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More antitrust tilting

Clearly, the silt churned up by the European Court of First Instance's ruling last week has not cleared. So much for my promise that last Friday's post would be my last blog on the topic. As reported yesterday, a Brussels-based think tank which goes by the name...

Tags: Antitrust, Java, Operating System, Manufacturer, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Computer, EC, Globlisation Institute, Corporate Law, Productivity, Operating Systems, Security, Business Operations, Software, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-09-25

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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

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

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

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

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

Robots working 6,000 meters below sea level

MercoPress, a news agency based in Uruguay, reports that German engineers are using an aquatic robot able to work 6,000 meters below sea level. This remotely operated vehicle ROV, dubbed Kiel-6000, is operated by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences from the University of Kiel. The robot weighs 3.5 tons...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Kiel-6000, Colin Devey, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Monitoring our immune system

You might be surprised to learn that there are no clinical tools to track the human immune system today. This might change soon. UCLA researchers have developed a new PET scanning probe that will allow monitoring of our immune system. The scientists have used one of the most commonly used...

Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Imaging, Monitoring, Probe, Cell, PET, FAC, 18F, Positron Emission Tomography, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-09

PGP rolls out Whole Disk Encryption for Mac

PGP Corp., a security company focused on data encryption, plans to announce that it is offering a Mac OS X version of its Whole Disk Encryption product. Whole Disk Encryption is used on the Windows platform in multiple verticals. John Dasher, director of product development at PGP,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, Encryption, PGP Corp., Whole Disk Encryption, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-08

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Dumbing down our math tests?

Dumbing down our math tests?Two factors at work.One, the "we mustn't make anyone feel bad" syndrome.And, two, the old adage: Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. You and I both know there's more than a little truth in that saying.Combine the two, mix in a little union, and...

Tags: Dumbing Down, math test, education

Discussion threads 2008-06-05