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- Oracle and Microsoft Bring Scalability, Availability, and Lower Costs to Business
- Ohio Savings Bank's business witnessed phenomenal growth in the past few years. As a result of the dramatic growth, their IT requirements have grown rapidly as well - particularly in the wholesale mortgage business, in which they buy loans from correspondents and brokers and sell them to investors. Like many...
- Tags: Ohio Savings Bank, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Mortgages, Productivity, Finance, Capital Structures
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- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gateway stops selling PCs direct
- Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game
- Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...
- Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
- iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flawsBut I was told OS X would save me from things like this.[i]In the meantime, iPhone users should avoid clicking on links in the Mail app that refers to trusted sites.[/i]So if my mom sends me a link to a web album, I shouldn't open...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, Desktops, SECURITY, spamming, Apple iPhone, PC, phishing
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
- Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Spamming, Flaw, Aviv Raff, Phishing, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 75ò0of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- 75ò0of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flawsJust 75%?I would think it is much more likely to be 100% is vulnerable to SOME issue, 90% is vulnerable to a High-risk issue.-NateRE: 75�0of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flawsThey fail to say which banks are at...
- Tags: Banking, E-business/E-commerce, online banking site, online banking, security, flaw, bank
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...
- Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Citizens Bank Online is down
- Citizens Bank Online is downWhy is this news?I have been a customer for 5 years and this site regularly goes down overnight for maintenance note the time of the post. Since this is a "bank" with undoubtedly a big nightly batch cycle and not an infrastructure provide, I am...
- Tags: cloud computing, Citizens Bank Online
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Investors give Apple the cold shoulder
- Investors give Apple the cold shoulderProfit taking...Record quarters are hard to follow-up.RE: Investors give Apple the cold shoulderApple's stock price is dependent on the belief that it will deliver exponential growth. Unfortunately the reality is that Apple appears to be close to or hitting a ceiling in terms of sales...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Investment, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., cold shoulder, shoulder, stock
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- AQL Question Set Builder (exe)
- This easy to use software allows professionals to concentrate on developing the question sets to identify clients' strengths and weaknesses. Questions are grouped and ordered using drag and drop. A question bank stores all questions making revision easy while output in Word or PDF gives you control over distribution and...
- Tags: Sirius, Question, Questions, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Financial Services, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Homeschooling + marketing = great coffee?
- I really love coffee. Not Folgers or Maxwell House, but the good stuff. My current favorite is Dean's Beans' "Ahab's Revenge" (with "the highest caffeine content of any organic coffee!"), but there are few things that make me happier than a really good cup of coffee. ...
- Tags: Coffee, Scout Hunt, Marketing Research, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?
- [Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Social Media, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?The perception is ...... Apple can't be great without Steve Jobs. I personally don't feel this is necessarily the case even though when Jobs was ousted proved to be a disastrous decision for Apple.Apple is in a strong growth period and...
- Tags: Quality, Desktops, Digital media, Steve J, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
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