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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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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 agenda(s)....; 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
Political ideals and business: Political ideals and businessYeah, but!I really have some problems with this one. Yahoo, MSN, Google and Cisco work to comply with Chinese 'law' - which is a misnomer - it really means that Chinese internal intellegence working on orders of the politboro told the companies what to do. ...; Tags: Vertical industries, government, U.S. Department of Justice; Discussion threads 2006-02-15
Welcome to the Enterprise Web 2.0: Welcome to the Enterprise Web 2.0Buzzword FatigueSeriously, am I the only one who is suffering from serious buzzword fatigue? IT vendors and managers need to start speaking in plain english about real ROI - for example it would be great to see more about how Web 3.0 and "Mashups...; Tags: Channel management, Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, ZDNet Bloggers; Discussion threads 2006-02-09
Everything is information - part 1: Everything is information - part 1I agree[i]To assign strict and indefinite property rights to an idea is to claim to be the wellspring of thought itself. Every modern company stands on the shoulders of public knowledge.[/i]This is a 3 or 4 part series of posts. Tomorrow's will talk...; Tags: Profit-taking, IP, intellectual property, foe; Discussion threads 2006-01-16
Ballmer: High-end Windows, Office coming: Ballmer: High-end Windows, Office comingBallmer: High-end Windows, Office comingAwesome! Microsoft certainitly knows the future of computing and its refreshing to hear that they will be keeping up with the times and the future. A new IIS will be awesome. Also making premium services and additions to its products...; Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer; Discussion threads 2005-07-28
Sex sites' reprieve from new federal rules: Sex sites' reprieve from new federal rulesHmmm, what do they do with "cartoons"Date of birth, last friday???Privacy issueshttp://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/22/rottencom_our_gaping.html"In terms of the bookkeeping requirements for Adult film distributors -- each distributor has to keep records on site. That includes social security numbers, driver license scans and other personal information. So lets...; Tags: Harassment, Social Security, Operational accounting, Bart Simpsons, Webcam girl, physical address, performer, Webcam, sex site; Discussion threads 2005-06-24
Gentoo head to "educate" Microsoft on open source: Gentoo head to "educate" Microsoft on open sourceRobbins is now dead to meFor some reason I just don't have the motivation to continue this day. This is pretty much as close to the Apocolypse as I want to get. Please make the hurting stop.Gentoo head to "educate" Microsoft...; Tags: Even Microsoft, Gentoo, Microsoft Corp., open source, Linux, Robbins; Discussion threads 2005-06-16
Found in translation: Microsoft tool talks pretty: Found in translation: Microsoft tool talks prettyGreat new functionality!we are so blessed that this s/w giant alays comes up with all these wizzards. I wish though that they could use some wizzard to fix their shody platform and improve security. Alas, this requires native intelligence and apparently at MS the...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Tool, translator, tool; Discussion threads 2004-08-04