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Giant Global Graph: from the publisher-oriented web to the viewer-oriented web

Sir Tim Berners-Lee coined a new term again. This time it is called the Giant Global Graph. GGG is a compound concept that can be interpreted in various ways. One of the interpretations, however, immediately grasps me: in contrast to that the WWW abstraction organizes Internet information from the...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, View, GGG, Web Evolution, Individual Account, Twine, Channel Management, Marketing, Yihong-Ding

Blog posts 2007-11-25

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Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process

For about a year now, a Web site that started life as Second Rotation has been buying back electronic gadgets including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices, gaming consoles, camcorders, satellite radios and portable hard drives. No matter how old. During that time, the...

Tags: Site, Gazelle, TechForward, GPS, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Satellite Radio, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals

The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...

Tags: Bank, Terminal, Credit Card, Chip, U.K, PIN, Irish Payment Services Organisation, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-19

SEC introduces IDEA

Earlier today, Christopher Cox, SEC chairman introduced IDEA - Interactive Data and Electronic Applications, an XBRL framework for surfacing information used by investors. In prepared remarks, Cox said: "It will be faster, cheaper, better [than EDGAR.] Better data analysis will have a positive impact on the market as a whole....

Tags: SEC, Investor, Analysis, IDEA, Cox, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-19

A fresh model for software maintenance

It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining

Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, Authentication, Fortune 500 Company, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools

Clearspace, Jive Software's 'social productivity' collaboration software, hits version 2.5 today. This latest release builds on a solid foundation, and has many new features and enhancements, as the above video illustrates. 2.5 marks some significant upgrades - there has been some major tweaks under the hood to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Tool, Clearspace Team, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Collaboration, Groupware, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Data architects: You're "hot"

Yes you are.Information and data architects and information security experts, here's some good news: You're the hottest. Fear not, data and content-oriented business analysts, business and enterprise architects and vendor management experts: You're extremely hot as well. Enterprise application strategists, IT planners, network architects and enterprise project...

Tags: Role, Forrester Research Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Operational Planning, Training And Certification, Strategy, Security, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Business Operations, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Google feeds publishers with new AdSense option

When most publishers use RSS feeds to syndicate their content, most are hoping readers click through to the original content, and then they can monetize it from there -- unfortunately, consumers of this feed data are often just looking for a quick fix, and not really that interested in the...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdSense, RSS, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-08-16

1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts

With the increasingly common spamming as a service underground propositions relying on botnets, and services offering thousands of pre-registered accounts at popular email providers, it would be logical to consider that old school techniques consisting of compromising accounts and abusing them to send as many spam emails as possible in...

Tags: Account, Spammer, Spam Email, University Of Otago, Staff Member, E-mail, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-15

Cornyn illustrates U.S. health policy divide

Cornyn illustrates U.S. health policy divideThere He Goes AgainCornyn is my senator and I'm always writing to him to debunk the statements he makes. Cornyn is classic Marketing 101 -- all talk, no listen.Voting our economic interestYour economic interest is ALWAYS less government, more free enterprise. Regardless of your current...

Tags: Government, Lou Dobbs, middle class, Cornyn

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S. Gilbert, Gondoliers.So many managers. An employee without a management title will feel overlooked.Murph, you outline the functional groups for your organization based on the leader. That means the effectiveness of each one...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, disaster recovery, leader, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., job, data-processing, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

BlackBerry rumor mill takes a page from Apple

For the past few months, writers have been churning out rumors about several new flavors of BlackBerry. Is RIM using careful leaks to beat Apple at its own rumor-fueling game? If you thought iPhone nano rumors were hard to avoid, consider the myriad BlackBerry incarnations haunting cyberspace. ...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, BlackBerry, RIM, smart phone, Apple, iPhone, rumors, development, Natasha Lomas, silicon.com

News items 2008-08-15

Just what's on Michael Phelps' iPod anyway?

I don't know about you but I've been spending a lot of time enjoying the Michael Phelps Show, er, Summer Olympics this week. One thing that piqued my interested was the world's greatest athlete's choice in music player. In practically every shot of him at the pool...

Tags: Summer Olympics, Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-15

IBM Australia faces strike action

A section of under 100 employees who work in the "Flightdeck" at Baulkam Hills, Australia want a collective agreement granting them better pay and work conditions. IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action among its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday for employees in a...

Tags: Ballot, Agreement, IBM Corp., IBM, workforce, strike, Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au

News items 2008-08-15

Friday Rant: Hey Microsoft! How about some more dialog about Vista before moving on to Windows 7?

Friday Rant: Hey Microsoft! How about some more dialog about Vista before moving on to Windows 7?Friday Rant: Hey Microsoft! How about some more dialog about Vista before mWTF is up with ZDNet now? Ever since the site redesign the site has gone to hell with one whole "Microosft is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), WTF, Microsoft Windows Vista, Friday Rant, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, acceptable performance, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Mr.Ahmad Measuring Speed (exe)

Mr. Ahmad Measuring Speed is aimple measuring tool that can be used by anyone with ease. Here are some key features of Mr Ahmad Measuring Speed. Measuring the speed of connection in terms of speed download or terms of file size and duration of the download. Measuring the speed of...

Tags: Speed, Duration, Mr.Ahmad, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-08-15

First Android phone on September 17th?

The Android project has been filled with rumor and speculation -- and it continues. It sounds like the first handsets featuring Google Android will be available on September 17th for existing T-Mobile customers. There is no official word that confirms or denies this, but apparently the sources are credible....

Tags: Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Phone, T-Mobile, Data Plan, Telecom & Utilities, 3G, Branding, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Virgin Mobile TNT (Kyocera Adreno S2400)

Virgin Mobile's cell phones tend to stick to the basics. Even when they offer cameras, like the UTStarcom Arc and the Samsung Slash, the handsets concentrate on doing what a cell phone should do. The prepaid carrier's latest model, the Kyocera TNT, certainly follows this format. Like the recent LG...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Virgin Mobile, Kyocera Wireless Corp., TNT, phone

Product reviews 2008-08-14

AFCO unfurls three new systems for data center power distribution

I haven't written much about the providers of data center scale power management systems, but noticed some news from a few weeks back out of a company called AFCO Systems, which has several new power distribution units to tout. AFCO is worth investigating because it...

Tags: Power Management, Data Center, AFCO, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-14