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- UBL progress report at XML 2005
- As I noted earlier this week, Kurt Cagle has been providing regular posts at his blogsite on happenings at the XML 2005 conference, which just wrapped up this week. Wednesday's observations are here, and Thursday can be found here.Thursday's coverage includes details from a...
- Tags: Kurt Cagle, UBL
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
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- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...
- Tags: Tool, E-mail Address, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- MIT students fight for right to expose security gaps in Boston subway
- The talk by three MIT students was to be titled "The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFIDs & Magstripes of Ticketing Systems." It was to be delivered Sunday at Defcon. Then the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority sued for an injunction to stop the speech and a U.S. District...
- Tags: electronic frontier foundation, massachusetts institute of technology, productivity, security, richard koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Judge: Viacom gets 12TB of YouTube user data
- A federal judge ordered PDF Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user data to Viacom, finding that the list of "login IDs" does not qualify as personally identifying information. In opposing Viacom's request for the information, Google had asserted users' privacy rights: "Plaintiffs would...
- Tags: Google Inc., Personally Identifiable Information, YouTube Inc., IP, IP Address, User Data, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Pigs is pigs and data is data
- Pigs is pigs and data is datareal meaning of statisticsThe whole problem of overal testing and of data collection is that eaming lies on statistics and that you must not think in terms of individuals when regarding those. You cannot understand why one individual child failed the test exploiting statistics;...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, public school
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
- Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- 37.6% of Libertarians and 26.9% of Democrats blog
- 37.6% of Libertarians and 26.9% of Democrats blogmalevolent Miss Gnomerwho has time to read all these interags ? Why is it called a blog instead of a bore ? If Kurt Vonnegut or Linus Torvalds(WWW-illiterate), or Madelaine Albright wrote a blog I might waste the pixels to read it. Did...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, Libertarian
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- 2008 Volvo XC70
- Photo gallery:2008 Volvo XC70Right on the heels of our 2008 Volvo V70 review comes the 2008 Volvo XC70, basically the same car but with some off-road gear. The V70 impressed us with its performance and considerable high-tech safety options, and the XC70 has similar attributes, but where the V70 was...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Digital music, Processors, Volvo XC70, Volvo V70, Volvo
- Product reviews 2008-02-26
- Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out
- On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. As with any Microsoft early-year reorg -- which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews -- there are winners and losers. Check out my slideshow of who's in and who's out as a...
- Tags: Mobile, VP, Vice President, Microsoft Corp., Senior Vice President, Corporate, Vehghte, Lees, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- A pharmacy in a nanotechnology-based thin film
- MIT researchers have developed a new implantable device to improve our health. This nanoscale thin-film coating can deliver controlled drug doses to specific targets, acting as a 'micro pharmacy' inside our bodies. It could be used to deliver drugs for cancer, epilepsy, diabetes and other diseases. This film, which is...
- Tags: Film, Researcher, Substrate, Voltage, Drug, Nanotechnology, Real Estate, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- How this nearly barenaked lady has been brought to you courtesy of a Skype SPIM-mer
- Skype Journal's Phil Wolff uses this screencap from a Skype SPIM Spam Over Instant Messaging session to explain how Skype SPIM-ers initiate these contacts. Phil mentions 10 ways this is done. Perhaps number 6 is the most sneakingly cunning: ...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Journal, Tools & Techniques, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Rich Internet application predictions from the experts
- Earlier this month I did my 2008 predictions for rich Internet applications. My record last year wasn't as good as it could have been so I decided that this year I'd do two sets of predictions. One set are mine but the others are sets from people in the industry...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- What are the best interests of advertisers on Facebook?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk, who has spent 15 years as a creative director crafting messages for advertisers, explains what advertisers really want in the age of Facebook. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg took this weekend off. You know, hung out at Starbucks,...
- Tags: Facebook, Brand, Advertiser, Branding, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- A phone that tells you what to do
- Researchers from the Palo Alto Research Center PARC have developed a software code-named Magitti for the Japanese company Dai Nippon Printing DNP. When this software is installed on your GPS-enabled mobile phone, Magitti starts to suggest you what to do in your area. You don't need to start a Web...
- Tags: Deployment, Software, Phone, Xerox PARC, Magitti, Tools & Techniques, GPS, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Verizon says it complies with warrantless requests
- Verizon complied with warrantless demands for customer calling records hundreds of times since 2005, The Washington Post reports. In a letter to Democratic congressmen, Verizon also said that it had complied with FBI national security letters requesting information on a second-degree of customers, those who were not...
- Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Letter, Federal Government, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Government, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- One last tilt at the antitrust windmill
- I've been obsessing on antitrust this week, which should come as no surprise as a lot of people much more important than me have been stuck on the subject since the Court of First Instance passed down its Microsoft decision Monday. One thing that bothers me about the decision, however,...
- Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Antitrust Policy, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- FBI further abused security letters by requesting 'communities of interest'
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation reveals that FBI abuses of "exigent circumstances" letters not only illegally sought information on individual customers but also were used to obtain information on people they frequently called. A Freedom of Information Act request from EFF uncovered the new revelations, staff lawyer Kurt Opsahl...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Letter, U.S. Department Of Justice, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Silverlight Dev Camp and Vancouver Flex Camp
- There are a couple of events worth mentioning that are going on in the rich internet application world. The first is this week, the 30th, in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's a RIA/Flex Camp at which I'll be speaking. I'll be covering how to build an AIR application in Flex, but...
- Tags: Vancouver, Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-08-26
- Photos: MIT's solar house under construction
- MIT works on its entry in a competition searching for a realistic, marketable house powered entirely by the sun.On the fringe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass., volunteer students and advisers are building a home powered entirely by the sun. This 800-square-foot building, which started to...
- Tags: Team management, photograph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Solar Decathlon, MIT Solar 7, team, University of Colorado, Boulder, tube, nod, ceremony, daylight, solar energy, fluctuation, tile, deck, Washington D.C., advisor, Paris, Washington
- Image galleries 2007-08-10
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