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- TSA's Secure Flight insecure, delayed again
- The Transportation Safety Administration's Secure Flight program "may not be adequately protected against unauthorized access and use or disruption," a Government Accountability Office auditor told Senate committee yesterday, according to the New York Times. The program has been long-delayed and agency chief Kip Hawley told the Senate Committee on Commerce,...
- Tags: agency, Kip Hawley, Senate Committee
- Blog posts 2006-02-10
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- Blodget: MicroHoo 'is gonna be a disaster'
- "It's gonna be a disaster." That's how Silicon Alley Insider founder and Web pundit Henry Blodget characterized the outcome of the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo, if and when it goes through. (Blodget seems to believe it's more a "when" than an "if," as CEO "Steve Ballmer is...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Kniskern, Portals, Mergers & Acquisitions, Instant Messaging, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Branding, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- 'Sexy' enterprise software: it's not for lack of trying
- Fellow ZDNet blogging colleague Michael Krigsman helped kick up quite a blogstorm with recent posts regarding how "fun" enterprise software should be. Vendors have actually been trying to 'sex up' enterprise applications for years It all started with some comments by Microsoft's Bill Gates...
- Tags: Michael Krigsman, Web 2.0, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- For those of us who forget to turn off the lights
- As a relative newbie to the green tech beat and therefore the energy beat in generally, I am still surprised by how many of the terms that the insiders use harken back to farming. People talk about "feedstock" for generators. There are nuclear "silos," of course. And there's daylight "harvesting,"...
- Tags: Daylight, Light, Axis, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house
- On July 1, Microsoft's new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives -- or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.Brian Arbogast, who had been running Microsoft's Windows Live Developer & Communications Platform for the past few years, is now the Corporate...
- Tags: Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office Live, Database, CRM Live, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Kip Audio
- Kip Audio is a program that lets you play MP3s like a DJ would play records. It lets you control the tempo and add effects to your favorite songs. You can monitor on the headphones and cross fade like a real DJ. A playlist and an analyzer give extra tools...
- Tags: Audio, Song, Kip Audio, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2007-05-11
- SiteKey phish demonstrated against BofA
- SiteKey phish demonstrated against BofAThoughts from a long-term RSA consultant:1. RSA only sells the Passmark image-based two-way authentication module as part of its Adaptive Authentication package, which -- as Richard noted -- includes a risk-analysis engine which would likely identify this type of transaction as worthy of further scrutiny, perhaps...
- Tags: Financial services, security, authentication, RSA Security Inc., bank, Bank of America Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- TSA pulls out of puffers, wants to fund improved X-ray technology
- Millions of dollars allocated for so-called puffer technology, which was supposed to be able to detect explosives in bags by blowing puffs of air, will be reallocated to something that actually works, the Transportation Safety Agency signaled, according to the Washington Post. The proposal calls for a shift...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, puffer
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- The broader implications of open source
- The broader implications of open sourceDude, Communes died 30 years ago,;-)Get with the times No AxThey don't call them communes anymore.It is now called [b]cohousing[/b].[i]In cohousing, the residents themselves plan their communities and choose the appearance. They own their own units and divide duties for maintenance, gardening and other chores....
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2006-06-29
- College men in danger of 'full tilt'
- The popularity of Internet gambling has exploded in recent years, luring many college students to fritter away their tuition and more, striving to stay in the game. For incoming freshman, online poker is as common as beer, and some students even play Texas Hold 'Em, the most popular game,...
- Tags: poker, Greg Hogan
- Blog posts 2006-06-14
- Keep It Private (zip)
- KIP can work from inside MCE or standalone in a WinXP machine. It protects your private folders in your computer so that no other user have access to it, not even you, by providing your Parental PIN you can gain momentary access to your files. The files will become protected...
- Tags: Computer, Productivity
- Software downloads 2006-05-31
- MIT Emerging Tech Factoid #2
- "It turns out that every year, Nepal takes over a little bit of China. The amount is no bigger than your fingernail and it's very peaceful encroachment." -- Michael Hawley, director of special projects at the MIT Media Lab, commenting on the data being generated by GPS sensors that he and...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Blog posts 2004-09-30
- Small businesses fear Microsoft dependence
- Yankee Group claimed that 43% of small and medium businesses it surveyed are kept awake at night because they fear depending too heavily on Microsoft. And 72% of the people surveyed said they were looking for other vendors presumably so they can have a good night’s kip.
- Tags: SMB/SME, Microsoft Corp., small business
- Blog posts 2004-01-29
- Adam Smith's lessons for IT
- Adam Smith's lessons for ITas much time ascompanies have spent in court against ms, they could of been making great strides at creating beter software, but it seem like some think the game is king of the hill vs those with the best software win"Free Trade" Administration??"The supposedly free-trading...
- Tags: information technology, Micron Technology Inc., Adam Smith, Bush Administration
- Discussion threads 2003-11-26
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