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- Where should Mozilla go from here?
- Consolidation and security, Now!Firefox has emerged as the most buggy browser robustness and security. It has more vulnerabilities discovered than any other browser, month after month. Each new release sees new stability and robustness problems.And Firefox still does not have support for sandboxing.Repeatedly they have to patch patches because their...
- Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Web browser, security
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting
- Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...
- Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technology
- Apple is the target of a lawsuit by Tsera LLC, a technology firm based in Texas, claiming it infringed on its patent for a touchpad interface. Briefs filed in Federal District Court in Texas claim that Tsera owns “all right, title and interest in†a patent filed...
- Tags: Patent, Apple Inc., Trackpads, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Analyst: Google will start walking away from bad AdSense deals like MySpace
- Are the days of silly AdSense deals with the likes of MySpace and AOL over for Google? Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. The analyst upped his price target to $600 for Google shares on the theory that the economy is rebounding and the search giant's revenue per...
- Tags: Paid Search, Google Inc., America Online Inc., Google AdSense, MySpace, Lindsay, Search, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Three reasons companies fear social media ??? and why they shouldn???t
- Three reasons companies fear social media ??? and why they shouldn???tEnterprise toolsSecurity and efficiency are the most important elements to a corporations. They worry that information will leak, and they worry that their employees will not utilize the tools correctly and professionally, which would lead to a drop in efficiency...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, social media, Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc., social networking, Facebook, customer service, tool, network
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target
- Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...
- Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Bribery arrests in Kundra's DC office
- Reuters reports that the FBI raided the former office of Vivek Kundra, just appointed to be the nation's CIO, and arrested two people in a corruption probe on Thursday, but Kundra is not a target of the investigation. Yusuf Acar, apparently the chief security officer for the CTO's office,...
- Tags: Bribery, Government, Federal Government, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- WSJ downgraded; Are layoffs next?
- Is it wrong to keep believing in newspapers? Apparently Wall Street thinks so. And this time, the target is planted straight on the back of News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and his Wall Street Journal. Peter Kafka reports on his Media Memo blog, which is...
- Tags: Layoff, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords
- When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?
- Updated: Google will launch a Web browser called Chrome that will take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and apparently Mozilla's Firefox, which the search giant essentially funds. In an odd leak, Google sent Google Blogoscoped a comic book outlining the technology in its Chrome browser. The leak was...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Philipp Lenssen, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- How good is open source support?
- How good is open source support?This why I do not want open source.I can never get help when I need it, and those that try to help have a very snobbish attitude, and like to say you are not learning because you do not want to learn.Well I can only...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- EMC connects the Iomega-Mozy storage dots
- EMC is connecting two of its more recent acquisitions--Iomega and Berkeley Data Systems' Mozy online backup storage--to target small businesses and consumers. On Wednesday, EMC will roll out a storage bundle that includes Iomega's external hard drives with a software bundle that combines the Mozy online backup...
- Tags: Iomega Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target's search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Tech heavyweights launch security response consortium
- Interesting bit of news coming out of the FIRST Conference in Vancouver today:Â Five big-name IT firms have created a non-profit consortium aimed at "proactively driving excellence and innovation in security response." The group -- called ICASI Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet --...
- Tags: Security Threat, Information Technology, Consortium, ICASI, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Friday Rant - Why no MSI installer for Firefox?
- Friday Rant - Why no MSI installer for Firefox?Do IT departments want Firefox?Firefox is all well and good and what I am using right now. But.... A lot of corporate software demands the use of IE--probably a version or two old at that. Cognos comes to mind...
- Tags: Web browsers, MSI, Mozilla Firefox, installer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Yahoo: Does Jerry have to go?
- Yahoo got its wish. Microsoft is no longer a possibility as a purchaser. The company improves short-term results by partnering on search with Google. Carl Icahn may give up on his proxy war. And the company lives to fight another day--or at least until Aug. 1 when shareholders unleash their...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Apple's biggest threat: High expectations
- Apple has notched another milestone in its iPhone international expansion by inking a deal with Softbank Mobile to bring the device to Japan "later this year." In a statement Softbank Mobile said: SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., 3G iPhone, Com, Pacific Crest Andy Hargreaves, 3G, Cellular Phones, Apple Mac OS X, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Panda Security delivers cloud-based security management service for SMBs
- IT security provider Panda Security has unveiled its Managed Office Protection solution, a security-as-a-service offering aimed at small and medium businesses SMBs as well as large companies with a significant number of geographically dispersed offices. The service from the Panda keeps the total cost of ownership TCO...
- Tags: Administrator, PC, Security Management, Small And Medium Business, Panda Security, Managed Office Protection, Protection Product, Updates, Smb/Sme, Security, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today
- Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine. The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself. To be fair to...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
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