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- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Wireless networks mimicking biological systems
- The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learned from living organisms. These wireless sensors will be used for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes. As says the WINSOC scientific coordinator, 'Living systems are intrinsically robust against cells dying...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Sensor, Wireless Network, Measurement Data, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download
- IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloadRE: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloadIt's been a pleasure to work with the IE team to deliver some of the first Visual Search services out there. They're a cool team - and deserve some kudos. We're all looking forward to some user...
- Tags: Web browsers, IE 8, IE 8 Beta 2, IE 8 Beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud failsMore to blameShame on the customers who selected this vendor. When evaluating vendors in the cloud, your RFP should identify exactly how these companies secure, backup, and process your data. I fear that poorly run IT shops like this one will...
- Tags: cloud computing, MediaMax, Linkup
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?
- Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. I watched the Mozilla Ubiquity video last night and it struck a chord. The crew over at Mozilla Labs is doing some very cool, forward thinking stuff. In the process, I think they're evolving what the browser is into...
- Tags: Ubiquity, Rich Internet Application, Mozilla Corp., Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The role of media in the Internet age
- Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...
- Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?
- Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?SSH?I thought that was for a secure shell (port 23 i believe) to transfer files vs unsecure FTP (port 21)... SSL (port 443) is whats used in browsers for secure websites...unless im mistaken.It matched it a long time agoThe Distrust extension does what this...
- Tags: Web browsers, SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, SECURITY, Mozilla team, privacy feature, IE privacy feature, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, SSH, SSL
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- A way to assign copyright globally
- A way to assign copyright globallySo would you sign an FLA?Not yet. I don't know what the safe guards are. Sometimes the change from that which is free to that which is out of freedom's reach is one of small unnoticed steps. The Open Source code base...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, developer, Fla
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Psystar countersues Apple for anticompetitive business practices
- Psystar countersues Apple for anticompetitive business practicesOh this is going to be goodApple is going to have a tough time wiggling out of this one and MS have a great opportunity, ad-wise, to strongly differentiate themselves, not that they had any difficulty with that in the first place, but keying...
- Tags: Printers, Psystar, Apple Inc., printer, Lexmark International Inc., hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Tapulous developer fired
- Mike Lee, founder of Tapulous and developer of Twinkle was fired recently after a disagreement with management. According to Daring Fireball he was forced out. Lee blogged his side of the story in an appropriately titled post. So it came to pass that when my Engineering...
- Tags: Developer, Team, Photograph, Team Management, Management, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front
- After months of denials of problems, refusals to acknowledge the existence of a much-needed service pack and hundreds of missed opportunities to set the record straight, the Windows client marketing team finally seems to be going on the offensive. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Windows Marketing Team, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit
- The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team CERT has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to gain access to a system, and then uses local kernel exploits to...
- Tags: Linux, SSH, Attack, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Sign language over cell phones in the U.S.
- Thanks to University of Washington UW computer scientists, hearing-impaired users might soon be able to use sign language over a mobile phone, like in Japan or Sweden. The research team received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to start a 20-person field project next year in Seattle. Of...
- Tags: Team, Professor, Phone, Cell Phone, Video, UW, MobileASL, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
- In a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, the world's most powerful particle accelerator passed its final test run before its full-fledged attempt on September 10. Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on September 10. ...
- Tags: CERN, Tunnel, Particle, Beam, LHC, Team Management, Leadership, Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator
- News items 2008-08-26
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Twitter's "me too" anti-spam strategy
- With Twitter's continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn't mind the fact that nobody is following them when they're actively updating several hundred users with their latest propositions. Last' week's Twitter announcement...
- Tags: Strategy, Anti-spam, Spammer, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
- In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and MoveWow, just wowSo, a party supposed to govern USA can be bought out by Microsoft to support a flash wannabe plugin.I am speechless. Will they make Windows only policy in Govt. agencies too? Perhaps they should use "OOXML" instead of PDF too?What???The liberals...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Office Open XML, Active-X, Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
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