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- Do data breaches really hurt retailers?
- Do data breaches really hurt retailers?3 in 4 people saythey never masturbate too. Pfffttt....The simple answer is:If nothing happens to someone, they tend to forget easily, but if something does happen, they never forget.There are very few people in this world who remember things like this that didnt directly...
- Tags: Retail, Food & Beverage, Marketing research, Branding, data breach, Joe Blow, retail company
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost
- Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roostI liked this article so much...I bought the domain! (theothertube.com)Excellent reporting!Thanks David,this is the sort of in-depth article that ZDNet needs - factual, up-to-date, informative and entertaining. Too often lately others have posted rehashed old non-news....
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, recording industry, Joe Blow, Viacom Inc., media company, Roy Orbison, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-13
- U.S. 'Joe Blow' tracks Iraq war dead
- U.S. 'Joe Blow' tracks Iraq war deadyeah, so what?For every *single* casualty in Iraq, there are *dozens* in Sudan and Somalia.Oh, that's right, nobody gives a rats ass about the hundreds of thousands of dead, dying, and displaced, starving people in *those* countries.No secular-progressive/bleeding-heart liberals, anyway. After all, it's not...
- Tags: rats ass, Joe Blow, Iraq War
- Discussion threads 2006-12-28
- Walk this way--or your phone won't work
- Walk this way--or your phone won't workCliches come to lifeIt's funny: For the past several decades we've seen countless science-fiction stories in books, movies, and video games about technology gone wrong. What's funny is how hard people are trying to turn these tired cliches into reality.Some of the negative effects...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Joe Blow
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
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- COPA suffers another blow
- InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...
- Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Enterprise Service Busted?
- ESBs: an inconvenient truth? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Jim Webber, John Michelsen, Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- AT&T blunders on free Wi-Fi for iPhones
- AT&T just can't commit. To free Wi-Fi for iPhone 3G customers, that is. The company seems to be having a blunder-fest with announcements that iPhone 3G customers can get free Wi-Fi at its nationwide AT&T WiFi HotSpots most notably in Starbucks stores. The carrier trumpets the free service...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Wireless LANs, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...Continuing Saga to show how great D* is now adayFrom a 7+ year customer and I am a paper thin from calling it for D*.http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=133090RE: DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...I've been with DTV since December 1994. I am also a FCC certified card carrying...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, DirectTV, Ma'am, Well HERE, DirecTV, closet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Android losing it's mojo fast
- Android losing it's mojo fastForcing GTalk != do no evilYou can't get more lame than that...A note on iPhone apps.Apple would do well to remove the restriction where any non Apple application must exit not stay resident when another function is used like answering an incoming call. This will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Blogging, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamed
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamedWho is really to blame?SOA makes things easier for the end user, but harder for IT. But is it really SOA that should take the blame or are IT shops just really bad at "real" software engineering? I vote for the later. ...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, software, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamed
- How many moths would it take to bring down a SOA? by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, International Data Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Is Microsoft fighting an unwinnable war with its online business and search obsession? It's a valid question and one that needs to be asked. At some point you have to wonder if Microsoft's Google envy is its Vietnam. As Mary Jo Foley noted Microsoft's answer to its...
- Tags: Business, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- IBM: Big Blue beats expectations; raises full year guidance
- updated: IBM, a bellweather that analysts have been watching as an indicator of the tech industry's economic health in the U.S., reported second quarter earnings of $2.8 billion, or $1.98 a share, an increase of 28 percent over the same quarter a year ago. Revenue was $26.8 billion, a 13...
- Tags: Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it'
- How to get around SOA paralysis by analysis by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Did Sally Field break grandma's bone?
- Did Sally Field break grandma's bone?They shouldn't be advertised.He's right - the interactions with the body are complicated, and which drugs you take should be discussed with your doctor, not decided by an ad you've seen on TV.You should never be influenced by an ad to take a certain drug,...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Intel faces new antitrust charges in Europe: report
- European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker's marketing and sales practices, according to a report. European regulators are preparing to file new antitrust charges against Intel, expanding a probe into the chipmaker's marketing and sales practices, The Wall Street...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Security, Business Operations, Hardware, Reuters, Intel, antitrust, European Commission, AMD, processors
- News items 2008-07-16
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