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YouTube plays party politics

During the presidential campaigning four years ago, YouTube didn't even exist. Now it's a tool candidates must master to get their message across. CNET's Kara Tsuboi stops by the YouTube upload booths at the Democratic and Republican conventions to find out why Google's video site has such a big presence...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing, News, kara tsuboi, rnc, dnc, youtube, google, obama, mccain, presidents, elections

Videos 2008-09-05

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Obama faces BlackBerry withdrawal

Despite being a class-A CrackBerry addict, Barack Obama will likely be forced to go cold turkey from email when he takes office, The Times' Jeff Zeleney reports. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official...

Tags: President, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-11-15

Election Day '08: Where to get live results

Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsthose are all biased toward obamawatch the real news atwww.johnmccain.comor www.foxnews.comThe rest are unreliable or in bed with the liberals.RE: Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsKudos to the first person who responded, obviously an intelligent and well informed voter. To the...

Tags: Well Let, Election Day, John McCain

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Amazon Kindle: It's not for us, Jack

My grubby hands on the Amazon Kindle at Continental Airlines' Presidents Club Lounge at  Newark Liberty International Airport. See Jason's Amazon Kindle Gallery. As I've discussed in this column before, I spend about 4 days a week away from home and about 8...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Arthur C. Clarke, E-books, Wireless LANs, Personal Technology, Wireless, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-21

Verizon's story on McCain cell tower full of holes

Verizon's story on McCain cell tower full of holesMore idle speculation and inuendo.I can't wait for your hard hitting articles about Rezko and Obama or Acorn and Obama.Um...this from the same people...who talk about how great it is that we can erect cell towers in sparsly-populated areas in Africa, because...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., cell tower, U.S. Secret Service, John McCain, tower

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from KentuckyHypocrites and anti-competitionWhat exactly is Kentucky's problem with online gambling? It must not be the gambling part because these same people admit to trying to get casinos into Kentucky. So it must be an effort to do away with the competition...

Tags: Games, Domain names, Taxes, Poker Sites, Hypocrites, game, domain name

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

How to read your FBI file

How to read your FBI fileGood well-balanced articleNothing one-sided here. Those evil Bushies will stop at nothing when it comes to knowing everyone's secrets, won't they?Hey, pal, EVERYBODY thought Saddam had WMDs, even your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, and (shudder!) Pelosi. Seems that Saddam went to great lengths to convince...

Tags: Federal government, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solutionMissing Facts...You're missing several key facts about our current mess...1) The banks were forced into making high risk loans by our delightful government. Based on a study later determined to be flawed showing bias in lending, the Clinton administration passed laws requiring banks...

Tags: Government, Obama, JFK

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Kids NetLinks Kids.gov Browser (zip)

Kids NetLinks Kids.gov Browser provides 1-click access to the top government kids sites for learning and fun. Play games and learn about science, math, the presidents, chemistry, art, music, history with just a click of a button. Fully functional browser with flash games capabilities. This version is the first release...

Tags: Kids NetLinks, Kids NetLinks Kids.gov Browser, Games, Government, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-09-18

The LHC and the importance of pure research

The LHC and the importance of pure researchFair enoughMoral hazards litter the path walked by scientists and the governments who try to fund them. Pork barrel spending can apply to research as much as public infrastructure projects. I don't think that means, however, that there aren't benefits to...

Tags: Vertical industries, pure research, private industry, government, industry

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised

Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The suspects are believed...

Tags: Taiwan, Hacking, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George Bush

Joe Biden loves RIAA, DRM; hates encryption, George BushAre You Ready????To have your privacy taken away? For some joker to place more power with the RIAA and MPAA than your own persons.Anyone to push corporate initiatives to be funded by the tax payers should not be in office. ...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, George W. Bush, Dems, digital-rights management, Joe Biden, RIAA

Discussion threads 2008-08-25

An apology to the Vietnam vets out there

An apology to the Vietnam vets out thereWhat?*roflhao trying not to wet himself* oh jesus!... i mean... oh my goodness (no offense intended to all those right side of the fence, sandle wearing, western, monotheists out there!).i mean for the love of mary!! political correctness is far far far far...

Tags: Vietnam VET, Vietnam War

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Cuil trips over its Web index in early going

Cuil trips over its Web index in early goingLOLI tried a simple search and was greated with:We’ll be back soon...Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity.Thanks for your patience.CNet's article is also...

Tags: Channel management, SEARCH, Web, Well Let, Cuil, Web index, early going

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper

Update: Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate...

Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

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

AT

ATyes, it's disappointing...first tmobile...now at&twould be nice for someone to 'get it right'. Tmobile's service really sucked and it looked hopeful when AT&T let the cat out of the sack about free wifi. I left my house with iphone in hand and dashed over to Starbucks, got my drink, sat...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Wi-Fi, TMobile

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Do open source applications take security seriously?

Do open source applications take security seriously?Good Point, Good PostThe lack of objective security information is a major concern to "computer naive" Vice-presidents. Blanket announcements that open-source systems Linux have always been secure and commercial systems Windows have never been secure are simply not believable to enterprise management. Nothing is...

Tags: security, open source

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeGood PostIn those days i was the Manager of Technical Services and Computer Operations and remember not too fondly the innumerable meetings, courses, seminars required to implement changes. The technique "Structured or Top-down programming" was used to insure data integrity when program...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, Y2K, IS-department, data-processing, IBM mainframe, business rule, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move along

NVIDIA: Nothing to see here, move alongThe fact that Nvidia is not telling us...the whole story tells us the whole story. If it wasn't "that bad", they wouldn't be afraid to come forward with all the facts. This is typical behavior for a corporation, if the news is...

Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, store owner, NVidia Corp., laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-07-17