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This is Bad, very very Bad

And the credit card associations know it is. While else whould you wait for the markets to close on a Friday to announce it? This is *not* another "oops, someone lost our back-up tapes" incident. This incident started when banks started to report an upswing in fraudulent transactions. The...

Tags: This is Bad, credit card, CardSystems Solutions Inc.

Blog posts 2005-06-18

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OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...

Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Training, IBM Corp., Symphony 1.2, Conversion Tool, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

The candidates on tech

Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....

Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

More confusion on vitamin D

Doctors are going to have to come up with some good explanations why God's way of giving us Vitamin D is bad and the chemist's way is better. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Vitamin, Louisville Courier-Press, Salt Lake Tribune, Parents, Doctors, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Patch Tuesday's make investors jittery

Disclosing software vulnerabilities can be bad for stock price, according to research carried out by security firm McAfee. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Stock Price, Stock, Microsoft Corp., Investor, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Patch Tuesday's make investors jittery

Disclosing software vulnerabilities can be bad for stock price, according to research carried out by security firm McAfee. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Software Vulnerability, Investor, Financial Accounting, Investment, Security, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, stock, microsoft, mcafee

Image galleries 2008-10-13

Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up

There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...

Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad

Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's new projections in his opening keynote at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs

Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUsWhat a nimble companydoes Wilee Coyote only realize there is no ground beneath him when he looks down. You can shout at the television all you want. He'll never hold up that little sign that says " Uh Oh!" until he...

Tags: Notebooks, MacBook PROS, NVIDIA GPU, Apple Inc., GPU, NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Apple agrees to repair MacBook Pros with bad NVIDIA GPUs

Months after Dell and other notebook manufacturers came clean, Apple has admitted some culpability for failing Nvidia GPUs. The GeForce 8600M GT has been failing recently in MacBook Pros and Apple has agrred t0 will pay for the repairs.Read more about it at setteb.it english translation. by...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, GPU, GeForce 8600M GT, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2.0 next week

Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2.0 next weekrelease is on 13th day of the month...unlucky day if you ask me.For M$ and the sucker who download it.I'll go with Linux, the safe bet!Go Microsoft!!!Whip Google / Apple / FOSS and their collective sorrow @$$.RE: Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2.0...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Silverlight 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Are there really too many Windows editions?

Are there really too many Windows editions?Are there really too many Windows editions?Nope!Still, from a consumer point of view, he wants one version, 20 bucks,enable any features you want. The multiple versions are ONLY for Microsoft's benefit in order to extract more money from YOU the eager customer.There is something...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureAccretionThe substantial number of miscellaneous applications appear to be unlinked. The IBM-linked approach is e-commerce, replacing another old and working system.Is what you're describing a slow-moving IBM takeover? You've included indications that IBM is gaining administrative authority.This approach is description by strobe...

Tags: IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

On the Linux laptop the bundle is all

On the Linux laptop the bundle is allI don´t like teenagersI don´t like teenagers or stories about teenagers. But I will say yours seems dumber than most.The bundle is all only if the package is badA properly packaged Linux system should make installing programs child's play. Though I own an...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, distro, Linux laptop, Linux, Xandros, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...

Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Why IT project post-mortems don't matter

Why IT project post-mortems don't matterGood Article, Bad TitleI agree with your position and your content and suggestions. The title, however, is not reflective of the subject-matter. The article is about improving the post-mortems process, yet I was expecting to see an opinion piece about how they are...

Tags: IT Project, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM

Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIMProof that investors should all be drownedThey do nothing but hold mankind back in their own self serving way.Competition is a basic factor for any free market, yet investors want it both ways.They should offer $11 a shareby Monday, it'll look like a...

Tags: M$FT, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee

News items 2008-10-10