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Mozilla, Google plug high-risk browser holes

Mozilla, Google plug high-risk browser holesReady before Tuesday, as I suspected.Downloaded and installed - no problems so far.there's another unpatched critical flaw in Firefox 3.5.1http://www.milw0rm.com/exploit.php?id=9158The Only Plugin You'll Ever Need: NoscriptGo get it here[b]This talkback brought to you by Mozilla Firefox 3.5[/b]The safest internet browser on the planet!Avoid Microsoft Internet...

Tags: Web browsers, NOW IT, noscript, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, high-risk browser hole, browser hole, Mozilla Corp., Novell AppArmor, Microsoft Internet Explorer, plug-in, ActiveX, NoScript, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

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Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS?

MS is the past Google is the future so NopeGoogle is the old MS, MS is the old IBM. PC_DOS never made it, MS_DOS did. The driving factor was openness and innovation.Today and in the near future, Google has bothToday MS sees profit only and based on thatdrives...

Tags: Operating systems, Leadership, BOOT UP TIMES, Google Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Memo to AT&T: When you're in a hole, stop digging

AT&T and Apple were made for each otherBoth are whiny multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporations that sell substandard products and services to customers who don't know any better. Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!You said it exactly rightquote- [b]"You see, the company thinks consumers are too dumb to know the difference between 3G and non-3G...

Tags: Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., 3G, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?

I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...

Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates

Microsoft should release a High end WM 7 PhoneIn fact a high end phone which will effectively show off all capabilities of WM7, because i don't think that Microsoft can rely on any of its partner to do that. Especially as its biggest partner for WM phones,HTC, is more and...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy

Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-14

iPhone could morph into a table at WWDC

iPhone could morph into a table at WWDCI've been waiting for a small tablet.I always liked the idea of tablet PCs, but all the ones I tried were a little bulky, and not enough software to justify them (OneNote, though, is almost that justification).I had a couple of PDAs way...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, iPhone platform, Apple iPhone, tablet, GIMME, WWDC, netbook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...

Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Walmart to pull plug on DRM servers

Walmart to pull plug on DRM serversThe lie in their emailBeginning October 9, we will no longer be able [b] [i] refuse [/b] [/i] to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.Edit: Whoops! How do you do a strikethrough in Talkback?Edit edit:...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, server, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-28

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...

Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

The depressing future of the Internet

A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...

Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Why computers fail

Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Code execution flaws hit QuickTime again

Code execution flaws hit QuickTime againI banned QuickTime from my systemI banned QuickTime from my systemAnd Apple wants me to store my data on their servers?Nope, Apple has proven time and time again that they simply don't know how to write secure software. How else could they turn a rock...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wild

Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wildClarification[i]An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application.[/i]IE7 running in Protected Mode the default in Vista runs with fewer privileges than the current user. Would the exploit run in this context? If so, this malware...

Tags: SECURITY, Processors, Adobe Flash zero-day exploit, Adobe Flash, Adobe Systems Inc., zero-day bug

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Apple tweaks Software Updater following criticism

Apple tweaks Software Updater following criticismOh give me a breakBecause I point out a simple fact I am a troll? I guess I need to start putting the [sarcasm] sarcasm here [/sarcasm] brackets around what I say??So does that make you the Anti-troll?It seems to me that you've had so...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Digital music, Digital media, Nothing, Apple Only, Apple Inc., Apple Software, Apple iTunes, software, Software Updater, Apple Software Updater

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?

Based on recent comments by top Redmond strategists, it appears that Microsoft has no credible vision for the future of desktop computing. Apple appears to have skirted this strategic black hole and despite the distractions of its OS X-based mobile clients, keeps delivering powerful desktop hardware, a robust OS...

Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Surface, Desktop Strategy, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole

Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' holeWill this wake it if the machine is locked?Because if all it takes to stop this is have your machine drop to the login screen, then it's not much of an exploit.I do realize that many may not have their system go...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), speech recognition, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

So long ActiveX. Will I miss you?

So long ActiveX. Will I miss you?Done. Thanks Larry!ntYour screenshots are inaccurateThe shown settings actually do *not* disable ActiveX, if those are the only changes you've made. It's the "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins" option that needs to be set to "Disabled". Or use the "High" security...

Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Web browsers, ActiveX, security, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...

Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04