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- Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?
- Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?RE: Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?I seriously doubt they were doing it deliberately, it's not like they could have done it without people realising.And as for anonymously bashing ebay, they were arguing against ebay cutting off other payment methods hardly surprising. They...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., App Engine, PayPal
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- What is an open source company really worth?
- The correct answer is whatever someone will pay for it. (This cute business shark lives at Hyde Valuations, an appraisal company in Idaho.) Certainly a home worth $500,000 last year is worth less now. Certainly a stock worth $100/share last week is worth less now. ...
- Tags: Stock, Investment, Open Source, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Time for defensive technology to become top priority
- Today marks the fifth time in a row that I have been in London and it has been sunny out. A remarkable difference from just a few years ago when you could depend on rain and cold any time of the year in London. If this is global warming...
- Tags: IT Security, Compliance, London, Attack, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Facebook just scared me
- When Dan Farber pinged me about the Digital Bill of Rights, I was a tad dismissive. Stuff like that usually leaves me cold - I guess it comes from years of working alongside lawyers who could fry any sane person's brains with their mental gymnastics. But then I noticed Facebook...
- Tags: Facebook, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- I can understand why some want to downgrade from Vista to XP
- Last week my ZDNet blogging colleague Mary Jo Foley reported that Microsoft is to make it easier for some Vista users specifically those using Windows Vista Ultimate and Vista Business to roll back to Windows XP until they are ready to make the move. This is a good move for everyone,...
- Tags: Thoughts, Software, Microsoft, Marketing
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Windows Vista - Proceed with Confidence (or tread carefully?)
- It seems that Microsoft doesn't want customers to wait any longer to upgrade to Windows Vista. The message coming in from Redmond is "Do it! Do it NOW!"Try to integrate a Vista box into an existing hardware/software ecosystem and it's a throw of the dice as to whether it's all...
- Tags: Vista, Trends, Thoughts, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Schneier questions need for security industry
- Schneier questions need for security industryIt's hard to secure your own products......when companies threaten to sue you for it. Example: Symantec's fury over Microsoft implementing PatchGuard kernel patch protection in its x64 operating systems.is that right?organizing conferences at hyde park is a hilarious idea. it keeps them from being...
- Tags: Security Software, security, Schneier, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Google (will be) a monopoly
- Google will be a monopolyWhere can Google go as a monopolist?Maybe into the adless premium paid letter market.See my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/04/no_ads.htmlBye,OliverDonna's a sharp tackI liked your statement that Google is just an advertising company disguised as a web company, it seems more and more true as time goes on. I...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Microsoft's Jekyll-and-Live identity crisis
- In its struggle to adapt to the emergence of on-demand applications and online services, Microsoft is turning before our eyes into two separate companies — one fresh, dynamic and assertive, the other crusty, faltering and defensive. Microsoft constantly seems to switch from one identity to its opposite and then the...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Corp., on-demand, identity, server
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- Learn how to declare variables in your program to use the least amount of memory and produce fast-running code
- Although assembly language programmers usually have a good feel for the connection between variables and memory locations, high-level languages tend to add sufficient abstraction to obscure this relationship. In this sample chapter from Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level, explore the low-level implementation of...
- Tags: Variable, Memory, Chapter Coverage, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2007-03-07
- Surprise! Pittsburgh's outdoor muni WiFi penetrates buildings
- An unanticipated development is going on with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnerships new outdoor Wi-Fi service. Furnished via US Wireless Online, the service is intended for downtown users who are out of doors.But hey guess what. According to tests performed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the $7.99 a day service...
- Tags: General, WiFi
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Microsoft sets date for Office, Vista business launch
- Microsoft sets date for Office, Vista business launchHmm"Launching together for the first time in 10 years, these releases will invigorate the IT industry, while enabling businesses to fully utilize their greatest resource: their people."Why when most businesses won't be evaluating the new version until middle to late next year?Does MS...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), rep, Turkey Pot Pies, IT-staff, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- US congressman Foley: A modern day online Jekyll and Hyde?
- US congressman Foley: A modern day online Jekyll and Hyde?I suspect a bad conscienceIt's quite possible that one of the preditors Foley was trying to protect young people from was himself.What I don't understand is why the big fussFoley quit, he should quit, and he doesn't belong there. He...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Jekyll-and-Hyde, health care
- Discussion threads 2006-10-03
- US congressman Foley: A modern day online Jekyll and Hyde?
- News.coms Declan McCullaugh has juxtaposed US Representative Mark Foleys record as one of Congress leading opponents to online predation against the recent news that he himself was apparently an online predator if the accounts currently being published turn out to be accurate. Wrote McCullagh: Mark Foley, who abruptly resigned from...
- Tags: Mark Foley
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- Hypnosis by Lucas Hyde (zip)
- This is a full-length novel, a contemporary general fiction in a choice of e-book formats: Microsoft Reader, Adobe Reader PDF, Palm eReader, MobiPocket Reader, or any Web browser HTML. Julian Auger is a hypnotherapist with a secret that is driving him insane. Gordon Lissope is a struggling copywriter about to...
- Tags: E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-08-25
- Mr Hyde (exe)
- Is your boss wandering around. Is he breathing your neck. Hide all questionable windows on your Desktop on one secret hotkey. Do you see him leaving. Press the hotkey once again to continue seamlessly in your important activity.
- Tags: Window, Activity, Construction, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-04-20
- Write better code by understanding how computers operate on binary data
- To create code that makes the best use of the machine, you have to understand the machine. This sample chapter explains how computers represent data and operate upon it. In Write Great Code, Volume I, from No Starch Press, author Randall Hyde focuses on the concepts of...
- Tags: Chapter, Computer, Productivity, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2005-08-10
- Geldof condemns sale of Live 8 tickets on eBay
- Geldof condemns sale of Live 8 tickets on eBayeBay's fault?Why is eBay to blame for this, rather than those selling the tickets? Couldn't those ticket holders just as easily have sold the tickets in newspaper ads or on street corners?Should eBay have rules restricting the sale of certain items? If...
- Tags: Even Linux, Bob Geldof, Geldof, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-14
- Tech, Hollywood heavyweights create content coalition
- Tech, Hollywood heavyweights create content coalitionDefinitely Jekyl and Hyde in action-- "A particular challenge here is making sure that we strike the right balance in managing digital rights and yet having the simplicity that you can move the content that you paid for around and have it available in the...
- Tags: piracy, industry
- Discussion threads 2004-07-13
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