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Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loom

Flash 9 is already availableThe web browser is called SkyFire and Flash on it works very nicely.RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomI'll try not to do my banking on my cell phone.Problem solved!RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomWhat...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Flash 9, Apple iPhone, Flash Lite, smart phone, security headach, monoculture, Adobe Systems Inc., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

What if there was no Google? A lesson in monoculture

What if there was no Google? A lesson in monocultureYa'll are trying to hard......to invent the next Microsoft. You answered most of your own questions. If Google up and disappeared you'd just use the next service or the one you were using before Google came along. I tend to use...

Tags: Ya'll, Google Inc., monoculture, What-If, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

What if there were no Google? A lesson in monoculture

What if there were no Google? Now now, stop laughing -- seriously! What if Google and all of its products and services ceased to exist tomorrow? How would you operate? The Next Web's Devid Petherick asks that very question, and it's...

Tags: Google Inc., Monoculture, Next Web, Gchat Protocol, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Google

GoogleGoogle DependantGoogle is good, make no mistake, but when it gurgled, I just changed my search engine to Yahoo. Problem solved. Calling it a "monoculture" may be giving a bit much credit to our glorified Googlers.Jeff G.RE: GoogleHow ironic that Google et al are taking the ISP's to task for...

Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Google Inc., monoculture

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Google's flub: Do we have a Web monoculture too?

Google had a rough weekend and a human error caused the search giant to list the entire Web as malware for an hour or so. The screw-up is likely to raise questions about the risks of having a monoculture dependent on any one technology supplier. On Saturday,...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Monoculture, Screw-up, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Channel Management, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Clouds, history, and unmitigated drivel

Clouds, history, and unmitigated drivelHere come the flames!Regardless of the accurracy/inaccuracy of your vision, I can see the flames coming already.I personally don't see anything overtly incorrect in what you state, but my interpretation differs slightly.In my opinion, until they can find a way to capitalize on the creation of...

Tags: NETWORKING, New Network Architecture, network, monoculture

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Mac Clones and Psystar

Mac Clones and PsystarOpen ArchitectureMany of the issues with Windows are actually extend from open architecture. The solution isn't to replace one monoculture with another. Nor is the solution the continued service of the feudal tech economy that Microsoft has given us. The computer is now more code than silicon...

Tags: Operating systems, Semiconductors, UNIX, Psystar, Apple Inc., tech economy

Discussion threads 2008-04-20

2008: The security wishlist

2008: The security wishlistApple could publish code audit resultsI find that the Coverity scans of open source projects give a relatively objective assessment of the quality of open source code. I find it quite impressive that KDE is having 4.5 million lines of code scanned. The number of...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, monoculture, security, Apple Inc., vulnerability, diversification, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

Macs join the Army - Hooah!

Macs join the Army - Hooah!This is going to help with security how?Yeah, yeah...monoculture and all that jazz. I work for a fortune 500 company (> $100B in market cap). Over 75K employees. When virus outbreaks occured only a small number of systems were actually infected. Only a handful of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Hooah, security, monoculture, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2007-12-21

An OOXML thought experiment

An OOXML thought experimentOf course notI realize this is just rhetorical, but it's obvious that it's only Microsoft's technology that is objected to, not the idea of multiple competing standards per se. If Microsoft were to drop OOXML tomorrow and adopt ODF, the same people would insist that MS is...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Adobe PDF, Venn, monoculture, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"

Making "hamburger of Microsoft's cash cow"Study versus the real world ...Then I guess the actual savings that the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California obtained can't be true since this Microsoft sponsored study proves it false:http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.htmlIn reality I would much rather have the savings by using OSS products diverted...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, software, verification process, Microsoft Windows XP, Dexterity, monoculture

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious money

Vista could cost upgrade enthusiasts serious moneyXP may be my last stopI think that XP is as fat as I care to get on a pc, and this new EULA sort of puts the last rail down for me.If I buy a new computer with Vista on it, so be...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), monoculture, hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MSVista, Now Microsoft

Discussion threads 2006-10-27

McAfee sends 'Falcon' after Symantec, Microsoft

McAfee sends 'Falcon' after Symantec, MicrosoftHow?They are a monopoly and aren't afraid to use their position to crush their competition. They've gotten off with consent decrees and cash and other settlements so far for their monopoly abuse.Who knows, maybe the EU and South Korea decisions as they stand at the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Construction, Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Falcon, monoculture, software, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Windows, McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-05-30

Critical back door-like vulnerability exposes Symantec anti-virus users

In light of a potentially critical vulnerability and with over 200 million people using his anti-virus solutions, are the comments by Symantec CEO John Thompson about a "Microsoft security monoculture" coming back to haunt him?Associated Press:Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S....

Tags: Symantec Corp., monoculture, antivirus, security

Blog posts 2006-05-26

Mass. assault on monoculture

Mass. assault on monocultureUse XMLStore everything in XML, this is the most flexible format. Then use XSL to convert to whatever format you wanthttp://otherthingsnow.blogspot.comSame old leopard'Q. The patent license associated with the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas states that "Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for you...

Tags: Microsoft Office, patent, Microsoft Corp., monoculture

Discussion threads 2005-11-29

VPN flaw threatens Internet traffic

VPN flaw threatens Internet trafficAren't standards great?One standard that everybody can use? It makes life sooo much easier...Well, end users still don't know the difference between an "OK" button from the power button and thanks to this wretched homogeny, hackers and crackers are poised to bring down the whole...

Tags: VPNs, Quality, SECURITY, NETWORKING, Internet, VPN flaw, monoculture, VPN, flaw

Discussion threads 2005-11-14

Sun launches open-source digital rights plan

Sun launches open-source digital rights planMonocultures are bad?I mean if the argument is that a monoculture creates a situation where one hack brings it all down, then obviously this would be a very bad idea.A new can of worms[Dream's components include software for letting different DRM systems interoperate based on...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, monoculture, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2005-08-22

Steve Jobs sighting, monoculture and software ecosystems

While attending the Blog Business Summit this afternoon, I ran into chief Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble right, who told me (along with IE7 product manager Dean Hachamovitch and SOAP and RSS pioneer Dave Winer) his tale of running into Steve Jobs at lunch. Star struck, Scoble introduced himself and the...

Tags: software ecosystem, monoculture, software, open source

Blog posts 2005-08-19

One man's corporate standard--another man's monoculture?

One man's corporate standard--another man's monoculture?Or just turn automatic update on and be done with it.Seems pretty simple...Corporate standardStandards certainly reduce the costs of running an IT department, and since an IT department is a G&A cost center reductions are unqualified Good Things.For example, we're in the process of some...

Tags: Linux, Quality, UNIX, Operating systems, One-Man, Active Technology, DeFacto Standard, monoculture

Discussion threads 2005-08-19

One man's corporate standard--another man's monoculture?

If you caught one of my recent blogs about zero-day exploits, a day in the life of a real IT manager, and how he's very worried about what he's seeing (in terms of what's getting through the cracks), then you also saw that Doc Searls is recommending that companies consider...

Tags: corporate standard, monoculture

Blog posts 2005-08-19