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- Legislation needed on ID theft
- To be a victim of identity theft is worse than having some nasty goo on your shoe. It's tenacious and follows you everywhere and our government is moving at a snail's pace to protect us from thieves stealing our data. Tom Zeller reports in the New York Times on the...
- Tags: identity theft, Raymond Lorenzo
- Blog posts 2006-01-10
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- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe It
- Americans Hate Flying - Consultants Must Really Loathe ItDelta doesn't seem all that bad......but maybe it's just in comparison with US Airways which held the franchise at the local airport just before them. They'll even let you bring food on the plane, and they have a real live flight...
- Tags: Benefits, Food & Beverage, Americans Hate Flying
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Open source extremism lives
- Open source extremism livesNot the same thingI admit there's a continuum of opinion. Those who are advocating ogg aren't advocating defiance of the law, but a format more in keeping with the ideals of FOSS, which is a different thing.Userama decided to laugh at Democrats, but he made an apt...
- Tags: ZD Net, F/OSS, extremism, Open source extremism, extremist, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Curing what ails Microsoft
- Curing what ails MicrosoftYou are the firstNTDid anyone ever tell you that you look a littlelike Tucker Carlson on MSNBC fromerly CNN?Pagan jimWhat you describe......is inherent in any large organization look at the US Government, but your suggestions are good ones, nonetheless. Any plans to fight unnecessary code duplication...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Quality, Microsoft Corp., Amiga, Commodore, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United KingdomDatabasesSince you're paying attention... look at bills, proclamations, edicts, etc. in other parts of the world including the USA.The senate just passed a sweeping communications bill that has the same effect as the UK's "proposal". Seems that the G8 or some other organization...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Nate, Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2, Microsoft Windows NT
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught
- Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...
- Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too
- Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy tooSo companies run by engineers always win?You wrote:Google is run by engineers and that’s why the company knocked the snot out of Yahoo.[End quote] Are marketing and operations so unimportant?Icahn's a money manAnd he appears to be looking at Yahoo strictly as...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., phone, Ma Bell
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Powerset shows semantic search solution
- Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Philips BDP-7200
- When first announced at CES, the Philips BDP7200 grabbed some headlines with its $350 price tag, which was $50 less than the Sony PlayStation 3. Well, a couple of months have passed and apparently Philips couldn't live up to its promise. The BDP7200 is now going for $400, precisely the...
- Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Philips BDP7200, Philips Electronics N.V.
- Product reviews 2008-04-28
- Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?
- If anyone may be deemed the official economist of open source, it's probably Joseph Stiglitz right. Stiglitz, 65, was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics for work he did on the impact of asymmetric information. His paper said markets can be...
- Tags: Patent, Economist, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...
- Tags: GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., CDDL, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Is open source anti-American?
- Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...
- Tags: anti-American, American Business, Is open source anti-American, open source, IS open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Is celebrity contradictory with open source?
- Daniel Terdiman's scathing review of journalist Sarah Lacy at the SXSW keynote of Mark Zuckerberg this weekend leads to this intriguing question. Are celebrity and open source contradictory? (Here's a clip.) It's true that open source has some well-known names. Eric Raymond. Linus Torvalds....
- Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Bungee Labs and platform as a service: a great RIA
- Bungee Labs and platform as a service: a great RIAOn-Demand ApplicationsThanks for the article. On-demand application development is an exciting area right now. I work with Fortune 1000 CIO's regularly and this idea is enabling them to dramatically add value to the business by shortening delivery times for applications. ...
- Tags: Software development, rich Internet application, platform as a service, Bungee Labs, Bungee Connect, on-demand
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Microsoft snaps up Danger Inc.
- Microsoft snaps up Danger Inc.Is this a testamentTo their inability to gain hardly any traction at all in the Mobile device environment, starting to use a java based solution?? (It's not the full implementation anyways, it has some proprietary add ons and misses some of the functionality). Furthermore does Danger...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows NT, Danger Inc., Microsoft Corp., SideKick
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Microsoft axes paid versions of Office Live Small Business
- Microsoft axes paid versions of Office Live Small BusinessIt's just not worth paying for. ntntgoing in the right directionNow simplify the features all the versions and let users/businesses turn on/off what features they need. Also, follow the Google Apps pricing model.do they do support?i heard u don't need an IT...
- Tags: Office Live Small Business, small business, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Silverlight on the Library of Congress site
- With DEMO today there's going to be a ton of RIA news but this one isn't DEMO-related. Microsoft is going to be working with the Library of Congress one of my favorite buildings in DC on an enhanced version of their website. The plan seems to be part of an...
- Tags: The Library Of Congress, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Plan, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Library of Congress, Flickr launch public photo project
- The Library of Congress is launching a Flickr experiment and is encouraging people to tag images. Library communications director Matt Raymond blogs about the project: If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better...
- Tags: The Library Of Congress, Flickr, Photograph, Image, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?
- Should open source cheer Gates' swan song?An open source star really could help to increase awarness of Linux, andfree software in general. Linux Torvalds does not want to be a star, and though not as abrasive as Richard, still abrasive. Eric Raymond is a great writer, but he does not...
- Tags: open source, Google Inc., Linux, Bill Gates, brand
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Commercial the dominant word in open source
- Commercial the dominant word in open sourceYes, MS is forced outside of their comfort zone!MS does NOT like that they can not force everybody over to higher end hardware to run Vista. MS is now forced to TRY to make XP run on low end hardware to deny Linux an...
- Tags: open-source community, Microsoft Corp., open source, man-hour, dominant Word
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
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