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- Adware, shady marketing pays: Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder and sister sites
- Adware, shady marketing pays: Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder and sister sitesIt's long been suspected......that Penthouse is owned by scumbags. I think it's just been proven, beyond any reasonable doubt.Why would anyone bother with these pay for porn sites ?Go to www.youporn.com and watch all the free porn you want ....
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Web technology, Mark Bell, marketing, Penthouse, adware, AdultFriendFinder
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
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- Blacklists vs. whitelists
- Blacklists vs. whitelistsCommercial Site VettingMy concern with a vendor offering to optimize content is where else are they looking to monetize the relationship, perhaps through back doors?Data mine and sell to marketing? Take money from commercial sites or trade associations such as the dairy councils to improve the findability of...
- Tags: K-12
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- Extreme PCs and "Homebrewing": Rest in Peace
- A $16,000 custom "Extreme PC" built by Puget Systems. Will custom, home-brew systems go the way of the Dodo or the Duesenberg with the retreating economy? Photo: TomsHardware.com Being a technology writer in times like these can be difficult. In...
- Tags: PC, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Microsoft offers to just 'Fix it'
- Microsoft offers to just 'Fix it'Message from the future... "HELP! My Fix It button is BROKEN!"I guess I really am an Oracle. :)the mother of all fixes1.Download and burn a Linux distro on a cd.2.Format your drive and install Linux.How about just fixing the Talkbacks?At least 2 articles have broken...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Fix-It, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- FriendFinder isn't likely to find any pals on Wall Street; Needs IPO to pay debt
- FriendFinder Networks, the company formerly known as Penthouse Media Group, is filing to go public to pay off almost a half a billion in debt in an equity market that stinks. Simply put, FriendFinder is launching an IPO Hail Mary to stay alive. At least FriendFinder's initial public offering filing...
- Tags: Social Networking, Revenue, VAT, European Union, FriendFinder Networks, Various, IPO, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy research
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy researchCongrats JDEM.........but if you don't terraform Mars soon, none of this new information is going to do anyone much good, now is it?Seems like a stupid response? Not so....1. We breed too much and we grow too little food and we use the...
- Tags: team, human race, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-27
- Investing in the right vehicles for change
- Investing in the right vehicles for changeTop-down, bottom-up, until we get rid of THOSE terms ...... it will always be "business as usual" for businesses the world over.The mass of unorganized workers will NEVER be able to implement change from the "bottom-up" because they are simply not empowered.The elite up...
- Tags: right vehicle, Phil, Big 3
- Discussion threads 2008-11-22
- Free magazines on your iPhone
- Back in May Zinio released a Web-based iPhone magazine reader which allows you to view complete magazines for free. To access it, simply navigate to www.zinio.com/iphone from your iPhone and you'll get free access to a number of popular magazine titles including: U.S. News Playboy ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, iSmashPhone, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Forget the paperless office dream, but how about a paperless living room?
- Like several high tech innovations Zinio began as a digital service aimed at B2B. But it worked, so it's inevitably grown to become a global, consumer-oriented service as well. If it works at work, just think how you can use it at home. And then...
- Tags: Magazine, Zinio, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- News to know: Green Grid; Windows 7; AMD speaks; Bebo
- Notable headlines: David Berlind: With tech titan support, Green Grid to help datacenters go green with measurement standards Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to get new touch features. Microsoft makes IE with component activation change available to testers. Larry Dignan: Ahead...
- Tags: Bebo, Larry Dignan, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Grid, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Fleury, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Adware, shady marketing pays: Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder and sister sites
- Penthouse Media Group has acquired Various Inc., a company that operates a stable of adult-oriented social networking sites such as AdultFriendFinder, Gradfinder and others. The New York Times reports: While the influx of free and low-cost video has hurt the sale of pornographic videos, the chief...
- Tags: Adware, Marketing, Advertisement, Pop-up Ad, FTC, Penthouse Media Group, Various Inc., Various Obviously, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Virtualization cashes out
- Is this the ground floor or the penthouse for the open source virtualization market?The two biggest virtualization software suppliers, VMWare and XenSource, cashed out yesterday in different ways.VMWare did it by going public, XenSource by being acquired.Citrix is the new owner of XenSource. They paid $500 million. Imagine, $500 million for...
- Tags: Virtualization, VMware Inc., XenSource Inc., Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Microsoft ups ante on GPLv3 in apparent challenge to license's reach
- Microsoft ups ante on GPLv3 in apparent challenge to license's reachNot a Linux distributor, but...[i]Despite assertions that the new GPLv3 released June 29 closes loopholes with GPLv2, and therefore binds Microsoft as a Linux distributor of some kind,...[/i]Microsoft [b]is[/b] without a doubt a free software distributor, as shown in these...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPLv3, Microsoft Corp., GPL, software
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- Is Microsoft's ODF vote supposed to make amends for its patent attack?
- Is Microsoft's ODF vote supposed to make amends for its patent attack?There is a HUGE connection. MS is trying to pretend they are the nice guys,and here they can say they are supporting open standards, and, indirectly, open source. They want the message that they are not against open standards...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-17
- Dershowitz uses his BlackBerry to fight anti-Semitism
- Dershowitz uses his BlackBerry to fight anti-SemitismDershowitz is an activist and high powered crackpotDershowitz: "I get a lot of hate mail, especially anti-Semitic hate mail..."Is it any wonder why? Dershowitz is as much a crackpot activist as anyone else you could possibly cite, having his own select and self-serving agendas....
- Tags: Dershowitz, anti-Semitism, RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- The gag is off: Samba's Allison talks turkey on Microsoft-Novell deal
- The gag is off: Samba's Allison talks turkey on Microsoft-Novell dealWhen the going gets tough......the tough get going.Few have access to and currently understand the Novell/MS 'convenant' and I am inclined to believe Ron Hovsepian when he says the accord does not impact on GPL whatsoever paraphrasing here.This is really...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, source world, MCS, Samba, Allison, GPL, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-30
- Florida judge gets tough on 'Bully'
- Florida judge gets tough on 'Bully'As with every other topic you've posted on hereYou are absolutely clueless about this one...unless of course you really beleive [b]a game with no blood, and no killing[/b] is "indecent" and should be banned.Ain't the gaming industry that needs changes necessarilyActually, the government is only...
- Tags: Games, game, decency law, government, Thompson
- Discussion threads 2006-10-12
- Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search
- Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise searchMaking Oracle look like File SystemThere has long been a way of making an Oracle database look like a big file system. That trick allows any search engine technology that is file system based to scream. I understand, it is used at Amazon.com. Microsoft...
- Tags: SEARCH, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., enterprise search, Google Inc., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-07-13
- Ubuntu Linux leader proposes six-week delay
- Ubuntu Linux leader proposes six-week delayUbuntu Linux leader proposes six-week delayImpossible! Linux users always tell me that only Microsoft delays OS releases. And why didn't ZDNet mention the big gaping security hole in Ubuntu?childrenI know it is probably beyond everyone to get along sometimes but can you at...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Ubuntu, Linux, operating system, Ubuntu Linux leader, six-week delay, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu Linux, leader
- Discussion threads 2006-03-13
- Stalking the bipedal business jargon idiot
- Ah, the Bay Area. Land of incredibly smart people and conspicuous idiots, the latter in thankfully low ratios to the former. This is, in part, a warning to the three executives who I listened to or, rather, listened in on a lecture delivered at them, while dining...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., idiot, telecommunications
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
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