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- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
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- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Android Market is Google's competitor to the Apple iPhone store
- I was sent a link to the Android Community site this morning that led to the Android Developers blog post on the upcoming Android Market that looks to rival the Apple iPhone store for Android-powered devices. They decided to call it a market rather than a store to try to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch
- With the launch of its long-hyped WiMax service XOHM scheduled to debut in September in Baltimore, on Thursday Sprint announced a set of location-based personalization features that will enhance the user experience of WiMax subscribers by allowing them to, for example, quickly look up restaurants, check traffic and weather, and...
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- Wireless networks mimicking biological systems
- The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learned from living organisms. These wireless sensors will be used for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes. As says the WINSOC scientific coordinator, 'Living systems are intrinsically robust against cells dying...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- First images of Google-powered HTC Dream
- It was rumored that the HTC G1 Dream would be the first Google powered phone on the market, and if everything pans out, those rumors will end up being true with a launch date sooner than later. Android Guys have the first mock-up drawings of the Dream, and it's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
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- Live Webcast: Closing the Deal: Online Presentations That Result in Higher Sales
- Closing deals is an art form. You've got to know your prospects, understand their concerns and speak their language. How do you accomplish this in order to make the sale? Join this interactive BNET webcast with live Q&A moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speakers, Tom...
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- Live Webcast: Enterprise Search Architectures of the Future
- Businesses today increasingly recognize the benefits of universal search, the ability to search all corporate content sources from a single secure search box. Many enterprises have heavily invested in developing content management systems and their associated processes. These systems and portals hold valuable information; however, lack of quality search...
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- How do we address the have-nots?
- I attended a leadership summit on Monday (it was actually pretty good stuff, with concrete plans, goals, and generally more than you get out of your average bit of professional development) and, not surprisingly, a serious focus was on technology. I think people are finally realizing that, while technology...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising
- Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flawDoes it affect Windows98?Does this affect Windows98? I'm running a 3.1 MySQL server in my DMZ on Windows98 and I hope it won't be affected by this. My Gram-mummy uses an SSH tunnel through the TOR Onion router network to get to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- It must be a rough day in Cupertino
- They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light. The widespread problems with...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Some brands should allow themselves to be 'jacked'
- Some brands should allow themselves to be 'jacked'Allowing your brand to be jackedI think the primary concern for an organization would be that of control. It's a win-win as long as things are going well, of course, but what happens when the unpaid maintainer decides to go completely rogue?...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download
- IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloadRE: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for downloadIt's been a pleasure to work with the IE team to deliver some of the first Visual Search services out there. They're a cool team - and deserve some kudos. We're all looking forward to some user...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- The Gammima Strain
- Photo: NASA Is the International Space Station just another bot in a botnet? Are criminal hackers tapping away in some dark warehouse now in control of critical command-and-control systems on board? No, that would make a good Michael Crichton novel, though. It seems some...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?
- Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?And this is why Mozilla is so important. MS wants to keep the standard webdumbed down, so you have to use MS only technologies for anything fancy. Mozilla will not let that happen!!But, the monetization issues are going to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?
- Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. I watched the Mozilla Ubiquity video last night and it struck a chord. The crew over at Mozilla Labs is doing some very cool, forward thinking stuff. In the process, I think they're evolving what the browser is into...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Can you trust kids with a Kindle?
- As more and more reports point to Amazon's attempts to enter the $5.5 billion US market for textbooks with their Kindle e-reader, one has to ask, can you trust kids with these things? I know Amazon's efforts are really focused on college students, but I'm looking at...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
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