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- GPL and definitions of freedom
- John Sullivan, a Program Administrator over at the FSF, responded to a previous blog post where I questioned whether the GPL really needs the ideals expressed by its authors in order to pursue the productivity advantages of a community development model. Not surprisingly, he argued that the GPL needs those...
- Tags: information common, hardware, GPL
- Blog posts 2006-02-24
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- Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids
- I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...
- Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?
- Cybercriminals know how to take advantage of anticipated traffic by abusing the momentum of a particular event, like the U.S presidential election in this case. Everyone, from scammers coming up with legitimately looking donation sites that they will later on spam, to the a bit more complex blackhat search engine...
- Tags: Campaign, Domain, Internet, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Nokia and Sun confirm S40, J2ME vulnerabilities
- According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME), giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak. Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers who discovered...
- Tags: Nokia Corp., J2ME, Sun Microsystems Inc., Vulnerability, Java, Security, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Exploit code published for Apache Tomcat flaw
- The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has raised an alarm for a serious vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, warning that a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. The code, posted to Milw0rm.com, exploits a directory traversal vulnerability vulnerability in the way Apache Tomcat handles malformed requests. ...
- Tags: HTTP, XSS, Apache Software Foundation, Exploit Code, Apache Tomcat, Flaw, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Fastest-growing Web categories in France in May 2008
- Site Category Apr-2008 May-2008 Growth Total Internet : Total Audience 30,649 31,066 1% Weather 6,107 7,445 22% Retail - Sports/Outdoor 2,145 2,586 21% Genealogy 772 930 21% Maps 10,347 11,622 12% Sports 10,187 11,272 11% Travel...
- Tags: Category, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, NB
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Hyperic CloudStatus adds Google App Engine monitoring
- There are many factors that could be seen as impediments to the adoption of "cloud computing" architectures. One of them is the assumption by some suppliers that organizations are going to leap with both feet into running important applications offsite somewhere in the cloud. These folks haven't learned from what...
- Tags: Google Inc., Performance, Monitoring, CloudStatus, Hyperic Inc., Google App Engine, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?
- This week, Microsoft renewed their union with Novell, to the tune of an additional 100 million dollars in commitment to buy more SUSE Linux support certificates that it can sell to its customers. Dang, Ballmer, for that kind of cash, you can get your vows renewed...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Tags: Software, Security, Open Source, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- FCC issues 'radical' order re: Comcast
- The FCC has released its formal decision PDF against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired's David Kravets views it, it's an open invitation for ISPs to censor content – so long as they're protocol-agnostic about it. Calling the decision "vitriolic," Kravets says:...
- Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Network Management, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Networking, Government, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?
- I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....
- Tags: Bee, Clean Technology, NRDC, Purdue, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Intel, Yahoo team up on interactive TV platform
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Eric Kim and Yahoo's Patrick Barry demo a new TV platform designed to bring rich Internet applications featuring sports, weather, and financial information to the living room. Consumer electronics that use Intel's architecture will offer the Yahoo Widget Engine, an applications...
- Tags: Interactive TV, Team, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Widget, Intel, Yahoo
- Videos 2008-08-20
- Opera patches 7 vulnerabilities but keeps one a secret
- Opera Software has shipped a new version of its flagship Web browser with fixes for at least seven documented security problems but details on one vulnerability -- a cross-site scripting issue reported by Chris Weber-- is being kept under wraps. Opera warned that one of the seven...
- Tags: Opera Software, Vulnerability, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Intel announces parallel coding tools
- Intel announced a suite of parallel coding tools, designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Parallelism isn't new - but, according to Intel, the time has come for parallelism to move forward. From an FAQ on Intel's Parallelism site: Until recently, parallelism wasn't commonplace. Parallelism is the ability to...
- Tags: Tool, Intel Corp., Parallelism, Mary-Jo Foley, Intel Software Development Product, Productivity, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- What SaaS can teach us about customer service
- In the SaaS model, the power is with the customer and vendors need to take a very different approach to both sales and service, here's how to do it says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. Commentary--Software-as-a-Service SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of...
- Tags: Customer Service, Software-as-a-service, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS, software. customer service, sales, Archie Black, SPS Commerce, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-08-20
- Can Adobe mitigate 'clipboard hijack' issue?
- Adobe's product security incident response team PSIRT says it is investigating possible solutions to the clipboard hijack attacks spotted on Flash-based advertisements on high-profile Web sites. A barebones note on the PSIRT blog simply acknowledges the issue and promised more information after the investigation but, by mentioning...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Identity theft for the hip blogger on-the-go?
- Xpenser allows users to send their expense information to a hosted spreadsheet using SMS, IM, Twitter and Jott. Security risk, anyone? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Financial, IM, SMS, Twitter, Blogger, Xpenser, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, E-mail, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Identity Theft, Instant Messaging, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Financial Planning, Finance, Security, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The news on Intel's Nehalem; chips with integrated GPUs up next
- Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum this week, was expected. Nehalem isn't a single product, but a family of...
- Tags: Core, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Sam Diaz, wrote an interesting piece yesterday highlighting a vital message from Intel Chairman, Craig Barrett, during his keynote at the Intel Developers' Forum. Quoting both Barrett and Sam's paraphrasing, "Nations are as strong as their educational systems," he said, noting that in...
- Tags: Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed
- People over the years have said to me, "computers are the future; you'll end up getting a great job with wads of money." I'm not a money person, to be honest; I think my CV over the last couple of years proves that to some extent. But with new information...
- Tags: Computer Science, Computer, Productivity, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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