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STORAGEReal-ID - Fake SecurityThe always thoughtful and incisive Bruce Schneier is out with his latest CRYPTO-GRAM. He’s got an interesting take on a government-mandated $11 billion personal storage program: Real-ID.No debate, n read more Storage Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | Storage White PapersMore White Papers |
IT MANAGEMENTSome of us in the technology community get pretty passionate about our views. That’s a good thing, right? But we’re all better served by – at least attempting – a somewhat dispassionate view that there are reasonable alternatives to a given issue. read moreIT Management Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | IT Management White PapersMore White Papers |
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTIBM aims business software suite at Linux desktopsIBM has released its new Open Client Solution for business, a package of office software applications that supports several operating systems, including Linux and Windows. In particular, the Linux bus read more Software Development Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | Software Development White PapersMore White Papers |
DATA MANAGEMENTTalking about privacyCool. The European Privacy Counsel at Google, Peter Fleischer, has a blog. And it is a good one. I found the post on three ideas to update data protection especially interesting, as yours truly’s slowest PhD ever is looking at the failings of Data Protection Law, SOX and software. read more Data Management Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | Data Management White PapersMore White Papers |
PLATFORMSIDC: Linux Ecosystem Worth $40 Billion by 2010Sizing the Linux market ecosystem is no easy task. Downloads of Linux operating systems and applications are not an accurate measure. Analyst firm IDC, however, has a handle on the market and its size, and it’s large. At the Linuxworld Open Solutions Summit, which kicked off today in New York, IDC analysts detailed where they see the Linux ecosystem today and where it is headed by 2010. read more Platforms Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | Platforms White PapersMore White Papers |
NETWORKINGOne subscriber, two subscribers, three...When building a product, your top priority should always be the needs of your users. Here on the Google Reader team, we pride ourselves in being responsive to the complaints and feature requests of those who read feeds using our service. Today, though, we're announcing a feature for a different group: the publishers of those feeds. read more Networking Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | Networking White PapersMore White Papers |
SECURITYNew Firefox Cookie Vulnerability + Workaround Security researcher/hacker, Michal Zalewski has released a report on a security vulnerability affecting Firefox 2.0.0.1 and possibly earlier versions. The vulnerability could allow a malicious web site to impersonate an authentic one and set a cookie on its behalf. This could be used to perform cross-window and cross-frame attacks compromising personal information exchanged via Ajax. Zalewski has released a test case that demonstrate the vulnerability.It has already been filed to Bugzilla for its resolution. In the meantime, Zalewski recommends this workaround:
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WIRELESS
I've been using Live Search for Mobile for
the past 24 hours and it is hot, hot, hot.
I was in the car just now and wanted to call the Metropolitan
Grill to confirm our dinner reservations. Usually this involves calling 411, talking
to some lame voice recognition system and then repeating myself to a human while getting
charged mucho dinero for this "service". With Live
Search for Mobile, it was dead easy to select "Seattle, Washington" from the canned
list of metropolitan areas, type my search term ("metropolitan grill") and then call
the number in the search results.
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ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONSI tend to avoid publishing SAP press releases (unless I’m complaining about them) on my blog, especially as you can now get them with an RSS feed from www.sap.com read moreEnterprise Applications Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | Enterprise Applications White PapersMore White Papers |
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENTCame across a thought-provoking question at BelowTheLine - is HTML the new typing?Reminds me of the old Dilbert cartoon (which doesn't seem to be online anywhere I can find) in which Ratbert complains that he never bothered to learn how to type because there were secretaries to do that, and then suddenly computers were everywhere and he was helpless because he had no idea how to use them. read moreKnowledge Management Blog EntriesMore Blog Entries | Knowledge Management White PapersMore White Papers |
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