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Microsoft: XBox Live account theft was social engineering attack

Microsoft: XBox Live account theft was social engineering attackSO WHY ARE YOU POSTING HOW TO DO THIS???So the site that is closed down that tells you how to do this is down, but ZDNet puts the information for everyone to have access.If the whole security breach was indeed someone calling...

Tags: Litigation, Game players, Sony Corp., misrepresentation, Microsoft Xbox Live, fraud, Microsoft Xbox, Social Engineering, social engineering, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

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Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...

Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Suit over baby vid with Prince song goes forward

Everybody agrees. Stephanie Lenz' video of her young son with Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" playing in the background was a fair use of a copyrighted work. But Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice on the video and YouTube took it down for a month until Lenz was able to get...

Tags: Use, DMCA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-21

The social media corporate identity crisis

The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...

Tags: brand, social media, twitter, joel postman, popeyes chicken, q., branding, social networking, marketing, online communications, advertising & promotion, jennifer leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again

Vint Cerf, one of the co-inventors of the underlying technology that makes the Web work, now Google's Internet evangelist, has issued a call for throughput-based pricing by ISPs. This in response to the Comcast ruling by the FCC, which ordered the cable carrier to stop interfering with certain kinds of...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Network, IP Television, Net Neutrality, Pricing Strategy, Carrier, Cerf, 6MBps, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Federal Government, Internet, TVs, Pricing, Broadband Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote

Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence voteSounds like the testers and MS are doing good work[i]The best thing that happened in response to this latest action is that the Entity Framework team responded to it immediately[/i]Good for the testers for demanding better, and good for MS for responding immediately....

Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Corp., Entity Framework, no-confidence, MJO

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Put some IT pros in jail

Put some IT pros in jailAgreed to the fullestWhen I described the WH email issue with a friend, I said flatly "I would have walked in and fired every person I laid eyes upon." There is NO excuse for that level of incompetence, none whatsoever!Too bad there aren't licenses we...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, software engineering, jail, information technology, software

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

More reasons why Twitter won't make it to the enterprise

I've written before about Twitter's lack of understanding about scaling issues which is a lot more than simply size but today I learned that Twitter doesn't bother enforcing its own terms of service. Ariel Waldman's treatment by Twitter is a model case study in how to mess up customer service....

Tags: Twitter, Harassment, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Why kill Google?

Technology journalists from the mainstream media appear obsessed with locating some magic bullet with which to topple Google from its dominant position in today's Web, and use of violent language seems part and parcel of this obsession. Have Larry and Sergey done something to upset them? Did they all have...

Tags: Google Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-28

Excel:mac 2008 performance issues

Excel:mac 2008 performance issuesnot just ExcelAll of Office 2008 is slow, even when compared to Office 2004 running under Rosetta. Terribly disappointed except for the fact that I use iWork much more anyway.Constructive Criticism: This is what the Air Diary was supposed to be aboutI'm not trying to be a...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Web browsers, Microsoft Office, NonZealot, Apple Safari, API, performance

Discussion threads 2008-03-24

Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given

Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a givenIt's a sad day in Hooterville.........When not even one blogger or announcer know what a "Standard" method of accomplishing a task is.Even considering OOXML as a "standard" is like unto calling a car a "standard" for driving on a highway....

Tags: Government, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., ISO standards

Discussion threads 2008-03-01

European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?

European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?Fine is for the pastThis fine is for the past and has nothing to do with their current 'openness'!I'm gladI'm so glad Microsoft have suddenly changed and decided to makes these moves purely out the goodness of their own hearts.Who knows if the...

Tags: Servers, European Commission, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

State and wireless firms squabble over blame for high cellphone rates

State and wireless firms squabble over blame for high cellphone ratesShow the taxes on the bill!Allowing governmental bodies to squash the explicit listing of taxes on cell phone bills would be like allowing them to forbid gas stations from posting those signs on the pump which break out the various...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Cellular phones, tax, cell phone, wireless firm, high cellphone rate, cellphone rate, blame, wireless

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a qualified thumbs upHeh.Only a Linux guy would like such toy. WHS is a geeky toy...it may be useful for some people, but I still don't see why Joe User would bouy it. This product is going to sell as well...

Tags: Operating systems, CSS, Media Center PCs, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, FUD, Linux, Linux Guy, server, WHS, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Windows Home, Iomega WHS, codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-24

No charges in MySpace suicide

No charges in MySpace suicideWhat a Crock![i]He said the people involved are probably suffering plenty already. “The loss of a life of a person that they once talked to as a friend, I’m sure, is just twisting them all up inside,” Banas said.[/i]I can almost guarantee you that this is...

Tags: INTERNET, pocketbook, Megan, suicide, MySpace

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

News to know: IE 8 anticipation; LiveJournal sold; Facebook's fumble

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Users clamoring again for an Internet Explorer 8 update. Ryan Naraine: IE vs Firefox: Microsoft crunches security numbers. Dan Farber: Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine. Techmeme. CA: Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy:...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office 2007, Facebook, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, One Laptop Per Child Project, Motorola Inc., Fuel Cells, Web Browsers, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon free

Police Blotter: MySpace profile sets convicted felon freeAnd this is why our legal system is brokenWe assume that we can get a jury of uneducated peers that will only accept the evidence that is presented to them on a golden platter. They are not allowed to associate or research...

Tags: MySpace, Myspace Profile, felon, Police Blotter

Discussion threads 2007-11-30

U of Oregon fights RIAA subpoenas

The fight against the RIAA seems to be lining up some serious firepower. The University of Oregon and the state's attorney general are asking a federal judge to quash a subpoena issued by the recording industry seeking the names of 17 unidentified UO students, says Ars Technica. The RIAA's...

Tags: School, Recording Industry, RIAA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Spammer says state law is unconstitutional

Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted in 2003 in the nation's first felony anti-spamming case sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said...

Tags: Computer Network, Speech, Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Intel inside OLPC?

Intel inside OLPC?WHY? WHY? WHY?OLPC, millions of laptops running on Linux. And Not running on the Windows OS. Why do people persist on plucking Bill Gates nerves? Why, Why, Why???? Mr Gates do and do and do for you people. And what do he get in return. The potential loss...

Tags: Notebooks, Operating systems, laptop computer, Intel-inside OLPC, One Laptop Per Child project, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-09-11