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- Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace
- My colleagues at Kaspersky Lab see disclosure have intercepted two new worms squirming through MySpace and Facebook, using social engineering lures to plant malware on Windows systems. The worms propagate via the comments features on the two popular social networks, using video lures and fake Flash Player...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Kaspersky Lab, Network, Macromedia Flash Player, Social Engineering, Worm, MySpace, Victim Machine, Cyberthreats, Social Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
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- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...
- Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion"less than optimal or expected"The phrase I have heard for this is "opportunity for improvement." Glad to hear your machine got fixed.Dell serviceDell has no where near the skill level of the old DEC field service reps and probably never will.I have had 3rd parties from...
- Tags: Manufacturing, NEXT BEST, outsourced tech, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!
- Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!It was OKThe ID made me laugh. Not being a Seinfeld fan, I'll assume there were other jokes that I just didn't get.The Apple ads tell you as much about OSX as this did about Windows, but this ad...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
- Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
- Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security
- News items 2008-09-05
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...
- Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion
- Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Spanish Assistant Business 2 (zip)
- Program for writing business e-mails in Spanish. No knowledge of Spanish required. Not machine translation: accurate Spanish text is created while you write in English. If you are interested in learning business Spanish, Spanish Assistant Business 2 provides tools to help you learn Spanish while you work. Great translation tool...
- Tags: Tool, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld
- SeinfeldHow did this make it past focus groups?My theory is that they told the focus group subjects it was for a different company, and the subjects responded favorably. Therefore, we're all wrong and Microsoft is right.Wow, that's just brilliant!Windows' image is no longer tarnished. They are now being associated with...
- Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA
- Microsoft finally earns a passing grade barely for WGAReal LifeUnless you realy have a bootleg or keygened cd ke. pretty mush any XP sticker from any manufacturer can be "recycled" into any other PC. Just tell the right thing to the automated phone system: Did you change your motherboard: YES...And...
- Tags: deactivation option, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- 70% of DVR owners say they cannot live without DVR
- More than 70% of DVR owners say that they cannot live without their DVR, according to NDS. Asked to rank the relative importance of a variety of household appliances, DVR owners ranked the DVR as the third most indispensable item after the washing machine and the microwave oven. 89% of...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook
- My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbookTotally different machines.A netbook is a full laptop. Yes, the industry is trying to keep the impression that it is only for casual use, etc, but there is little only constrained by ram these netbooks can't do (well, with Linux). ...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating systems, laptop computer, keyboard, netbook, Linux, ASUS, Linux laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Red Hat acquires Qumranet
- I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Ten key differences between Linux and Windows
- Ten key differences between Linux and WindowsRe: Shouldn't this be titledNot everything; for example 1) hardware support - not all closed source OS has the same level of hardware support. 2) Command line vs no command line : Many closed source OS has fully functional command line support.3) Multilayered run...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Ten key differences between Linux and Windows
- Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License
- News items 2008-09-04
- Dell repair adventure, day 5
- Dell repair adventure, day 5No Backup!I find it hard to believe that a IT consultant, one that finds it necessary to attend conferences does not have a backup options in place. A) Is the writer a independent contractor? I guess that I need more information about the writers...
- Tags: Notebooks, Dell Computer Corp., laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Microsoft to slash price of Xbox 360
- Microsoft announced that it will cut the price of its Xbox 360 game console to $199, just in time for the holiday shopping season. SEATTLE--Microsoft said on Wednesday it plans to cut the U.S. prices of its Xbox 360 video game machine, lowering the price of its entry-level console...
- Tags: Console, Video, Microsoft Corp., Price, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Reuters, video consoles, video games, Xbox, Wii, Playstation 3. Microsoft
- News items 2008-09-04
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