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Video goes Internet--the future of what you watch

On April 24, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "Video Goes Internet--The Future of What You Watch." The panelists included Rob Bennett, general manager, MSN Entertainment and Video Services at Microsoft; Jennifer Feikin, director of Google Video at Google; Blake Krikorian, founder & CEO of Sling Media; John Papanek,...

Tags: ESPN, Google Inc., Advertisement, Internet, Living Room, Rob Bennett, Video, Microsoft Corp., TV, Content, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-04-25

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Needed: iPhone radio toggle application

It's pretty well documented that the iPhone 3G can barely eek out a full day's use on a single charge. So much so that a cottage industry is cropping up for external battery packs. Here's a free tip that I previously mentioned for an enterprising developer that...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Battery, 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-22

WordPress client for iPhone released

Excellent news for bloggers came a few weeks ago when WordPress announced that they're developing a client application for the iPhone. WordPress posted a note on their blog yesterday stating that they've successfully uploaded the application to the iTunes Store, and that it's in a status of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Wordpress, Digital Music, Blogging, Digital Media, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-21

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Prohibition 2.0

Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...

Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Protocol handlers cause Mozilla Firefox 3 remote command execution vulnerabilities

Update 07/16/2008: Apparently I neglected to mention that this has been patched already.  Reading over it again and a heads up from a reader pointed out the error to me.  As always, great job by Window Snyder and the Mozilla Security Team for getting this patched quickly. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, URI, Vulnerability, Mozilla Corp., Attack, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Kaminsky to discuss DNS flaw at Black Hat sponsored webcast

The Black Hat group on Twitter provided a message today alerting people to a webcast to be put on by Dan Kaminsky on the DNS vulnerabilities that I've heavily covered as follows: Dan Kaminsky breaks DNS, massive multi-vendor patch coming, details at Black Hat Vegas '08 ...

Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, DNS, Flaw, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-15

eBay wins big in federal court, but Europe is a different story

A federal judge ruled Monday that eBay doesn't have an obligation to police its sellers for trademark infringements, the Times reports. The decision upholds Internet companies' safe harbor against claims that they should be liable for users' infringements. "Tiffany has failed to demonstrate that eBay knowingly...

Tags: eBay Inc., Branding, Internet, Strategy, Litigation, Marketing, Management, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...

Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

iPhone 3G: Initial reaction (updated 3x)

I've had my iPhone 3G for about two hours, not enough time to do anything resembling a review, but I wanted to blog some of my early observations. Pictured are Rob Parker and I waiting in line in Atlantic City This post will be continually updated so...

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

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Gallery: iPhone 3G launch at the Apple Store in Atlantic City

Atlantic City -- I arrived at the Apple Store at The Pier here today with Rob Parker at about 7:30am and we were given wrist band numbers 49 and 50 and took our places in line. I talked with the first 10 people in line and Matthew Diullio...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Atlantic City, 3G, Corporate Governance, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Apple iPhone 3G launch roundup

"I have an iPhone... and you don't!" I decided (ok, my financial advisor, aka spouse, decided for me) to skip the iPhone 3G frenzy this morning and just sit back and watch the fun. For...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Sun releases JRE Version 6 Update 7, 90% of desktops currently at risk*

* The 90% of desktops currently at risk comes from numbers presented at the Java One Keynote in 2008.  If you aren't patched, get the Java control panel up and get updated, or go to Sun's site to download the update, cause this one's big. Yesterday Sun...

Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., JRE, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Apple's iPhone 3G activation/sync fiasco (updated 5x)

Atlantic City -- I'm not sure if it's just a server load issue because of all the east coast Apple and AT&T stores opening, but here at the Apple Store at The Pier customers are being told that their phones can't be activated and to take them home to activate....

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruit

Study: Only one out of five SOA efforts bearing fruitSO at AA level is still SOAI fully appreciate Burton Group's view that SO is best applied to business/enterprise architecture. That's where the biggest payoff is ostensibly to be found."The service is only built for one application and it’s never going...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, emperor, SOA, Anne, application architecture, Burton Group, silo, Web service, mentality

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

iFixIt is traveling to New Zealand to be the first to tear down iPhone 3G

And I thought that I was obsessive. I'll be heading to the Apple store in Atlantic City at 7 a.m. on Friday to cover iDay 3G with fellow PowerPage podcaster Rob Parker but just being in the eastern time zone isn't soon enough for some people. The...

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

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Multiple Facebook vulnerabilities reported on Full-Disclosure

Jouko Pynnonen posted a message to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today, citing multiple "script injection" vulnerabilities within Facebook.  I'm not sure if this is a surprise to anybody out there, it's certainly not to me, as numerous web applications have major problems with Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities, but I think this...

Tags: Facebook, Vulnerability, XSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sandbox, JS, Canvas Page, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-02

McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures

McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failuresI get slammed for pronouncing the name wrong, but McAfee is the bestMcAfee is the only true voice on security. I have never once seen a computer with their AV software installed that has be overrun with viruses. If this is...

Tags: SECURITY, McAfee Inc., HackerSafe

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls

Seeing as how patent reform has died on the vine, several tech and telecom companies are taking matters into their own hands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scared by the NTP v Research in Motion case, in which the BlackBerry maker came perilously close to folding...

Tags: Patent, Troll, NTP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford

Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology and his departure from Microsoft on 27 June will mark the end of an era. Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Professional Development, Career, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, Microsoft, Vista

News items 2008-06-25