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February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch

February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launchYour source is wrong. VS 2008 beta 2 isalready available. http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/a/f2ac411f-acf9-42a7-a84f-3efc409bcd6b/VSTS_SelfExtractingJuneCTP.mhtIs this a good idea?Looking at what happened when they did this last time with .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, and VS 2005 - they ended up with huge delays, tons of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, CTP, June CTP, Beta 2, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-10

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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

Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up

The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...

Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, U.S. Department Of Labor, Recruitment & Selection, Data Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure

Jouko Pynnonen posted a message to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today, citing multiple "script injection" vulnerabilities within Facebook.  I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anybody out there, it's certainly not to me, as numerous web applications have major problems with Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities, but I think this...

Tags: Facebook, Vulnerability, XSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sandbox, JS, Canvas Page, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Michael Dell's a believer: Makes a $100 million statement

Dell CEO Michael Dell has acquired about a $100 million worth of Dell shares in the last three days. Guess Mr. Dell is a believer that the company is on the right track. On June 27, Dell picked up 2.23 million shares at $22.93. On June 30,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Blizzard introducing two-factor authentication for WoW gamers

Password stealing malware targeting popular MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft for instance, has become so prevalent, that video game developers are taking their authentication model a step further, by introducing two-factor authentication into play. And while marketable, is the new authentication layer actually useful in a real life situation?...

Tags: Password, Two-factor Authentication, World Of Warcraft, Malware, Gamer, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Games, Cyberthreats, Security, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-02

McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures

Stay with me here readers, I'm stringing two stories about McAfee together here, a little out of the ordinary, so I hope it makes sense.  If you aren't interested in the tech details of which there are very little, please do read for a good laugh. Network World reported...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Organize-It, PCI, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Marketing Research, Storage, Hardware, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Study: 637 million Google users surfing with insecure browser

According to a new study from researchers at Google, IBM and ETH Zurich, there are about 637 million Google users surfing the Internet with a vulnerable Web browser. Using data from Google search queries and security vulnerability aggregator Secunia, the study HTML or PDF found that a...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Net Applications shows Firefox 3.0 market share at 2.28ò0for June 08

Net Applications shows Firefox 3.0 market share at 2.28ò0for June 08Fix your linksThe links to the photos display //http twice in the address bar. You have the same problem in your other post on physx.I tried it on several computersbut am holding off on my primary machines. It crashes A...

Tags: Web browsers, Net Applications, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Why Microsoft might win in mobile

Why Microsoft might win in mobileInterface BreathroughI would say that the new HTC Touch is a breakthrough in mobile interfaces. I actually like it better than the iPhone. To me, it makes the iPhone/iPod Touch interfaces look boring.its called Opera Mobile 9.5Have you tried using Opera Mobile 9.5 on any...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, High Tech Computer Corp., phone, mobile, Opera Software, Apple Safari, Opera Mobile 9.5, Opera Mobile

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

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ATpretty close to what I pay for a Windows Mobile phone with AT&TI have been anxiously awaiting getting rid of my Cingular 2125, and am very happy with the prices of the 3G iPhone plans ... almost exactly what I am paying now for a low-end plan with 200 SMS...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, phone, High Tech Computer Corp., 3G

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

New Microsoft program to make volume licenses 'evergreen'

New Microsoft program to make volume licenses 'evergreen'NowIf we can just get rid of WGA and activation process for stand-alone users, we'll be in business.Microsoft volume licenses 'evergreen'"However as always with Microsoft licensing, the devil is in the details."Never were truer words spoken - you can bet the farm...

Tags: volume-license, New Microsoft program, New Microsoft, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-01

Net Applications shows Firefox 3.0 market share at 2.28% for June 08

Net Applications has made browser market share data for June 08 available, and the figures show Firefox 3.0 has managed to capture a market share of nearly 2.3%. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Could some uses of OpenID create a large privacy issue?

I just finished a news story about VeriSign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) secure OpenID services chosen by Microsoft for HealthVault users. The story discusses VeriSign's DNS services and its OpenID services and asks if this is a problem or a feature. Is this a possible privacy issue or could the two technologies...

Tags: DNS, VeriSign Inc., Privacy, Domain Name, OpenID, Domain Names, Security, Networking, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses

Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...

Tags: Car, Stock, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Wall, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Construction, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-30

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It was often contentious, always intriguing, and more often than not frustrating as well. Part...

Tags: Web, Multimedia, PC, Bill Gates, Bill, Desktops, Hardware, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Lithium Technologies raises $12 million; social network for enterprises will invest in innovation

June appears to be the month for social networks to announce new funding. The latest is Lithium Technologies, which today announced that it has closed a $12 million series B round. Lithium is in good company this month, with LinkedIn, Twitter, Jaxtr and others creating a splash with their respective...

Tags: Innovation, Network, Benchmark Capital, Lithium Technologies Inc., June, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori

June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It's also a good day thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece to start looking ahead to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Midori, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-30

J Allard gets a new job

It looks like J Allard has a new mission and new title to prove it. As of June 24, according to the Microsoft executive bio site, Allard is now "Chief Experience Officer" at Microsoft, as well as as yet another of Microsoft's Chief Technology Officers by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Job, Microsoft Corp., Entertainment, J Allard, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-29

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Perhaps never has the Detroit auto industry faced such a challenge. Not from the small cool VW beetle in the 1960s. Not from the onslaught of Datsun and Toyota a decade later. Not from the Honda Civic in the Nineties. This time the challenge is not...

Tags: Industry, Gasoline, Therapy, General Motors Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-27