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- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Software's drive to become like television
- Software business models are becoming more and more like that of television. That fact is the real driver behind Microsoft's desire to buy Yahoo, given the central importance software-oriented ad networks will have in the future. by John Carroll
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Microsoft Corp., TV, Tools & Techniques, Games, Management, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior
- TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is miffed. Microsoft crossed a line by ganging up on Yahoo with Carl Icahn. Arrington outlines his case, but the last sentence is what intrigued me: "I'm all for a merger. But I won't stand by quietly while Microsoft destroys what's left of...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Help Desk, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, It Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Web 3.0 - the future of social networking
- Note: re-posted after withdrawing post a few days ago; no changes made since then. I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over my life, the...
- Tags: 3D, Web, Facebook, Network, Web 3.0, Scene, Vivaty Scenes, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- News to know: Linux; iPhone; Gmail; Insecure antivirus software; SAP
- Notable headlines: Phil Wainewright: SaaS star leaves SAP for Salesforce.com Dennis Howlett: Ticking bombs in enterprise land Garett Rogers: Your Gmail is now a lot more secure Dancho Danchev: Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products ...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Linux, Google Gmail, SAP AG, Antivirus Software, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Your Gmail is now a lot more secure
- A feature that I found out was in the making last September has finally come to fruition. You can now see information about recent and concurrent Gmail sessions for your Gmail account. What does that mean? It means now you have the power to see if anybody...
- Tags: Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Top search engines in UK in May 2008
- Domain May-08 Apr.-08 May-07 Googl 87.30% 87.69% 78.28% Yahoo! 4.09% 4.01% 8.58% Microsoft 3.72% 3.65% 5.46% Ask 3.07% 2.89% 4.96% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Hitwise, Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Microsoft-Yahoo on again?
- Microsoft-Yahoo on again?This will go on, and on, for some time to come yet. And, we thought therewould be nothing to entertain us this month!!! But, MS has the money, and as FireFox numbers keep on creeping up, and Googles numbers still rising, MS is also getting even more desperate...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Microsoft-Yahoo on again?
- Carl Icahn and Steve Ballmer announced plans today for Microsoft to acquire some or all of Yahoo if the current board was ousted in an upcoming election on August 1st. While they didn't come out and say it was a done deal, it does appear that Microsoft is still interested...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenager
- Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenagerInteresting...I find this experiment very interesting. However, there are a couple observations here:1) This wouldn't really be a typical experience for a typical user. Ubuntu has to be installed and configured; would he have done this or been able to do this without...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA IS, GUI, Ubuntu, typical user, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirms
- Icahn: Ballmer would do a deal if Yahoo's board goes; Microsoft confirmsThe only way Icahn could "save" GM would be to buy up shares cheap, andthen sell them to Toyota for double the money.... matchnow which one is the Match and who is the striker They are both very incendiary...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Micro$oft, board, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Confirms, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board
- Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he has been chatting up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with other key executives about how the two...
- Tags: Transaction, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn, Steve, Search, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- News to know: Open Office; Google; Security metrics; IT jobs
- Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: What could Open Office do with a business model? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex. Gallery right Paul Murphy: Internet abuse and Cloud Computing An IT productivity horror story ...
- Tags: Job, Security, Google Inc., Power Management, Information Technology, Photograph, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- US search engines share in May 2008
- Domain May 2008 Apr 2008 May 2007 www.google.com 68.29% 67.90% 65.13% search.yahoo.com 19.95% 20.28% 20.89% search.msn.com 5.89% 6.26% 7.61% www.ask.com 4.23% 4.17% 3.92% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Hitwise, Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Internet abuse and Cloud Computing
- Internet abuse and Cloud ComputingAgreed - principle, not practiceI do think MacOS is better than Vista on almost all measures - and by that same standard that one side in the current U.S. elections has the right.As you say:---Oh and by the way I don't vote on ideological lines anymore...
- Tags: hypocrisy, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-05
- MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search
- The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. So far, Powerset has only demonstrated its technology against Wikipedia. It's a neat exhibit but it is...
- Tags: Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Search, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- 12 terabytes of YouTube data
- 12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Google Gmail, CAPTCHA, spammer, MSN Hotmail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
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