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- Podcast: News to know midday: HP beefs up software; Search privacy; Windows 7
- On today's podcast: HP beefs up its software business with Opsware; Privacy is the hot thing among search engine giants; Windows 7: Coming in 2010.
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Google's search privacy protections strike good balance
- Google is adding search privacy protections and will remove your cookies and IP address after 18 to 24 months. My first reaction: It doesnt go far enough and Google shouldnt be spying on me at all. My second reaction about 10 minutes later: Its a good...
- Tags: Googles, search privacy, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Google adding search privacy protections
- Google adding search privacy protectionsDo know evil.I imagine the intelligence organisations have already carried out covert data mining on the populations search habits. Including personally identifiable data. People do just not realise that everything they type into the google search box is being recorded and can identify them...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Google Inc., search privacy
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- News to know: Google on search privacy; IE7 hole; Ubuntu gallery
- Notable headlines:Google adding search privacy protections. Official Google Blog on privacy.Garett Rogers: Google Talk gadget right coming very soon. Techmeme discussion.Microsoft probes possible IE 7 phishing hole.Ryan Naraine: Apple bumper patch vindicates hackers. Trend Micro buys HijackThis, launches SiteAdvisor competitor.OpenBSD hit by critical IPv6 flaw.Donna Bogatin: Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, search privacy, TechMeme, Ubuntu, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
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- Ballmer does Windows
- Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate for...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- 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
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson left, also known as the "Spam King, made a run for it when his wife visited him last Sunday and is now officially...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service
- Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...
- Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 166 Frames of Fame
- "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop artist was an optimist. Now, anyone and everyone who wants...
- Tags: Blog, Post, Gawker, Warhol, Blogging, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- 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
- WordSmart Toolbar (zip)
- The WordSmart tool bar provides users direct access to the Word of the Day, WordSmart Challenge, and the new WordSmart 5.0 site. This tool bar includes great features like Google search, a Pop-Up Blocker, RSS Reader, Zoom In / Out features, a link to Yahoo, and access to various news...
- Tags: Tool, WordSmart, Productivity, RSS, Microsoft Word, Internet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- (Photos: Tracking Last HOPE hackers)
- (Photos: Tracking Last HOPE hackers)Get your badge and stick it in the Microwave first!1. Get your badge and stick it in the Microwave first! Not long enough to melt the badge but just enough to zap the RFID electronics.2. If you require the RFID to work to...
- Tags: SECURITY, badge, Tracking Last HOPE, RFID, noise level, photograph
- Discussion threads 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
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Google shows off its bench
- The vision of Larry Page and Sergey Brin still holds. In a word, search. In another word, find. Maybe its cloud will bring a third word, host, but so far it is mainly a set of services built around that one word, search, again. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Bench, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Top US search engines in May 2008
- Core Search Entity Apr-08 May-08 Growth Total Core Search 10,582 10,777 2% Google Sites 6,514 6,664 2% Yahoo! Sites 2,159 2,221 3% Microsoft Sites 961 920 -4% AOL LLC 491 486 -1% Ask Network 458 486 6% ...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering
- E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...
- Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- If you don't like AAPL's "Steve's health is a private matter" statement, then sell
- If you don't like AAPL's "Steve's health is a private matter" statement, then sellorder of successionI think people would be less worried if Apple were more open about their order of succession. I think Steve has put the company in the right direction so, if something happened to him, they'd...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Apple Inc., private matter, health care
- Discussion threads 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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