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OpenOffice.org To Focus On Stability And Feature Upgrades
[2009-06-30] Sun's Thorsten Ziehm of the OpenOffice.org engineering team wrote a post titled: "Does OpenOffice.org 3.x have a general quality issue?" Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, and I'm 98.2% sure it isn't, Thorsten's post was edited between when I first read it in the morning and when I decided to blog this afternoon.
Directory Board Established To Srengthen Neutral Software Rating
[2009-06-18] The EOS directory, the list of enterprise open source applications launched two years ago by Optaros, has recently been handed over to Bruno von Rotz, initial sponsor of the initiative and well known open source specialist.
Software Needs To Be Conducive To Learning
[2009-06-04] When you are looking at Knowledge Management, education, training, these all fit into knowledge management systems. It does not matter what system you are using, what matters is the environment you are creating to support internal and external goals for learning. If the systems, if the content, and if the presentation is not conducive to learning, it does not matter how well you create content.
Web Accessed Databases Are Coming Allowing New Powerful Collaboration
[2009-05-13] As all studious web watchers know, the next wave of internet innovation has been brewing for some time, as massive amounts of data has been pumped onto the web and made available for people to share-and-compare, play with and link to. Yes, prepare yourselves people, The Web Of Data is on the way.
Keep In Touch With Microsoft Vine
[2009-04-28] Microsoft has announced the private beta launch of Microsoft Vine, a web tool designed to keep family and friends in contact with each other.
Could Google Be Hindering Android?
[2009-04-09] Google Android Engineer echos what I have been feeling for quite a while as he declares that Google itself is a major bottleneck when it comes to Android being an Open-Source project.
What Happens When The Internet Infrastructure Gets Hacked
[2009-03-26] The discovery of a stealth router botnet changes the landscape for hacking devices connected to the internet. Many security people have been talking about what is going to happen when the infrastructure gets hacked; the interesting part is now we get to find out.
Pirate Bay Final Trial Day: Will Torrent Trackers Win?
[2009-03-04] This was it; everyone made their closing arguments on the relative merits of the evidence in the Pirate Bay Trial. The question on everyone's mind now is what the actual verdict will be, with no idea when that will come through the system.
First Intel Remote Assist Launched By PCWorld And TechGuys
[2009-02-12] PC World has today announced the launch of new Intel® Remote Assist Technology, available exclusively on its latest range of Advent PCs, including the massive spec Advent QC6003 and Advent QC8003. Called TechGuys Remote Assist, the new service is only available at PC World stores across the UK and online at www.pcworld.co.uk
Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Jobs
[2009-01-23] This is much less than the 9 to 16 thousand that has been thrown about on the internet since December. But news has hit the street, yes indeed Microsoft is going to lay off 5000 employees. This gives a lot of credibility to Mini-Microsoft this morning who basically posted a warning back in December that something was going to happen.
Israel and Hamas Take to The Virtual Streets
[2009-01-05] If you are not paying attention to what is happening in Israel with the escalating war between Israel and Hamas, then you really need to. This is how cyber war is fought, and how information security is more important than bombs or guns.
How Can The US Be Losing The Cyber War?
[2008-12-11] Something I have been saying for at least the last year has finally gotten national attention, now we need to work out what to do about it.
Bypassing Restrictions On Software Is Now Legal
[2008-11-25] Who knew that it was lawful to bypass restrictions on software, like Coupons Inc's software that allowed printing coupons and essentially start printing coupons off like it was money.
Remove Botnets with Bothunter
[2008-10-30] Security bloggers network releases a handy new tool to help you hunt down botnets on your network.
How to Reverse Engineer Malware
[2008-10-09] Eric Landuyt over at Data rescue walks through a chunk of malware that is using BITS as its communications path.
Coolest Tech Badges at MIT
[2008-09-25] I'm still getting around to see a bunch of cool things here in Boston as I attend the MIT Emerging Technology conference but the coolest thing just might be the badges. They are electronic devices made by nTAG Interactive. First of all they got the visual part right. You can read people's names from a good way away. It's amazing how many conferences get that simple thing wrong.
51 areas you can't see on Google Maps
[2008-09-10] An interesting article over on IT Security on some of the areas in the world that are blurred out in Google Maps, either due to the sensitivity of the subject, or via pushback from concerned groups.
Beware of Media Defender Malware
[2008-08-21] More on the social malware front today, this one is set to generate fear in the e-mail recipient, no one wants to get a message from Media Defender, and when they do, they are going to open the attachment.
Google Now Blocking Automated Rank Checking Software
[2008-08-07] It seems that after a long history of threatening to ban automated rank checking softwares, Google has finally closed its doors on one of the most popular search engine ranking software, WebPosition.
Modem Systems Remain Vulnerable To Attacks
[2008-07-17] ICMP packets containing modem reset or shutdown commands, you would think that this very old attack would not be happening, but it is, and it is still fairly effective.
A Runaway IT Project Failure
[2008-06-19] Bruce F Webster on his blog this morning at brucefwebster.com has a fascinating article called "anatomy of a runaway IT project". For those of us who are fascinated or studying IT Project Failure, this is well worth reading.
Making A System Do What You Want It To Do
[2008-05-20] One of the things that many of the people I work with want to know not only that something works, but why does it work the way it does, and then how can they get it to do something other than what was intended.
Two Big Hacks: IIS and WordPress
[2008-05-01] If you have been following the news lately, two big hacks, one in IIS and one in WordPress have been making the rounds, with hundreds of thousands of servers compromised. Someone needs to be hitting up their security department to do some due diligence.
Cpanel X is Saying Goodbye
[2008-04-03] Cpanel X was the theme that brought webhosting admin panels out from the dark ages. However, this iconic and easy to use interface is on it's way out due to security issues.
How Will RHQ Be Used?
[2008-02-21] Sometimes it pays to be late with "breaking news" ;-) For those of us that weren't at JBoss World 2008, here is a great presentation that explains the RHQ announcement:
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