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On deck from MS: Four 'important' patches but nothing for IE: Next Tuesday, Microsoft plans to ship four security updates for multiple flaws affecting Windows, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server but the absence of fixes for publicly known Internet Explorer issues is causing raised eyebrows among security professionals. According to the company's advance notice for July's...; Tags: Patch Management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-03
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
Top lifestyle search terms: Rank Search Term Volume 1. hollister 1.70% 2. old navy 1.59% 3. victoria secret 1.04% 4. victoria’s secret 0.89% 5. aeropostale 0.81% 6. forever 21 0.72% 7. lane bryant 0.67% 8. american eagle 0.64%...; Tags: Navy, NB; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Progress makes another SOA acquisition: Mindreef: Progress Software's announcement that it had acquired IONA Technologies earlier this week was big news, but the vendor didn't stop there. In another acquisition that almost seems to have slipped under the radar, Progress also has acquired Mindreef, provider of SOA service validation and testing tools, as announced here at...; Tags: Acquisition, Progress Software Corp., SOA, Mindreef, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-06-26

Intel stays behind the curve ... again: Intel stays behind the curve ... againsorry analysisSo Intel's behind the curve because XP works just fine for them. Maybe they have better things to do than upgrade all workstations for marginal improvements.The Inquirer presented a biased article against Windows?Say it isn't so! Who would have thought! If the Inquirer...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2008-06-26
Bill GatesÂ’ greatest hits and misses: Bill GatesÂ’ greatest hits and missesWhat is it with tablets?I sketch, I rush to the whiteboard to draw boxes and arrows, yet I've never owned a Tablet PC and I have only the mildest curiosity toward trying them. Why is that? There's just something missing from the experience -- I...; Tags: Tablets, Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, miss, Bill Gates; Discussion threads 2008-06-25
Amazon's Jeff Bezos invests in Twitter: Everybody's favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter, has confirmed its much rumored third round of funding, which includes two new investors: Spark Capital and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions. by Steve O'Hear; Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Twitter, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Twitter closes another funding round, backed by Bezos and Sabet: Jeff Bezos and Bijan Sabet invest in Twitter's newest funding round. Does this mean that users can expect better reliability? by Jennifer Leggio; Tags: Twitter, Team Management, Blogging, Financial Accounting, Management, Internet, Finance, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-06-24
9th Circuit: Employees' text messages are private: In a major case marking out the boundaries of the Fourth Amendment in the electronic age, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that employers can't read employees' text messages if they're sent through an outside service. They can't even read email unless it's stored on the employers' servers....; Tags: Electronic Communication, Arch Wireless, Online Communications, E-mail, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-06-20
Yo-yo'ing on Millennials: Larry Dignan's post earlier in the week asking whether Millennials will re-invent IT struck a chord with a few of my Irregular friends. First up, Larry's conclusion: I remember this generational stereotyping with the Generation X crowd. Job market stunk. Generation X was differentâ€“they were pissed. They were wearing...; Tags: Information Technology, Generation, Millennials, Hindsight, Ross Mayfield, Susan Scrupski, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-20
Yang's recovery runway: Months to days (and board should go too): It had looked like Jerry Yang would at least get a few months to prove he could right the listing ship that is Yahoo. Perhaps it's days now. The issue: Can you really turn a company around when the talent is heading for the exits at a...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Recovery, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-19
2008 Pwnie Awards: Don't forget to go and voteÂ on the Pwnie Awards, which will happen at Black Hat Vegas again this year.Â I don't want to campaign for votes, but I wouldn't be pissed if some of my loyal readers out there voted for me, Billy Rios, Rob Carter, and John Heasman and...; Tags: Category, Nomination, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Views from VMware's Analyst Day: Yesterday I attended a VMware analyst briefing in good ol' Beantown, a.k.a. Boston, Massachusetts. Having had the opportunity to speak with the executives of well over 120 companies offering something in the realm of virtualization technology, I came to the event with a fairly neutral viewpoint. Although I was ready...; Tags: VMware Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world: Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Black Hat '08 preview webcast on its way: Ladies and gents, For those who hadn't heard, I will be presenting at Black Hat Vegas '08 this year with Rob Carter, John Heasman, and Billy Rios.Â Our presentation is called "The Internet is Broken: Beyond document.cookie - Extreme Client Side Attacks", which may sound like a...; Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-15
Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput as Microsoft talks end: Yahoo is reportedly near a search deal with Google and plans an unrelated reorganization. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it's no longer interested in Yahoo. Add it up and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's grand plan to cash in on Yahoo just went kaput. First, the news. News.com's Stephen Shankland...; Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Construction, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-12
News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office: Notable headlines: Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ... Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective:...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-12
Observations: what's moving the SOA market these days: I just had the chance to catch up with MomentumSI's Jeff Schneider while he was up in the Princeton, NJ, area. MomentumSI does a lot of consulting and integration work for SOA projects in organizations across the country, so Jeff's practice is a good bellwether for what's on the minds...; Tags: SOA, Jeff Schneider, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-06-08
IT failure haiku poems: The intellectual capabilities and knowledge of the Enterprise Irregulars are highly regarded in the enterprise software world. Less widely known, however, is the true poetic talent of these fine folks. I'm therefore pleased to present IT failure haikus written by Jeff Nolan and Anshu Sharma, two...; Tags: Poem, Information Technology, Haiku, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-06-06