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- Windows 7 security default worries experts
- How many Windows 7 does it take...How many dribble articles about Windows 7 canthere be in one week.I heard Windows 7 is now helping the economy andit has changed global warming to global cooling.So the polar bears are now SAFE!!! Way to go Windows 7 it is like the messiah...
- Tags: Operating systems, Ubunutu, Microsoft Windows 7, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Win7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options again
- I had to take a moment to pause and think about this new Google-Verizon chumminess and their common, yet unspoken, quest to go after the Apple-AT&T relationship with the iPhone that includes today's partnership news and a new ad campaign. For those who don't know, I am...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Can MLB.com hit an iPhone homerun with AT&T powering the network?
- I wonder how much data it takes to stream a nine-inning Major League Baseball game to an iPhone? I wonder if AT&T is ready for that kind of data traffic. It looks like we'll find out soon enough. MLB.com is adding live feeds of some games to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, MLB, Network, AT&T Corp., Games, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Digital Video, Networking, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- AT&T's really bad week: The network reputation hits keep coming
- It's safe to say AT&T is ready for the weekend. The telecom giant has had a horrid week with a backlash against iPhone 3G S and complaints about the network. The latter item may create the most lasting damage. For now, much of the focus is on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, AT&T Corp., Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Mysterious virus strikes FBI
- Mysterious virus strikes FBICan you please explain ...... what the FBI is doing wrong?thx^o^It's started!ye has just started another nonsense session and as usual it promises to be long, very looooooong.Malware that results from social engineeringDoesn't normally mass-infect computers in a single location. Odds are very good this is a...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Federal government, Operating systems, UNIX, Viruses and worms, virus, Linux, FBI, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Anatomy of Microsoft's "It's a PC" ads
- Anatomy of Microsoft's "It's a PC" adsPC adsWhy would M$ which doesn't even make a PC be so aggressive pitching a PC over a Mac? There's the rub. A company with a given 90% of the market is threatened by lil' ol' Apple? And Apple is just a hardware manufacturer,...
- Tags: Desktops, M$ Office, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- Clash of the Touch Titans: iPhone 3.0 3G vs RIM BlackBerry Storm
- Clash of the Touch Titans: iPhone 3.0 3G vs RIM BlackBerry StormClash of the Titans?How could anyone consider the Storm to be a titan? A titan is a a person of exceptional importance and reputation the storm has neither. RE: Clash of the Touch Titans: iPhone 3.0 3G...
- Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, Keyboards, Wireless and Mobility, I-phone, Omnia, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry Storm, Touch Titans, Research In Motion Ltd., iPhone 3.0 3G, iPhone 3.0, RIM BlackBerry, 3G
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flaws
- Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flawsWhat OSs are vulnerable by default?Windows? OS X? Linux? Do any of these have QuickTime installed on them by default?RE: Apple QuickTime bitten by code execution flawsso the macs adds saying that they dont get virus and malware.. and saying they are stable and...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Cyberthreats, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc., code execution flaw, execution flaw
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Storage networks
- Storage networksBack me upThe main selling point of SANs was the promised ability to do "offline backups". IOW since you have moved all of your data into one place, you should be able to back that stuff up to tape - in the background. Every sysadmin would welcome giving up...
- Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Backups, IP storage, network, storage, SAN, Sun Microsystems Inc., Network File System, backup
- Discussion threads 2009-01-06
- Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisons
- Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisonsWhat's fair? PRICEMy former employer had a yearly workstation benchmark process. We would invite the big 4 UNIX workstation vendors (HP,Sun,IBM,SGI), give them the applications and test matrix - and let them tune their boxes to their hearts content. After the benchmark was complete, we looked...
- Tags: Operating systems, Workstations, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, workstation, hardware, paging
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Microsoft's End to End trust vision: Can this identity, trusted stack thing work?
- Microsoft unveiled its "End to End Trust" security vision and now the real work begins: Will anyone buy into it? At RSA, Microsoft rolled out a whitepaper that at the very least is quite the conversation piece. Reading through the whitepaper--something I encourage everyone...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Privacy, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Identity, Accountability, Audit Data, Internet, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Snom VoIP phone vulnerability enables phone history theft, addy book poisoning, and more
- Fellow VoIP blogger and multi-skilled polymath Tom Keating picks up on security consultancy GNUCitizen.org's description of a security vulnerability in snom Technology's model 320 VoIP phone. GNUCitizen, in turn, found this via what they term a "side result" of a router hacking challenge...
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Vulnerability, XSS, VoIP Phone, Snom, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- LinkedIn Vice President of Technical Operations: Lloyd Taylor
- Dan Farber: Lloyd, thanks for joining me. Lloyd Taylor: And thanks for inviting me. Dan Farber: Lloyd you have been at LinkedIn since September of this year, what is LinkedIn and what compelled you to go there? Lloyd...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Theory, Network, LinkedIn, Data Centers, Storage, Social Networking, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Net neutrality may not resolve BitTorrent v. Comcast
- Net neutrality may not resolve BitTorrent v. ComcastWe are all criminals I supposeI've read about this so often I've been ignoring it. I was succeeding until I realized, while trying to download a new linux iso, that the reason the download wasn't completing successfully was because the connection was...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, bandwidth, Net Neutrality
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
- Popularity of these 10 posts tells me you hate it when big companies screw consumers like you
- Â I was going through some server logs of our most-read and most-popular posts, when this realization hit me: You're really, REALLYÂ interested in those cases when big business, dumb corporate policy, or the errant actions of incompetent customer "service" types screw consumers. How can I...
- Tags: Firing, Server, Apple Inc., Servers, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- The TJX lesson: If your security stinks you may be liable
- The lawsuit swirling around the TJX data breach is getting interesting. The most interesting development: The banks suing TJX are arguing that the retailer should be liable because of lax security practices. Previously, banks and the credit card issuers were on the hook for data breach losses...
- Tags: Bank, Security Practice, Retail Company, TJX, Retail, Financial Services, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups
- The promise of remixing existing online services and data into entirely new online applications in a rapid, inexpensive manner, often referred to as mashups, has captured the software industry's imagination since the release of first major example, HousingMaps.com, in early 2005. Since then, mashups have offered the potential to...
- Tags: Spreadsheet, IBM Corp., Mashup, ProgrammableWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Skype's outage: Lessons learned
- Skype has its official response to its nearly two-day outage: A software bug was unearthed after numerous restarts over a Microsoft patch download.Russell Shaw has more, but here's what Skype had to say:On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption...
- Tags: P2P, Patch Management, Skype Technologies S.A., Outage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Outlook's risky archives - and how to fix them
- Outlook's risky archives - and how to fix themBacking up...I use Microsoft's free backup utility for Outlook. Every week it is configurable Outlook copies my personal folders to a server. Simple and easy. The best way to go? Maybe not, but it's not on my local system, and the server...
- Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, archiving, Microsoft Outlook, e-mail, server, storage, backup
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
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