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- Tech Shakedown #4: Should Vista be able to force an unwanted reboot when it wants to?
- Like many departments within many companies, today was a day when our department go together and did some online slide slidesharing. We use Microsoft's NetMeeting but I don't use Internet Explorer and my one attempt at at getting the slides on my screen (there's a way to view...
- Tags: vista, video, technology shakedown, software infrastructure, personal technology, it management, general
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Firewall redux: Could a public, open software behavior registry squelch useless dialogs?
- In response to yesterday's Tech Shakedown of McAfee's personal firewall product for issuing a useless dialog -- one that asks me to allow or block some behavior but that doesn't give me any idea, clues, or hints as to which of those two options to pick -- one ZDNet reader...
- Tags: web technology, vista, technology shakedown, software infrastructure, security, personal technology, it management, general
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Technology Shakedown: Windows Vista's 'blocked program' warning
- A closer look at a Windows Vista nuisance.In ZDNet's Technology Shakedown, Executive Editor David Berlind uncovers a Windows Vista permission feature that he'd like to change. The feature warns users of a blocked program, but then it's difficult for users to identify which programs are being blocked.
- Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), technology shakedown, microsoft windows vista, microsoft windows
- Videos 2007-08-01
- Tech Shakedown #3: McAfee's 'Block/Allow this change' dialog is a useless warning
- As far as security solutions go, personal firewalls are probably the most problematic category for vendors to get right, let alone users to get working. Not only are there differing philosophies about what belongs in a personal firewall and what doesn't (eg: whereas many personal firewalls can and will...
- Tags: vista, technology shakedown, software infrastructure, security, personal technology, it management, general
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Proof that there are two types of computer users: Dumb and Dumber
- First, the good news. Our Technology Shakedown videos seem to be striking a nerve so expect more of them. The idea? We shouldn't have to accept mediocrity in our technology products. Period.Now, the bad news. Judging by the responses to these shakedowns (yesterday's in particular), there's a contingent of end-users...
- Tags: technology shakedown, software infrastructure, personal technology, it management, general
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Technology Shakedown
- Technology ShakedownWhaaaaaaaat? Another bunch of incompetants?That can't make anything work with Vista?When will they get their act together and bow to Microsoft? Can't they make anything according to Microsoft's specifications? And pay Microsoft for the privilege of fixing Vista's problems?Ole ManSame hereDavid, I've been having the same issue...
- Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows vista, technology shakedown
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Technology Shakedown #2: 'Blocked program' warning in Vista leads to a dead end
- It has been less than 24 hours since I published ZDNet's first Technology Shakedown (regarding McAfee's antivirus software running amok on Vista's tray) and I was already itching to do another. So this time, I picked on a small problem that's driving me nuts in Windows Vista that has to...
- Tags: video, technology shakedown, software infrastructure, security, general
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
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- Hello, Google, is anyone in there?
- We can converse and do business instantly with strangers on the opposite side of the planet, but when something goes wrong with one of the largest providers of Internet technology, we might as well live on the Moon. Yes, hey, Google, I'm talking about you. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: google inc., cloud computing, software as a service (saas), manufacturing, emerging technologies, phil wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- More worries for Beijing visitors
- If you are headed to or already at the Olympic Games and you weren't worried by my Tech Tips for Beijing Visitors at the end of last month, maybe you should be now, In telling the Wall Street Journal's readers "Don't Forget About China's Dissidents," Ellen Bork...
- Tags: olympic games, hard drive, analysis, government, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- UPDATE: MIT team working on $12 NES, not Apple II
- Looks like the Boston Herald got it wrong. The MIT group that was researching how to make a $12 computer for developing nations was actually working on a machine that's more Super Mario than Steve Jobs. Computerworld's Eric Lai discovers the truth: ...
- Tags: team, apple ii, massachusetts institute of technology, apple inc., productivity, wiki, team management, online communications, management, andrew nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- I went to Moscone Center and all I got was this stupid T-Shirt
- Where's the hot chicks? Yeah you heard it, Summer LinuxWorld Expo sucked. Again. No, I didn't go this year. In fact, I haven't gone in two years. So how can I say it sucked? Because everyone who I know...
- Tags: booth, trade show, webcast, linux, internet, rss, web site development, web technology, operating systems, software, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- VMware has 82% share of market of virtualized servers, Microsoft has 13%
- VMware is the clear market leader in providing virtualization technology with 82% of the sample using VMware. Despite high levels of Linux use, only 3% of the sample were using Xen as their virtualization platform. Microsoft was used by 13% of the sample base with various Unix technologies and mainframe...
- Tags: server, vmware inc., microsoft corp., virtualization, cloud computing, storage management, utility computing, hardware, storage, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- CIOs: We love video conferencing and online training; Enterprise 2.0 on the ropes
- Chief information officers have the hots for online training, video conferencing and collaboration software such as Microsoft's SharePoint. Just don't ask these execs to blog, use a wiki or enter a virtual world. That's the recap from a survey of 1,400 CIOs by staffing firm Robert Half...
- Tags: cio, online training, enterprise 2.0, wiki, online communications, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- News to know: Mozilla; Windows Server; LinuxWorld; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder Mary Jo Foley: What's next for Windows Server Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008 TechRepublic: 10 questions and answers about Microsoft Live Mesh Dancho Danchev: Today's...
- Tags: google inc., larry dignan, microsoft windows server, server, apple inc., mozilla corp., linux, phishing, smart phones, service-oriented architecture (soa), cyberthreats, microsoft windows, operating systems, unix, open source, software, security, spam and phishing, consumer electronics, personal technology, web services, enterprise software
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it already
- The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it alreadyTalk about Polution!!There's is no form of transportation MORE polluting than an electric car. Why people are so thrilled with them....They use power which is produce primarily by COAL!!!The coal-fired electricity has to be transmitted which costs...
- Tags: car, electric car
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Mozilla taps crowd for concepts: Will the browser usurp the OS?
- Mozilla taps crowd for concepts: Will the browser usurp the OS?1997 called. It wants its article backAs a reader of News.com and ZDNet for years and years, I had to laugh when I saw the headline for this one. Sounds familiar, except it would have been about Netscape.Next maybe you...
- Tags: operating systems, web browsers, desktops, operating system, web browser, desktop, mozilla corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- The social media corporate identity crisis
- The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...
- Tags: brand, social media, twitter, joel postman, popeyes chicken, q., branding, social networking, marketing, online communications, advertising & promotion, jennifer leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Logitech diNovo Edge Mac keyboard
- Keyboards are keyboards, right? Not exactly... I've taken Apple to task before about their new thin-profile aluminum keyboards, but like anything, you get used to them eventually. If you're looking for something completely different in the keyboard department, check out the Logitech ...
- Tags: apple macintosh, logitech, keyboards, hardware, peripherals, jason d. o\'grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Northern lights: Count Anchorage among one of the latest LED cities
- The city of Anchorage in Alaska, notoriously gloomy in the winter months, will spend approximately $2.2 million to retrofit 16,000 municipal roadway lights (about one-quarter of all streetlights) with LED fixtures. The deal is one of the latest projects to emerge from the LED City program,...
- Tags: light-emitting diode, engineering, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- CLEAR has a "Senior Moment"
- AP Newswire is reporting this morning that CLEAR has found a laptop also see CLEAR Press Release that had gone missing for over a week from one of its kiosk locations that contained the "personal data" of over 30,000 enrolled members at San Francisco International Airport,...
- Tags: clear, enrollment, laptop computer, ap newswire, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
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