IT News Digest

Archive: 07-2007

• Which brand of server would you recommend?

  Baseline has an article that caught my eye just the other day. It was a provocatively titled piece on Opinion: Why CIOs Should Pay Attention to Hewlett-Packard. Essentially, the author noted that...

  Posted by Paul Mah | July 11, 2007, 11:26 PM PDT

• OOXML or OOPS? Microsoft blunders in its open document specification

  A performance architect for a Fortune Fifty corporation deconstructed Microsoft’s MS-OOXML specification for open documents and found many, many poor definitions and more just plain wrong...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | July 11, 2007, 11:08 PM PDT

• Versionate: Wiki for the masses

  Another Web 2.0 application suite, Versionate, joins Google Docs, pbWiki, Social Text, and Confluence in challenging Microsoft’s Sharepoint in the collaboration area. Are you prototyping or...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | July 11, 2007, 9:21 PM PDT

• Google hack to instantly search for files

  Thanks to Jimmy Ruska’s video on YouTube, there are several quirks about phrasing search queries for Google that can find you files in a jiffy. I will detail the method and include it as a...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 11, 2007, 9:35 AM PDT

• After iPhone, it's iPhone Nano?

  CNNMoney reported yesterday that from a July 5 patent application filed by Apple for “a multifunctional handheld device with a circular touch pad control, similar to the ultra-slim...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 11, 2007, 1:13 AM PDT

• Extending your laptop's battery life

  If you are new to the IT profession and do not know it yet - shipment of laptops has already surpassed that of the traditional desktop over a year ago. It is therefore interesting to note that...

  Posted by Paul Mah | July 10, 2007, 11:27 PM PDT

• Barracuda ups the ante with zero-day threat protection

  Barracuda Networks, the creator of the famed Barracuda anti-spam hardware appliance, is adding real-time malware protection to its line of products. Called Barracuda Real-Time Protection, the...

  Posted by Paul Mah | July 10, 2007, 10:41 PM PDT

• Open source cell phone

  OpenMoko, the first manufactured open source cell phone, is now shipping to developers from the Taiwan electronics manufacturer FIC. The Neo1973 model (so named in honor of the year of the first...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | July 10, 2007, 12:32 PM PDT

• Firefox critical security vulnerability

  Security firm Secunia issued an alert today that open-source browser Firefox has a highly critical security vulnerability. Like the zero-day exploit of Safari for Windows noted last month and also...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | July 10, 2007, 10:50 AM PDT

• Google wants to be big business buddy, bought Postini

  Google will deepen its online business service suite as a result of its purchase of Postini, a provider of message security, encryption, and policy enforcement. This looks to be reinforcement for...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | July 10, 2007, 6:45 AM PDT

• 3D browser adds more features

  Last month, I did a write-up on SpaceTime 3D, a browser that provides a nifty 3D experience while browsing the Web. The SpaceTime 3D team has now added several new features to the browser,...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 10, 2007, 6:43 AM PDT

• Placing blame on the Internet for teen pregnancies

  The Internet is a perfect scapegoat, if you stop to think about it. You can blame the Internet for numerous things, including murder techniques, enabling addictions (Internet and gambling), and...

  Posted by Sonja Thompson | July 10, 2007, 6:40 AM PDT

• Nielsen revisits Web visit value, find longer visits worth more

  The Associated Press reports Nielsen, the doyen multi-media ratings service, will revise how Web ratings rank and factor for Web site visit time, on Tuesday. AJAX and other Web 2.0 tech changed...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | July 9, 2007, 11:02 PM PDT

• BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian Series 60 security breach?

  The Washington Post alerts users of BlackBerry, Symbian Series 60, and Windows Mobile cellular PDAs that their calls and messaging may not be secure. A British-owned e-spy service offers tracing...

  Posted by John Bartley K7AAY | July 9, 2007, 9:43 PM PDT

• Social networking milieu

  Rumors are rife that Yahoo is working on creating a new social networking site called “Mosh” (two sources- - TechCrunch and Pronetadvertising report). If the news is true indeed, then...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 9, 2007, 7:10 AM PDT

• Caffeine anyone?

  At the risk of stating the obvious, caffeine addiction is something well understood by the IT professionals and gurus reading the IT News Digest blog on TechRepublic. It is the absolutely...

  Posted by Paul Mah | July 8, 2007, 10:53 PM PDT

• Image spam gets fuzzy

  Fuzzy text, or Captcha, that is used to make text unrecognizable to computers (to prevent automated registrations) is now being used by spammers to prevent spam filters from recognizing images...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 8, 2007, 4:59 PM PDT

• Feedburner Premium is now free

  VNUnet reports that the premium service of the RSS news feed management provider Feedburner will now be available at no extra charge. The services include Stats PRO (to track ad metrics) and...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 8, 2007, 3:57 PM PDT

• Cyber wars: A looming threat

  The U.S. government is planning to include a “simulated cyber terrorism response” as part of its three-week exercise in September to test the financial sectors’ ability to...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 8, 2007, 12:47 PM PDT

• Power generator for wireless sensors

  Scientists at the School of Electronics & Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton, UK, have created a tiny generator less than one cubic centimeter in size that converts vibrations...

  Posted by Arun Radhakrishnan | July 8, 2007, 11:10 AM PDT