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- MN senator proposes model schools to get tech grants
- In order to correct the technological inequities in Minnesota classroom, state Sen. Terri Bonoff, hopes to use model school districts to gain matching grants from businesses for technology programs, reports reports the Star Tribune. At a recent meeting of the Senate Education Committee, Sen. Bonoff and business leaders discussed...
- Tags: Education Technology, Funding, K-12, Terri Bonoff
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
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- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging markets
- Gartner: $100 laptop still too expensive for the emerging marketsIt is a process to hit price points that will work everywhere. OLPC hasat least hit price points that mean probably hundreds of millions more will now be able to afford computers. True, there are billions in need, but, prices will...
- Tags: Financial services, Marketing research, emerging market, $100 laptop, laptop computer, Gartner Inc., phone, computer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Miss Teri Tale (exe)
- In Miss Teri Tale, someone has kidnapped poor little Jason, a prize winning show dog, and it's up to you to find the culprit in this great Hidden Object game. Jason`s owner is devastated, the police are perplexed and it seems everyone has ample reason to have kidnapped the dog....
- Tags: Big Fish Games, Games, Desktops, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-03-04
- Sun's OpenSolaris community problem
- Earlier this week I got a little jokey about Sun's open source efforts. Turns out they have a serious problem. They have moved to licenses at the bottom of the open source incline, but their corporate attitude puts them at the top of the open source development incline....
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Action, Fielding, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Transition time at ZDNet
- Transition time at ZDNetCongrats to you bothGreat work guys. Congrats and good luck.NateBricaBoxRE: Transition time at ZDNetCongrats Dan and Larry! - go kick some butt!Good luck Dan and LarryI'm sure ZDNet will continue in line and CNET will just get better.Congrats Dan!Looking forward to seeing your skills put to use...
- Tags: Dan, Good Luck
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2
- First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 2My Backup BrowserLike its predecessors, Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 continues to work with my financial site and Cox TV listings. No version of Safari has ever been able to do this. Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 also passes the acid test, http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/. ...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Firefox 3 Beta 2, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.0 Beta 2, Firefox 3.0, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Remembering five years of vulnerability markets
- Guest Editorial by David EndlerWhile compiling some stats this week for our Zero Day Initiative two year anniversary, I came across this recent news article by the Associated Press, Researchers Seek Cash for Software Flaws. It's the latest in a long line of media coverage on the launch of...
- Tags: Botnets, Black Hat, Apple, Zero-day attacks, Wireless, Windows Vista, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Symantec, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Mozilla, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- 'Mac hack' also affects Windows
- On Monday I reported on a Safari vulnerability that was exposed at a security conference - as it turns out, the vulnerability also affects PCs running Windows as well. Hackers Dino Dai Zovi and Shane Macaulay were able to hijack a MacBook Pro as part of the "PWN to OWN"...
- Tags: Security, Hack
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Terri Gross savages Jimmy Wales
- Terri Gross savages Jimmy WalesEasyThere are lots of examples of how "free culture" is not only working, but thriving...Let me also clarify one thing. When I talk about "free culture" I am talking about content licensed under a Creative Commons license, an Artistic License, the GFDL like Wikipedia, and BSD...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- Terri Gross savages Jimmy Wales
- Did anyone listen to Terry Gross interview with Jimmy "Free Culture" Wales last week on NPRs Fresh Air? Was it just my wishful thinking, or was the normally all-too-tolerant Terry really really appalled by Jimmy and his Wikipedia menagerie of idiot editors and idiotic information? Its definitely worth...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Census Bureau posted personal info of 63,000 people
- This may come as surprise to no one but the Census Bureau inadvertently posted on a public Web site the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received financial aid, census officials reports the Washington Post. Although the Social Security numbers were removed from the site, there are still...
- Tags: Security, Privacy, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Vista launch: The day after
- When I was shopping for a new laptop back in September 2006, I wanted to make sure I got one that would be able to run Windows Vista. I called a couple of retailers to double check whether the models in which I was interested could handle Vista. The...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, retail company
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- Tagged: Five things about me
- Whether you love or hate the "meme," the "Five Things" one is still circulating. And once youve been tagged, it seems rude not to respond. So here goes: Five Things You May Not Know About Me 1. Ive been writing about technology since 1983. My very first...
- Tags: Windows XP, Vista, Housekeeping, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Ten companies where SOA made a difference in 2006
- The year 2006 was a busy one for SOA proponents; many service-oriented architectures moved from the pilot stages to live deployments. Many companies have been able to demonstrate value from their SOA efforts; here are some outstanding examples I reported on in this blogsite throughout the year. Abstracting enterprise information...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-12-17
- SOA Web Services: Failures on the Horizon
- In a post entitled "The Law of Unintended Consequences," Geva Perry references an article from InformationWeek describing project failures in the realm of service-oriented architecture SOA and Web services.Geva puts it really well:In a recent InformationWeek survey, 24% of respondents from large corporations said their SOA projects "fell short of...
- Tags: Project failures
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Is Vista ready? Microsoft testers weigh in
- Microsoft officials obviously believe Windows Vista is ready, given that it is set to release it to manufacturing within weeks, if not days. But what do some of its toughest testers think? With millions kicking Windows Vista’s tires, just about anyone and everyone is a Vista tester these days. But...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second Life
- Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second LifeI've been considering itI teach online courses and have considered running a chat session in second life. But the problem has always been with any chat session setting a time when everyone can get together. They take...
- Tags: law class, Harvard, Second Life
- Discussion threads 2006-10-09
- Crocodile hunter's death clogs Web sites
- Crocodile hunter's death clogs Web sitesOff to hunt the big croc in the skies.RIP Steve Irwin.P.S. A Sting Ray? That barely classifies as a vertebrate.He died doing what he loved.Thank God for the life of the Crocodile Hunter. He was more than just a crazy adventurer, he help...
- Tags: Web, Web site, Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Stingray
- Discussion threads 2006-09-05
- Dept. of Ed. site reveals 21,000 borrowers info
- A software glitch caused a Dept. of Education website to expose personal information of 21,000 federal student loan recipients, the Boston Globe reports. Between Sunday night and Tuesday morning, users of the loan website were shown other borrowers' data when performing certain tasks. ...
- Tags: Web site
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- "Enterprise 2.0" as the example that proves the rule
- "Enterprise 2.0" as the example that proves the ruleEnterprises are shrinking..............and the employees in them have become more versatile, thanks to ICT-based systems available to them. Their ability to "multi-task" (that is, perform both work-related and personal activities at the same time) translates to their capacity to maintain multiple relationships,...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2006-08-21
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