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- Does IT really need to fear multicore?
- While multicore chips hold great promise for applications and computing power they could wreak havoc on technology departments. That's the message from Gartner analyst Carl Claunch, who argued Thursday that IT types should fear--yes fear--multicore technology. Multicore chips carry multiple brains on them and companies like Intel...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring
- The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
- A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.) offering comprehensive education to school children that, among other things, would have taught them to identify and...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Fake Microsoft Patch Tuesday malware campaign spreading
- Malicious attackers are once again taking advantage of event-based social engineering attacks, and are currently mass mailing fake notifications for Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, attaching a copy of Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, next to a legitimately looking PGP signature which is, of course, fake too : "We received some questions from customers about...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Jobs: “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€�
- Jobs: “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurtâ€�I get the feeling that Apple is worried thatif they placed a Blu-Ray disc into the unit that it would cut down on rentals thru iTunes.In that case it would appear that Blu-Ray has little need of Apple.Care to back that up?[i]I get...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?Your Mac Lust borders on Creepy....Geez... that article is just a little bit scary. The kid on the eTrade commercials is in my head..."I seriously underestimated the creepiness factor"... he says this about a clown and I am applying it...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Apple's new MacBook line: Affordable enough?
- Apple on Tuesday moved to address a weakened consumer and its statement on a its refreshed MacBook lineup is telling. Since when does a premium brand like Apple worry about price and making its notebooks "far more affordable?" The company's latest MacBook lineup (live blog, Techmeme and...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Poll: Best personal finance software?
- A little while ago, before the massive recession threw everyone into the depths of their portfolios, I thought it would be prudent to graduate tracking my expenses from pen and paper to software. My parents have dabbled with Quicken, and I wasn't really impressed with Microsoft Money....
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Bush signs online child protection bills
- In addition to the Pro-IP Act, President Bush signed two other Internet-related bills, these related to kiddie porn and child predators. The Protect Our Children Act requires Internet companies to report child pornography and forks over $320 million to the Justice Dept. to fight Internet...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Starcraft II splits into trilogy
- At Blizzcon 2008, Blizzard revealed that rather than a single real-time strategy game, Starcraft II will now be released as a trilogy. ANAHEIM, California--For many, this morning's keynote address from Blizzard president Mike Morhaime at Blizzcon 2008 was a bit anticlimactic. After revealing Starcraft II, World of Warcraft: Wrath...
- News items 2008-10-14
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsAnother Fishing Expedition ....... funded by the taxpayer and brought about by partisan politics. I suspect the rumors and the interest will subside shortly after the election.RE: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsIf there was anything criminal in those messages, the Dems...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare next
- Gartner: The Net killed media; Financial services, healthcare nextSooo?This means we can find affordable health care? Doctors who will actually take the time to examine us? Doctors who actually know what is wrong with us? Rather than those who simply listen to our symptoms and hand us a bunch of...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough
- There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand. OO.org 3.0 really is a serious upgrade over version 2.4 and makes NeoOffice irrelevant for Mac OS X users (previously, OpenOffice only worked within X11; While NeoOffice did a great job porting OO.org...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Facebook as social rule of thumb?
- Facebook as social rule of thumb?From a different perspective...In some respects, I think Facebook also lends itself towards those who were never woefully successful at being social in the real world, but could feel like they were in the virtual one. More real than IM with people you'll never meet,...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Opera 10 will be 'prettier'
- Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier. The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company. ...
- News items 2008-10-13
- Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13
- Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13who MS Office thenWe are switching to Open Office with this new version. No more dollars for MS Office when OO is free.RE: Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13I still...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- T-Mobile BlackBerry Flip 8220 now available
- The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 aka Kickstart was announced a short while ago and today I received the press release announcing that T-Mobile customers can now pick up the T-Mobile BlackBerry Pearl Flip in black color for US$149.99 after US$150 instant discount and US$50 mail-in rebate (full price is US$349.99)....
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- BlackBerry Bold sales halted in UK
- Orange has stopped selling RIM's first HSDPA handset while it works with the manufacturer on a software fix for unspecified 3G-related concerns. Orange has temporarily stopped selling the BlackBerry Bold while it tries to figure out a solution to unspecified 3G-related problems on the handset. ...
- News items 2008-10-13
- Sun's latest server packs a punch in performance while using less power
- Sun Microsystems, along with Fujitsu, is introducing a compelling new energy-efficient server platform that is intended to address heavy-duty tasks such as server virtualization, consolidation or even something like Web 2.0 database transactions. The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server line runs on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus architecture with...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13










