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19 entries filed this day
Editor · IT Management
A controversial question: You want to stop harmful behaviors like poor email etiquette in the organization. Can you educate your users to do what’s good for them? There are two views: If you educate them, they will do the right...
Filed at 3:52am
Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security
It sounds like a good start, Vista appears to be not affect any of the 6 new advisories released today by Microsoft. The vulnerability affecting Vista is the XML Core vulnerability in IE that has been recently exploited by malicious web sites to execute arbitrary code.It would be interesting to see whether this trend of...
Filed at 4:07am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com
I’ve been trying for some weeks now to patch together a number of feeds from TV programming on the web. Stations like Roo, Brightcove, Akimbo, Rawflow, LX-TV. Well they sometimes have feeds and sometimes not and sometimes the feed is about the TV/web business rather than about the actual programming that a station or service...
Filed at 7:54am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com
The Latest from BrightcoveI like this - it’s about breaking the Hollywood movie release logjam. mark Cuban’s been doing it by releasing movies to theatres, cable and DVD at the same time. Now an Indian Studio has joined in.“….today marked a somewhat important milestone in this arena. While not one of the major US studios,”...
Filed at 8:06am
Editor · Security / Storage
I remember him telling me two things - first, there was no need for tape, that everything would be disk. Second, and this was much earlier and most likely will be denied but I swear it was true - he...
Filed at 8:31am
Editor · Security / Storage
My latest CW rant. If foks were really good with statistics and numbers, wouldn't they be hanging in vegas instead of counting tape cartridges?...
Filed at 8:34am
Editor · Enterprise Applications / Security
How many times have you tossed your cell phone on the counter or dresser at the end of a long day but forgotten to plug it in? As you wake up the next morning and realize that the phone's battery is on its last legs, it dawns on you that the charger was sitting just a few feet away. Why couldn't they make a system smart enough to make that "last-mile" connection?
Filed at 9:57am
Editor
So, I see that there’s a security issue with WinZip 10 today. I drop out to the WinZip site, download the update, and start the installation. During the installation of the latest revision of WinZip 10, I’m confronted with the following screen (and, of course, the checkboxes were auto-selected for me — I unchecked them immediately):
Filed at 11:17am
Editor · Business Intelligence
In IDC’s latest annual report, it gives the size of the “data analysis” market, which includes data warehousing, business intelligence and generally anything analytic, as being worth a chunky USD 16.5 billion in software (systems integration related to this would be greater than this), up 11% from last year. They also reckon that this market will grow at a healthy clip of 10% a year for the next five years, based on the fact that “analysis” is now one of the top two spending items for IT executives.
Filed at 12:47pm
Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security
It appears that one Web site of Polish police www.elblag.policja.gov.pl/ has been defaced on Tuesday.Mirror of Zone-H is located here. The home page was the target of the attack, i.e. that is the reason site is not working just now.They were running on Linux and the following Apache system:Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 Mandrake Linux/1.6.91mdk mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 auth_mysql/1.11 mod_ssl/2.0.47...
Filed at 1:10pm
Annrai OToole · CEO, Cape Clear Software · Data Management
In this the second article on the five key issues we see in the advancement of SOA, I will focus on the set of business issues around SOA. Put simply, I am trying to answer the question: "Why should the business user care about SOA?" Before jumping into this, I would like to make a small digression.
Filed at 4:01pm
Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security
So, it’s time to another blog entry, another idiot/dumb post…http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451637/30/0/threadedAnd for sure DragonFlyBSD and TrustedBSD* are also affected for this issue… why?The bug occur because bsd developers does not know how integer convertion is done? Or just because you have copy and paste the bug from another BSD to yours? It’s always a problem...
Filed at 4:51pm
Editor · SOA
[ Download extended PDF ] Moving toward on-demand business
Filed at 5:40pm
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com
Affiliate program literature abounds with one simple message. It is not property, property, property but it is something like location on the page, location on the page, location….Keep reviewing your properties (websites)! Keep looking at where viewers are coming from and where they go. The most successful online publishers apparently change the position of ads...
Filed at 6:46pm
Kingsley Idehen · Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software · Software Development
Nova Spivack provides poignant insights into the recent Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 brouhaha which I've excerpted below: Web Me2.0 -- Exploding the Myth of Web 2.0 : "Many people have told me this week that they think 'Web 2.0' has not been very impressive so far and that they really hope for a next-generation of the Web with some more significant innovation under the hood -- regardless of what it's called. A lot of people found the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco to be underwhelming -- there was a lot of self-congratulation by the top few brands and the companies they have recently bought, but not much else happening. Where was all the innovation? Where was the focus on what's next? It seemed to be a conference mainly about what happened in the last year, not about what will happen in the coming year.But what happened last year is already so 'last year.' And frankly Web 2.0 still leaves a lot to be desired. The reason Tim Berners-Lee proposed the Semantic Web in the first place is that it will finally deliver on the real potential and vision of the Web. Not that today's Web 2.0 sucks completely -- it only sort of sucks. It's definitely useful and there are some nice bells and whistles we didn't have before. But it could still suck so much less!"
Filed at 7:17pm
Editor
Some recents items as a backdrop for Dan Geer's recent ACM piece. Item 1: Who owns eCommerce? Tim Bray on IBM versus AmazonIf the titles mean anything (not always a sure bet), this might mean that IBM has finally managed to figure out how to set up that Internet Tollbooth that we’ve always been afraid of. If you’re interested in “Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service”, “Storing Data in an Interactive Network”, “Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service”, “Adjusting Hypertext...
Filed at 7:49pm
Editor · Disaster Recovery / Intrusion Prevention / Security
The Zero Day Initiative program lists several new vulnerabilities reported within a week. From their Upcoming ZDI Advisories page:Affected Vendor - Severity - Reported on / Age: Microsoft - High - 2006.11.08, 7 days ago (2 advisories)Mozilla - High - 2006.11.08, 7 days...
Filed at 7:58pm
Editor · Storage
The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) on electronic information discovery (e-discovery) is serving as an excuse for some scary marketing. So how scared should you be? If your company is under $100 million in sales, not very.
Filed at 11:32pm
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic
Marissa touches on Google's strategy at Harvard's Cyber|West conference this week... Somone is at last taking control of the Google message playbook as she echoes the Eric Schmidt's theme from earlier in the week: "although Google's process appears chaotic, our...
Filed at 12:11am