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Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-Privacy

Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-PrivacyUntil???"until and unless a mobile phone service provider ... starts collecting data from its GPS-enabled phones and fails to tell its customers that it is collecting information on their whereabouts without their knowledge"Law enforcement is already getting this data for many people just...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Geo-Privacy, phone, Tempest, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

Tempest (widget)

Tempest is an analog clock. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Analog, Tempest

Software downloads 2007-08-01

Scalable Multicast Platforms for a New Generation of Robust Distributed Applications

As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of application-level critical-computing uses. Ricochet, Tempest and QuickSilver are multicast-based systems developed to respond to this need. Ricochet and QuickSilver are multicast platforms; both are exceptionally...

Tags: Ricochet, Tempest, Data Centers, Storage, Development Tools, Hardware, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-08-20

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Mozilla: We goofed on the EULA, let's talk

The Mozilla Foundation is making changes to its EULA display for Linux distros. After a bunch of complaints on Monday, Mozilla Foundation chairperson Mitchell Baker has indicated that the project will be making some changes both in the license and reconsidering the way the EULA is displayed. ...

Tags: EULA, Mozilla Corp., Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Apple releases iPhone 2.0.2, as usual, sans changelog

Apple releases iPhone 2.0.2, as usual, sans changelogJust do it!Come on, you bought the iPhone because Brother Steve knows what's cool. And what's good for you. He wants you to update your phone, so just do it! You'll thank him later.The morgue called.They said they found the...

Tags: Apple Inc., boycott, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-Privacy

The next great privacy tempest seems like a yawner: What will happen with the data gathered by social networking or personal information services that track where you and your friends are? Like with TV, if you don't like what you're gonna get, don't get into it. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Service, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacleI think he deserved better for sureYou know, Dan does manipulate the media well, but I'll tell you this, he's a stand-up guy. Did he try to drum up the press a bit? Sure, why not? Did he choose his...

Tags: Domain names, Advertising & Promotion, Dan, DNS

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

GPL divide still lives, one year on

GPL divide still lives, one year onThe Freeware Ghetto"If the GPL just becomes a freeware license while “commercial” versions of the same programs are offered under commercial licenses, does the GPL risk becoming a freeware ghetto?"Amen - I was so pleased to see this question posed - as it seems...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Tools & Techniques, GPL, freeware, F/OSS

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues

Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issuesLet's find out.I'd like to know just what the similarities or lack there of will be in security issues when Linux replaces Windows as the OS of the people.Apple's dealing with this right nowTime to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Word, Linux, Microsoft Corp., flaw, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Is it too late for open source Java?

Is it too late for open source Java?There is no Java in AJAXJavascript in AJAX is not Java at all. It is just an unfortunate naming coincidence.This discussion is a "Tempest in a tea pot"Most companies want vendor support and neither Ruby or Python are first class citizens in the...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Java, programming language, programming, Ruby, open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

MAME (exe)

MAME, short for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator, lets you relive the golden age of the video arcade right on your PC. Instead of playing copies or clones of arcade games, MAME lets you play the actual arcade game. A variety of games is available for demo evaluation downloads, including Crystal...

Tags: Video, MAME32, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-03-26

Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstation

Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstationIndeed but not at $3000You built a server not a wrkstation, and a stripped down server at that, without disk or memory, and without a decent workstation class garphic card.If you want to build a dual xeon with 1600 FSB today, and still...

Tags: Workstations, MAC Pro, RAM, Apple Inc., workstation, memory

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

Why the '8 things' tag meme is important

Now and again, someone will dream up a tag meme game. The idea is the writer says x-number of things and tags y-number of others to follow suit. Right now the 8 things you didn't know about me tag meme is doing the rounds and yes, I've been tagged on...

Tags: Workplace, Oracle Corp., Idea, Blog, Workforce, OraNA, Cyberthreats, Blogging, Spam, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Security, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-11

Build a Mac Pro equivalent workstation for 1/3 the cost

Conventional wisdom tells us that a digital content creation and CAD professional had to fork out $6000 to $10,000 dollars for a high-end 8-core dual-processor workstation, but this is Real World IT where I say screw conventional wisdom.  I've put on my mad scientist hat again and brewed something up...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Macintosh, Memory, Wisdom, Dual Processor, Intel Corp., Mac Pro, FBDIMM, Series Motherboard, Chipsets, Serial ATA, Workstations, Mice, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Storage, Peripherals, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-01-03

A comparison of quad-core server CPUs

A comparison of quad-core server CPUsRE: A comparison of quad-core server CPUsI am a firm supporter of competition an so I cannot wait for AMD to sort out their quad CPU problems.Very timely post!George, hats off to you as usual. There has been a lot of talk on the DV...

Tags: Processors, SuperMicro, Tom, quad-core, quad-core server, CPU, AMD Phenom

Discussion threads 2008-01-02

Podcast: ODF, giant global graphs, Cubic Telecom and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the curious case of the OpenDocument Format and the role of the OpenDocument Foundation. David takes a deep dive into the controversy that rose out of the OpenDocument Foundation proposing an alternative to the OpenDocument Format. It turns out...

Tags: Podcast, OpenDocument Format, David, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Podcasts, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

E-books galore...for free!

A growing library of e-books is providing new resources for students and teachers. While your local public library is still a great choice for an actual book (you remember them, don't you? A cover on each side with lots of pieces of paper in between?), the lure of...

Tags: E-book, Teacher, Mashable.com, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-11-13

S60 touch technology announced, watch out Apple

S60 touch technology announced, watch out Apple"Watch Out Apple"I don't think they need to worry too much. After all, the majority of times we see something like this it falls up short in some way.To Wit: Zune. The "iPod Killer"RE: S60 touch technology announced, watch out AppleMatt it...

Tags: Bluetooth Stereo, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows NT, Nokia Corp., S60, phone

Discussion threads 2007-10-16

Apple and AT&T sued

Apple and AT&T suedYou know what she's upset about don't you?Because of the price drop, people who are selling them second hand, like those on eBay, can't get back the money that they paid for them because of the price drop.Basically, she's suing them because it's now more difficult to...

Tags: eBay Inc., phone, price drop, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-02