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Social networking invades U.S. intelligence agencies

The Financial Times reports that the U.S. spies will have access to their own social network, dubbed "A-Space," modeled on services like Facebook and MySpace.Thomas Fingar, the deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, believes the common workspace – a kind of "MySpace for analysts" – will generate better analysis...

Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, CIA, Network, Agency, Intelligence, Dot, Intelligence Agency, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Senators plan shakeup of spy agencies

Senators plan shakeup of spy agenciesYa know even I do not like the sounds of thisI am gonna get me one of these for my tin foil lined house. http://www.qsleeper.com/I'll be the first to argue that the good guys that are tasked with protecting me should have all the...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, CIA, plan shakeup, Intelligence Agency, agency

Discussion threads 2004-09-07

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Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a statement. DATAllegro will ride shotgun with other software to manage data and give the software giant one...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Server, Microsoft Corp., DATAllegro, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...

Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...

Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers

From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...

Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The evolution of search over traditional BI

Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...

Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio

News items 2008-07-22

MB Emotional Quotient Test (exe)

Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Quotient EQ is a term used to measure how much you understand your inner self and the tasks you can perform satisfactorily without getting stressed or depressed. MB Emotional Quotient Test attempts to give you a clearer picture about yourself so that you can work on...

Tags: MysticBoard, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-22

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...

Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...

Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Code OnTime Generator (exe)

Code OnTime Generator is a unique general purpose free code generator for Microsoft.NET. Built as an open platform with XML, XPath, XSLT, and AJAX, the tool redefines the way you think and approach the code generation. The built-in Code DOM compiler will transform your program coded in XML into Visual...

Tags: Code Generator, Code OnTime, Code OnTime Generator, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-17

Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter

Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter.....All this does is re-enforces that accountability for ones actions are almost non-existent and will only serve to encourage other miscreants to follow in this punks steps.As for the level of knowledge in the law sector... you seem about...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Web browsers, cybercrime fighter, Ringleader, cybercrime group, job

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom

In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain.  The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...

Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Bible Max (exe)

Bible Max has over 250000 references, 100000 commentaries, maps and pictures. A tool that uses an artificial intelligence search engine, mutli-search modes, verse and topics guides and live maps. Create sermons, record custom verse lists and unlimited bookmarks. Export verses, maps and resources to Microsoft Word or to e-mail. This...

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Bible, Verse, BibleMaximum.com, Bible Max

Software downloads 2008-07-16

Finding the name behind the GMail address

Ah, this is a fun little trick.  I'm not sure if it represents a vulnerability, but certainly I expect Google will try to get rid of this feature.  The SecuriTeam blog has reported that it is possible to expose the full name of the user who registered a GMail account.  ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, SecuriTeam Blog, Phishing, E-mail Providers, Cyberthreats, Cloud Computing, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Viacom, Google cut deal on user data

Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataIf I see one I'll let you know NT&Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataOh this is funny. Google never cared about user privacy before and now that they are going to be sued into oblivion they suddenly care? I hope Viacom hits...

Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., user data

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

AIIM Market IQ Research

There is a torrent of information available on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies available to inquiring minds, but making sense of it all is another matter. As is so often the case, the more information you find, the harder it can be to get an clear...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, AIIM, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channel

Fear and enterprise in the PaaS channelSaaS and PaaS still not an Enterprise SolutionInternet based solutions whether they are software or platform do not pass any type of sanity test.1. Data ownership. No matter what the license agreements always have 2 clauses that allow them to do what ever they...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, PaaS, storage

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking's end?

Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking's end?Comparison to democracy very apt.When I look at the modest level of education, intelligence, and self-centered approach to life of many of my fellow citizens, the fact that I live in a democracy seems scary.But what would we have instead - the fabled...

Tags: Wiki, network, Wikipedia, social networking

Discussion threads 2008-07-15