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Standards and pragmatism in web browsers: Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...; Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-20

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News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards: The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The newspaper's last stand: Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...; Tags: Newspaper, CBS Broadcasting Inc., London Underground, Consumption Habit, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-15

Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released: Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...; Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Photos: Where the building is the network: The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...; Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-14
Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?: Watching Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates go through the paces during his last Microsoft CEO Summit keynote on May 14, I couldn't help but ponder again why Microsoft thinks it needs to be both a business and a consumer software vendor. From May 13 to 15, Microsoft officials...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tech Innovation, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-14
iBizCard (exe): iBizCard is an easy-to-use Business card design software which supports production of various kinds of Business card, Staff card, Membership card and Interactive CD business card. With its built-in templates of different categories and detailed video tutorials and explanations, you can design your unique business card in an instant. There...; Software downloads 2008-05-14
TuneAid (exe): TuneAid is an iPod content recovery tool. It will let you import your iPod's content back into iTunes in no effort. TuneAid will salvage your music. Recovering music that you've purchased is completely legal, using TuneAid is no law infringement. iPhone and iPod Touch compatible even without hard disk mode....; Tags: Apple iPod, Apple iTunes, Music, DigiDNA, TuneAid, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics; Software downloads 2008-05-14
No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?: InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-13
UK education agency nixes OOXML: Office Open XML â€“ the open standard with a trademark in its name â€“ might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...; Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect: Established North American Semantic Web company TopQuadrant today announced that Jeremy Carroll is joining the company as Chief Product Architect. Whilst at HP Labs, Carroll was lead architect on the open source Jena toolkit that lies behind much of today's commercial and non-commercial work on the Semantic...; Tags: Toolkit, TopQuadrant, Semantic Web, Software Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Greetings from Lesotho: It's amazing how dependent we become on technology.Â Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted.Â When they are gone, however, you feel oddly disconnected.Â You can't pop online to check news.Â You can't check email.Â Without a working mobile phone, you...; Tags: Phone, Mobile, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean, Telecom & Utilities, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Microsoft's health vision is highly proprietary: As more details emerge about Microsoft's health strategy, such as its Common User Interface, one thing that becomes clear is that its vision is highly proprietary. While the result is highly attractive, dependence on technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation guarantees the benefits will...; Tags: Vision, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Design Guidance, Quality, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Who will set price and quality standards?: Did you know Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has a blog? It's a pretty good blog, in that it's evident he writes it himself, and in it deals with issues on a personal basis. For instance, he did a series of posts on a recent...; Tags: Mike Leavitt, Health Care, Standards, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-13
The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers: The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...; Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-05-13
ReactOS no threat to Windows: ReactOS no threat to WindowsBugs[i]Which brings up a final point. Bugs. Is React going to copy Windows’ bugs?[/i]They have to, for compatibility reasons. If they don't they're dead in the water.Of course if they do, they're shark bait. They can't get away with the same bugs Microsoft does,...; Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT, ReactOS, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Could "not so high end" gaming systems tarnish Alienware's reputation?: Just as it seems that Dell is exiting the high-end gaming PC market by ditching the XPS line, Alienware announced its entry into the "not so high end" gaming market. Is this a good move for Alienware or could it dilute a brand considered to represent extreme gaming? ...; Tags: Alienware, Games, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7: Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7It is standard MS modus operandiAnd it isn't working anymore. 2010?!? Who's going to wait that long? By 2010, there won't be any Windows Mobile devices anymore. It will be all Blackberry and iPhone.phone-pc communication--a step backwardsI admit that windows synchronization between phone (or...; Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, RE:It, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, PC-phone connectivity, PC-phone, phone, PC, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-13