- Private browsing becomes the new cool feature.
- First Apple's Safari had it. Then came IE 8 (with "InPrivate) and Google Chrome (with "Incognito"). Now, here comes Mozilla, on track to deliver a privacy mode feature in Firefox version 3.1, scheduled for release next month. In everyday circles, the feature - regardless of what its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Hollywood preps new copyright bills
- Declan McCullagh reports over at News.com that Hollywood is gearing up for another copyright expansion attack. Two major bills this time: No. 1 is the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act, sponsored by Leahy and Specter, the ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It...
- Tags: American Library Association, Hollywood, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Federal Government, Tv & Home Theater, Purchasing & Procurement, Research & Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Browser Wars 2.0: Firefox scrambles to add 'private mode' browsing
- At Black Hat last month, when I spoke to Mozilla security chief Window Snyder, she made it clear that Private Browsing would not make it into the next revision of Firefox. Today, the open-source group all but announced that the privacy feature, which puts the browser into...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- The LHC and the importance of pure research
- America often has difficulties funding pure research because, as a society that sees itself as market-oriented, there is a misperception that such funding smacks of socialist central planning. The reality, however, is that pure research is often one of the places where government money can add the most value....
- Tags: Europe, Health Care, Government, Vertical Industries, Taxes, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Hackers deface LHC site, came close to turning off particle detector
- Is it now cyberwar over atom-smashing? A team of Greek hackers calling themselvses Greek Security Team has penetrated the Large Hadron Collider and defaced a public website. No real damage done, but the hackers got perilously close. The hackers attacked the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, or...
- Tags: Hacker, Content Management System, LHC, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- What the business doesn't know about SOA won't hurt it (Part 2)
- Â Maybe that "blank stare" suggests that the business needs a bit more of an explanation on how the system is more streamlined and agile, and will save mucho bucks. Thanks to Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder. by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Business, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- A mezzanine for your final days
- A mezzanine facility would accept its patients' physical infirmities but allow them to stretch their minds. It would feature technology, partly to reduce nursing costs, but also partly to keep the patient in touch with the world outside by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mezzanine, Insurance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- What the business doesn't know about SOA won't hurt it
- Many parts of SOA are likely to remain pure IT problems by Joe McKendrick
- Tags: Information Technology, Business, SOA, Jeff, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Feds to continue highway money flow. But mass transit?
- I recently blogged about the lower gasoline sales and lower federal revenue leading to a nearly broke Highway Trust Fund. The US government now finds that Trust Fund worthy of a bail-out, paltry next to the debts of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, tiny compared to the fed guarantees...
- Tags: Job, Green Technology, Detroit, Money, Government, Taxes, Recruitment & Selection, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Yahoo: Open is not just 'Flavor of the Month.'
- It's Open Hack Day at Yahoo and the developers pulling an all-nighter at the company's Sunnyvale headquarters tonight will have the opportunity to dig into some of the most popular destinations on the Web, including Yahoo Mail. The company this week laid out its strategy for opening its suite of...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Still loving my BlackBerry
- I've lived with my BlackBerry for over a month now and I can honestly say that it's changed the way I work and play. I made sure to snag one for my assistant who handles the elementary schools in our district, too. Because so much of the support...
- Tags: Google Inc., Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Apple plugs iPhone code execution holes
- Apple's long-awaited iPhone 2.1 software update was released today with patches for at least eight security vulnerabilities, some of which could lead to remote code execution attacks. The most serious of the documented flaws affect the built-in Safari browser and could lead to code execution if an...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Apple Inc., Domain Names, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Gates and Seinfeld - Part Deux
- OK, so the second Microsoft ad featuring the team of Gates and Seinfeld is out. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Advertisement, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- It's all email's fault
- Study after study calls email out as a productivity-killer, yet it isn't going anywhere. The only solution is to adopt techniques that keep it from taking your day off-course. by Deb Perelman
- Tags: Worker, E-mail, Online Communications, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Firmware 2.1 arrives for iPhone (updated 2x)
- Apple has started pushing out the iPhone 2.1 firmware via iTunes. The 237.8MB update is available by connecting your iPhone to iTunes and clicking on the update button. Luckily I spent last night backing up my iPhone. Â The published list of changes includes: decrease...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Firmware, Apple iTunes, Firmware 2.1, 3G Icon, 3G, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Secret of red wine revealed
- It's an enzyme called Aldehyde dehydrogenase. Specifically it's a version of this enzyme designated as ALDH-2. Used to burn off alcohol in the liver, it also acts against toxins released when fats break down during a heart attack. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Study, Wine, Team Management, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- The iPhone 2.1 update is here. But, psych, you can't install it...
- Talk about cruel. I can't remember the last time I was genuinely excited by the thought of an incremental system update, but there I was, checking iTunes first thing this morning to see if the 2.1 software was available for the iPhone 3G I've been using. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Thought, 3G, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift
- Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, KDE, GTK, Linux, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk, Canonical, open source, Gnome
- News items 2008-09-12
- Google Chrome has Microsoft's code inside, says MS manager
- A senior program manager at Microsoft claims that Google took some open-source code from Microsoft and used it in their Chrome browser. And it's perfectly legal. From Rupert Goodwin's blog on ZDNet UK: And furthermore, he says, that's a good thing. A great...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Hanselman, Blogging, Internet, open source, Chrome, Google, Microsoft, IE, Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-09-12
- Apple rolls back problem driver in new iTunes 8 update
- A few days after users began complaining that iTunes 8 was causing Windows systems to crash, Apple has rolled out a new version of iTunes 8 intended to fix the problem. I've looked at the latest update and discovered that the "new" USB driver included with this release is actually...
- Tags: Blue Screen, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
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