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- Craigslist becomes political pinata
- If you're a pol who wants to garner some headlines there's one easy route to news coverage: Kick Craigslist. Now it's South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster's turn (Techmeme, statement, letter to Craigslist). McMaster has informed Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster see his reply that he has to remove...
- Tags: South Carolina, Craigslist, McMaster, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- State AGs to meet with Craiglist over sex ads
- Attorneys general from three states - Missouri, Illinois and Connecticut - are expected to meet today with executives from Craigslist in an effort to bring an end to the solicitation for illegal sexual activities being advertised on the classifieds site. "It is blatant. It is irresponsible. It...
- Tags: Craigslist, Advertisement, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents
- OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patentsThe OIN is nothing more than a bottom feeder trying hard....to do away with patents they think they can fight. If Linux based systems are not guily of major patent abuse, as MS has claimed in the past, why would there be an OIN...
- Tags: patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama
- It all started with the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan leader's offices in India, Brussels, London and New York asked the researchers to examane its computers for malware. But researchers at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto found something much more than garden-variety spyware, John Markoff...
- Tags: China, Researcher, Toronto, Computer, GhostNet, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet
- ICANN is leading the white hats in an "extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle" against the forces behind the Conficker malware, John Markoff reports in the Times. Dancho Danchev noted recently that: Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain...
- Tags: Researcher, Malware, Conficker Program, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Do we need a new internet? No, but we do need more researchers.
- The New York Times ran an article on a new academic research project whose goal is to redesign the Internet from scratch. The most valuable product that will come from this effort is not new technology, but formally trained security researchers. This past weekend the old...
- Tags: Researcher, Internet, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Targeted spear phishing attacks
- A colleague of mine, Dave Wong, from Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center in New York, pointed me to a really interesting article on targeted spear phishing attacks by John Markoff of the New York Times.  Phishing has been really interesting to me lately, as I've seen a wave of discussions,...
- Tags: E-mail, Attack, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Microhoo update: Culture clash, Alibaba and board room politics
- With the tech world on holiday in the U.S. for President's Day, the fate of Yahoo still hangs in the balance. That's doesn't mean the blogosphere has been taking a vacation from the topic. In the NYT, John Markoff and Matt Richtel write about the culture clash...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Article, Microsoft Corp., Battleground, Alibaba Group, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Stop the Kindle hype!
- The current meme about the Kindle is that Amazon's e-book reader is a monster success and is heralding the end of the hardcopy paper book. If that notion wasn't strange enough, some industry observers point to Amazon's purchase of Audible as another boost for its content platform. The fly...
- Tags: Subway, Device, Apple iPod, Audible Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Audio Book, Kindle, Digital Music, E-books, Digital Media, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Memo to Jerry Yang: Talk to Ray
- John Markoff brings some historical perspective in analyzing the viability of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. In his New York Times piece, he wrote: No one really knows, of course, but gambling on the future is the essence of Silicon Valley. Everyone chases the next big thing, knowing it could very...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Life, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-03
- Patent reform: Stopping the insanity or inventor ripoff?
- Over the summer, a jury handed down a record-setting award in a patent infringement case against Microsoft: $1.5 billion. Alcatel-Lucent claimed Microsoft had infringed their patents in the "backup HQ encoder" in Windows Media Player. The jury calculated the damages by giving Alcatel-Lucent 0.5 percent of the average cost of...
- Tags: Patent, Perlman, Microsoft Windows, Intellectual Property, Operating Systems, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Oak Ridge attacks linked to China
- A US-CERT memo obtained by the New York Times strongly suggests that China is behind the phishing attacks on US nuclear weapons research labs. Starting in October hackers launched "coordinated and targeted attacks" on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the memo said. The attacks were traced to...
- Tags: Lab, Hacker, Attack, US-CERT, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Hacking, Security, Identity Theft, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Chip bugs can lead to major security disasters
- Adi Shamir, professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and "S" in RSA, sent out a warning about a hypothetical scenario in which bugs in widely used processors could be exploited undetected by "sophisticated" intelligence agencies and lead to major security disasters. These bugs chips,...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., PC, Chip, Attack, Security, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Is a Java power play lurking beneath Google's Open Handset Alliance?
- On the heels of today's announcement by Google of the Open Handset Alliance, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has published a blog headlined Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community! The blog entry goes onto categorize the initial OHA platform called Android as Google's "new Java/Linux phone platform." Writes Schwartz:...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Free Software Foundation, Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Blog Entry, OHA, Android, JavaFX, Openhandsetalliance.com, JME, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Anthony Lilley doesn't seem keen on Web 3.0
- With Ian Davis and I packing to join the UK contingent hopping across the Atlantic to this week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, it was interesting to see Anthony Lilley's piece on Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 in today's Guardian. He's clearly not a fan...
- Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Data, Semantic Web, VC, Nova, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- The Semantic Web - is everyone confused?
- The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their understanding of the Semantic Web and where it's going. Each piece is thoughtful, each piece...
- Tags: Web, Technology, Language, Danny Ayers, Read/Write Web, Tim, SWEO, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, RDF, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric cars
- Former SAP executive, Shai Agassi has resurfaced as a potential 21st century day Henry Ford, but with a green intent. He is moving from ERP and SOA to electric cars with his for-profit Project Better Place. And, he has raised more that $200 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, Israel Corporation,...
- Tags: Car, SOA, Shai Agassi, Project Better Place, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- NTP: We sue the (wireless) world
- NTP: We sue the wireless worldThe patent system is certainly broken. Hopefully NTP will pay heprice this time. They got luck with RIM that could not afford a shutdown and wanting to get rid of the uncertainty. This as the patents were being invalidated. Well, who knows, in this case,...
- Tags: patent system, NTP, patent, Research In Motion Ltd., wireless
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
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