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Senators criticize .com price increases

Senators criticize .com price increasesWith the mini-monopolies the cable industry has, why aren't they rememberedAfter all, I'm stuck with comcast and can't switch to roadrunner despite the advert for roadrunner's service in my area...Want prices to go down? De-segregate the cable industry.Why?"Sen. Gordon Smith, an Oregon Republican, questioned why...

Tags: VeriSign Inc., Gordon Smith, cable, cable industry

Discussion threads 2006-09-20

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Gallery: Google's Knol takes on Wikipedia

Google has unveiled its own "unit of knowledge" with a competitor to Wikipedia called Knol. Google's online encyclopedia promises to lend some credence by identifying the authors. by Andy Smith

Tags: Google Inc., Google Knol, Wikipedia, Online Communications, Andy Smith, Google, Knol, wiki, encyclopedia

Image galleries 2008-07-25

Gallery: New user interface for Xbox 360

At the E3 game conference Microsoft unveiled a new look for it's Xbox 360 interface to make features easier to use and buy, and improve the social experience. by Andy Smith

Tags: Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andy Smith, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox

Image galleries 2008-07-24

Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?

I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...

Tags: Mr., Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Gallery: Broadband in a sewer

The coverage is good but the location stinks. A sewer built in London during the reign of Queen Victoria is now hosting a business broadband network. by Andy Smith

Tags: Sewer, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Andy Smith, broadband, wireless, network. UK

Image galleries 2008-07-23

Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"

The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...

Tags: Job, Intuit Inc., Unemployment, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?

[Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Social Media, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive

Making a half-hearted effort to remove the information on a hard drive that's headed for the trash is a good way to spread your personal or company secrets to the public. by Andy Smith

Tags: Hard Drive, Andy Smith, hardware, notebooks, security, leaks

Image galleries 2008-07-21

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom

In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain.  The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...

Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Ad-to-ad combat: Covering your Web tracks

You're worried about the constant advance of ads tied to your behavior online. You're not going to wait for Congress to get around to mandating clear privacy protections online, as suggested last week in a modest proposal. What's an avid Web user to do? ...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, AnchorFree Inc., HotSpot Shield, Mark Smith, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-14

iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption

UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise users. Now it's pitching its new iPhone 3G as: "The best phone for business. Ever". But...

Tags: Barrier, Apple iPhone, Phone, O2 Plc., John Romeis, Gordon Barnes, Paul Jarvis, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, 3G, Cellular Phones, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, IT

News items 2008-07-11

Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely

News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal. SUN VALLEY, IDAHO--News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., Murdoch, Internet, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Finance, Reuters, Yahoo, News Corp., Microsoft, Microhoo, mergers

News items 2008-07-11

A Twitter About Twitter

The outages are over maybe. Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos ae putting $15 million into Twitter. "Twitter will become a sustainable business supported by a revenue model,'' promised the company's aptly named co-founder Biz Stone. Which was followed last week by Gene...

Tags: Twitter, Manufacturing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.

The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux. Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million...

Tags: ASUS, Computing, Microsoft Research, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-06

The architecture of a flexible .NET file processing system -- Part 4

The first three parts of this series concentrated on the overall architecture of the .NET file processing system and how the messages get created and routed. In this installment, Zach Smith explains the role of the task specific processes and describes how to set up the system so that it...

Tags: Zach Smith, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Download resources 2008-07-04

Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference

Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada.  The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track.  Topics...

Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?

Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 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

Linux's dirty little secret

Linux's dirty little secretNice commercial! How much did it cost you?Strange, you publish it under the heading of "Dirty Little Secret"."Upload, design and build dynamic multimedia training courses. We charge a small fee to deliver the courses to the students online. For a few dollars per student, you...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, package manager

Discussion threads 2008-06-30