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That sweet smell may be dangerous

Environmental groups are raisisng a stink over those nice-smelling air fresheners. Today Walgreen's announced it will pull some air freshener products off their shelves. Then the company will have its own independent testing done. The Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups tested the air...

Tags: NRDC Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-20

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News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Technology: where on the scale from cure to curse?

I'm old enough to remember the many apocalyptic scenarios conjured up by nuclear weapons and the Cold War. From Alas, Babylon to "The Day After", from Godzilla himself, the second half of the Twentieth Century was repeatedly haunted by vivid imaginings of the post-nuclear world, or its ending....

Tags: Bee, Clean Technology, NRDC, Purdue, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Identity theft for the hip blogger on-the-go?

Xpenser allows users to send their expense information to a hosted spreadsheet using SMS, IM, Twitter and Jott. Security risk, anyone? by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Financial, IM, SMS, Twitter, Blogger, Xpenser, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, E-mail, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Identity Theft, Instant Messaging, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Financial Planning, Finance, Security, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Sam Diaz, wrote an interesting piece yesterday highlighting a vital message from Intel Chairman, Craig Barrett, during his keynote at the Intel Developers' Forum. Quoting both Barrett and Sam's paraphrasing, "Nations are as strong as their educational systems," he said, noting that in...

Tags: Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PRMaybe I'm misunderstanding.......but I don't think that "pitches" are what journalists and bloggers are looking for. Informed commentary yes; reliable information on the company's plans and policies, yes; official positions on news items involving the company, yes; pitches, no (that's...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PR Practitioners, PitchEngine, public relations, bad apple, public beta

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR

Last week I wrote about how bloggers could better work with public relations folks. While I won't to get into the habit of writing about PR I think we'd all agree that, like it or not, there's a direct correlation between it and social media, especially when we're talking...

Tags: Brand, Public Beta, Media, Social Media, PitchEngine, SMR, PitchEngine SMR, Newsroom, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Searching by color to nibble away at Google.

I have to admit that I raised an eyebrow when I read the L.A. Times piece about "Black Google." No, it wasn't talking about the color of the screen (though I have written about a black screen search engine being green.) Instead, it was talking about the racial color of...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Times, Search, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next week are imitations of technology they introduced as much as five years ago, and Intel's Larrabee graphics...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Intel Corp., Attack, Imitation, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you

GraphOn is suing Google for patent infringement and the company appears to be doing a nice imitation of NTP, the company that made its name by suing Research in Motion. GraphOn is going for gold in the patent troll Olympics. In a statement Monday, GraphOn said it...

Tags: Database, Patent, GraphOn, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

SAP wrap and transparency points

This week's SAP influencer summit was a roller coaster affair. On the one hand I didn't detect anything fundamentally new on the BusinessObjects side other than a considerable amount of repackaging with a view to gaining additional sales. There's nothing wrong with that but it didn't demonstrate a huge amount...

Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, SAP AG, Smb/Sme, Retail, Channel Management, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-15

The Unix sysadmin salary premium

The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Is Google a media company?

The New York Times recently wrote an article headlined: "Is Google a media company?" The article was mostly about Knol, Google's Wikipedia-like service, but it wondered if this meant Google was a media company because it owns content sites such as Knol, Blogger, and Youtube. ...

Tags: Media Company, Google Inc., New York Times Co., GOOG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-08-12

News to know: Cyber attacks; Google; Windows security; Gmail outage

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught Dancho Danchev: Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress ZDNet UK: Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack Video: Defcon: Where feds and hackers rub elbows News.com: Defcon ends...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Russia, Windows Security, Cyberattack, Outage, Georgia, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out

Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks outNicely doneI appreciate that you took the time to speak with the researcher who actually discovered the flaws.There are a couple of bloggers on ZDNET who always seem slant their "blogs" with grandiose claims against one platform or technology.I think...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, Black Hat, Microsoft Windows Vista, Alexander Sotirov, Microsoft Corp., security

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress

In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...

Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-11

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

The Science Fiction Bonk List

The Science Fiction Bonk ListAnd what relevancy does this have....This story has zero relevance to ZDNet as a whole or even quasi-appropriate. I understand this is a blog, however its crap like this that this "blogger" turns out - which is why he should be removed. He offers very little...

Tags: Blogging, Science Fiction Bonk List, blog

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught

What do you do when your country is under attack by Russia and your government's Web sites pummeled by an alleged cyber attack? If you're Georgia you turn to Google, specifically Blogger. To get its message out, the government of Georgia is posting updates to Blogger and...

Tags: Google Inc., Russia, Georgia, Blogger, Government, Hacking, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-11