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- 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
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- 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
- Images: IE 8 rising to the competition
- Second public beta for Internet Explorer 8 offers similar features currently found in Opera, Safari, and Firefox, plus a few extras. by CNET News.com
- Image galleries 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
- Suddenly, Android is hot again
- After months of silence, the double-whammy of new software and hardware has gotten everyone talking about Android again. Earlier this month Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch was wondering if anybody cared about Android any more. Now TC is practically gushing over the mobile platform. What happened? Two things:...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The role of media in the Internet age
- Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs
- With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in service longer, uncluttered and free of malware, viruses and hacking programs. At...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Intel ships BIOS fix for Rutkowska's Black Hat flaw
- Intel has shipped a BIOS update with a fix for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was used by rootkit researcher Joanna Rutkowska to bluepill the Xen hypervisor. The vulnerability was discussed by Rutkowska at the Black Hat briefings earlier this month but details on the exploit were...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Keeping the brand - and verb - alive
- photoshop (v.) "to edit an image using a computer program," 1992, originally in ref. to Photoshop, a bitmap graphics editor trademarked and published by Adobe, released in 1990. --- Dictionary.com There aren't many brand names that can take on verb status but Photoshop, a pioneer in digital imagery manipulation,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes of the Internet, that...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?
- Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to "enhance the existing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- iPhone passcode lock rendered useless
- Do not trust that passcode lock on Apple's iPhone. The feature, which lets users set a four-digit pincode to limit access to the device, can be easily bypassed with a few finger taps on the iPhone to give an intruder access to sensitive information. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- DataSynapse survey claims HPC leading IT initiative
- Datasynapse recently released the results of a survey that indicated that IT executives were more concerned about high performance computing than virtualization (I guess that meant using virtual machine software to create a virtual server-based environment rather than a more comprehensive use of the term). I must have not been...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- CIO Sessions: CareerBuilder CTO: Eric Presley
- Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks to CNET News' Dan Farber about how the online recruitment site is building new search engine tools to provide more targeted job recommendations. He also discusses technologies to aid the job hunting experience for its users from creating new social networking tools to developing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Bubba
- Arguably the most infamous product to ever come out of Redmond was Microsoft Bob. Bob was Microsoft's attempt to create an easier to use interface for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. It was the Edsel of software. Here's a parody of Bob called Bubba. Bubba takes a...
- Download resources 2008-08-27
- Convective Adsorption - Desorption (zip)
- The software is used to study water diffusion processes with known experimental data, for the following geometries: infinite slab, infinite cylinder, sphere, finite cylinder, and parallelepiped. The software makes possible the determination of the diffusivity 'D' and the mass convective transfer coefficient 'h' through optimization. This version is the first...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- Acritum Promo Wizard (exe)
- Acritum Promo Wizard is a tool for Web masters who want to increase the number of visitors coming to their Web sites from various search engines. The software is the next generation of classic doorway page generators with several special technologies that make a kind of human-made text automatically and...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- IELTS Listening Conqueror (exe)
- Excellent, unique software designed especially for conquering the IELTS Listening. Intensive listening practice by the most effective method of dictation. Includes all authoritative and essential listening materials available currently. Classified vocabulary for IELTS Listening. Display script of passage synchronously. Practicing all passages can guarantee score 8+ and aim at 9...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
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