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Firefox + NoScript vs Clickjacking

In response to my story earlier on the cross-browser Clickjacking exploit/threat, I received the following e-mail from Giorgio Maone, creator of the popular Firefox NoScript plug-in: Hi Ryan, I've seen a lot of speculation and confusion in the comments to your Clickjacking article about NoScript not...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Speculation, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-25

Six Apart sells LiveJournal for c. $30 million

Speculation has been rife over at TechCrunch but sources close to events as they say have confirmed that Six Apart has sold LiveJournal for around $30 million to Russia's SUP. Insiders are said to be happy with their return on a $5 million investment to a market...

Tags: Partnership, Speculation, Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, Business Structures, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Google phone won't pry open wireless business models

The speculation has begun about today's big Google Phone announcement. Larry Dignan says this will ding the business models of current wireless carriers. How exactly? What is being described is a Linux-based phone that may have WiFi and is tied to...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Speculation, AT&T Corp., Sprint Communications, Wireless, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Oracle roils enterprise vendor landscape with its move to acquire BEA

Someone had to pull the trigger, and few companies could better leverage and extend the value of BEA than now-public suitor Oracle. On Friday Oracle announced a bid of $17 per share in cash for BEA, a 25 percent premium over BEA's closing stock price on Thursday, or $6.7 billion,...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Speculation, Loser, Business Structures, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Open Source, Finance, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-12

SAP's A1S: love, not pricing, is key

SAP's announcement of A1S, it's software as a service SaaS product for small business, will take place tomorrow in New York City. Speculation is running high whether this product will succeed or fail, and the impact A1S will have on SAP as a whole. On the stock...

Tags: Speculation, SAP AG, Pricing Strategy, A1S, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-09-18

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Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

It hasn't been announced it yet, heck, there's not even any official confirmation of its existence yet, but that doesn't stop rampant speculation that the Apple's tablet PC has been delayed until the second half of 2010. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Oracle consulting layoffs: but what's the number?

Your "facts" are wrongThe quotes you cite are in the wrong chronological order. In addition, this is just a lot of repetition of speculation from other bloggers, interspersed with quotes from their speculation, with a tiny sprinkling of your own thoughts.Did you see the update?The chronology of the comments ...

Tags: layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...

Tags: oil, Bakken

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Collaborating on Cost Savings: A Scalable Software Whitepaper

It should surely therefore come as no surprise to anyone that IT executives are unlikely to own up to years of unnecessary expenditure, indeed it is more likely that they deny it and thus perpetuate it, if they feel to confess now would put them at the front of the...

Tags: Firing, Information Technology, Cost Savings, Scalable Software, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-11-11

Microsoft whittles away at Oslo; now plans to fold it into SQL Server

Let's wait for PDC09 firstOk, it's a fact that the Oslo umbrella has little left of the glory it once had. On the other hand, the original plan would never have yielded a stable, full-featured product or a set of products in v1. If the new direction results in shipping...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Servers, OK IT, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Microsoft pours more cold water on Yahoo-merger speculation

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Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samples

RE: Windows 7's default UAC bypassed by 8 out of 10 malware samplesyawnWho can I trust *now*....Even Ed Bott said '7' was more secure!The Windows Infect Season is not over yet.. Nothing's changed.... That people even USE Windows these days is quite remarkable.... It must be the power of habit...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, malware, UAC, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

What's the key to Apple's success?

One word: QUALITYA concept absent from WindowslandTDSo sad to see how Apple destroyed the word "innovation"Apple has never, ever, done anything innovative. By applying the term to blatant rebadging of 5 year old technology, you devalue the meaning of the word and insult those who actually [b]do[/b] innovate. For shame.Oh,...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!

Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Copenhagen countdown

Will he or won't he? To go, or not to go? That is the question. Some MSM outlets say Obama will skip Copenhagen. Yet political leaders in the U.S. and abroad are urging him to attend. The international climate change...

Tags: Copenhagen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-25

SAP and Siemens: kiss and make up?

Where are the facts?Dennis, What a nice piece of speculation. So you and Vinnie don't really know anything about what has been going on between Siemens and SAP, but you dare to publish your best guess. And you say you defend the buyer here. Well, If I were a buyer...

Tags: SAP AG, Siemens AG

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards

No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...

Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-16