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- Europe's new 'monopoly' tariff on Microsoft bypasses WTO
- The European Commission has just levied a new $689,900,000 "fine" (read: tariff) on American software company Microsoft under the pretense of anti-trust which conveniently bypasses WTO agreements. The Brussels based think tank Globalization Institute has published a paper PDF where it recommends a ban on OS Operating System bundling for...
- Tags: World Trade Organization, European Commission, Operating System, Market Share, Tariff, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Globalization Institute, EC, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Free Trade, Productivity, Software, Finance, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
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- Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service
- Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...
- Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience
- Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot
- News items 2008-07-23
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale
- updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...
- Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'
- How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...
- Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Care-O-Bot, your future robotic butler
- German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute have introduced their third generation of household robots, the Care-O-Bot 3. The previous generations of this mobile robot assistant were designed to assist elderly or handicapped people in daily life activities. But now, this new 1.45 meter-high robot is intended to be an artificial...
- Tags: Tray, Household Article, System Resource, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- White paper: IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the business value of information
- As companies adapt to the realities of globalization, they face unprecedented commoditization and competition. To remain competitive, organizations must adapt more rapidly than ever before--which means that they must align their IT environments with their business goals and deliver information on demand, when and where it is needed.
- Tags: pureXML, SOA, IBM Corp., Globalization, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-07-11
- A time and need for service innovation, education
- The vision behind Service Science is to build a coherent body of knowledge for service innovation, says IBM's Jim Spohrer. Commentary--Services make the world go around. In modern day society, we are all connected to each other by either giving or receiving a service. ...
- Tags: services, IBM
- News items 2008-07-10
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Broadcast or communicate?
- When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...
- Tags: E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- IMHO, PhlatLight LEDs from Luminus are pretty phat
- LED screens in notebooks are becoming fairly common, if not standard, not just because of the energy issues but because people are craving smaller, lighter laptops. But what about an LED in your HDTV? Enter Luminus Devices of Billerica, Mass., which has developed an LED chip...
- Tags: Home Theater, DLP, Light-emitting Diode, Luminus Technology, Engineering, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
- It's getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old laptop. According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, more than...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Richard Stiennon, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops
- You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...
- Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- America's blocked labor policies
- America's blocked labor policiesAll of our restrictions help Canada though. Companies, including MS are nowsetting up shop in Canada to get around US restrictions. Also, India and others will benefit, as more people stay home. Not sure what the solution is, but we only hurt ourselves with the restrictions.RE: America's...
- Tags: H-1B, Recruitment & Selection, visa, blocked labor policy, labor policy, job, H1B
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerability
- A security researcher has released demo exploits for what appears to be a critical -- unpatched -- memory corruption vulnerability affecting the ubiquitous Microsoft Word software program. The proof-of-concept exploits accompany a warning that the flaw affects Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Office 2003. In addition to...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Security, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Meon (cab)
- n 1997, Professor Tagishaki, from Tokyo Quantum Mecanics institute, found new elementaries particles that he called Meons. In this puzzle game, you must solve more than 120 levels to free Meons. Use Prism, Splitter and other various tools to light all the Meons and solve the Light Quest! Incredible graphics...
- Tags: Manbolo, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Maxtor Black Armor
- We're not surprised to see the Maxtor Black Armor emerge in a time when so much confidential data is transported by external hard drives. The 10GB Black Armor drive ($150) is a portable storage device with built-in Advanced Encryption Standard hardware-based encryption to prevent digital theft. Unfortunately, this added security...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), traveler mode, Black Armor, Maxtor Corp., password
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- Brightcove refreshes with brand new service and new focus
- Brightcove refreshes with brand new service and new focusHow will Brightcove be affected by ISP cap limitsMany US ISPs are making noise about capping downloads. With download caps, does Brightcove face challenges when TimeWarner,Comcast and others institute such caps? Is that possibility even on their radar? What do their investors...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Brightcove, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
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