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- What's on Obama's iPod?
- On 15 August I posted a piece about what's on Michael Phelps' iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What's on Obama's iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner article offline says...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Obama, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Follow that robot!
- Three years after the development of robots that act like rats, UC Davis engineers have designed a control system for robots allowing them to pick up on cues that the leader is about to turn, predict where it is going and follow it. This system mimics the human ability to...
- Tags: Cue, Leader, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Are we to have two Internets?
- Are we to have two Internets?And what machine were you testing?"Apache dies when hit with about seven to ten thousand user floods. Yaws just kept on going on up to 85,000 simultaneous users."What kind of setup did you test this on?Great responseI don't agree with all your premises but I...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Intranet, Yaws, Microsoft IIS Server, Extranet, Erlang, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet, Microsoft Corp., tool, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Some serious research into gasoline-free transport
- There's an institute in Davis, California, dedicated to studying what works and what doesn't work when it comes to people moving around. Headed by Dr. Dan Sperling the faculty and research staff have delved into all manner of transit modes, energy sources, etc. They don't have Washington lobbyists...
- Tags: Vehicle, Plug-in, PHEV, Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Ziff Davis: Dedicated Hosting Frees Up Internal IT Resources
- Here's what Ziff Davis says in this insightful white paper about business-critical hosting: "...Organizations should find a service provider that handles the management of dedicated servers. In this way, the organization's IT staff can focus on delivering and supporting its own high-end services." Download this white paper...
- Tags: Information Technology, Verio Inc., Ziff-Davis Inc., Service Level Management, Business Services, Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Telecommunications, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2008-08-22
- Awaiting decision on new trial in Thomas case
- Apparently, it is RIAA day here at the govtech blog. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday on the upcoming decision in the Thomas case. Jammie Thomas, of course, was hit with $220,000 is statutory fines for copyright infringement. The verdict was based on a "making available" theory (see this article...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC
- I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As the Semantic Web Gang discussed recently, North America has had the excellent Semantic Technology Conference for several years, and this...
- Tags: Europe, Conference, Semantic Web, Research & Development, Benefits, Internet, Business Operations, Human Resources, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare
- Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfareTaiwanI think an impetus for Red Flag Linux wqas the inability of Beijing to secure Windows against Taiwan, but my memory might be faulty.Cyberwar? You must be kiddind...I thought that word "war" is applicable for some serious events that have catastrophic consequences...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Hacking, Saakashvili
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...
- Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Blogger, Georgian, extremist, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Saying Farewell
- Saying FarewellRE: FarewellWell I just wanted to say that the Zero day blog wont be the same - you had a very no bs attitude when blogging about issues and that was awesome. Reading your blogs was a great source of security inforation for me. Good luck man and hopefully...
- Tags: Blogging, Nate, Saying Farewell
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Saying Farewell
- It's been a great handful of months here at ZDNet, but I'm deciding to say goodbye to the blogging scene. I'm already really busy with my primary job, and at this point I want to slow the work load down a good deal and just enjoy life. I'd like to...
- Tags: blogging, internet, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Again, sorry for the late updates. Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person. Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference. Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...
- Tags: black hat, microsoft corp., applet, image, vegas, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1
- Well, this is well late, but here's my recap of Black Hat Day 1. Sorry for the delay, but I've been terribly busy finishing up preparations for my Day 2 talk. The first talk I went to see, "Pointers and Handles, A Story of Unchecked Assumptions...
- Tags: Black Hat, Billy Rios, Dan, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Glaucoma-monitoring contact lenses engineered at UC Davis
- There's nothing I love more than a great tech development from the lab. Researchers at UC Davis have engineered a new material that could make "smart" contact lenses that measure pressure within the eye and dispense medication accordingly possible. Crafted into lenses with a...
- Tags: Eye, Healthcare, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- 'Making available' argument rapidly dying well-deserved death
- I'm passing along Ray Beckerman's post on two recent cases that show the RIAA's attempt to use a "making available" theory to show copyright infringement is clearly on the way out. The Copyright Act clearly requires a showing that the defendant transferred the content to someone else; the RIAA has...
- Tags: RIAA, Judge, Statute, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Judge hints he will declare mistrial in Thomas case
- The judge in the Jammie Thomas copyright-infringement case is likely to declare a mistrial because of his reliance on the RIAA's specious "making available" theory, Wired reports. Last year, a Minnesota jury may headlines by the RIAA a $220,000 verdict against Thomas pictured. But the verdict was based on...
- Tags: Distribution, RIAA, U.S. Congress, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance
- A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations worldwide. Securing inbound email - while challenging enough - is less difficult than maintaining compliance with the complex, overlapping...
- Tags: Financial, Compliance, E-mail Security, Privacy, Regulation, Proofpoint Inc., Best Practice, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security
- White papers 2008-08-04
- On GIFARs
- Ever since Rob McMillan of IDG published a story giving a preview of our coming Black Hat talk, specifically a preview of the portion of our talk related to GIFARs, media coverage of the research has swirled a bit out of control and there's been some misconceptions. My co-presenter John...
- Tags: Black Hat, Vector, Applet, Image, Attack, Heasman, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
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