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PLA - Plain Language Analysis Tool 1.2 (Windows)

PLA lets you analyze any document you can imagine to first make it clear, concise and unambiguous using the Plain Language technique and second analyze it for major themes. If you are able to use an Internet search engine you are able to use PLA. So children can use it...

Tags: Analysis Tool, Document, Analysis, CassBeth, PLA, Search, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-23

Scam calls... something we've forgot about?

Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Pretty sure they can...but why would they? Less money for the phone company, more cost. Until our government makes stronger, more punishing laws around this, nothing will happen.-NateRE: Scam calls... something we've forgot about?Why can't the phone companies trace these calls and shut...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Call centers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, PLA, malware, call-center, phone, IP

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

China preps for cyberwarfare

An annual report on China's military capabilities reveals that the country is eying cyberweapons, network attacks and other plans to wage information warfare.The report from the Department of Defense outlines China's overall military strategy and touches on some aspects of information warfare in a few throwaway paragraphs in a large...

Tags: General, Government, Security

Blog posts 2007-05-29

IBM, Lehman to invest $180 million in Chinese companies

IBM, Lehman to invest $180 million in Chinese companiesPLA in China will be happyIn reality these companies are investing in the PLA so China can build more Missiles aimed at the United States and build their military into a 200 million man unit.China is communist, spending billions on military meanwhile...

Tags: PLA, Lehman, American company, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-30

Military computers attacked from Chinese computers - but who's doing the hacking?

Someone - or many someones - using computers based in China is launching a large-scale attack on nonclassifed US government computers - including the Defense, State, Energy and Homeland Security departments. But government officials told the Washington Post, it's not clear whether that's the Chinese government, other governments, or just...

Tags: PLA, CHINA IS, network, computer

Blog posts 2005-08-26

Additional Resources

With Motorola Droid, Verizon puts doubts about Google Android platform to rest [review]

Looks pretty nice, one comment on the article tho...[i]Further, Android 2.0 offers universal search, surfacing Web pages (history, bookmarks, etc.), contacts, applications and more all from the same search field widget. It?s a welcome addition.[/i]This is actually a feature of Android 1.6 and so not exclusive to the Droid or...

Tags: Smart phones, Motorola Inc., Google Android, Apple iPhone, Motorola Droid, Verizon Communications Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse

You can watch BluRay movies via the Display Port IN. [nt][nt]Windows to the rescue!![i]Of course, until Apple releases software support, you?ll still have to boot into Windows to play movies.[/i]LOL, OS X sucks. :)LOLWhat's sad is that OS X is the best that Apple could steal!Is that the best you...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, mouse, Apple Inc., Pagan, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

China's Green Dam and the cyberwar implications

Guest editorial by Oliver Day Chinese military leaders have always been aware of the military advantage the US has over the People's Liberation Army.  Reading through their published assessments of Sino-US war possibilities confirm our belief that we would dominate them in the...

Tags: Software, China, Vulnerability, Computer, Chinese Internet, Green Dam, Government, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Vertical Industries, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-23

ZyXEL PLA-450 Wireless Access Point

ZyXEL PLA-450 Wireless Access PointGreat Wireless Access Point for Added RangeWe recently built out our basement and before I spent the time and money to cat5 my whole house or possibly add a second cable modem, I decided to give the PLA-450 + 1 PLA-401 a try. To my amazement,...

Tags: Modems, Wireless and Mobility, Cable, Network technology, PLA-450, access point, ZyXEL Communications Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

Smart Grid vulnerable to cyberattack

OK, next multibillion dollar opportunity for security consultants coming right up! The Smart Grid, a sort of energy-carrying Internet that will feature automated meters, two-way communication and advanced sensors according to CNN, is ripe for the same kind of cyberattacks that Net users have become so...

Tags: U.S., Blackout, Grid, Cyberattack, Power Grid, Hacking, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-22

Super PlaylistMaker for iTunes 1.0 (Windows)

Super play lists include By Artist, By Album, By Genre, By Kind, By Play Count, By Rating, By Size and By Year. Want to find everything by AC/DC, a specific album by Eminem, all of your Audio books, Classic Rock tracks, tracks played more than once or more than 100...

Tags: Track, Apple iTunes, MarkelSoft, Microsoft Windows, Digital Music, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-11-06

HP Managed Print Service Contract Offers Outstanding Reliability and Performance

Philips is one of the biggest electronics groups in Europe, as well as the rest of the world, and the global market leader in the field of lighting and lighting technology. Apart from cost reduction in the print environment, the aim for Philips Lighting Aachen PLA was both to improve...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-09-01

China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computers

China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computersYeah, right..."We're incapable of it." And I'm Mae West. Why don't you come up and see me sometime. It'd be one thing to deny the action. But to go so far as to deny they even have the capability...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, ONE-Way, Reps, computer, hacking

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction

SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc.  Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...

Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-12

China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?

Chinese hackers may have been behind power blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to a report in the National Journal. The report, penned by Shane Harris for the National Journal, lays out a lengthy case that China has deployed hackers working unofficially and officially for the...

Tags: U.S., China, Blackout, Hacker, Intelligence Official, Takeaway, Government, Hacking, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on top

HD-DVD folds, Java comes out on topmust be a Microsoft haterSo if it was so superior, then why is it the first gen players from Toshiba can play all current movies while the first gen Blu's can not??? And why is it that stand alone Blu's don't match up to...

Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Java, media server, Blu, TV, DVD, HD-DVD

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Context-Specific Middleware Specialization Techniques for Optimizing Software Product-Line Architectures

Product-Line Architectures PLAs are an emerging paradigm for developing software families for Distributed Real-time and Embedded DRE systems by customizing reusable artifacts, rather than handcrafting software from scratch. This paper provides many contributions to the study of middleware specialization techniques for PLA-based DRE systems. First, they identify key dimensions of...

Tags: Technique, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-01-01

Securing Microsoft: The next generation of security threats

Securing Microsoft: The next generation of security threatsSecuring Microsoft: The next generation of security threatsThe good thing about this is that Microsoft recognizes that there is potential for a security threat and is taking all measures to close that threat. Recognition of resolution of the problem is what Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., security, security threat, Securing

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

World faces 'cyber cold war' threat, report says

World faces 'cyber cold war' threat, report saysCall China's BluffThen learn what the IP address of the attacker is and pinpoint the persons whereabouts and demand China help find the Criminal. Either China can come up with the criminal and turn him over or admit that China is the...

Tags: Sales tools, cold calling

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Are Chinese attacks blunders?

Now the British press is reporting infiltration of Whitehall by the People's Liberation Army. You have to ask yourself is this just bad hacking on the part of the PLA? After all, a good cyber attack would either be super stealthy, thus undetected and never reported or, it would serve...

Tags: China, Hacking, Western World, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-09-05