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- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?
- It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...
- Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business
- The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...
- Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Python update makes break with past
- Python 3.0 is a major change from the Python 2 series, and the first release that is intentionally backwards-incompatible. Python developers on Wednesday released the final version of Python 3.0, a major reworking of the programming language that is incompatible with the Python 2 series. Python...
- Tags: Python, Python 3.0, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, YouTube, develpers, Guido van Rossum, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-04
- The weirdest computing disasters of 2008
- Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters. Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks and angry fishermen throwing computers overboard top the list of the year's weirdest computing disasters. The top 10...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, disaster recovery, laptops, Nick Heath silicon.com
- News items 2008-12-04
- On Demand Video: Hyper-V Deployment and Best Practices
- Microsoft's Hyper-V provides software infrastructure and basic management tools in Windows Server 2008 that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. In this 40-minute video, Bryon Surace, senior program manager on the Windows Virtualization team, provides us with an overview of Hyper-V, including system requirements,...
- Tags: Video, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Virtual Machine, Hyper-V, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software
- Webcasts 2008-12-04
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Information Age landmark: One billionth mouse produced
- Logitech, maker of many mice, has hailed as a major landmark the production of their one billionth computer mouse, which rolled off production lines late last month. The first mouse was created on December 9, 1968 when Douglas C. Engelbart and his group of researchers at Stanford University put...
- Tags: Mouse, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Craving for that next cell phone hit
- Craving for that next cell phone hitCraving for that next cell phone hitInteresting point about having to get all the numbers and re-enter them. With a GSM phone I believe you just take the SIM card out and pop it into another phone and keep all your contacts and...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in school
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolExcellent!Mailing this one out to those people I know that need it, and those people I know that should code like it.RE: Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in schoolI like the idea for students reminding themselves. However, now add a parent as a...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, PRODUCTIVITY, Learning, cell phone, phone, tool
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Opting out of IT
- Opting out of ITThis is where the next generation apps come into play..They'll be web based. They'll do pretty much what the business wants out of the box and can be tailored for anonmolies, they will have been jointly developed by other companies doing roughly the same business things.It's happening...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Web Based App, IT IS, Murph, Opting-Out, business thing, Microsoft Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- News to know: Mac malware, Windows 7, Netbooks, Google
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Adam O'Donnell: Despite what blogs and Apple say, Macs will eventually have malware Ed Bott: Windows 7 Beta 1 to arrive January 13? Andrew...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Data Center, Microsoft Windows 7, Malware, Data Centers, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Vista SP2: What's inside?
- Vista SP2: What's inside?Windows ExplorerAre they going to fix Windows Explorer? Things like remembering views, better copy performance, etc?RE: Vista SP2: What's inside?Better remembering of views in Explorer would be really nice.RE: Vista SP2: What's inside?Are you using it in a networked environment? A lot of people who...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, performance, Vista SP2, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Zoho launches CloudSQL; Plays anti-lock-in card
- Zoho launches CloudSQL; Plays anti-lock-in cardCloud via SQLPretty danged cool! I'm going to have to try it out now. I've been avoiding these "cloud services" because they're all proprietary and I don't want to get locked in.
- Tags: CloudSQL, Zoho
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09But what about...But what about the main loser OSes? You know, the ones that have only a tiny fraction of Vista's marketshare, even though they have been on the market longer?http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=108&qpnp=11&qpdt=1&qpct=2So, to extrapolate based on marketshare, the response would then go something like:OSX (being...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OSX, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- CIOs vote on Vista for '09
- Silicon.com's CIO jury ruled unanimously on the question of whether to implement Microsoft Windows Vista in 2009. The latest silicon.com CIO Jury has unanimously voted that they are not ready to invest in Microsoft's latest OS Vista. When asked if they had any plans to implement Vista,...
- Tags: CIO, CIO jury, IT management, Windows Vista, implementation, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com, Julian Goldsmith, silicon.com
- News items 2008-12-02
- Alienware Area-51 m17x
- Alienware Area-51 m17xALIENWARE OR BEWARE OF ALIENWARE?I recently purchased a uber gaming laptop from Alienware, the Area 51 M9750. I had been using HP's but the video card is insufficient for my favorite game WOW. The cost was double but I figured it should last twice as long being built...
- Tags: Video cards, Corporate communications, Games, Alienware
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Whassup with Netbooks?
- Whassup with Netbooks?netbook problemI completely agree that netbooks would be better off being marketed as a phone, with the option of a significant discount with an ISP contract. The problem netbooks have is that they are almost a single commodity. All of the big name producers use the exact same...
- Tags: Engineering, Chipsets, Netbooks, Whassup, netbook, Intel Atom, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Google Chrome and the extension conundrum
- Google Chrome and the extension conundrumTask managerBeing able to see how much RAM/CPU/Network each extension uses up ought to help users decide which extensions they should remove to speed up their browser.Boy, Firefox must really suckI see no other reason why Google spends so much time and money in recreating...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Google Chrome, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
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