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- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effort
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effortA technological fix for social engineering?An attack on the site or anything else set up by the phisher is likely to be a case of barn door locking.As you wrote:And thirdly phishing attacks use elaborate social engineering to induce you to hand over your credentials...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Part-of Microsoft, phishing, phishing Web site, Microsoft Corp., redirector
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Microsoft hopes younger eyes have Office vision
- Microsoft hopes younger eyes have Office visionInstead of poaching in the schoolsystems ...they could due what Apple did and give the SW to the schools to ne a good corporate citizen.Nah, scam the schools and grab the tax dollars since the corporations don't pay up like they used to someone...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Part-of Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Office Vision, younger eye, Microsoft Office, vision
- Discussion threads 2004-06-21
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- Does IT really need to fear multicore?
- While multicore chips hold great promise for applications and computing power they could wreak havoc on technology departments. That's the message from Gartner analyst Carl Claunch, who argued Thursday that IT types should fear--yes fear--multicore technology. Multicore chips carry multiple brains on them and companies like Intel...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Multi-core, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The Windows 7 name game, continued
- It is rare that you get to see a Microsoft executive tap dance and juggle at the same time, but that's what I felt like as I read one senior executive's attempt to explain why the next version of Windows will be called Windows 7, even though it's technically version...
- Tags: Game, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Microsoft plays up 'less is more' as its holiday retail message
- With consumers hunkering down, how is Microsoft hoping to get them to spend on technology toys and software this holiday season? The theme at the company's Holiday 2008 "In the Know" showcase in New York City this week is less is more. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley, Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Telecom & Utilities, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 80 ways to mix open source and business
- Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...
- Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Workout for brain just a few clicks away
- Researchers at UCLA studied people doing Web searches and found that it sharpened the memories of middle-aged and older people. CHICAGO--Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers at the University of California...
- Tags: Brain, Internet Search, Internet, Search, Reuters, research, search, brain
- News items 2008-10-15
- Microsoft aiming to deliver Vista SP2 before Windows 7
- The Windows team is readying second service packs (SP2) for Vista -- and for its server complement, Windows Server 2008 -- and is aiming to deliver these SP2s before it releases Windows 7, according to my sources. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Windows Team, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Conversation with Richard Muirhead of Tideway Systems
- Richard Muirwood, CEO of Tideway Systems, and I had our semi-annual chat the other day. Tideway's Tideway Foundation™is a management tool making it possible for organizations to get a clear understanding of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure supporting their business applications. They call what they do "dependency mapping." ...
- Tags: Tideway Systems, Richard, Productivity, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...
- Tags: Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Apple MacBook, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebook Event, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 10 things you should do before, during, and after reinstalling Windows
- There are some very good reasons why you might want to reinstall Microsoft Windows. Whether it is 2000, XP or Vista, the registry can become corrupted or it can accumulate settings for programs long since forgotten, leading to sluggish performance. Alan Norton documents the steps needed to properly reinstall Windows....
- Tags: Alan Norton, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2008-10-15
- The Future looks very Cloudy
- I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Trend Micro Inc., Information Technology, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Vroom! Was that an Obama billboard?
- So you made up your mind ages ago about the Presidential election and have moved on? Thought you'd check out on the horse race, name calling, innuendo and financial meltdown by kicking back with a little Xbox? Forget about it. Barack Obama has...
- Tags: Advertisement, Barack Obama, Games, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits
- Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploitsPatch your applications...And don't run your browser with administrative rights (in case you forget to patch those applications, e.g., WinAmp, QuickTime, etc).If you're on Windows XP/2000 or Vista and you've foolishly turned off UAC, you can use this tool:http://www.download.com/RemoveAdmin/3000-2381_4-10824971.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10835515Thing is, RemoveAdmin is a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Secunia, popular security suite, exploit, security suite, Kaspersky, security
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)
- In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession, as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...
- Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreading
- Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreadingowning a computerthese peeps whom click on the email should not be allow to own a computer. period until they go through security training for 1 year
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday, malware campaign, malware
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- The University of iTunes
- The ability, or rather art, of being able to be in bed, pyjamas on (or off, if that's your style), mug of tea in your hand, cuddled up all warm and snug, whilst being able to listen to their adoring lecturers waffle on in class about particle physics or some...
- Tags: University, Apple iTunes, Lecture, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreading
- Malicious attackers are once again taking advantage of event-based social engineering attacks, and are currently mass mailing fake notifications for Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, attaching a copy of Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, next to a legitimately looking PGP signature which is, of course, fake too : "We received some questions from customers about...
- Tags: Malware, Microsoft Corp., PGP Corp., Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- New notebooks: What Apple didn't announce
- New notebooks: What Apple didn't announceWhile I don't completely disagree...[i]...Now why they couldn't keep the last-gen white MacBook and put an $800 price tag on it...[/i]They did keep the last-gen white MacBook... but only dropped the price $100, not $300.I admit to being confused about the 17" model myself, but...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, NEW Notebook, Apple Inc., white MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
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