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- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Software makers may sue eBay
- Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...
- Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...
- Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 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
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up
- Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...
- Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year
- Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows, Bill Veghte, just told attendees that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer IE 8 to the Web "later this year." by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Sony Reader PRS-505 gets a major firmware upgrade
- My Sony Reader is an excellent piece of hardware that I thoroughly enjoy using during my daily commute. I skipped the Amazon Kindle and bought the Sony Reader and have not been one bit sorry about this purchase I made last fall. I just saw on my favorite eBook site,...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Firmware, Sony Reader, Firmware Upgrade, Sony Reader PRS-505, E-books, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Speculation over possible Skype backdoor
- There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer played online-services pitch man during his opening keynote at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM, explaining why Microsoft believes it must continue to invest heavily in search and advertising to remain competitive in the coming years. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Advertisement, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kevin Johnson, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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