant texting, with channels created on-the-fly. With better mobile Internet devices -- iPhones and their competitors -- any public meeting can have organized chatter and background noise. Conclusions can be reached before people leave the room. by Dana...

Tags: Twitter, Dave Rosenberg, Micro-blogging, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-07

HiSoft Reduces Labor Costs and Speeds Payroll Processing for Global Workforce

Founded in 1996, HiSoft Technology International is China's leading software outsourcing provider. As a service provider, HiSoft considers its workforce to be its most important asset. To ensure it could attract and retain highly skilled employees in a competitive labor market, the company decided to implement a global HR management...

Tags: Oracle Corp., HRM, Payroll, Workforce, HiSoft, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources

Case studies 2008-07-01

Time to blow up the software industry

Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Cell phone as desktop computer

This is a bit of a crazy idea, but it constitutes part of the reason I keep harping on about the importance of full-blown desktop operating systems in cell phones. Yes, it creates developer consistency, meaning that the same skills used to develop apps for desktop computers map directly to...

Tags: Desktop, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Desktop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-20