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New research: "inept" IT management in UK

New research: "inept" IT management in UKThree things to consider re prioritisationHi Mike,The above makes depressing reading. You might be interested in a recent blog I wrote called ‘Rolling Rocks and Landing the Catch’, where I touched on ‘prioritisation’.Here is a snippet:“…Working in IT, we're all rolling the rock...

Tags: information technology, IT administration, NEW RESEARCH

Discussion threads 2007-11-27

New research into CRM implementation failures

New research into CRM implementation failuresSuccessful implementations...are both back-end and front-end focused. Most failed implementations fall into the category of being only back-end or only front-end focused. Companies that find the right balance are often befuddled at reports of such high failure rates. Speaking from personal experience,...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Advertising & Promotion, CRM Implementation, NEW RESEARCH, CRM

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

New research into IT project failures

New research into IT project failuresI bet...The 11% of IT directors that said that they do not have complete visibility into all the IT initiatives are the ones with the best visibility.The wise know what they do not know...Study brought to you buySomeone selling IT project management oversight or bundled...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Project Failures, NEW RESEARCH

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

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Your computer as your singing coach

Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...

Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump

Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited HCCI engines. An HCCI engine 'combines the efficiency and versatility of diesel engines with the cleanliness of spark-ignition engines.' For...

Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Engine, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer.  This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...

Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-03

I have to stop using Gmail :(

I have to stop using Gmail :(You can enable POP3 support in Gmail...If you switch on POP3 support in Gmail, then you can still comply with archiving procedures: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273That way, you can both send and receive e-mails with an e-mail client like Thunderbird or Evolution or even Outlook Express. I...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Using Gmail, Google Gmail, archiving, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...

Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-03

YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose

Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure

Jouko Pynnonen posted a message to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today, citing multiple "script injection" vulnerabilities within Facebook.  I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anybody out there, it's certainly not to me, as numerous web applications have major problems with Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities, but I think this...

Tags: Facebook, Vulnerability, XSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sandbox, JS, Canvas Page, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Antivirus vendor introducing virtual keyboard for secure Ebanking

Kaspersky's most recent product launch of the Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, is featuring a virtual keyboard "a secure pop-up that enables logins, passwords, bank card details and other important personal information to be entered safely to prevent the theft of confidential information" aiming to protect users from keyloggers, and consequently...

Tags: Bank, Antivirus, Virtual Keyboard, Malware, Kaspersky, Ebanking Malware, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Torrent admin is 'felony infringer'

Torrent admin is 'felony infringer'Felony infringerYes, I would agree that this extends beyond fair use... Book'em Dano.RE: Torrent admin is 'felony infringer'I do not think it is right but if it is made out as such a major deal then what is it doing all over the internet Bittorrent...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Strategy, felony infringer, Torrent, administrator

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference

Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada.  The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track.  Topics...

Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security software

Sony PlayStation's site SQL injected, redirecting to rogue security softwarenot suprisedI ran across this also during our research, can only imagine how many browsers visited Sony's site and became infected...If Sony or anyone else running old ASP websites read this, please inspect your code with the tool MS released: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954476Thanks...

Tags: Game players, Programming languages, Sony Corp., SQL Injected, Sony Playstation, SQL, security

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Demystifying BIOS updates - The DOs and DO NOTs

Demystifying BIOS updates - The DOs and DO NOTsSome of this advice is overly-cautious ...[i]When there’s a darn good reason for doing the update (as a rule I find that if I buy a cutting-edge board then there can be a lot of BIOS updates released over a short period...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS update, motherboard

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?

Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Get a better view of the Windows XP Tree command with Word

Using the Tree command to research the folders on your Microsoft Windows XP hard disk can give you results fast -- too fast for your eye to catch. Greg Shultz explains how you can use Word to view a Tree you can read in detail and at your own pace....

Tags: Greg Shultz, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites

Download resources 2008-07-02

Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests

Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...

Tags: Social Engineering, Identity, Dark Reading Article, Identity Theft, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01