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Great source on cyber espionage

I am taking a couple of days to explore the slopes at Boyne Mountain. For those of you who regularly ski the Alps and Rockies I have one thing to say. 450 foot (150m) vertical! This is a great article by Christopher Burgess, a 30...

Tags: Espionage, Slope, Intellectual Property, Sales Tools, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations, Sales, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Photos: On the ground at the Olympics

Couldn't score a ticket to Turin? Spectators armed with cameras take you along to the slopes and ice rinks of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Tags: Turin, Winter Olympics, slope, Olympic Games, ice, camera

Image galleries 2006-02-22

Photos: On the ground at the Olympics

Couldn't score a ticket to Turin? Spectators armed with cameras take you along to the slopes and ice rinks of the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Tags: Turin, Winter Olympics, slope, Olympic Games, ice, camera

Image galleries 2006-02-22

Additional Resources

Acer P241W

The Acer P241w can be found for as cheap as $380--a very fair price for a 24-inch LCD--and boasts a unique look and very bright image. Of the five 24-inch displays we've reviewed this year, we'd rank it fourth, but it still does some things better than its higher ranked...

Tags: foot stand, display, Acer P241W, Acer Inc., OSD, bezel

Product reviews 2008-07-22

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

Tritton AX Visor

Not everyone needs a Bluetooth headset for hands-free chatting while in the car. If you prefer to keep your ears unplugged, a Bluetooth speakerphone might be a better option. Tritton, which also makes the AX Micro Bluetooth headset, has recently launched the Visor Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit, which is essentially...

Tags: Visor, speakerphone, microphone, Tritton Technologies

Product reviews 2008-07-10

Mobile RIAs - getting more exciting thanks to Nokia and Symbian

Mobile RIAs - getting more exciting thanks to Nokia and SymbianIs this Universal Desktop according to Adobe?I'm done; I'm handing in my ZDNet readership decoder ring as this dribble is the last straw.Flash Lite is an utter joke and if you spent as much time writing it Ryan as you...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Ryan, Flash Lite, Apple Inc., mobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Scribes, professionals and the decline of mass media

Clay Shirky, in his Here Comes Everybody, devotes a chapter, "Everyone is a media outlet", to a comparison of the decline of scribal production to the decline of "professional" journalism. He sets up this analogy on faulty legs that leave the argument that "what was once a chasm is now...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Stock, Media, Photograph, Image, Music, Investment, Document Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Macally Pebble Wireless Laser Mouse

Virtually anyone who uses a laptop for an extended period of time eventually plugs in a wireless mouse. The seemingly limitless number of choices out there make it hard to stand out from the crowd unless you have a special feature to tout, such as a Bluetooth connection (the Microsoft...

Tags: Mice, Desktops, Logitech MX Air, mouse

Product reviews 2008-06-06

Does business really oppose universal coverage?

Does business really oppose universal coverage?Oh please. Not another government bureaucracy..run with the efficiency of the Post Office. Far better, in my view, to leave health care in the hands of the consumer. But do it in a way that encourages competition, not the way it is...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw

Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flawThe problem with this one isIt's too easy. Anyone can read the PoC and figure out how to conduct a full blown attack quite simply. If you fit the pieces together, it's directly attackable.-NateRE: Apple under pressure to fix Safari...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Safari, flaw, Microsoft Corp., security

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

The death gap

The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young...

Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-14

What Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-off means for enterprises

Now that Yahoo gets to remain a stand-alone company for a few more months, you may think that a battle royale between Microsoft and Google over the online advertising and social networking/communications services future has little bearing on enterprises. But you'd be wrong. Here are seven reasons...

Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, Channel Management, Smb/Sme, Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Sales, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-04

Analyst: Start SOA governance now, even if its just on Excel

It's 11:00 -- do you know where your services are? Today's enterprise has a hodgepodge of services coming from all different directions -- from enterprise packaged applications, Web 2.0 and cloud applications, and devices of every size and sort. 'Just because you aren't aware of services doesn't...

Tags: SOA, SOA Governance, Microsoft Excel, Tool, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines

A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...

Tags: 3D, Laser, 3D-R1, 3DLM, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-10

War declared against JBOWS architecture... but is it something we can live with?

In a new post, Nick Malik declares all-out war... against JaBOWS, or Just a Bunch of Web Services, architectures. 'What I hate is the notion that SOA can be reduced to tools'He urges IT executives and professionals to get active as a community in the effort to stamp out...

Tags: SOA, Tool, JBOWS, JaBOWS, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-03-22

Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?

Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?Bruce, Bruce, Bruce...Personally, I think Perens is a has been. He wants a seat on the OSI board to try to become relevant again.His "campaign" seems to be based on fear-mongering. He writes "I think that vendor-domination of Open Source inevitably...

Tags: Corporate governance, OSI, open source, board

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Police Blotter: Murderer nabbed via tracking, Web search

Police Blotter: Murderer nabbed via tracking, Web searchSo what?So what if her "rights" were "violated"? If, in fact, the illegality of the actions of the police had not shown her to be guilty, then she is owed an apology and possibly some sort of monetary award. However, as...

Tags: SEARCH, Internet search, Web, killer, Police Blotter, investigator

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?

Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?SideShowIt's not Windows Slideshow - it's Windows SideShowRE: Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology?yawnYou misunderstand Apple's patent...The way I read it, it's nothing like the Microsoft examples you mentioned.Picture a clamshell laptop, with one half transparent. Closed, it would look like...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Apple Inc., dual-sided touch technology, touch technology, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Does Japan's plan to kick off P2P users violate privacy?

I just read George's piece on Japan's scheme to block illegal file-traders and at first blush it sounds good. According to a Japanese newspaper, ISP groups and copyright holders have agreed on a plan to identify, notify and eventually cut off P2P traders of illegal content. Here's George: ...

Tags: Comcast Corp., P2P, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, IP, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-17