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- New web app Fuelly tracks your car's mileage per gallon MPG, shares it with friends and compares it to the mileage of other Fuelly users. Sign up for Fuelly and specify your car's make, model and year. The app will display the EPA's MPG estimates for your...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- CBS Evening News: Cyber-security at the Olympics
- Overseas travelers are being warned that personal information sent out electronically can be stolen. Bob Orr talks with National Counterintelligence Executive Joel Brenner on cyber-security in China.
- Videos 2008-08-08
- My Awesome IT Job: Developer, New York Times
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Yahoo bolsters opt-out policy
- Yahoo said Friday that it will allow users to opt out of custom ads on its network. The move comes a day after Google provided a one-click opt-out as it integrates DoubleClick into its operations. Yahoo said in a statement that its policy change...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Gang of sniffers provided tech support with a smile
- Computerworld gets a kick out of the world of black tech support as opposed to the black market revealed in the indictment of an international band of online thieves who cracked into nine retailers and stole millions of credit cards. Mastermind Albert Gonzalez was happy to recompile...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Facebook and MySpace: Walking the security-social networking line
- Security--actually insecurity--is a very social thing. Get a cute malware infested email and forward it along to your contact list. See a site that's interesting--but is really just a phishing expedition--and you get hit with a virus/worm/rootkit. Social engineering makes the security world go around. So what do you do...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- ClearCube VDI Suite
- ClearCube recently announced its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI Suite. The goal is to increase the power of previous ClearCube offerings and intice others to join the party. Here's how ClearCube describes its new offering: ClearCube Technology, the market leader in centralized desktop computing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- CIA is upbeat on enterprise 2.0
- CIOs may not quite get the wiki thing, but the Central Intelligence Agency is pretty bullish on Web 2.0 techniques. According to CIO.com, part of the CIA's technology makeover relied on wiki software. Using a little enterprise 2.0 the CIA created something called Intellipedia, which was introduced...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Google: Our AOL investment is 'impaired'
- Google in an SEC filing on Thursday said that its $1 billion investment in AOL is "impaired." That's short hand for saying Google bought a lemon. In 2005, Google bought a $1 billion stake in AOL, which was good for 5 percent of the company. Google invested...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- CNET's Clientside developer blog serving Adobe Flash exploits
- Yesterday, Websense Labs issued an alert regarding a compromised CNET blog, namely the Clientside developer blog which has been embedded with a malicious javascript code attempting to exploit the visitors through a well known vulnerability in Adobe Flash's player. Websense's alert : "Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming
- Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products. Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The critical bulletins will cover remotely exploitable...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Worldwide spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
- Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total $65.2 bln in 2008, which represents nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media. With IDC’s Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast projecting 15-20% annual growth throughout the forecast period, this share will reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Worldwide spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
- Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total $65.2 bln in 2008, which represents nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media. With IDC’s Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast projecting 15-20% annual growth throughout the forecast period, this share will reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300
- The X200 is one of eight new ThinkPads--including the SL series for small business--that Lenovo announced as part of Intel's Centrino 2 launch. The 12.1-inch wide-screen ultraportable, which replaces the popular ThinkPad X61, is designed to bring some of the features of the pricey 13.3-inch X300 to a broader audience....
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- TSA 'checkpoint-friendly' bags fly on 16 August
- After the news earlier this week the the Department of Homeland Security DHS is authorized to perform notebook computer searches at U.S. borders and the subsequent suits announced by the EFF and ALC comes a softer, friendlier federal government. The Transportation Security Administration TSA – who the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Report: Intel's Atom chip, Netbooks demand strong
- Demand appears to be stronger than expected for Intel's Atom chip and the netbooks that they power, according to a Citi report. In a research note, analyst Glen Yeung said: Field checks from Japan suggest Intel has ordered 20M Atom flip-chip packages for 3Q08 and 25M...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- VMware has 82% share of market of virtualized servers, Microsoft has 13%
- VMware is the clear market leader in providing virtualization technology with 82% of the sample using VMware. Despite high levels of Linux use, only 3% of the sample were using Xen as their virtualization platform. Microsoft was used by 13% of the sample base with various Unix technologies and mainframe...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- In Q1 2008 67% of PCs sold in France were laptops
- Consumer notebook sales recorded strong performance in the Q1 2008 in French PC market, posting 28.1% growth, after a solid 50% recorded last year in Q1 2007. Transition to mobility is continuing strongly with the share of notebooks to desktops rising to 67% of total PCs, up from 59% a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Vonage narrows losses: Can it grow?
- Vonage has narrowed its losses two consecutive quarters, but it remains to be seen whether the company can grow. The company reported a second quarter net loss of $7 million, or 4 cents a share, on revenue of $228 million. Revenue was up 11 percent from a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely
- Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus Techmeme. MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
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