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SNARF from Microsoft Research (msi)

Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder. SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available to the computer system can be usefully reflected to the user a message from a manager might be seen differently than a message from...

Tags: Message, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, SNARF, SNARF UI, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Software downloads 2005-12-29

SNARFing email

In a world where humans play an exception handling role, email has become the primary means that business processes (sometimes in the form of our co-workers) use to get our attention. Build all the fancy workflow systems you want--email will still carry most of the workflow messages in your...

Tags: e-mail, SNARF

Blog posts 2005-12-05

SNARFing your way through e-mail

SNARFing your way through e-mailI have an idea...Instead of a million people coming in here to post anti-Microsoft comments about sillyness, how about we reflect on something positive Bill Gates has recently done: http://bink.nu/Article5475.binkI applaude him, and his wife.MS Outlook already has rules . . .Go to Tools Rules...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Mozilla Thunderbird, Now Let, Microsoft Outlook, SNARF, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-12-02

Additional Resources

Size matters in Samsung's latest hard drive offerings (includes video footage)

Size matters in Samsung's latest hard drive offerings includes video footageTwo ThingsDave, 1st - Western Digital has had the Passport Protable USB drives out for well over a year now in rages as high as 160 GB and the drives are the size of a US Passport, just...

Tags: Keyboards, Dell Computer Corp., Number 2, hard drive, Size Matters, hybrid hard drive, virtual PC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., RAM, PC, video

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

Microsoft insults our intelligence on Virtualization security

Microsoft insults our intelligence on Virtualization securityMicrosoft insults our intelligence.Shuld be the proper title, it always has done and always will until people take the blinkers offSpot on[i]Trying to stop a Hypervisor Rootkit with a EULA is like trying to stop Malware with a EULA.[/i]Spot on, George. And another thing...

Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, home PC, virtualization, Microsoft Corp., EULA, Virtualization security

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Will little Xobni outhustle Microsoft in making Outlook more usable?

Xobni ("inbox" spelled backwards) has just gotten an investment from the legendary VC and Sun co-founder Vinod Khosla and others in modest series A funding. The company is developing intelligent add-ons for Microsoft Exchange/Outlook that offer a higher degree of control and smarts to your inbox. According the company, Xobni...

Tags: e-mail, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Malware being spammed as PDF from retail stores

Malware being spammed as PDF from retail storesIt also comes from eBay and AmazonBottom line, none of these sites send your order in a zip file. Happens a lot more frequently now - social engineering ramping up. Be careful out there!ANOTHER reason to not use Outlook and...use Thunderbird,...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Groupware, spammer, e-mail, malware, Microsoft Outlook, spam, eBay Inc., Adobe PDF

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

Video Snarf for Skype (zip)

Video Snarf allows you to monitor your house or business from any remote location that has Internet access. With Video Snarfs outstanding motion sensing abilities, objects moving inside your house or in your yard can trigger an audible alarm and/or a Skype call to your office complete with live streaming...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Video, Live Streaming, Video Snarf, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-03-20

Using Social Sorting to Enhance Email Management

This paper evaluates the use and potential benefits of social sorting as a technique for managing email. The paper presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, a tool which filters and sorts email based on the type of message and the user's past history with an email correspondent, a...

Tags: E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications

White papers 2006-01-25

Images: Microsoft's SNARF e-mail sorter

Tool aims to help people sort messages better by calculating how much they usually interact with correspondents.

Tags: Microsoft Corp., e-mail, tool

Image galleries 2005-12-02

Microsoft SNARF (msi)

SNARF Social Network and Relationship Finder was built around the notion that social network information that is already available to the computer system can be usefully reflected to the user: a message from a manager might be seen differently than a message from a stranger, for example. SNARF applies this...

Tags: Message, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SNARF, long.The SNARF UI, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Software downloads 2005-12-02

Sony Ericsson phones open to 'snarf' attack

Sony Ericsson phones open to 'snarf' attackthis is whycel phones should be cell phones, not all this other junk, any more is hard to find a cel phone with a simple mute button, and now we have to worry about this stuffpeople"If customers find they have the software version R1A081,...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sony Ericsson Phones

Discussion threads 2004-02-12

MySQL database coming to Itanium 2

MySQL database coming to Itanium 2MySQL SmokesIf you haven't tried it, MySQL smokes. If you're still in the thinking about it phase, wait until the release version of 5.0 comes out. It supports stored procedures. Makes it easier to port your SQL Server apps over to MySQL....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Even Microsoft, database, Intel Itanium 2, Intel Itanium, MySQL

Discussion threads 2004-01-06