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- Why is Apple meddling with my Windows AutoRun?
- Not suprised...Why would Apple try to keep their competitor secure? It would go aggainst their own adds.Oh and I'm not suprised that apple wants to meddle with autorun... I always disable that feature and it will stay disabled... I just hope Apple wont try to stealth enable it... PS: Great...
- Tags: Zune HD, Microsoft Windows, Autorun, Apple Inc., CD, Apple iTunes, Auto-run, Microsoft Zune
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- 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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing
- 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. Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection 9/11...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Andrew Nusca, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX
- 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. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, YouTube Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Wireless, Brammo, GlassHouse Service, Microsoft Windows 7, FireWire, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- News to know: Perfect Windows storm; Nokia; SugarCRM; Google Earth
- 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 Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 delayed again Mary Jo Foley: XP, Vista, Win 7: The brewing of a perfect storm...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Google Earth, SugarCRM, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Smb/Sme, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Cloud boom or cloud bubble?
- Cloud boom or cloud bubble?Salesforce blowsI'm so tired of every idiot tech reporter talking about how great salesforce is.Working with them is a nightmare. They have stupidity and ineptitude coupled with arrogance. They don't even support record locking for integration. That's CS 101 stuff.Vendor lock-in? And...
- Tags: cloud computing, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Maxtor Black Armor
- We're not surprised to see the Maxtor Black Armor emerge in a time when so much confidential data is transported by external hard drives. The 10GB Black Armor drive ($150) is a portable storage device with built-in Advanced Encryption Standard hardware-based encryption to prevent digital theft. Unfortunately, this added security...
- Tags: Storage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), traveler mode, Black Armor, Maxtor Corp., password
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- Microsoft CardSpace killed before it really began?
- According to Neowin, computing students at the University of Bochum, Germany, have worked out how to retrieve vital security tokens from Microsoft's CardSpace framework. CardSpace is highly tipped to be the successor to Windows Live ID Passport and making passwords a relic of the Cold War, using self-signed or certificate...
- Tags: DNS, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Security Token, Microsoft Corp., Domain Names, Digital Security, Security, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live Mesh
- Gillmor: Why Google should worry about Live MeshOh yeah, I can just see the data breaches...in the cloud. :)I agree - the companies that blend will seea better result. Especially the ones that require a disconnected view. It will be fun to see what happens.RE: Gillmor: Why Google...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Desktops, Digital media, Google Documents, Google Inc., Live Mesh, Gillmor, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Enter the socialprise
- According to Coase's theory of The Nature of the Firm, enterprises form to avoid the transaction costs of buying services or other inputs from other organizations. But that was in 1937. Modern communications, in particular the Web, have reduced the friction costs of doing business with outsiders at the same...
- Tags: Web, Network, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live ID
- Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI directed my mom to mail.live.com.I solved her problem very quickly.RE: Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with Live IDI got this message all day long at the MS Office Download Center:"The Office Update Catalog cannot be displayed...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Windows Live outage, Live-ID, outage, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Microsoft: See the Yahoo, Take the Yahoo
- Microsoft: See the Yahoo, Take the YahooD@mn idiots!!Hands of my yahoo!!! Yet another reason to despise Mickeysoft. I can't trust my yahoo mail anymore if this goes through. Sigh. It will be a painful migration, moving all my saved mail...but I am outta there if this...
- Tags: Financial accounting, yahoo, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., YAHMic
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?
- The decision two weeks ago by Yahoo! to support the burgeoning openid initiative, where users choose their preferred user account provider for logging into other Web sites, was a defining moment for the increasingly popular effort to bring order and sanity to the often confusing world of user identity on...
- Tags: Account, Web, Site, Worker, Single Sign-on, Identity, Enterprise, Channel Management, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
- About 10 years ago, we used to ask Jim Barksdale, then head of Netscape, a stock question during news conferences. Did you bag any "default browser" deals lately? Inevitably Jim would demur and say they were still trying. Those were the days when the light was swiftly...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Channel Management, Internet, Web Browsers, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machine
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machineYang will NOT want to work under MS. He WILL take the money and run thoughas Google is eating their lunch, and MS has billions to throw at anything and everything. Time to exit the stage with a suitcase full of cash. My bet is that Yang ends up at...
- Tags: E-mail providers, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSN Hotmail, Google Inc., GeoCities
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Yahoo puts its heft behind OpenID 2.0
- Yahoo puts its heft behind OpenID 2.0Don't they get it???We (or at least I...) don't *want* SSO for the web!!! This means someone gets my one ID, they get to *all* my accounts for all sites I use. Thanks, but no thanks! I use a separate password...
- Tags: Unlike Microsoft, Big Question, Microsoft Corp., OpenID 2.0, Yahoo! Inc., identity
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- Bullseye on Google: Hackers expose holes in GMail, Blogspot, Search Appliance
- Bullseye on Google: Hackers expose holes in GMail, Blogspot, Search ApplianceThe more widely something is usedthe more likely to become a target of hackers. Good thing not many run Linux.Firefox/NoScriptFolks,Install Firefox and NoScript add-on--it strips out the JavaScript exploits.Also, don't leave yourself logged into Gmail from your browser--a good...
- Tags: E-mail providers, search appliance, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Blogspot, Bullseye
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- If 'you' build OpenID, will 'they' come?
- In case you missed it last week, Microsoft is taking another swing at the idea of single sign-on technologies. Its first, Passport, failed miserably. Called Windows Live ID (following in the footsteps of everything else "Windows Live"), I guess you could call this "Son of Passport" or "Passport: The Sequel."...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Single Sign-on, Identity, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Five new Microsoft downloads available this week
- A quick round-up of some of the new test releases and final versions of various Microsoft wares rolled out in the past week:Windows Live ID software development kit. Windows Live ID is Microsoft's single sign-on authentication technology of which Microsoft Passport is a subset. On August 16, Microsoft released version...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
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