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- A good outbound firewall in Windows Vista wouldn't replace the need for layered security
- A good outbound firewall in Windows Vista wouldn't replace the need for layered securityt_mohajir has a pointThe average user is bad enough. The below average user of which there are lots and lots is eithera) terrified by their computer, orb) is invicible (in THEIR humble opinion!), orc) permanently baffled, ord)...
- Tags: Firewalls, Network security, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), t_mohajir, firewall, legitimate component, outbound firewall, rogue, Microsoft Windows Vista, security, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
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- Survey: CIOs 'out of the loop'
- CIOs are often seen as "glorified IT directors", looking after the day-to-day running of IT systems, instead of being used to align IT with business aims. Chief information officers are "out of the loop", according to a survey carried out by London-based Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management....
- Tags: CIO, Role, Strategy, Management, IT mangement, survey, IT systems, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-01
- Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?
- Microsoft is dropping its subscription-based antivirus software in favor of a free package, code-named 'Morro'. ScanSafe Internet-security expert Mary Landesman investigates Microsoft's motives. Commentary--Microsoft is to replace its paid-for antivirus product with a free one, citing an altruistic desire to spread protection around the world. But many are less...
- Tags: Software, Brazil, China, India, Microsoft Corp., Infection Rate, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security, Morro, Microsoft, Mary Landesman, antivirus, free, OneCare, ScanSafe, Special from ZDNet UK, Mary Landesman, ScanSafe, Special from ZDNet UK
- News items 2008-12-01
- Netgear readying Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9000 media-streaming device
- One of Netgear's new products that it may announce at CES in January has leaked online, and it adds another networked media-streaming device to an already crowded field. The Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9000 has already reached the FCC for testing and approval, which Engadget was able to sniff...
- Tags: Hard Drive, NetGear, Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9000, Home Networking, Ethernet, Networking, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Blockbuster joins movie-streaming race with 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player
- With Netflix pushing hard into the living room with the Netflix Player by Roku, Vudu offering an improved device (the BX100) with HD streaming, and, of course, Apple TV still hanging around, Blockbuster was bound to want to join the streaming movie club, even if the...
- Tags: 2Wire, Digital Media, Movie, Blockbuster Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- A fully customizable home robot
- Imagine a completely customizable robot with selectable software options. Buy one component, and it will take care of your lawn. Buy another one and it will clean your toilets. With a third one, it will pick up UPS or FedEx deliveries on your porch. If you are taking some vacation,...
- Tags: Lawn, AgBot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Will Apple launch a netbook? And other burning questions
- Apple has said "it doesn't do cheap," but one analyst reckons that Steve Jobs & Co. will address the netbook market at some point--either with an 11-inch MacBook Air priced between $800 and $1,000 in 2009 or a tablet Mac in 2010. That's one of the more...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Gene Munster, 3G, Notebooks, Desktops, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Twitter is smart to reject Facebook and go it alone
- Talks between Facebook and Twitter have broken down, Kara Swisher reports in a post on the Boomtown blog today, and - on the surface - it looks like the dividing issue was money. (Isn't it always?) Facebook was offering $500 million in Facebook stock based on what what Twitter considered...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis
- DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...
- Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Verizon snoops peek at Obama's cell phone records
- Nosy Verizon employees improperly accessed and peeked at Barack Obama's personal cell phone records, the company said in a statement acknowledging the privacy breach. In the statement, Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam apologized to the President-elect and vowed that the errant employees will be disciplined. The...
- Tags: Employee, Phone, Verizon Communications Inc., Cell Phone, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Security, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool
- Two new pieces of malware affecting Mac OS X appeared this week, a Trojan horse and a hacker tool for creating backdoors. Two pieces of malicious software affecting Apple's Mac OS X appeared this week: a Trojan horse with the ability to download and install malicious code of an...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Trojan Horse, Tool, Hacker Tool, Intego, OSX.Lamzev.A, Lamzev, Spyware, Apple Mac OS X, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X, malware, Trojan, backdoor, hacker, Adware & Malware, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-11-21
- Verizon Wireless: Our employees breached Obama's cell phone records
- Verizon Wireless said that "a number of employees" accessed President-Elect Barack Obama's cell phone records without authorization. That's not a great way to introduce yourself to an incoming president. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. In a statement Verizon said Techmeme: This week we learned...
- Tags: Employee, Phone, Cell Phone, Verizon Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging'
- Updated: Dell's third quarter was a mixed bag. Revenue was down amid weak demand, but earnings were better than expected by a wide margin. The outlook was "challenging" as expected. The company reported third quarter earnings of $727 million, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Dell Computer Corp., IT-spending, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Advantages of the Storm over the iPhone (updated)
- (Update: I took the number out of the headline, because it keeps changing.) I got to play with a Blackberry Storm earlier this week and a couple of features immediately jumped out at me that beat the iPhone hands down: Copy and Paste...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Blackberry Storm, Keyboards, Engineering, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Internet stars come out for RIAA trial
- In RIAA lawsuit news, the Tennenbaum case – in which uber-lawyer Charles Nesson now represents the defendant – is taking an Internet star turn. Ray Beckerman reports that in a pretrial memo PDF, Nesson discloses that he intends to call some of the biggest legal names in digital rights. ...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, P2P, RIAA, Berkman Center, Charles Nesson, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...
- Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Streaming Media Policy
- Several independent surveys confirm worldwide streaming media use has grown significantly. While there are many legitimate business applications for streamed audio and video files, much streaming media content is strictly entertainment-based and serves no enterprise value. This policy applies to all employees, contractors, consultants, temporaries,...
- Tags: Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Download resources 2008-11-19
- Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0
- Known as Kardphisher and "in the wild" since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has submitted, has made significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Credit Card, Trojan Horse, Malware, Social Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Sales Channel, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Sales, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack
- The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Botnet, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Interesting OLPC discussion thread from Amazon
- OK, really for sure, my last update for the day on the Amazon OLPC sales. Just wanted to post a conversation thread from the one, concerned, negative reviewer on Amazon: Refund Policy?, November 17, 2008 By Marilyn Jones Last year, there were many...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Refund, One Laptop Per Child Project, G1G1, XO, Marilyn Jones, Productivity, Sales Strategy, Sales, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
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