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To picture or not to picture

To picture or not to pictureIs it even legal?Do you have legal authorization to be taking file pictures of minors without parental consent?I would suspect that, at a minimum, a model release would be needed. The liability exposure is potentially enormous, so please consult your Legal Counsel.Answer? NOThe potential...

Tags: Web site development, Databases, liability exposure, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-02-07

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SAP: Business drop was 'sudden and unexpected'; Credit crunch hurt IT financing

SAP said Monday its business fell off in September as the company warned that its third quarter wouldn't meet its previous targets as a broad swath of customers delayed information technology projects. In contrast to SAP's upbeat outlook in July, the company in a statement said it...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Information Technology, Financing, SAP AG, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06

SEC investigating false rumor on Jobs' health

The Securities and Exchange Commission will investigate Friday's false report that Steve Jobs was whisked to the emergency room, AppleInsider reports. The inquiry: Was the posting on CNN's iReport an attempt to manipulate the market? CNN pulled the page after Apple denied the rumor. AP just reported...

Tags: Job, SEC, Health Care, CNN, Branding, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?

Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?Whitelist.With one home office and 100 branch offices, they all go through two different Squid proxy servers to hit the Internet. I have a file, named white by the way, that contain the URL's they are allowed to hit. It would be nice...

Tags: INTERNET, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, whitelist, blacklist guy

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Another setback for university P2P

Another setback for university P2PUm no.They should NOT kill P2P just because a criminal and inept organization wants to subpoena the daylights out of everyone. What they fail to realize is what ever they think they will produce from it will be negated by the fact they cannot conclusively prove...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Another setback for university P2P

Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...

Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Webcast: Risk Mitigation Strategies for CIOs Implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Where would your business be if your staff loses the ability to send and receive emails, or check calendars and contacts? The criticality of email is irrefutable and if you don't have a strategy to ensure continuity of your email system you could be putting your business at risk....

Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., MessageOne, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-10-01

Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?

Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?So what is the source of the issue?It's one thing to make such a spectacular claim it's another to provide some real evidence. Why would they be emitting a toxic smell? Might this be the case with other computers too?No wonder MBP fans love...

Tags: benzene, MAC Pro, Apple Inc., toxin

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businesses

Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a Technologist and Author of the Upcoming Book, Unseen Liability.  He is a Graduate of Yale and West Point.  He insures Web 2.0 business risks with The Hartford.  His post is a follow-up to a recent talk he gave on Web business risk.  ...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Microsoft Image Composite Editor (msi)

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats,...

Tags: Format, Microsoft Corp., Panorama, Microsoft Image Composite Editor, Engineering

Software downloads 2008-09-30

Microsoft Image Composite Editor (64-bit) (msi)

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats,...

Tags: Format, Microsoft Corp., Panorama, Microsoft Image Composite Editor, 64-Bit, Engineering, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2008-09-30

Canon Vixia HG20

The Canon Vixia HG20 is an excellent HD camcorder that's reasonably easy to operate out of the box and looks good, too. It's almost identical to the company's Vixia HF11, but rather than recording mainly to internal flash memory, it records to a hard drive. As for performance, it's as...

Tags: Corporate communications, Flash memory, Canon Inc., HG20, Vixia HF11, camcorder

Product reviews 2008-09-29

Should our President be computer literate?

Normally I don't like to talk about my political and socio-economic opinions, particularly because as a matter of experience once people discover my true leanings, they sometimes find my completely unrelated opinions on technology, food, or whatever it else we have in common to be less...

Tags: President, Computer, McCain, Palin, Productivity, E-mail, Internet, Government, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug

Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bugsweetThis is nice and all but how bout a fix for the norton 360 bug?RE: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bugWhy one earth is this tagged for security?"Exploit code, Data theft, Denial of Service DoS, Malware,"It's not a security bug that...

Tags: Web browsers, Notebooks, password, Mozilla Firefox, security, password manager bug, Password Manager

Discussion threads 2008-09-28

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy Thomas

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy ThomasHer turn nowI hope she turns around and files a MULTI MILLION dollar suit against the RIAA. If "offering a copyrighted work to the public" is a crime, then we must by definition force the closure of all public libraries. . .This poor...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, RIAA, Jammy Thomas, verdict

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

RIAA loses $222K verdict against Jammy Thomas

The $222,000 verdict against Jammy Thomas for copyright infringement by P2P is no more. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Davis dismissed the verdict PDF, saying it was based on the faulty "making available" theory of distribution. Thomas will face a new trial, in which the RIAA will have to prove...

Tags: Distribution, P2P, RIAA, Verdict, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Canon PowerShot A580

In general, it's best not to expect too much from a budget camera: the 8-megapixel Canon PowerShot A580 exemplifies this philosophy. Sure, it's got a clunky design, feels cheap, and doesn't have all the latest features (in fact for about the same price or a little more you can get...

Tags: ISO standards, A580, camera, Canon Inc., Canon PowerShot

Product reviews 2008-09-23

Will Wall Street Hurt SIs and Outsourcers?

Importance of Financial Services to the Consulting & Outsourcing Industry While consultants and systems integrators have some enviable margins, these firms don't always make huge profits as they employ expensive resources who aren't always chargeable. In fact, these firms can be quite vulnerable to minor economic swings...

Tags: Revenue, Consultant, Systems Integrator, Information Technology, Outsourcing Company, Firm, SiS, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Financial Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-22

The Disaster Recovery Items Few Consider

The Disaster Recovery Items Few ConsiderMore! More!Great article. I would love to read more about what the folks in the trenches dealt with.Brucesome small-scale disaster recovery items for smaller businessesAs owner/operator of a small ASP Application Service Provider, I thought I would share a few tidbits. We...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, colo, disaster recovery, United Parcel Service of America Inc., Web site

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Web 2.0: Don't forget the business risks

Web 2.0--or its business cousin Enterprise 2.0--sounds great on the surface. Who doesn't like lightweight applications, users who become de facto developers and content creators and authentic market intelligence? Businesses would be silly to not jump head first into these newfangled technologies right? Not so fast. There are big risks...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18