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Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features: Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features"Exploitation is Still Possible...""What’s really important to gather from all of this, is that while Windows has made major improvements to it’s security..."itsObsessive-compuslsive or not, it's "its".--GlennRE: Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security FeaturesVista...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Third-Party Vendor, Exploitation, Problem Here, Still Possible, Third-Parties Neglect, Implement Vista Security Features, Implement Vista, security, Microsoft Corp., exploitation; Discussion threads 2008-03-03
Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLR: Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLRSemantic discontinuityIt's not "cross-platform;" it still only runs on MS systems. However, it does work with non-MS browsers [u]on[/u] MS systems.That may well be Microsoft's definition of "cross-platform," but since not everyone uses Microsoft's definition yet it would be appreciated if journalists (not naming...; Tags: .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Outlook, Operating systems, Problem Here, EULA, CLR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight; Discussion threads 2007-04-30
Microsoft COO talks tough on enterprise search: Microsoft COO talks tough on enterprise searchThis guy looks and sounds like a real idiot.He somehow thinks they are already competitive in desktop search.wow what a brain that turnerhe wanna go on war again oracle,ibm,sun......i think that guy is looking for some wierd beat upthey DO need to start w/...; Tags: SEARCH, Problem Here, enterprise search, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-07-13
Gartner takes Microsoft to task: Gartner takes Microsoft to taskWell DUH !!!MICROSUCKS' only interest is in making lots more money and eliminating ALL competition in every market segment they can. When you have a monopoly - even one derived thru violation of law - you get to do whatever you choose, including selling defective goods...; Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Tools & Techniques, Problem Here, job, Microsoft Corp., Uncle Billy, Gartner Inc.; Discussion threads 2005-02-18
Yahoo composing music download plan: Yahoo composing music download planIm Kindasuprised that some 'internet studios havent gone into doing some online business with 'new recordings,outside of the status quo of discos agenda. There isn't any reason that a music service,broadcast conglomerate,or even the disco companies themselves wouldn't then have to court the new music/movie relationships....; Tags: INTERNET, Digital music, music download plan, Yahoo! Inc., music download, Problem Here; Discussion threads 2004-02-03

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Introduction to BIT: This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...; Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-16
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
EU has privacy concerns over Street View: The EU is not too happy with the upcoming launch of Google Maps' Street View in Europe. The problem: privacy. The AP quotes the EU's top data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this," Hustinx told...; Tags: Google Inc., Data Protection, Privacy, European Union, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform: Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...; Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
A robotic chef for your kitchen?: The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of â‚¬3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...; Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-15
More on the Vista DVD playback issue: I thought I'd give you an updateÂ on the DVD playback problem that I reported on yesterday. Here's a summary of the problem: DVD playback is corrupted when one of the three screens (in this case a Wacon Cintiq WX12) is used to display the...; Tags: Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-15
10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Virtualization and security: It's easy to spot market trends when many vendors call to schedule meetings and all of them want to speak about the same topic. The topic du mois is security in virtualized environments. Some of the suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others...; Tags: Network, Environment, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What's wrong at OpenSolaris: The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...; Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-15
EMC's Next Generation Backup and Archival Strategy: We have watched enterprise backup and archive environments continue to rise in both architectural and management complexity. When we look under the covers, it seems companies no longer have a single data protection strategy, but rather multiple point strategies for various functional areas, locations, or processes. We believe this is...; Tags: EMC Corp., Storage, Backups, Strategy, Hardware, Management; White papers 2008-05-15
Workday: a tipping point?: Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...; Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
REST: Reducing Effort in Script-based Testing: The narrow but very important problem: Test scripts used for version 1.0 of an application will probably break when applied to version 2.0 of that application. Testers try to edit old test scripts so that they won't need to create new ones from scratch, but the process is slow, tedious...; Tags: GUI, Ed Gottsman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Dell: We're greener than HP: Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today. Welcome to the latest in the "we're greener than you" game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak. Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Google accidentally enables ratings on some Blogger accounts: Some blogger users may have noticed their blog suddenly started showing star ratings -- a feature that appears to be in the works, and according to Blogger, was given by accident to some unsuspecting bloggers. The feature hasn't been released yet, and they have "fixed" the problem. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Feature, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Content Protection madness on Vista: [UPDATE: For more on this issue, check out this post.] I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you pay for hardware, you should be able to make full use of it. However, DRM and content protection mechanisms are increasingly making this difficult for people. ...; Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows Vista, Cintiq, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-14