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As if you needed more reasons to use NoScript: Flash
2008-05-29 21:32:00 Network Security Blog – I?ve made no secret of the fact that I?m a big fan of Firefox and the NoScript plugin. I don?t want anything running in my browser that I don?t explicitly approve of. And now with the big rise in sites compromised with the latest Flash exploits, there are more reasons than ever to ... read more More About: Reasons
Visual Studio Express 2008
2008-05-29 14:16:00 PCMech – A while ago, I wrote a tip about the Visual Studio Express editions and how I recommend them for any level developer. Well, Microsoft now has their 2008 editions of the Visual Studio Express family of products available for download. These free products are truly world-class and I would still recommend them to any level developer. ... read more
The people who determine the future of ITIL training, qualifications and ce
2008-05-29 14:16:00 The IT Skeptic – Now that OGC have outsourced ITIL certification and trainer accreditation to APMG, a private for-profit company, let us look at the people who influence the shape of ITIL V3s slowly emerging qualifications system. The governing body advising APMG, the senior examiners, is mostly made up of the ... read more More About: People , Future , Training , The Future , Qualifications
Intel’s Montevina mistake causes Centrino setback
2008-05-29 14:15:00 IT Blogwatch – A problem with Intel Corp.‘s integrated graphics chip set has forced the company to postpone the launch of its new Centrino 2 laptop system. The problem could be just the foot in the door that rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has been looking for. While Intel is delaying its mobile chip set for a month, AMD is slated to announce its own next-generation mobile processor next week. This is the first ... read more More About: Montevina
Intel delay will push back MacBook orders
2008-05-29 04:58:00 Appletell – Apple?s redesigned MacBooks that were scheduled to use Intel ?s upcoming Montevina Centrino 2 chip will have to wait until late summer to be launched due to a delay in volume shipments of the product. This platform was expected to be launched at the end of this month, and one reason for this delay according to a Wall Street analyst was due to trouble getting the chip passed by the FCC. ... read more More About: Back , Macbook , Orders , Push
Community 2.0 (Part 2: Measuring Success)
2008-05-29 01:21:00 The AppGap – Francois Gossieaux led a workshop and panel on measuring progress and success in business communities. The presentation part of the session was derived from the preliminary results of the 2008 Tribalization of Business Study. Tribalism? Well, yes, because we are social creatures. And because we are social creatures, participating in online communities taps into our ... read more More About: Community , Success , Part
IPhoneDevCamp 2 is now open for registration Register now
2008-05-29 01:20:00 Appletell – Great news for those itching to register for the iPhoneDevCamp 2 you are now able to register for this event. Registration for the iPhone developer?s camp began earlier this week. iPhoneDevCamp 2 is not affiliated with Apple, Inc. iPhoneDevCamp 2 is a not-for- ... read more More About: Open , Register
Things we can learn from del.icio.us?for use in our marketing endeavors: We
2008-05-29 01:19:00 Blah, Blah! Technology – In addition to being a good place to share bookmarks and find sites in your areas of interest, de.licio.us can also provide some interesting information about your own site(s) ... read more More About: Marketing , Things , Learn
Big Brother?s Back: NASA Worker Suspended Over Blog Postings
2008-05-28 22:52:00 Geeks are Sexy Technology News – A NASA employee is off the job because of what he posted on his blog. Federal Computer Week reports the man ? a worker at Johnson Space Center in Houston ? made posts soliciting donations and campaigning for political candidates on company time. He?s also accused of sending non-work-related emails while ... read more More About: Big Brother , Blog , Back , Nasa , Brother
China Mobile: SMS your Earthquake Relief Donation
2008-05-28 22:51:00 Mobile Messaging 2.0 – China mobile has announced a partnership with the Red Cross Society of China where CMCC customers can make donations to earth quake relief through SMS transactions. Using the text relief service, China Mobile subscribers can send donations in increments of 1 or 2 RMB (roughly 29 US cents or 19 Eurocents), to earthquake victims. ... read more More About: Mobile , Earthquake , Donation , Relief
