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CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome

Most members of a silicon.com CIO jury say they're not even testing Google's Chrome--choosing to stay with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Chrome, Google, browser, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, CIO Jury, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com

News items 2008-09-30

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MyReligion (CAB)

The program allows to import religious holidays information of your choice into your PDA calendar: Current version supports the following:Judaism -Hebrew calendar -Astronomical events (time of sunrise, sunset; time of occurrence of stars) -Weekly chapter of Torah -Prayers -Jewish holidays -Notes (an origin of the Jewish holidays, the celebratory menu,...

Tags: Holiday, MyReligion, E-mail Servers, PDAs, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Are hospitals really safe?

Are hospitals really safe?More on the Medical Device Interoperability Program MD PnPDear Mr. Piquepaille, Thank you for referencing our work.The Technology Review story may have left the impression that I'm not very optimistic about the adoption of medical device interoperability. However, the story didn’t have enough room to convey that...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, medical device, hospital

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities

I'm personally a huge fan of the Matasano blog, and have a lot of respect for their group.  I took a peek over at their blog today and noticed an article by Dave Goldsmith that deals with "Vulnerability Reporting in a Web 2.0 World Continued". In this...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Vulnerability, Defect, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-28

Surveillance society needs privacy safeguards

Surveillance society needs privacy safeguardsMessage has been deleted.How can people expect privacy on a public street?This whole hullabaloo must be coming from city dwellers. Country and small-town people don't expect to go out on the street and not be recognized.Anonymity, perhaps, is a better term for what they're trying to...

Tags: privacy safeguard, surveillance society, privacy

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Writer's Cafe is slick, cross-platform software for all writers

Writer's Cafe is slick, cross-platform software for all writersHow fast is it?When I see the words "cross-platform software" I immediately think "slower than snot Java". But I'm noticing it's not Java, but wxWidgets. So how fast is it on the platforms you've tried, and how buggy is the software? I...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, cross-platform software, software

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

Stardate System Tray (exe)

Stardate System Tray is a desktop widget which displays the current stardate and other chronologies in a tray icon. The desktop widget is only built for Win32, but any platform with Java 6 or better can use the actual conversion engine. Stardate System Tray will show the current date in...

Tags: Bernmeister, Stardate System Tray, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-11-28

So what's an application, anyway?

So what's an application, anyway?Unix Museum - Exhibit AConfiguration files that are only validated at run time - even for being syntactically correct, never mind type or any other kind of consistency checking.This applies both to Unix itself and to many Unix system applications or utilities (or whatever you want...

Tags: essay, Bach, Unix Museum, Unix, compilation

Discussion threads 2007-11-07

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web

Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the WebEconomic growth in the 21st century“Norvig doesn’t expect AGIs to suddenly appear overnight. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product index, for example, shows constant exponential progress but it doesn’t seem like any great acceleration can be seen OR PREDICTED due to technology, Norvig said....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Web, HBE, Peter Norvig, GDP Growth

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Webcasters dubious about SoundExchange offer

After months of negotiations with SoundExchange, the record industry's royalty-collection agency, small Net radio stations say the group's compromise offer is unacceptable, AP reports.Under the latest proposal, small webcasters with earnings of less than $1.25 million a year could pay a cut of annual revenue in royalties, rather than the...

Tags: Radio, Broadcasting Company, Webcaster, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-23

The workaround that pipes Facebook status entries into a Twitter feed

Facebook's status area is where Facebook users can key in up to the minute information about what's going in their lives or their brains. Twitter is an entire service that's pretty much dedicated to the same thing. For example: "I need coffee." Who cares about tuning into this...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-13

OpenBSD team mocked at first ever 'Pwnie' awards

LAS VEGAS -- The OpenBSD team has won an award for the most spectacular "mishandling" of a critical security vulnerability.Here's why:The OpenBSD team refused to acknowledge the bug as a security vulnerability and issued a "reliability fix" for it. A week later Core Security had developed proof of concept code...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Wireless, Windows Vista, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Mozilla, Microsoft, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Hacker movements: Murphy joins Apple; Caceres to Matasano

LAS VEGAS - On the heels of Google's hire of browser hacking whiz Michal Zalewski comes news that another well-known vulnerability researcher is moving over to the vendor side.Matthew Murphy, an outspoken hacker who is credited with several major flaw discoveries, has confirmed he is joining Apple as a product...

Tags: Windows Vista, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Mozilla, Microsoft, Hackers, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Black Hat, Apple

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Sidereal Time (widget)

Displays the current Local Apparent Sidereal Time LAST, used in astronomy. This is the time according to the stars sidereal instead of the sun solar, so this time does not match the current time of day. The current Julian date is also displayed. Set your correct longitude in the widget...

Tags: Astronomy

Software downloads 2007-08-01

Easy Date Converter (zip)

Designed for easy performance of date calculations. Adds a number of days to a date, calculates the number of days between two dates and converts among Gregorian dates, Julian dates, ISO 8601 Week dates, Hermetic Leap Week dates, Julian day numbers and ordinal dates of the form yyyy-ddd. Weekend days...

Tags: Iso standards, Process Improvement, Performance Management, Quality, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2007-07-27

Easy Date Converter Advanced Version (zip)

Allows easy performance of date calculations. Adds a number of days to a date, calculates the number of days between two dates and converts among Gregorian dates, Julian dates, ISO Week dates, Hermetic Leap Week dates, Julian day numbers and ordinal dates. Weekends may be included or excluded. It has...

Tags: Iso standards, Process Improvement, Performance Management, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Quality, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-07-27

Mac worm rumors swirl; Dai Zovi ships unofficial Mac OS X patch

Amidst unconfirmed rumors that anonymous hackers have created a worm that exploits an unpatched code execution flaw in Mac OS X Intel, a team of researchers have come up with a way to completely disable a buggy portion of the Mac code base.Led by Mac security guru Dino Dai Zovi...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Microsoft, Metasploit, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Auction site opens up for exploits, vulnerabilities

There's a new player in the exploding market for zero-day vulnerabilities -- an eBay-like auction site offering a place to buy and sell flaw research information.The Swiss-based site, called WabiSabiLabi, launched earlier this week with proof-of-concepts and details on four vulnerabilities being hawked at prices ranging from 500 Euros to...

Tags: Apple, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Google, Hackers, Metasploit, Open source, Oracle, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Chinese Calendrics (zip)

A program to convert between dates in various Chinese calendars and dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars, and to find lunar new year's day and leap months for any year in the Chinese Calendar. Can list anniversaries of Chinese lunar dates such as birthdays. Supports 60-year, 60-month and 60-day...

Tags: Calendar

Software downloads 2007-07-02

The iPhone security non-story

David Maynor is hoarding his Safari browser flaws with his eyes on the iPhone.As far back as January, hackers were asking questions about the iPhone CPU and preparing for attack scenarios.The first hacker that breaks into the iPhone will generate lots of headlines/publicity but that's right about where this story...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Digital rights management, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-26