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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Lokad Call Center Calculator (msi)
- Don't waste time or money on your call center schedules. Too much staff and expenses get out of control. To few staff and your customers get mad because of the long waiting queues. Start optimizing staff levels. Import data from call center applications or from Excel. Easy 1-click staff optimization...
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policy
- FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policyThis is a surprise???Is anyone surprised that the government holds itself to a lower standard than anyone it regulates? Congress routinely exempts itself from laws that everyone else has to follow. Can you imagine the airlines being allowed to use such a policy on aircraft?...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Google Chrome: The enterprise playbook
- Google Chrome: The enterprise playbookR&DThey are essentially a R&D company. So it just makes since they will put out loads of products and see what consumers bite on. I don't think it is a shotgun approach, just a product of their structure.Will Live Search work with Chrome?That should...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- GoBootstrap: simplifying SME accounting
- I'm keen to see startups in the accounting for small business space. Part of that is because I spent more years than I care to remember in finance roles, part is in the belief that accounting systems that reflect a 600 year old methodology are well...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those...
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureDefinitionsI don't know if there is any official definition for "application appliance" out there, but you are using it differently than I would.You are using it to mean "a machine that runs applications whose internal operation is a black box," or something along those...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity
- Finally, a fight over remote controls that rely on hand motion, more than buttons. Oh, Nintendo's Wii has about a half-dozen buttons, plus a four-cornered "plus sign" for directional instructions. Well, Hillcrest Labs of Rockville, MD, can top (actually, undercut) that. It markets...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Can sites violate net neutrality?
- Can sites violate net neutrality?I would say .."not exactly"This isnt the same case of outright blocking as we all know and have come to love Comcast for doing...however this is adding a perceived "added-value" to an overpriced pipe. IF the ISP decided to tier this and add in a method...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Intel proactively fixes security flaws in its chips
- Despite the skepticism surrounding Kris Kaspersky's upcoming "Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs" presentation to be held at this year's Hack in the Box con, it appears that he's been on the right track, as Intel has proactively taken care of the problem by fixing two of the critical...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Top Russian Internet advertisers: Ford, MTS, Megafon, GM, Vympelkom
- Mindshare Interaction published a list of top advertisers in Internet sector in Russia Federation, compiling the data for the first half of 2008. Ford Motor Co led the way with $4.6 mln spending, followed by Russian mobile operators MTS and Megafon, then by US automaker General Motors, another mobile operator...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Cable: Natural born monopoly?
- The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T. In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Second guessing at 3AM
- Second guessing at 3AMIt's 3 AM...A crisis is happening somewhere in the world. It's 3 AM, and a phone is ringing at the White House. Who do you want answering that phone?...Couldn't resist. :)hey murph here a conceptDeep down inside what your guts telling you.This morning when you...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Hardware-based iPhone 3G unlock coming 20 Aug
- According to a post at iPhone Atlas a company called USB Fever is preparing to offer a hardware-based iPhone 3G unlocking device. The company is taking pre-orders for a US$35 SIM unlock that consists of a micro-controller mounted to a 0.10mm thin piece of FPC that fits...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Mobile TV - not dead, just not ready for primetime
- Just because some technologies are just ahead of their time doesn't mean they're dead. Sure, companies behind them may fall but the technologies themselves sometimes are just waiting for the moment when consumer or businesses are ready to act or the computing power has finally caught up. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Setting the Stage for IP Multimedia Services
- This whitepaper explains how operators can deliver new IP multimedia and converged services incrementally, so they can increase revenue now and grow toward a complete IP Multimedia Subsystem over time.
- White papers 2008-08-01
- HiCalc Winner Calculator (zip)
- Uncomplicate those math formulas and make your device do all the work! HiCALC now includes 16 modules including arithmetic, trigonometry, matrices, constants, finance, statistics, biorhythm, tip, currency converter, unit converter, base conversion, graphs, date-time, equation solver and user's macro. eclining balance methodDB
- Software downloads 2008-08-01
- Uzoom Live Chat (exe)
- Uzoom offers many state of the art features that include: Visitor tracking console: Live tracking console to view customers on your website. Easy to invite customers to chat and for operators to accept chat requests. Know where in the world your customers are. Identify repeat customers and when they first...
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?
- So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor broadband customers' web visits and deliver targeting advertising, reports News.com's Declan McCullagh. Contemptible. Goes against everything...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- European telcos squeal: should we care?
- European telcos squeal: should we care?Dennis is a true European!His blog makes it perfectly clear. He talks about the "charges we're forced to pay by telecoms operators" sic when traveling internationally. That verbiage could have come right out of Brussels. Who is forcing Dennis to pay those charges? Nobody! If...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
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