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- 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
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- Apple: Perception is Reality
- When a technology columnist known for his critical views on Apple makes statements to the effect that the company should consider defining and publicly communicating a succession strategy, many Apple fans might consider the subject too close to home and inappropriate. It will generate heated discussion...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 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
- ScalarCalc (exe)
- ScalarCalc is a calculator that is to solve real math problems with units and simple enough to perform everyday unit conversions. Try the built in Equations feature to solve common problems. A print feature allows you to print your work. Demo mode operates with fewer significant digits. This version is...
- Tags: HP OpenView, ScalarCalc, Print Feature, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- The evolution of search over traditional BIIT / Operations Search and BIAh yes, the "democratization" of IT and data analysis. I think that it’s clear that the borders between search and BI are blurring and that business decision makers across every organization want instant access to the data that they...
- Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, SEARCH, cloud computing, business intelligence
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft
- The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...
- Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...
- Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort
- Discussion threads 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
- Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for me
- Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meI have to agree: The flat Earth thing is funny.Unlike Vista, no one changed the Earth in an attempt to prove the common belief wrong.Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meTom Servo!Crow!The ads aren't that bad, it's just retro.RE: Microsoft'si mentioned all...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), AppŁe, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, flat-Earth, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose
- The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...
- Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- WordPress iPhone client stresses the need for copy/paste and BT keyboard support
- WordPress iPhone client stresses the need for copy/paste and BT keyboard supportProductivity measurementsThis would be a great benchmark to compare productivity between the iPhone and other smartphones. So far, reviews of the iPhone have basically boiled down to [b]USER EXPERIENCE, USER EXPERIENCE, USER EXPERIENCE!11!!1one!!1[/b]. You could tell us [b]exactly[/b] how...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, WordPress iPhone, keyboard support, Apple iPhone, User Experience, Wordpress, British Telecommunications, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle
- On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...
- Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Citizens Bank Online is down
- Citizens Bank Online is downWhy is this news?I have been a customer for 5 years and this site regularly goes down overnight for maintenance note the time of the post. Since this is a "bank" with undoubtedly a big nightly batch cycle and not an infrastructure provide, I am...
- Tags: cloud computing, Citizens Bank Online
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Homeschooling + marketing = great coffee?
- Homeschooling + marketing = great coffee?Homeschooling does what public education can'tturn teachers loose to teach rather than toe the bureaucratic line.RE: Homeschooling marketing = great coffee?Chris, if you like *strong* coffee, check out Meth in SF on the web.Organic coffee?As part of my response to recent efforts to...
- Tags: marketing, InfoWeek, Homeschooling, great coffee, recycling
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Project portfolio mgt: "Draconian enforcement doesn't work" [podcast]
- Achieving successful technology implementations requires IT and business to establish shared expectations around project goals, objectives, and process. Too often, the business doesn't understand real technology constraints while IT remains blissfully unaware of why some projects were even started. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...
- Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
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