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YouTube hit OK Go testifies for neutrality: YouTube hit OK Go testifies for neutralityMusicians know as much about net neutrality......as actors know about politics. Here's a clue, OK Go (who?): all that infrastructure you think made you popular wasn't free. It was paid for somehow, and not by your downloaders, which kinda makes you parasites.Your WAY off...; Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), OK Go, hit ok, YouTube Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-03-12

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Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up: Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens outlined strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was strong 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
World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?: Buffalo just announced the world's fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x assuming you can find one. That's a funny bit of math, no? Available in Japan...; Tags: Recorder, Media, Blu-ray, BDA-approved Media, Advertising & Promotion, Serial ATA, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-24
AT&T's quarter hits mark; Wireless churn falls; iPhone 3G sells well: AT&T on Wednesday reported second quarter earnings of $3.8 billion, or 63 cents a share, on revenue of $30.9 billion. Adjusted earnings were 76 cents a share, a tally that met Wall Street estimates. In the second quarter a year ago, AT&T reported net income of $2.9...; Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista: Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-23

McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position: Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...; Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-23
The App Store's buggy update process: The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...; Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh; Discussion threads 2008-07-22
Toshiba Regza 42RV530U: During the last year flat-panel HDTV prices seemed to hit a plateau, where the standard bricklike downward trend leveled off somewhat. Now, however, prices are on the decline again, opening up bigger screen sizes to lower price ranges. For example, Toshiba's lowest-priced 1080p 42-inch LCD, the 42RV530U, can be purchased...; Tags: Monitors & displays, 1080p, Toshiba Corp.; Product reviews 2008-07-22
Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?: When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP didn't purchase a commercial PBX, nor did he settle on the open source market leader,...; Tags: Phone, PBX, Attorney, FreeSwitch, Asterisk, Telephony, VOIP, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle: On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...; Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-22
SanDisk reports loss; stock takes beating after-hours: Shares of SanDisk are getting clobbered in after-hours trading, down more than 13 percent after the company reported a net loss of $68 million, or 30 cents per share, and a one percent drop in revenue for its second quarter. A surprised Wall Street had been expecting earnings of 13...; Tags: Card, Phone, Memory Card, SanDisk Corp., Stock, Cell Phone, Flash Memory, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Another call for Yahoo-Icahn compromise: Carl Icahn's push to get a new slate of directors on board at Yahoo took another hit late Sunday when another shareholder stepped up to call for a compromise. According to Reuters, Eric Jackson, manager of hedge fund Ironfire Capital and leader of shareholder group Yahoo Plan B, will announce...; Tags: Slate, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Kung Fu Panda Screensaver (exe): Watch Po and all the other lovable charactures from the hit movie "Kung fu Panda" scroll across your screen. Get ready to dance to music that can be turned on or off in the screensaver settings. Fun for everybody. Version 1.05 has added new images, changed urls.; Tags: Screensaver, Screen Saver Mania; Software downloads 2008-07-21
FTC to hit more spammers: FTC to hit more spammersFTCSince when is spam a new phenomenom? It was in existence well before Congress passed the CAN-SPAM act, which many spammers think allows them to send out their scams as long as they put a disclaimer on it.Before CAN-SPAM, I sent Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson...; Tags: Spam, Viruses and worms, spammer, FTC; Discussion threads 2008-07-19
Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft: Open-source Castle Project founder joins MicrosoftI've always been curious about the uptake of Iron*Its a strategy that seems to follow the same mistake MS is making on the web...."If we offer OUR version they will come". It seems to me that ASP.Net attracts a certain type of person just like...; Tags: .NET, Middleware, Application servers, Scripting languages, open source, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Corp., PHP; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
The perils of information overload: Employees from technology companies including Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and Google have banded together to combat information overload, which they call "the world's greatest challenge to productivity." As the new nonprofit Information Overload Research Group gets off the ground, CNET News intern Holly Jackson hit the streets of San Francisco...; Tags: News, holly jackson, google, ibm, dell, intel, cell phones, internet, email, iphone, apple, information, overload, but no tags matched; Videos 2008-07-18
Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects: Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspectsCatching criminals is only the first step... Until judiciary systems around the world make a good example of these guys, nothing good will come out of these arrests. To reduce cybercrime we need effective deterrents. Slapping big fines that these guys are never going to pay...; Tags: Construction, cybercrime suspect, Romanian, Nate; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Immobile Apple: It's 11:33 a.m. Friday. Approximately 66 and a half hours since Apple Support acknowledged receipt of my request for help on syncing calendar and contact data from my iMac to the "cloud,'' i.e., MobileMe servers wherever they are. Re-request sent after 48 hours. Still...; Tags: Apple Inc., 3G, Desktops, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions: You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...; Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Will Twitter tip in the UK first?: Will Twitter tip in the UK first?Can Twitter Stay Afloat??I think the outages has affected Twitter's performance in tghe U.S. Twitter would have got a tremendous hit in the U.S but for the outages but even at that the figures are pretty impressive considering all the hiccups twitter is facing....; Tags: Manufacturing, Twitter; Discussion threads 2008-07-18