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- Late breaking news: Microsoft investigates reports of Office Word 2002 SP 3 exploited in the wild
- From Bill Sisk, security response communications manager for Microsoft: Microsoft Security Advisory (953635) Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: July 8, 2008 Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word 2002 Service Pack 3....
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- VMware: CEO Greene out; Revenue light
- VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware's board....
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- They don't all really need laptops, do they?
- I've been getting this question a lot lately from administrators, parents, and taxpayers. The question isn't malicious, but rather comes from folks with a vested interest in making sure that our technology dollars directly benefit students. Does giving teachers laptops directly benefit students? For people who aren't...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Does Google need a standards office pronto?
- Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn't have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows. Walli writes in a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- IT success stories
- Linkedin's web infrastructure seems to offer a model for mid range sites: it's fast, it's clean - and development seems to have been based on combining the best of open source products with minimal customization. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Google's new foray into image search
- In an interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Google's director of product management for consumer search properties, R.J. Pittman, discusses the search giant's development of software for facial recognition and scene analysis.
- Videos 2008-07-07
- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product design
- Segway CTO to become Apple VP of product designhuh?"Engadget points out another irony of the move: When asked for his reaction to the original Segway design Steve Jobs said “I think it sucks.” Funny how things change, isn’t it?"so? He probably still thinks it sucks. Just because he...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons
- How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemonsWhen you're locked in to a proprietary...solution you have no where else to go. It's just a matter of when do you break the cycle. With the killing of XP, I would say this would be a great time.If you upgrade...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?
- Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?If it is object oriented -it would work like OS/2, the versions after Microsoft and IBM stopped working together.The Workplace Shell was the best environment I've ever worked on.Baseless speculation is fun but uselessToward that end I would recommend you look up the meaning of...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- An IT productivity horror story
- An IT productivity horror storyMiddlemen1, Speculating on your unconfirmed report, is there any love lost between the insurance companies and the independent insurance brokers? Relationships between suppliers and independent brokers tend to change over time. If the companies are after the margins of the brokers, automated communication may be the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Microsoft's Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - the Parallels view
- Here's another take on Microsoft's announcement of Hyper-V. This time, the comments are coming from Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. Surguei appears to be taking a rather pragmatic view of the announcement and all of the surrounding hype. Here's what he had to say: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Students and the browser war
- Students and the browser warI switched, rather than foughtYou don't mention Opera, which although has very little market share, so does Lamborghini in the auto market, yet few would dispute the pedigree and quality of those cars.I used Firefox until the updates for the extensions came more slowly and fewer....
- Discussion threads 2008-07-06
- Students and the browser war
- Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband won't be set up for a while, so had to resort to dial-up which is proving troublesome. I'll do my best, considering this is essentially my income,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- The architecture of a flexible .NET file processing system -- Part 4
- The first three parts of this series concentrated on the overall architecture of the .NET file processing system and how the messages get created and routed. In this installment, Zach Smith explains the role of the task specific processes and describes how to set up the system so that it...
- Download resources 2008-07-04
- Komodo IDE (Mac OS X/Intel) (dmg)
- Komodo IDE 4 is a powerful, multi-platform, multi-language IDE for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. Komodo IDE makes creating robust web apps fast and easy, with a rich feature set for client-side Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such...
- Software downloads 2008-07-04
- Komodo IDE (Windows) (msi)
- Komodo IDE 4 is a powerful, multi-platform, multi-language IDE for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. Komodo IDE makes creating robust web apps fast and easy, with a rich feature set for client-side Ajax technologies such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such...
- Software downloads 2008-07-04
- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update update
- Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update updateStill got it wrong?!?!What part of "check for updates but let me decide" do they not understand???If the people at MS are feeling so benevolentwhy not have the programmers pop up a box when the update occurs, sort of hand holding for the wary.If...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?
- In partnership with indie security consultant Rich Mogull left Mozilla has launched a valuable Security Metrics Project that could help to -- we can only hope -- put an end to the silly notion that patch-counting helps to determine a product's security posture. The idea is...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
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