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- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in school
- Soshiku, a website created by 17-year old Andrew Shaper, is a simple and elegant web-based tool for tracking school assignments. Launched this September, I stumbled across it via a note on Twitter and I have to say I'm completely impressed. According to the launch press release, ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best Apple iPhone, iPod touch apps
- Just about everyone seems to have either an iPhone or iPod touch these days and the companion App Store is chock full of over 5,000 great gift ideas. From powerful databases to file storage to music, this list has something for you. Can't decide? Give your special someone...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Google: no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability
- Following the speculations on the resurrection of what's thought to be an already fixed Gmail flaw which could assist in domain name hijackings, yesterday Google commented that their investigation indicated that the recent domain hijacks should be attributed to a phishing campaign, rather than to a Gmail flaw. The phishers...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management
- I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Gmail exploit lets attackers forward your email to them
- Philipp Lenssen spotted a post by Brandon at GeekCondition that explains the general idea behind an attack that can be used to set up filters in your Gmail account without your knowledge. It's important to be aware of these kind of things so you can better protect yourself. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack
- The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Just in time for the holiday madness, UPS embraces new green packaging label solution
- Talk about a customized piece of green tech. Hewlett-Packard and the United Parcel Service have collaborated to design a device that not only can scan packages for tracking purposes but that can print sorting labels right onto packages, cutting out the paper that would normally go toward...
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- All About Microsoft: CodeTracker
- Revised -- November, 2008 Can't keep Midori straight from MinSafe? Unsure how Red Dog, Cosmos and Zurich fit in Microsoft's cloud OS picture? Tracking Microsoft's myriad codenames is an almost full-time occupation. And Mary Jo Foley knows that better than anyone, as she spends...
- Case studies 2008-11-14
- Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC
- The point is to actually make fair use -- fair and creative use -- use of someone's professionally produced content, if you're going to post a video online. The executive vice president and general counsel of NBC Universal, Rick Cotton, this afternoon said that 99 percent of...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- SPAM and the free lunch
- SPAM and the free lunchSIMPLE SOLUTION: Mandatory email server registration!(1) Get rid of "Reply-to:" tags.(2) Mandatory email server registration using credit cards, at yearly rate $2~3 dollars.This will make spammers impossible to operate without being caught.What SPAM is that?During the height of the "bad old days" of spam, I got...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-handCleanTech and Economic IncentivesGiven what we now know about how modern electronic manufacturing and scavenging works (see the new 60 Minutes report tracking "E-Waste" from Denver got China), and how our current environmental regulations are set up on manufacturing processes,...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-08
- China and the e-waste industry it doesn't want you to see
- 60 Minutes this Sunday will air an interesting project--tracking e-waste from Denver to China to a refining center that's one "of the most toxic places on earth." Correspondent Scott Pelley and crew was jumped as they were recording a black market that was dismantling e-waste. Technically, these...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Paymo.biz Time Tracker (zip)
- Paymo is a yet easy-to-use time tracking system. We know how unpleasant time tracking can be for employees, that's why Paymo is designed to make time tracking simple and fun once you've tried it you'll wonder how your business ever survived without it. Features: a online invoicing module that allows...
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Logaholic Web Analytics & Statistics Software (zip)
- Increase the performance of your Web site with Logaholic Web Site Statistics Software. Visualize click-thru rates on all pages, deep user analysis, conversion tracking, in-depth keyword and search engine analysis. Detecting problems and testing improvements is easy with Logaholic. Logaholic will help you increase your bottom line, making each visitor...
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Funding software from add-on services
- Launched last week in beta in the US, smartrecruiters.com is a SaaS applicant tracking software service for SMBs that's offered free of charge. It will be monetized from complementary services sold alongside the software. by Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Social Business News: Nov. 6, 2008
- While the election has taken up most of the ink and Web space over the last couple of weeks, there's still been some steady movement in Social Business. Before I jump into this week's sampler I want to note two important changes -- this will now be a bi-weekly update...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Easy Tracker Mini - Personal Time Manager (exe)
- Easy Tracker is a full-featured time tracking suite designed specifically for schedule notification, project management, expense management, work measurement, timesheet entry and reporting. It's especially suited for professionals and companies who need to track time to improve personal and team productivity, to manage projects, to manage expenses and budgets, and...
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves
- Late last week an important milestone for the Internet was quietly reached as the number of available open Web APIs crossed the 1,000 mark, according to the popular API tracking service, Programmable Web. by Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wild
- First came Microsoft's emergency patch. Then the public release of reliable exploit code. Now, virus hunters are reporting two new in-the-wild worms exploiting the critical MS08-067 vulnerability. The worms, intercepted on Chinese-language versions of Windows, are being used to install a Trojan downloader, a denial-of-service bot and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
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