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- News to know: Conficker; Patch Tuesday; Fiber optic sabotage; App Easter eggs
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 8 bulletins, 5 critical Conficker botnet stirs, with a scareware business model Dancho Danchev: Fake "Conficker Infection...
- Tags: Facebook, Fiber-optics, Microsoft Corp., Easter Egg, Microsoft Office, Fiber Optics, Network Technology, Office Suites, Software, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Google helping tourists around New York City
- New York City, along with Google, launched a new website that is designed to help tourists and residents find their way around the city, and plan their days out. As a recent first-time visitor to the Big Apple, a site like this would have actually been quite useful. ...
- Tags: New York City, Google Inc., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Breaking News On The Inauguration: Look, Don't Listen (Yet)
- Former President George Bush (#41) and wife Barbara engage the Clintons, on Fox News' live stream at 11:18 a.m. It's 10:37 a.m. -- and the video feeds I have been watching from the Inauguration have just frozen up, for the third time. ...
- Tags: CNN, Fox News, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Nobody works for a dollar
- Nobody works for a dollarNobody Works for $1Amen. If the auto executives put as much energy and creativity in managing the car business as they do managing their PR they wouldn't be needing tax payers to bail them out."Nobody" Is Too BroadI think Michael Bloomberg works as mayor of the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax payer
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
- Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies
- New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform’s CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times’ Executive Editor John Solomon, there’s an interesting story to tell of...
- Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Renting a car: it'll cost you to save on gas
- The priciest rental car? It's a hybrid, of course. Expensive and in short supply as travellers try to cur down on gas use. Not only is there a waiting list to BUY a hybrid car in many parts of the U.S. It is equally difficult to...
- Tags: Car, California, New York, Hybrid, Florida, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- The data center cost conundrum
- The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an expert on these matters, I passed the baton to my Irregular friend Vinnie Mirchandani who understands these...
- Tags: Data Center, San Francisco, New York, Boyd, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Got science?
- It seems there are numerous American scientists who feel bereft. I can relate, because I am related. I have two brothers who are physicists, like our father before them. My father drove a beat-up pick-up truck with a bumper sticker that read, "Legalize Physics." That was...
- Tags: Science, Scientist, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- A suicide pact for humanity? U.S. and Europe agree to footnote emission targets
- The European Union and the United States have reached agreement at the climate change conference in Bali. They'll include target numbers for emission reduction by industrial nations, but those numbers will go in a footnote. So the E.U. gets their 25-40% greenhouse gas emissions cuts by 2020 into...
- Tags: U.S., Carbon Dioxide, Nation, Conference, Bali, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- NYC wants a YouTube: 911
- Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Web, Emergency, cell phone
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- A new charge on your phone bill
- IntelliOne of Atlanta has developed a system that monitors traffic speeds and spots jams as they occur. It works by repeatedly sampling the locations of nearby cell phones and calculating the distance between measurements--this gives it an overall traffic speed, which it can report to authorities or traffic information providers.So...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, Security, General, IntelliOne, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Verizon rushes to wire New York
- Verizon is in a tight race with competing broadband cable companies to be the company New Yorkers turn to for their cable and phone services, reports The New York Times. Rushing to wire New York City neighborhoods with fiber optic, Verizon is building a new state-of-the-art network in...
- Tags: cable, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- NYC: Interactive advertising capital of the world?
- As a proud New Yorker, I enjoy touting the myriad NYC claims to leadership: cultural capital of the world, restaurant capital of the world, financial capital of the world, media capital of the world…Returning to the Big Apple from a Silicon Valley and San Francisco sojourn— see From Search Engine...
- Tags: advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- Parent sue for cellphones
- When Mayor Michael Bloomberg moved to ban cellphones in New York City schools, parents were outraged. Here's what one parent said at the time: "I have her call me when she gets out of school, and she's supposed to get on the bus right away," Lindsay Walt, an...
- Tags: cell phone
- Blog posts 2006-07-13
- Bloomberg holds fast against cellphones
- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeing red over cellphones in schools and his take-no-prisoners attitude is making parents angry, the New York Times reports. Since aggressively removing students' phones earlier this year, the Mayor has been upsetting parents and other policymakers. In some corners of the...
- Tags: Bloomberg L.P., cell phone
- Blog posts 2006-05-17
- NYC bridging e-health digital divide
- Will electronic health records become another outpost on the digital divide? New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking steps to make sure that the city's poor don't get left behind. NYC is spending $27 million to provide electronic health record systems to the doctors serving the city's poorest areas, Federal...
- Tags: health, e-health, City
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Web surfing not grounds for firing in NYC
- Planning on firing employees or even disciplining them for surfing the Web? A New York City judge says you need to show that the surfing actually got in the way of work, News.com reports. Toquir Choudhri, a NYC Department of Education employee of 14 years, committed the sin...
- Tags: Martin Druyan, Choudhri
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- NY mayor's $100 million for stem cell research
- NY mayor's $100 million for stem cell researchGood going Mayor Bloomberg, The Bush administration hasn't the guts to.....stand up for what's good for all Americans. This quote from the article hit the nail on the head..........."The Bush administration has not supported federal funding of embryonic stem research which would include...
- Tags: Bloomberg L.P., John Kerry, stem-cell, Katrina
- Discussion threads 2006-02-03
- NYC city council wants to study broadband options
- News.com reports that NYC is finally promoting broadband. The initiative comes not from the city administration but from the City Council: "[the] legislation that creates a special broadband commission to advise Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city council on how the resources of city government can be used to help...
- Tags: broadband, city council
- Blog posts 2005-12-21
- Was originally hyped business role downplayed in Gates' knighthood?
- Today, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was awarded honory knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Gates will be in rare company, joining the likes of Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, entertainer Bob Hope and musician Bob Geldof. It's been more than...
- Tags: Bill Gates
- Blog posts 2005-03-02
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