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- If you hate Microsoft you'll really hate this: Patent app calls for "enforcing" ad playback within downloaded multimedia files
- From my read of a Microsoft Patent application just published today, technology is being proposed that will make it impossible for users who download multimedia files to play these files unless advertising messages inserted within these files are viewed. In other words, no...
- Tags: Playback, Multimedia, Advertisement, Media, Microsoft Corp., Insertion Engine, Playback Engine, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
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- MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search
- The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. So far, Powerset has only demonstrated its technology against Wikipedia. It's a neat exhibit but it is...
- Tags: Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Search, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump
- Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited HCCI engines. An HCCI engine 'combines the efficiency and versatility of diesel engines with the cleanliness of spark-ignition engines.' For...
- Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Engine, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar
- OK, I admit it. When I bought my car a year-and-a-half ago, comparing the fuel consumption metrics among the different models WAS part of the equation, but not the most important part. Now, with gas lines forming in my own little town and people putting summer trips...
- Tags: Monitor, Performance, Technology, Performance Management, GPS, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- NoScript vs. Internet Explorer 8 Filters
- NoScript plugin writer Giorgio Maone posted a commentary on IE 8's new filters, drawing comparisons to his own widely popular NoScript Firefox plugin. Maone writes: I'm happy to learn that IE8 is going to implement a less ambitious version of a feature which NoScript users have enjoyed for more than one...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Attack, Maone, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- AdvancedLinkFinder (zip)
- AdvancerLinkFinder is the way to locate related link in any niche you choose keywords search based. It will help you to find every link you want and got every back link you need. AdvancedLinkFinder search for page that rank in Google for a particular phrase and makes it easy to...
- Tags: Link, Link Finder, AdvancedLinkFinder, AdvancerLinkFinder, Search
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Metadefender Lite (zip)
- Metadefender Lite provides application developers with an easy way to integrate ClamAV AntiVirus detection engine into their applications to perform real time virus scanning. Metadefender Lite uses the native port of Clam AntiVirus ClamAV. Version 1.5.62 includes several changes such as file and console logging functionality is expanded, documentation is...
- Tags: Metadefender, Metadefender Lite, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Seven Tech ways to make America better this July 4
- Something about getting a new neck earlier this spring made me start thinking about how to change my life to make America a better place. Here a few that you can try to make the country better over the Fourth of July weekend: 1.) Turn off your...
- Tags: Phone, PC, Cell Phone, Computer, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Matasano ships Web-based firewall manager
- The firewall is one of the few security tools that has been proven to be very effective at improving a company's security posture. However, staying on top of policies -- and responding to change requests -- while trying to manage multiple firewalls from different vendors can be a never-ending nightmare...
- Tags: Web, Network, Matasano Security, Network Firewall, Playbook, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- AMD Phenom gets (a little) faster
- AMD Phenom gets a little fasterAMD strikes back!Hi, soon as the 45nm part gets out with DDR3 memory support look out, we will see AMD lead again!!!Even right now the Phenom is the best gamer cpu with any UT3 engine based games!!!
- Tags: Games, AMD Phenom, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gainRE: Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gainbut what is the point of declaring that the acquisition of a tiny, unproven, high-experimental technology software company is going to beat or not beat Google? it's totally absurd.Q&A vs Semantic searchPowerset will drown inside of MSFT and just burn $.The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Powerset, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- PowerPlugs: SuperShapes for PowerPoint (exe)
- PowerPlugs: SuperShapes adds television-style still and animated shape effects to your PowerPoint presentations. SuperShapes goes beyond the static 2D world of PowerPoint's AutoShapes with artistically designed, colored and animated 3D shapes such as arrows, buttons, text frames, banners, separators and more. These professional-quality shape effects will visually direct your audience's...
- Tags: CrystalGraphics, Microsoft PowerPoint, SuperShapes, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Digg's new "recommendation engine" could be a boon to advertisers
- Digg's new "recommendation engine" could be a boon to advertisersRightAnything to make a buck. Sounds like yet another gimmick to me.JThttp://www.FireMe.To/udi
- Tags: recommendation engine, Digg
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Google ships open-source Web security assessment tool
- The Google security team has released a free, open-source Web app security assessment tool capable of flagging vulnerabilities and potential security threats in Internet-facing applications. The tool, called Ratproxy, is described as a passive Web application security audit tool designed to analyze legitimate, browser-driven interactions with tested Web...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Application, Web Security, Tool, Google Security Team, Productivity, Open Source, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain
- Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Google retires AdSense referral program
- Google retires AdSense referral programLONG-TERM STRATEGY - GuessingSince the new Google program is not an automatic enrollment for AdSENSE publishers they have to enroll separately - I am guessing that Google is rolling this out as a part of a major shift - not sure over what time period, to...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google AdSense, Google Inc., AdSense referral, referral program
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market
- Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
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