HSUPA Joins HSDPA for Cellular Broadband
2008-05-28 22:51:00 T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – AT&T is nearly finished building out its upgraded cellular broadband network called HSPA or High Speed Packet Access. Just in time, too. The new BlackBerry Bold and the rumored iPhone upgrade will make good use of the higher data bandwidths that are now online at the cell towers. While most of the attention has focused on the download link, AT&T has quietly been upgrading the upload link also. ... read more More About: Broadband , Cellular , HSDPA
Five Reasons to Fire Ballmer
2008-05-28 22:50:00 Cyber Cynic – On July 1st, Bill Gates will retire. Hell still spend about 20% of his time on Microsoft projects. If Microsoft is to retain 20% of its economic clout in five years time, the companys board should start working on firing CEO Steve Ballmer now. Why? Because Ballmer has been in charge of Microsoft for the last several years and hes been running it into the ground. Even before Gates announced that he was going to retire, ... read more More About: Fire , Reasons
Throttled by Your ISP
2008-05-28 15:41:00 Significant Figures – The software, music, and movie industries have shouted loud and clear about their apparently imminent demise caused by online file sharing for years and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are falling over backwards to find an excuse to cap broadband download ... read more
Dell guilty of fraud, deceptive business and false advertising
2008-05-28 15:24:00 9 to 5 Mac – New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Teresi ruled against Dell yesterday, declaring the company had engaged in fraud, false advertising, deceptive business and abusive debt collection practices. The judge slammed the company for luring customers with ads that offered no interest or no payment financing options, but its financing ... read more More About: Business , Fraud , Advertising , Guilty
Desktop Apps versus Online Apps: What to Choose for Your Project
2008-05-28 15:23:00 The AppGap – Since it?s rare to find a perfect tool that applies to all projects, the best you can do is look at your needs and strike a balance between desktop and online applications. But as you?re going through the phases of project development, how do you know which is the way to go? Planning. This ... read more More About: Desktop , Project , Online , Versus , Choose
Going out of business sale: Buy XP before its too late
2008-05-28 03:58:00 Cyber Cynic – Last Chance Read the e-mail ad from Dells small-business division. June 18th is the last day you can choose your operating system: Windows XP or Windows Vista. Thats not true at all as Gregg Keizer points out in FAQ: XP deathwatch, T minus 5 weeks, but there is enough truth in it that Dells not being shy about saying act fast, because after June 18, Windows XP will no longer be ... read more More About: Business , Sale , Late
Controlling Application Development
2008-05-28 01:28:00 The IT Skeptic – How does IT Operations get control of the other half? How do we stop them chucking dead cats over the wall for us to own? It is pretty straightforward. ... read more More About: Development , Application
Web 2.0 for Government Knowledge Workers ? Smart or Stodgy ?
2008-05-28 01:28:00 FASTforward Blog – Today I noticed this piece in Canada?s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, announcing that Open Text has just signed a 7-year contract to lay the foundation for the government?s 2.0 strategy. . Open Text strikes Web 2.0 deal with Ottawa MATT HARTLEY The Canadian government is getting a Web 2.0 upgrade. Waterloo, Ont.-based business software maker Open Text Corp. ... read more More About: Government , Workers , Smart , Knowledge
Free software vs. software-as-a-service: Is the GPL too weak for the Web?
2008-05-28 01:27:00 Free Software Magazine – You?ve read the GPL?s preamble, you can name the Four Freedoms, and you do your best to keep proprietary bits off our computers. But what?s the future of free software in the era of Flickr, Google Apps, and Facebook? read more More About: Service , Free , Free Software
Adobe denies CS4 October claims
2008-05-27 18:23:00 9 to 5 Mac – Adobe is denying claims the company plans to launch Adobe CS 4 this October , with company vice president John Nack penning a furious denial on his regular Photoshop blog. He points to a report from the TG Daily website, which claimed the software to be expected to ship ?on October 1?, condemning these claims as fantasy, speculation, ?just something made up? ... read more More About: Claims
The Vegas SuperNAP: A Data Center Revolution?
