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Should colleges really teach hacking?: Newsweek featured an interesting article Saturday about a professor at Sonoma State University who actively teaches his students to create malware and otherwise do the nasty things online that cost companies billions of dollars every year. According to the Newsweek piece, [Professor George]...; Tags: Newsweek, Student, Ledin, Cyberthreats, Productivity, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hacking, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-08-05
Levy trashes MacBook Air: Levy trashes MacBook AirOne happy tash collectorMy guess is that there is one happy trash collector: "Look guys, I just found a laptop!"I call bogus on this story.I have to call this story out for being either bogus. You never throw out a cellphone, your paycheck, or a dinner plate...; Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, Newsweek; Discussion threads 2008-03-11
Levy trashes MacBook Air: As in he threw his in trash. Accidentally, that is. Newsweek technology columnist Steven Levy admitted in a recent post that he lost his MacBook Air loaner unit from Apple. He thinks that accidentally got recycled in a pile of newspapers. On Sundays in my apartment,...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Newsweek, Apartment, Pile, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Blog posts 2008-03-11
Details surface on the MacBook Air: Some lucky stiffs have already received the MacBook Air and details are starting to emerge.Take for example Walt Mossberg's revelation that "it's beautiful and thin, but omits features." Mossberg also reveals that the MBA gets 3 hours and 24 minutes of battery life running full kilter: In...; Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Battery, MBA, Notebooks, Engineering, Newsweek, Engadget, Air, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Blog posts 2008-01-25
Is Detroit going green? What does the auto show show?: The big auto show in Detroit is now open to reporters so the big announcements and the hoopla have begun. There are moves toward greener cars, and there are moves to just make more money. Sometimes these are in direct conflict. Here are a few of my...; Tags: Newsweek, Detroit, Auto Show, General Motors Corp., Coskata, Mercedes, Tata, Sales Strategy, Food & Beverage, Sales Force Management, Sales, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-01-13

IMHO: Amazon Kindle drum roll another example of digerati clustercluck: You know the real word I wanted to type but my Mom raised a gentleman. I'm in my hotel lobby, forced to this noisy public place kisses between three generations of anonymous families because the WiFi is down and the hotel is clueless about what the problem...; Tags: Newsweek, Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Wireless LANs, Taxes, Blogging, Personal Technology, Wireless, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-11-19
Hands on with the Kindle: This ugly duckling has potential: Hands on with the Kindle: This ugly duckling has potentialVersion 1.0 indeedI have been saying for several years that I will gladly try something like this if they also make it able to check my email and some of my daily web reading. As noted, all this would need is...; Tags: E-books, Wireless LANs, E-mail, Newsweek, Hands-On, Amazon.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-11-19
Newsweek launches new site with Brightcove tools: On Monday, Newsweek rolled out a brand new site. For years Newsweek had been a part of the MSNBC site but now has its own spot on the web with a very rich media centric site. The new site was built almost entirely using new tools from Brightcove. Brightcove has...; Tags: Newsweek, Site, Tool, Brightcove, Productivity, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2007-10-17
Telco lobbyists urge suppression of eavesdropping lawsuits: is this OK?: Image is from the Saturday Evening Post of June 6, 1964. How little has changed. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have the scoop on a joint effort by Verizon, AT&T and the Bush administration to pass legislation that would blog all lawsuits against...; Tags: U.S., Lawsuit, Newsweek, Terrorist, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-09-20
Private Label RSS - Newsgator's hosted solutions for Newsweek and Macworld: NewsGator announced today that Newsweek and Macworld have selected NewsGator Hosted Solution NGHS Private Label RSS Aggregators will become increasingly common to integrate RSS aggregation into their online sites. NGHS is a user interface that allows online properties to build an RSS aggregator into their...; Tags: RSS, RSS Aggregator; Blog posts 2005-12-13
Technorati now powering part of Newsweek.com: Each Monday, I make my morning rounds of the weeklies (Businessweek, Newsweek, etc.) and today as I scrolled to the bottom Newsweek.com's homepage, I noticed something I haven't seen before -- a box that's called "Blog Round Up" that, judging by the logo below it, is powered...; Tags: Newsweek; Blog posts 2005-07-25
Newsweek Luddite decries use of cell phones: Columnist Robert Samuelson's anti-progress rant in the upcoming issue of Newsweek is focused on how cell phones have made us too connected. Therefore, he'll continue to resist cell phones, just as I've resisted ATM cards and digital cameras.Cell phones—and, indeed, all wireless devices—constitute another chapter in the ongoing breakdown between work...; Tags: Newsweek, cell phone, telephone; Blog posts 2004-08-19
Newsweek Reaps $515,000 in Benefits With Lexmark Printing Solution: Newsweek, owned by the Washington Post, is one of the largest newsweeklies in the world, with a worldwide circulation of more than 4 million, including 3.1 million in the U.S. For Newsweek to provide on-demand access to reports and documents for its employees; eliminate time-consuming mainframe-based report printing; reduce report...; Tags: Newsweek, Benefit, Printing, Lexmark International Inc., Document Management, Content Management, Printers, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Hardware, Peripherals; Case studies

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News to know: Tech sales and the art of spin; Firefox; Apple; HD streaming: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Brian Sommer: Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy Ryan Naraine: Firefox rushes out fix for password manager bug Matthew Miller: Microsoft deep sixes...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Steve Ballmer, Radio, Apple Inc., Sales, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-09-29
MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising: Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...; Tags: MSN, Advertisement, Portals, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-08-27
Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack: Malicious hackers are using booby-trapped Flash banner ads to hijack clipboards for use in rogue security software attacks. In the Web attacks, which target Mac, Windows and Linux users running Firefox, IE and Safari, hackers are seizing control of the machine's clipboard and using a hard-to-delete URL...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Advertisement, Attack, Security, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-08-18
Want to know what key political players are reading?: This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...; Tags: Google Inc., News, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-08-18
Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malware: Today's assignment : Coding an undetectable malwareHardly newsThe story on Ledin is hardly news. The security community has known about the inadequacies of signature-based approaches to detection of ANYTHING (all flavors of malware, intrusions, etc.) for years. Heck, I've been demonstrating to my students how trivial it is...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, security community, malware, BlackHat; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
Should colleges really teach hacking?: Should colleges really teach hacking?Bartending SchoolIn the mid-70's I took one of those vocational courses you see advertised on late-night TV: "Learn to be a Bartender in One Week". Although I never used it (I went at night, which takes 2 weeks and over the weekend I got my...; Tags: Food & Beverage, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, beverage, hacking, chemistry; Discussion threads 2008-08-05
A call for national innovation policy: Bruce Nussbaum at Newsweek calls on Obama and McCain Hillary is excused to address a key issue facing American competitiveness â€“ the need for an "innovation policy." Here's his list: Support the codification of design methodology and design strategy as being worked on at leading...; Tags: Immigration, Human Capital, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-28