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Informant 1.5 (Mobile)

Ever been in class, at a business meeting, or just plain offline, and wanted to search the net for something? You can't pop open your favorite search engine to find what you're looking for, so you just hope you remember to look later? Informant will do the footwork for you....

Tags: Mobile, Informant, PHDev, E-mail, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-10-21

Informant ran tax scam under Secret Service's nose

Never trust a snitch. That seems to be the lesson from the case of Brett Shannon Johnson, who was hired by the U.S. Secret Service to catch credit card and identity thieves. Johnson, worked undercover for 10 months for the U.S. Secret Service until it was discovered that he was...

Tags: Government technology

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Whosarat.com reveals informants' IDs - and prosecutors want it shut down

Hey, all you convicted felons out there! Want to find out who snitched on you? Check out whosarat.com, the website that exposes the identities of witnesses and informants cooperating with the government. But you better hurry, federal prosecutors are getting wind of the site and they are mad.Prosecutors are trying...

Tags: Courts, Law enforcement

Blog posts 2007-05-24

The Informant 1.0.1 (Mac)

The Informant allows you to manage a list of websites for which you would like to monitor the online status. Using a simple color-coded system, The Informant will keep you updated by returning the results of automatic checks made at an interval of your choosing.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Informant, Web Site Development, Monitors & Displays, Web Technology, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2005-01-25

Microsoft: Sasser bounty hinges on conviction

Microsoft: Sasser bounty hinges on convictionShould miscreants be rewarded for fingering othersPlea bargains are struck everyday in the US: "give us information and we'll reduce your sentence because you cooperated." Rarely, but occassionally these deals include a bye for passed crimes of the bargainee. Accused criminals make the deals not...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Plea Bargains, Sasser worm, informant, virus, virus writer

Discussion threads 2004-09-11

Microsoft's checkbook security

Microsoft's checkbook securityMicrosoft corporate attorneyThat says it all. Somehow I can't imagine that this guy is that full of integrity. But back to the fun:Q: What is the aim of the antivirus reward program?Bwahahaha!! Well, I'll tell you Roger. It's to make it [i]seem[/i] as though Microsoft gives a crap...

Tags: Viruses and worms, security, Microsoft Corp., lock, informant

Discussion threads 2004-06-10

Additional Resources

Moffat no longer with IBM as fallout from insider trading scandal continues

ORLY?![pre]In 2002, he was on Fortune?s list of the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in America.[/pre]Mmmm.... I don't think so. Rodney C. Adkins is on Fortune's list of [b]Black[/b] Executives.Glancing is dangerousAfter showing a coworker what a hilarious gaff I'd found, I realized I had skimmed over the fact that...

Tags: Glancing, Moffat, IBM Corp., fallout

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Pocket Informant 8 - 2008 Winner Best PIM and Editors Choice (Mobile)

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Tags: Mobile, Smartphone, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-09

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value45 billion slideA moral American corporation is an oxymoron.I don't buy itIf moral values did a 45 billion hole in yahoo in 3 years, the same moral values would have wiped out evil M$ a long time ago.It...

Tags: Morality, Yahoo! Inc., moral value, Yahoo China

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests recalls the courage of the Chinese people and the vicious response of the Chinese government. It also recalls the gutless behavior of Silicon Valley tech companies towards the Chinese government in pursuit of profits rather than morals. Many are guilty...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Pocket Informant Storm - Full Featured PIM for the Storm! 1.60 (Mobile)

Pocket Informant is designed as the most usable and powerful Calendar, Task, Contacts management software for your BlackBerry. Pocket Informant is the only full featured Personal Information Manager for the BlackBerry that provides an Agenda, Day, Week, and Month Views alongside powerful Task and Contact views. Journal your appointments, tasks,...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-02-11

RIAA drops mass lawsuits, recruits ISPs to crack the whip

The headlines across the blogosphere make it sound like the Recording Industry Association of America has thrown in the towel and decided to stop going after music pirates on the Internet. That's not exactly the case. Instead, the RIAA is teaming up with Internet Service Providers to...

Tags: Lawsuit, RIAA, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users

Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of userssmalkl little people who hack and use the same escuseTypical idiot cop :)Wow...Way to stereotype. Lemme guess - you're ex-military, with a crew cut, nasty cigar and a stick up your arse? Does that sound fair? What? That doesn't describe...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, SECURITY, Bill O'Reilly, attacker, Web site, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring

Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringI have many waysthere are many ways of dealing with these peoplewithout death being the punishment, they'd wish they were dead.RE: Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringThey should take everyone of them out and hang them. Don't let their neck snap but let them down...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Indictments in huge hacking & theft case

A federal grand jury returned indictments today on 11 defendants in one of the largest hacking and online theft cases ever. The Department of Justice charged 11 individuals from around the world with stealing 40 million credit and debit card numbers, cracking the networks of nine retailers and stealing an...

Tags: Belarus, Hacking, Debit Card, Ukraine, Debit Card Number, Unauthorized Access Device, Identity Theft, Financial Services, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

It's a start: Spammer gets jail time

There have been a few high profile penalties against spammers of late, but they all lack one key ingredient--jail time. To wit: MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement MySpace’s $230 million spam win: Will it really be a deterrent? ...

Tags: Spammer, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-17

MobileTechRoundup #121, CES 2008 is a wrap, Fictionwise buying eReader, AT&T 5GB limit

Listen here (MP3, 35.3 MB, 38:30 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS The Mobile Tech Roundup gang returned from CES 2008 and one of us actually returned US$10,000 richer (hint, it wasn't me)....

Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Consumer Electronics Show, AT&T Corp., eReader, E-books, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Internet, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-01-13

Convicted cop may have been framed with false science

Convicted cop may have been framed with false scienceMore & Moretimes we are hearing of flawed exidence in many cases & the defendent is released from prison. When do we stop this run away train????It's all about the convictionThere's plenty of good science to use to prosecute with. But prosecutors...

Tags: Real estate, false science, conviction, analysis, agent

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China

Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...

Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-10