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- Writer Recognition System (zip)
- Research in automatic writer identification has mainly focused on the statistical approach. This has led to the specification and extraction of statistical features such as run-length distributions, slant distribution, entropy, and edge-hinge distribution. The edge-hinge distribution feature outperforms all other statistical features. Edge-hinge distribution is a feature that characterizes the...
- Tags: Distribution, Pixel, Probability Distribution
- Software downloads 2007-10-11
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- Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins
- The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gateway stops selling PCs direct
- Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall
- Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook. The company has been...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Acquisition, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploitSo, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...So, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...Nice work!CoolNate, nice post and analysis!Wasn't the replacing the ns.victim.com cache entry part of the Halvar Flake speculation? I thought first part of the exploit was to...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Operating systems, Alecco, DNS, ruid, exploit, HD Moore, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distributionSimple? Compared to what?[i]The procedure works like this: a developer will request your iPhone’s unique identifier. The Identifier is 40-character string that can be found in iTunes by clicking on the word "Serial Number" under the Summary tab when your iPhone is connected. You can...
- Tags: Digital media, Apple iPhone, App Store Ad Hoc distribution, App Store Ad Hoc, App Store, Hands-On, Identifier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution
- There's only one official way to get "legitimate" software for the iPhone 2.0 and iPod touch – via Apple's included App Store. The much-heralded service offers almost 1,000 free and paid application in numerous categories and has been well publicized over the last week. I recently had...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Identifier, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game
- Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...
- Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service
- Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...
- Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- AQL Question Set Builder (exe)
- This easy to use software allows professionals to concentrate on developing the question sets to identify clients' strengths and weaknesses. Questions are grouped and ordered using drag and drop. A question bank stores all questions making revision easy while output in Word or PDF gives you control over distribution and...
- Tags: Sirius, Question, Questions, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Financial Services, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?
- Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?Good Lord!Whatever does happen, this has been fun to read about.in summaryHalvar's approach is to play a game in which you win with a low probability. If you are able to win the race with the authoritative server and guess one TXID, you...
- Tags: Games, Domain names, Halvar, TXID, game, DNS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot
- Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to bootKyte ClarificationsHi, this is Gannon from Kyte. I'd like to clarify a few issues raised by your article:Your article compares kyte.com to qik.com. First off, Kyte.com is our corporate site, not our service, so this comparison is irrelevant. Our...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blogging, public beta, Qik, Kyte
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Smart grid players extend their influence beyond the pilot phase
- When it comes to real market potential in the green tech space, smart grid-related technology is right up there. In any given week, I could post a half-dozen blogs about developments in this world. Echelon, in particular, has had a very busy summer, inking a new deal in Denmark, expanding...
- Tags: Echelon, Project Deployment, Pricing, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Apple chaos theory
- Apple chaos theoryExcuse me !!!"CIOs don’t like having technology forced down their throats, particularly not by end users more concerned with being trendy than standardized."Excuse me, since when is this true ? Isn't everyone still banging their heads on the desks because Vista is being shoved down their throats ?...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, throat, operating system, Apple Inc., Leopard, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot
- Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...
- Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Spam coming from free email providers increasing
- After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Is Microsoft fighting an unwinnable war with its online business and search obsession? It's a valid question and one that needs to be asked. At some point you have to wonder if Microsoft's Google envy is its Vietnam. As Mary Jo Foley noted Microsoft's answer to its...
- Tags: Business, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
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