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411 and DNS: A Global SPAMbase?

411 and DNS: A Global SPAMbase?So when someone claims their privacy has been invaded......using this system, I can just hear the cries for an investigation.This makes just about much sense as all of the social-networking sites where people store personal info.Why on earth would anyone "entrust" their personal data to...

Tags: Domain names, Global SPAMbase, DNS

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

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CES 2009: Recession could be good to us, AMD says [day 4]

AMD's global VP of advanced marketing and prolific blogger Pat Moorhead sat down with me today to discuss AMD latest products and their plan for 2009, and according to Moorhead, "AMD is positioned well for this economy," referencing the current recession. According to Moorhead, AMD is targeting...

Tags: Recession, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Netbook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Governance snake oil warning

According to a Tweet message I've seen that is being repeated: The GRC market is believed to boom after the indian enron "Satyam" case came into picture last wednesday. SAP and ORACLE seeks opportunities In an application sales starved market, all vendors will be scrambling for opportunities. ...

Tags: Audit, Governance, Satyam, Audit Profession, Questions, Sales Strategy, Financial Accounting, Litigation, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Predicting vitality of 'SOA' completely misses the point -- legacy IT is dead

So the actual costs of meaningful change in IT for the next few years will come at an historically low real cost, with very high rates of return after the transition. And the portion of IT spend devoted to capital outlays will decline. And you can bargain (perhaps even push...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Trust: the Satyam Partnering Disaster

The images above, taken from Satyam's website, are now worthy of the fail blog. The shock waves rippling through the markets following Satyam's chairman and co-founder Ramalinga Raju's admissions of accounting fraud are world news, being dubbed 'India's Enron'. You...

Tags: Satyam, HCL, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Get smart about skills today for tomorrow's jobs

Our future will require today's high school and college students to develop a unique skill-set never seen before. We must develop 21st century skills to prepare for tomorrow, says IBM's Kevin Faughnan. Commentary - Over the next five years, the United States is...

Tags: Job, Skill, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, jobs, IBM, careers, Kevin Faughnan, IBM’s Academic Initiative, Special to ZDNet, Kevin Faughnan, IBM’s Academic Initiative, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-01-08

Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis plan

Updated: Satyam on Thursday said its top management team is staying despite the revelation that founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju cooked the books. In a statement, Satyam followed up on a day that included a stunning letter from Raju revealing a $1 billion cash sink hole and...

Tags: Satyam, Head, Corporate Governance, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Salesforce Outage - Klaatu Barada Nikto

As I'm sure half the known and 2/3 of the yet to be discovered universe is aware now, salesforce.com had an outage on January 6.  It was due to a memory allocation failure in the main servers and it whacked the failover to back up servers too.  ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Outage, Sales Force Management, Manufacturing, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Missing $1 Billion In Cash? Get In Line. The Phone Line.

So we're shocked. Satyam Computer Services is missing $1 billion of cash and bank loans. Chairman Ramalinga Raju says he falsified accounts. Raju just wanted to maintain operating margins. Which does not quite explain why cash is missing. You don't need to make up cash or...

Tags: Bank, Phone, Satyam, Phone Line, Satyam Computer Services, Parmalat, Financial Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killers

Verizon picks MSFT search, gets ready for Kindle killersKindlein other words Verison is gonna make a cheap device charge an arm and leg to use it to get information and that is gonna kill the kindle?Yet another reason not to use the NOTworkAs if the mediocre NOTwork quality was enough....

Tags: MSFT, MS-search, NOTwork, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Facebook: We have 150 million active users

Facebook has hit its latest milestone: 150 million global active users. In a blog, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said half of those 150 million users visit the social network daily. Zuckerberg writes: If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Intel: Fourth quarter sales worse than expected (again)

Updated: Intel said Wednesday that its fourth quarter, which was already dismal, was actually worse than expected. The chip giant forecast fourth quarter revenue of $8.2 billion, down 20 percent from the third quarter and 23 percent from a year ago. Intel warned about the fourth quarter...

Tags: Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Research & Development, Financial Accounting, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Satyam crashes with $1 billion cash hole

In a shock announcement this morning, Satyam, India's fourth largest outsourcing companies reported that B Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman has resigned following an admission that there is an estimated $1 billion cash hole in the company's balance sheet. The company's shares crashed 77% in the aftermath. According to Finextra:...

Tags: Satyam, Balance Sheets, Outsourcing, Litigation, Asset Management, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-07

News to know: Macworld, CES preview, Windows 7

Macworld Coverage: Photos: Jobs fill-in touts media, MacBook updates Jason D. O'Grady: Live: Philip Schiller keynote at Macworld 2009 Sam Diaz: Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint Apple expands DRM-free music selection [video] Apple reveals...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Digital-rights Management, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Macworld, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Digital Media, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-07

VoxOx 1.0.4 (Mac)

VoxOx by TelCentris is the only service that unifies all of your communication channels voice, video, IM, text, social media, e-mail, fax and content sharing into a single, intuitive interface, giving you full control of your interconnected lifestyle. VoxOx enables you to manage all of your connections and contacts holistically,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Phone, TelCentris, VoxOx 1.0.4, Fax, Telecom & Utilities

Software downloads 2009-01-07

PGP Desktop 9.9.1 (Mac)

PGP Desktop provides individuals a simple, easy-to-use desktop encryption solution to automatically protect confidential communications and digitally stored information with an integrated solution based on strong, broadly accepted security technology. PGP Desktop incorporates PGP Universal technology to provide automatic encryption, decryption, digital signatures, verification, and recipient key lookup, making it...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PGP Corp., PGP Desktop, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-07

NolaPro 4.0.4051 (Windows)

NolaPro is a robust web-based suite, quickly installable on Windows or Linux. It includes AP, AR, Payroll, Order Tracking, Inventory Control, POS, B2B, and an Ecom Shopping Cart.Many plug-ins and add-ons are available such as a TimeClock, development API, and a Hosting Manager revenue module for CPAs, VARs or consultants....

Tags: Revenue, Noguska, NolaPro, Microsoft Windows, Operational Accounting, Retail, Taxes, Linux, Channel Management, Strategic Planning, Free Trade, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Financial Planning, Marketing, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2009-01-07

SmartFTP Client (32-bit) 3.0 Build 1025.21 (Windows)

SmartFTP allows you to transfer files across the Internet. It features an Explorer-like interface that is fully customizable and supports drag-and-drop functions. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another. Remote host directory information is cached for...

Tags: 32-bit, Microsoft Windows, FTP, SmartFTP

Software downloads 2009-01-07

Forget global warming, consider global blooming

Forget global warming, consider global bloomingoyesometimes you sound like a total whack jobRE: Forget global warming, consider global bloomingAll of the above and more.Global warming is better than global cooling.The mini ice age killed 10s of millions of people in Europe do to failed crops. The potato saved Germany because...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Forget global warming, consider global blooming

Recently I tried to warn an indifferent public about the curse of the killer jellyfish. This time, it's an even tinier threat, but also a great one. Deadly and toxic algal blooms are increasing in the world's coastal waters. Researchers cite degraded water quality from increased nutrient...

Tags: Global Warming, Water, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-06