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Proof of Concept "carpet bombing" exploit released in the wild

In what appears to be an attempt to provoke Apple to reconsider its currently passive position on the severity of the dubbed as "carpet bomb" flaw, a working Proof of Concept exploit code has been released at Liu Die Yu's security blog : Nitesh Dhanjani discovered that Safari for...

Tags: Desktop, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Liu, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-11

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China's porn obsession not just a coverup for political repression

The thing that stinks - to Western noses - about this whole Green Dam story is the idea that China wants to go to all this trouble, to the point of having a serious showdown with the U.S. over it, over porn. I mean, porn ... if people want it,...

Tags: Google Inc., Pornography, Government, Vertical Industries, TVs, Benefits, Healthcare, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Lenovo's PC shipments falling faster than market; Posts annual loss

Lenovo's fiscal 2009 ended with a thud as the company's PC shipments fell faster than the industry's decline overall. The company has been rattled by a slowdown in enterprise demand and "under-representation in consumer markets." To wit: Lenovo's fourth quarter PC shipments fell 8.2...

Tags: PC, Lenovo Group Ltd., Lenovo PC, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Art of pizza tossing inspires micro motor design

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have unlocked the physics of the perfect pizza toss and will use it to design the next generation of standing wave ultrasonic motors SWUMs, devices thinner than a human hair. [caption id="attachment_1510" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Credit: Aubrie & Joseph via Flickr"][/caption] ...

Tags: Researcher, Motor, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-27

PPoPP 2009 wrap-up

The 3-day Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2009) conference ended last week with a session on parallel compilers and tools, another on high end computing software, and a keynote by ACM fellow Jack Dennis. Although the last day was a short one, it was not light on content....

Tags: Compiler, Memory, Conference, Los Alamos National Lab Roadrunner Computer, Composability, Flash Memory, Processors, Productivity, Development Tools, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Mozilla plugs 7 security holes in Firefox

Mozilla's flagship Firefox 3 browser has undergone another security makeover to fix at least 7 documented security vulnerabilities that expose users to malicious hacker attacks. The Firefox 3.0.6 upgrade patches at least two critical Firefox flaws that may lead to arbitrary code execution attacks and another "high...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Attacker, Vulnerability, JavaScript, Severity, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Firefox 2 Release, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Can Facebook do anything without raising a ruckus?

Can Facebook do anything without raising a ruckus?Good idea apart from the cost.....as there are alot really toss applications out there and this might seperate some of the wheat from the crap.But maybe it would be better if the registration fee was multi-tiered. So if your application is designed to...

Tags: Facebook, rucku, developer

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Can Facebook do anything without raising a ruckus?

Facebook rolls out what appears to be a fine move: Verify applications are trustworthy and validate them. I could use the help given I don't download a lot of Facebook apps since a lot of them would be described as crap. But this seemingly straightforward effort has raised a ruckus...

Tags: Facebook, Pricing, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-18

WePC: Intel and Asus forming community, or focus group 2.0?

WePC: Intel and Asus forming community, or focus group 2.0?Do like Blog Cabin show on DIY networkhttp://www.diynetwork.com/diy/pac_ctnt_988_leader/text/0,2829,DIY_26336_66159,00.html?affiliate=blocker&omnisource=blogcabinvanityThey used a process to get initial input, then they categorized the choices and did a round or two of voting to whittle down the options into a final product idea they could build...

Tags: Marketing research, WePC, focus group, ASUS, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

HP w2408h True Color Widescreen

The $460 HP w2408h True Color Widescreen is a moderately priced 24-inch monitor with performance nearly comparable to our top-tier 24-incher, the $689 Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP. Still, this monitor lacks a few of the features that would let it compete mano a mano with its top-end counterparts. Although we saw...

Tags: Games, Performance management, Monitors & displays, Network technology, screen-height, display, True Color Widescreen, Hewlett-Packard Co., OSD, game, performance, neck, monitor, cable

Product reviews 2008-09-26

Dirty dozen: Firefox ships patch for 12 security flaws

Mozilla has released another point update for its flagship Firefox browser to provide fixes for at least 12 documented security vulnerabilities.  Some of the flaws put millions of Web surfers at risk of remote code execution attacks. The Firefox 3.0.2 update addresses two issues rated by Mozilla...

Tags: Developer, Mozilla Firefox, Attacker, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Tech 'tips' for Beijing visitors

It looks like foreign tourists are avoiding Beijing in droves. China originally expected 1.5 million visitors. Now that’s down to 450,000. Still, that’s nearly 450,000 journalists coming to town. Everyone’s a reporter now, thanks to tiny electronics and the Web. Even tourists should regard themselves as such....

Tags: China, Journalist, Beijing, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02

Enterprise 2.0 is over for another year and despite a poor start, the event turned out well. I attribute the poor start to the performance of Oracle and Microsoft: two of Jevon MacDonald's 'drag queens.' Both seemed tired, dated and out of touch with the mood of the new generation...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Groupware, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Mobile 2.0 conference debuting in Europe on July 4th

Rudy De Waele sent me a message a couple of days ago announcing that the is expanding to Europe and the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference is coming to Barcelona, Spain on July 4th this year. This is a one day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile...

Tags: Mobile, Conference, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

The Mac desktop, set to music

A friend emailed me a link to the above video from YouTube, which is a music video for The Bird And The Bee's "Again & Again" created entirely on/in a Mac OS X desktop. I especially like the creative plug to buy the song on iTunes at the end of...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Video, Corporate Communications, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Music, Hardware, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-05-12

A new kind of cognitive autonomous robots

European computer scientists have developed a new kind of cognitive robots. In two articles, ICT Results describes how the researchers have combined classical rule-based artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks ANNs (links to part 1 and to part 2). This learning robot 'employs ANNs to manage the low-level functions based...

Tags: Artificial Neural Network, AI, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Is IT becoming extinct?

Update 3/26/08: Also see 5 tips to prevent IT extinction. Since the days of punch cards, IT has believed itself to be guardian of precious computing resources against attacks from non-technical barbarians known as "users." This arrogant attitude, born of once-practical necessity in...

Tags: Information Technology, Dennis Howlett, IT Leadership, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-23

Wal-Mart "snub" no big deal, says ThinkGOS

Reports on the death of the Wal-Mart Linux PC are greatly exaggerated, according to the man selling its operating system. David Liu, founder of ThinkGOS, whose Linux powers the Everex "Linux PC" which Wal-Mart has dropped from its stores, told ZDNet the move was expected, a function of...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Margin, Return Rate, Desktops, Linux, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Microsoft delivers 12 patches to plug Office; 7 for Excel flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday delivered several patches to fix critical vulnerabilities in Office including a well-publicized Excel flaw. In the first bulletin (MS08-014), Microsoft addressed "several privately reported and publicly reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Birds give a lesson to plane designers

You all know that most species of animals can fly -- but not humans. There are more than a million species of flying insects, but do you know that among the 13,000 warm-blood vertebrate species which include birds and mammals, about 10,000 of them are able to fly (9,000 birds...

Tags: Bird, Aircraft, Aerospace, Reynolds, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-07