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State of the CIO: Pay is up; tenure is down; transformation is in

State of the CIO: Pay is up; tenure is down; transformation is in12th placeMobile and Wireless technologies rated by CIO's as 12th place? These folks need to pay more attention to the lines of business who are begging for more/faster mobile access to corporate applications.CIOs will never be other...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, WIRELESS, State-Of-The, process reengineering

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

Sukhmani: Process Reengineering to Improve Government-Citizen Interfaces

Government of Punjab has realized the potential of Information Technology for SMART (Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent) governance. With a view to offer an integrated set of services to the citizens, the Sukhmani Society for Citizen Services was created. To ensure that services were handled in a timely manner,...

Tags: SLA, Process Reengineering, Service Level Management, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Government, It Operations, It service Management

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Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...

Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Apple looking to hire iPhone hacker

Apple is in the market for someone capable of hacking into the iPhone. According to this job listing, the company is looking for an iPhone Security Engineer capable of, among other things, developing "proof of concept" attacks on the device's current security mechanisms. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Hacker, Security Mechanism, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

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

MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Enterprise communities: build or join?

Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps enterprises must take while evaluating their community engagement strategies. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Facebook, Community, Network, Social Media, Customer, Site, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...

Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Enterprise Service Busted?

Enterprise Service Busted?ESBsIt really depends on your environment. My company is a medium sized company and we did not have any middleware. For us the ESB made a lot of sense. If you already have middleware, you may not need an ESB. You might be set...

Tags: Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.

Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.Sub-Contractor High-FiveANY subcontractor who can get millions out of a company and deliver nothing gets my applause.. do you realize how hard it is to keep taking money when you're not really doing anything viable?Maybe Im just twisted, but this speaks a lot more to me...

Tags: FUBAR, sincerity

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

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

McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position

Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...

Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-07-23

75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws

In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...

Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-23

The App Store's buggy update process

The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Deals abound for back to school

I took a walk through Circuit City today to see where consumer PCs stood. We'll be back to school in a matter of weeks and parents are already asking about laptops for their high school and college-bound students. The good news is that for $700 you can pick...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The App Store's buggy update process

The application update procedure for iPhone is a complete and unadulterated nightmare. The App Store tells you you need updates with a nice little red bubble in the upper right of the App Store icon, simple enough, right. Unfortunately that's where the fun ends. The update process...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iTunes, Computer, App Store, Update Process, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Is this the New Apple?

PowerPage podcaster Youngmoo Kim relays his experience with trying to get an iPhone 3G and on being an "IRU" Individual Responsible User. Apple just doesn't want me to have an iPhone 3G.  After a few half-hearted attempts bailing at the sight of long lines, I spent about two hours...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., IRU, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?

The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?180 million soldMany buyers are selecting more expensive versions. Microsoft revenues are up extraordinarily. Despite Apple's ads and sales, PC sales are up significantly.And the SP 1 release usually helps sales.You might consider that the reputation you discuss...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft revenue, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, Apple Inc., Vista psychosis, psychosis, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?FreeSWITCH is a great choiceBrian's experience is not an isolated one. FS is starting to gain momentum as people realize just how much it can do and how well it can do it. Prior to the 1.0.0 release we saw a trickle of new users,...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, open source, Asterisk, FreeSwitch

Discussion threads 2008-07-22