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k9 web protection (2): K9 Web Protection is easy-to-use Parental Control and Internet filtering software that helps parents protect their children online. K9 Web Protection has the ability to block adult, porn and other offensive content, prevent spyware infections, and monitor visited sites on any Internet access connection (AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Earthlink). Based on...; Tags: Web, Blue Coat Systems Inc., K9 Web Protection, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security; Software downloads 2007-03-19

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It's official: Adobe GoLive is GoDead: I just received the following email notice from Adobe that they've discontinued development of GoLive so that they can focus on DreamWeaver. Dear Adobe software owner: Please take note that Adobe has discontinued development and sales of Adobe® GoLive® web authoring software. This decision — effective...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe GoLive, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Sales Strategy, Sales, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-13
TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect: Established North American Semantic Web company TopQuadrant today announced that Jeremy Carroll is joining the company as Chief Product Architect. Whilst at HP Labs, Carroll was lead architect on the open source Jena toolkit that lies behind much of today's commercial and non-commercial work on the Semantic...; Tags: Toolkit, TopQuadrant, Semantic Web, Software Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut: It was only a month ago that I mentioned the release of Opera Mini 4.1 beta and today I received the announcement that the full release of Opera Mini 4.1 is now available to download and install for free. It is so good that it has now earned a place...; Tags: Opera Software, Channel Management, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?: Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches: Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains:...; Tags: Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Zero Day Initiative, Security, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
McAfee isn't "McAfee Secure" or "Hacker Safe": In my most recent discussion on McAfee, I posted a talkback to Russ McRee stating, tongue in cheek mind you, that it'd be interesting to see an XSS or SQL Injection on McAfee's site, see if they are indeed "McAfee Secure". Well, I guess you get what you ask for......; Tags: McAfee Inc., XSS, Hacker, Tool, Productivity, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Satellites seeing clearly despite clouds: Two researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a mathematical tweak which dramatically improves air pollution detection on cloudy days. They've found a way to reduce cloud-induced glare when satellites measure blue skies on cloudy days, by as much as ten-fold in some cases. 'Because clouds represent one...; Tags: Wavelength, Pollution, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-13
ReactOS no threat to Windows: ReactOS is an implementation of Windows Server 2003, still in alpha stage, and very interesting. But it is no threat to Windows. None at all. Especially compared with Linux. Here's why. Sponsors. Linux has big corporate sponsors behind it, starting with...; Tags: Desktop, ReactOS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews: Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect -- a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don't worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn't be easier. ...; Tags: Google Inc., API, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-13
CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS: I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-13
News to know: HP's to buy EDS; AMD; XP SP3; iPhone; Spam attacks: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services. Dennis Howlett: HP to take out EDS: does it make sense? AMD rejiggers management; Forms central engineering group Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Nokia Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Attack, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Podcasts, Data Centers, Homeland Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Live Webcast: Security Strategies for Web 2.0 and Social Networking: The onslaught of Web 2.0 and social networking is unstoppable. Blogs, wikis, advanced collaboration tools, rich Internet applications, and other incarnations of the same underlying technologies are rapidly becoming ingrained elements of our Internet culture. Consequently, regardless of whether or not "the business" formally adopts such solutions, IT...; Tags: Security, Web, Webcast, Network, SonicWall, Security Strategy, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion; Webcasts 2008-05-13
FBI: Counterfeit Cisco routers risk "IT subversion": An internal Federal Bureau of Investigation presentation states that counterfeit Cisco routers imported from China may cause unexpected failures in American networks. The equipment could also leave secure systems open to attack through hidden backdoors. The scope of the problem is broad and results from a complicated supply chain originating...; Tags: Cisco Router, Router, Network, Information Technology, FBI, Cisco Systems Inc., Hardware, Federal Government, Routers & Switches, Networking, Government, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Wiretaps up, terrorism prosecutions down: We have been told that our very safety, our "homeland security," is dependent on the federal government having extraordinary powers to snoop, listen and search without the traditional (pronounced "constitutional") checks provided by judicial review. One part of this equation works as advertised – the incursion...; Tags: Terrorism, Terrorism Prosecution, Homeland Security, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-12
McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!: Not to beat a dead horse, that's already been beaten to death time and time again, but... Update 05/12/08: Russ McRee has actually just posted a story about "Why PCI DSS is Doomed". Came across this page on McAfee's site about their "McAfee Secure", "McAfee...; Tags: Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5: Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack (SP) 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...; Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Astoria, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Where is the money going in health care, and why?: I stumbled today upon an ADVANCE 2008 investment outlook for health care, and decided you might like me to hit some of the high points. The piece is written by James Brennan (right), managing director of VirtualCDO, a medical merger outfit whose Web page describes him as the...; Tags: Patient, Hospital, Health Care, James Brennan, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Google kicks off its Facebook ground war: Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Major career web sites hit by spammers attack: What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...; Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-12