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New Microsoft copyright education initiative sounds neat-o!: Information Week is reporting on a new Microsoft initiative designed to convince young people of the serious consequences associated with copyright infringement. Microsoft recently conducted a series of studies and found that kids were less likely to violate copyright law whether for software or digital media if they were...; Tags: Information Week, Microsoft Corp., Intellectual Property, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, Internet, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-02-13
Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?: Information Week has published a fawning interview with Microsoft's Bill Hilf right, now general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, stating he was "revealing" the company's open source strategy. In fact he did nothing of the kind. He claimed proprietary software offers a "guarantee" it works...; Tags: Information Week, Microsoft Corp., Bill Hilf, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-16
A look inside Chinese censorship: How does China maintain its pervasive system of Internet censorship? A report from Reporters Without Borders, entitled "China: Journey To The Heart Of Internet Censorship," reveals some details of how the bureaucracy clamps down on dissent, controls the flow of information and distributes propaganda, Information Week reports. Much of...; Tags: China, Purpose, Information Week, RPF, Internet, ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-10-11
Ellison spurns SaaS for easy ERP pickings: Information Week's Mary Hayes Weier has spotted that Larry Ellison rather let the cat out of the bag on Oracle's earnings call last week when he said the company won't start selling SaaS because "so far no one has figured out how to make any money at it." She notes:...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Information Week, ERP, Larry Ellison, Ellison, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-09-25
Geek eye candy: I'm sorry, but I can't resist. Information Week has published pictures of Google's newest data center in Oregon. (no, I'm not a geek; no chance....) External power grid that feeds Google data center: [via Nick Carr] ...; Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Information Week, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-08-30

NASA: iPhone isn't "enterprise-ready," but BlackBerry 8800 sure is: Information Week's Paul McDougall reports that NASA's Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA ODIN has determined that:The iPhone is not enterprise ready, but:The BlackBerry is. At least the BlackBerry 8800.Hey you are looking at it.Minutes of a NASA meeting held July 10 point to a decision by acting ODIN project manager...; Tags: Uncategorized, BlackBerry 8800; Blog posts 2007-07-31
Yahoo screws up flaw disclosure, helps exploit writer: If you want to blame someone for the release of dangerous exploit code targeting gaping holes in Yahoo Messenger, point your finger at Yahoo spokeswoman Terrell Karlsten.It turns out, Karlsten went public with nitty-gritty details of the two bugs that were privately -- and responsibly -- reported by eEye Digital...; Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Responsible disclosure, Privacy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Black Hat; Blog posts 2007-06-08
UK search engine market shares: Google - 75%, Yahoo! - 9.3%, MSN - 5.46%: Information Week quotes WebSideStory report on search engine usage in the UK. Google is leading the market with 75% of the search traffic, followed by Yahoo! with 9.3%, MSN with 5.46%, AOL with 4.21% and Ask with 2.28%.; Tags: MSN, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Information Week; Blog posts 2006-03-25
information week: Credibility Of Analysts: An interesting subject that has been discussedhere in the past. Information Week talks to the "big guns"of the analyst world: IDC, Gartner, Forrester. There is a smatteringof discussion about boutique analyst firms, but there are so many thatit would be tough ground to...; Tags: Blogging, Information Week, blog; Blog posts 2006-02-09
HHS command center in place to deal with Katrina's health crises: Officials at the Dept. of Health and Human Services are using the high-tech Secretary's Command Center in Washington, as well as a mobile command center based in Baton Rouge to respond to the health crises stemming from Hurricane Katrina, says an article in Information Week. ...; Tags: health, public health, health crise; Blog posts 2005-09-07
Magazine questions Gartner Group objectivity: Information Week has an article about the different people involved at a high level in the Gartner Group, the world's leading supplier of analysis to the industry. Clients of Gartner spend around $100,000 on biztech research, the article says, and notes that Silver Lake Partners, a large equity investment firm,...; Tags: Silver Lake, Gartner Inc.; Blog posts 2003-11-06

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Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect: A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF: Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...; Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16
RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working: RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...; Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics; News items 2008-05-16
Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches: Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are readying patches that should remedy the glitch, which seems to affect primarily users of AMD-based...; Tags: Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email: Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200: The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most recently hybrid graphics have all muddied the picture. Meanwhile, Intel has improved its integrated graphics and has long-term plans in...; Tags: Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated): Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today. Although RIM hasn't said...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Electronista, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use: Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need to check the time without needing to flip open the phone. Well, now that...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Screen, RSS, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Web Browsers, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-16