2008-05-27 18:22:00 Data Center Knowledge – Switch Communications SuperNAP, a 400,000 square foot data center under construction in Las Vegas , is a conversation starter. The facilitys operators say the $350 million facility will be the most advanced data center yet, supporting power loads exceeding 1,500 watts per square foot using only ... read more More About: Data , Revolution
Solar Powered iPods?
2008-05-27 18:22:00 Appletell – In a recent MacRumors report, a new Apple Patent was revealed. This time, the patent talks about the use of Solar power in their iPods, iPhones, and laptops. The idea presented would place the Solar cells directly behind the LCD display, in an effort to both save space and keep things looking slick. Although solar power would provide huge benefits in terms of extending battery lives, it will not (at least in its current form) come without a small price. The major issues that come attached ... read more More About: Ipods
Facebook to open source platform?
2008-05-27 14:35:00 IT Blogwatch – IT Blogwatch is wondering if Facebook will open source its platform, as rumored. Not to mention Weezers mashup of Internet memes ... read more More About: Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source
Vista Service Pack Works? Yes.
2008-05-27 14:34:00 PCMech – Every Wednesday night @ 8pm EST when we do the PCMech Live broadcast, one question always comes up, that being: Does the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 really fix anything? The answer is yes, it does. I have to go by reported information because I don?t use Vista, I use Windows XP Professional Edition (with ... read more More About: Works , Service Pack
DLL Management Tool
2008-05-27 14:34:00 PCMech – Many times when doing technical support, I have found that some functionality can be erratic or broken simply because DLL registrations are not correct. Typically, to find the problem I would have to manually unregister and register the DLL by using the ?regsvr32? command. A simpler way to go about this is by using the Emsa ... read more More About: Management , Tool
Download Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth Betas
2008-05-27 14:33:00 Technology Bites – Adobe released new beta versions of its popular software Dreamweaver , Fireworks and Soundbooth. Dreamweaver is the one of the best IDE available on the net for web development. Fireworks is a vector graphics tool for web designing. Soundbooth is an audio editor. Today’s released beta are CS4 versions of the software and they will only ... read more More About: Download
Meet BESS
2008-05-27 14:33:00 Significant Figures – We hear so much about collaborative web-sites, wikis, user-generated content, the vast dialog that is the blogosphere, social media and social bookmarking, online networking, the whole web 2.0 revolution, that it is hard to imagine a time when finding useful ... read more More About: Meet
Big Web Host: Please Use Gmail for Email
2008-05-27 14:32:00 Data Center Knowledge – DreamHost , one of the largest shared hosting specialists in the United States, is encouraging its customers to use Googles Gmail for their e-mail, rather than the DreamHost mail servers. DreamHost is continuing to support all its existing e-mail offerings, but in a blog post last Friday ... read more More About: Email
Apple, Nokia, Motorola agree negotiation of European iPod levy
2008-05-26 22:33:00 9 to 5 Mac – Consumers purchasing iPods, iPhones, Macs and an array of similar consumer electronic devices, including VHS and DVD recorders, may soon be required to pay a Europe-wide levy on every sale. Led by music industry groups, rights-holders in Europe have been pressing local lawmakers and consumer electronic device makers to agree to such a tax. They want money raised through this levy to be distributed to… read more More About: Apple , Motorola , Nokia , Ipod , European
16-Year-Old Creates Solution to Decompose Plastic Bags
More articles from this author:2008-05-26 22:32:00 Blah, Blah! Technology – He spent weeks on a trial-and-error process to isolate a group of microorganisms that would quickly degrade plastic bags, and soon came up with a winning combination. All you need is a fermenter, your growth medium, your microbes and your plastic bags. ... read more More About: Bags , Plastic , Year , Solution 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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