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• Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw

  Add the popular Foxit Reader to the list of desktop software applications to be patched as a matter of priority. According to vulnerability research outfit Secunia, there's a "highly critical" ...

  Tags: Management, Ryan Naraine, Secunia, Flaw, Tools & Techniques, Exploitation, Desktop, Software, Security, Patches

  May 20, 2008 11:44 AM PDT

• ISVs: XenDesktop, VDI, SolidICE offer no panacea for IT managers

  I am always skeptical about new technologies that "threaten" to transform the traditional PC desktop. In my 20 years following the PC industry, I've seen them all – server-based models, ...

  Tags: ScriptStart, Mware, Leostream, Hardware, Desktop Management, Server, Paula Rooney, Desktops

  May 20, 2008 11:36 AM PDT

• Breaking away from ERP as bookkeeping

  Most traditional business software revolves around transactions — the movements recorded in purchase orders, stock movements, bills of materials, invoices, journals and every other document that has evolved to record ...

  Tags: Asset Management, Operational Planning, ERP, Asset, Workday, Purchasing & Procurement, Finance, Procurement, Operational Accounting, Phil Wainewright

  May 20, 2008 11:31 AM PDT

• Apple under pressure to fix Safari 'carpet bomb' flaw

  The Google-backed StopBadware.org coalition has called on Apple to rethink its stance on whether the Safari "carpet bomb" issue reported by Nitesh Dhanjani constitutes a serious security risk. Dhanjani originally ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, Apple Safari, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Flaw, Apple Inc., Online Communications, Instant Messaging, Internet, Google-backed StopBadware.org Coalition, Security

  May 20, 2008 10:37 AM PDT

• MacBook Err

  A Kodawarisan reader found this MacBook Air on display at a store in AKIHABARA Japan. The MBA has what appears to be an error keyboard with an extra F10 key ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Keyboards, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 20, 2008 10:35 AM PDT

• A 13th century social network

  According to Nature News, a team of French researchers has used medieval documents to create the oldest detailed social network ever constructed. The mathematicians and computer scientists looked through thousands ...

  Tags: Roland Piquepaille, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Social Networking, Analysis

  May 20, 2008 10:27 AM PDT

• Yo Philly: iSepta perfect for Philly iPhone users

  Having spent almost 20 years in Philadelphia iSepta is one application that I can relate to. SEPTA, for the uninitiated, is the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. SEPTA runs Philly's ...

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Philadelphia, Train, Apple iPhone, Jason D. O\'Grady

  May 20, 2008 10:25 AM PDT

• TweetCube, dead simple filesharing on Twitter

  I've written before about the importance of Twitter's ecosystem, and TweetCube provides a perfect example. The service adds dead simple filesharing functionality to Twitter. Log-in to your Twitter account via ...

  Tags: Twitter, Web Site Development, TweetCube, Steve O\'Hear, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet

  May 20, 2008 10:21 AM PDT

• Investing legends circle Yahoo; Does a breakup make sense?

  The Microhoo saga has attracted a who's who list of investors to Yahoo in a big bet that Carl Icahn will force some sort of "shareholder value." The latest investing ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan, Breakup

  May 20, 2008 10:09 AM PDT

• Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better

  Loraine Lawson just posted some thoughts about the results of a new qualitative study, sponsored by SAP and conducted in conjunction with the University of St. Gallen, which suggests that ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Joe McKendrick, Software, SOA, Enterprise Software

  May 20, 2008 9:20 AM PDT

• Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videos

  Sen. Joe Lieberman wants Google to take down terrorist videos from YouTube. In a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman wrote: Many of the videos produced by one of ...

  Tags: YouTube Inc., Video, Marketing, Richard Koman, Lieberman Software Corp, Corporate Communications, Google Inc.

  May 20, 2008 9:08 AM PDT

• 189 bln mobile messages sent in 2007

  189 bln mobile messages have been sent by US mobile-phone subscribers in 2007. Gartner forecasts 301 bln mobile messages sent in 2008. Those figures would still account for only a ...

  Tags: Mobile-phone, Advertising & Promotion, AM, Marketing, Mobile Message, Mobile

  May 20, 2008 9:03 AM PDT

• Moore's Law and health care

  Roland Piquepaille's latest take on nanobots in the bloodstream has me reflecting on the greatest force we have available for surviving health care inflation. Moore's Law. Moore's Law, the idea ...

  Tags: Law, Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Moore, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  May 20, 2008 8:47 AM PDT

• Triple booting into Vista, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu on a Fujitsu U810 UMPC

  A few weeks ago Jason D. O'Grady posted about the news that a person was able to get Mac OS X running on an OQO. Prior to that Kevin Tofel ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Matthew Miller, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Notebooks & Tablets, Device, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Ultramobile PC, Ubuntu

  May 20, 2008 8:20 AM PDT

• DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed

  Yesterday, Ferruh Mavituna of Portcullis released a whitepaper entitled "DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards", with some  insightful comments on how it's possible to multiply the attack tactics discussed to the ...

  Tags: Databases, Dancho Danchev, Credit Card, Hardware, Microsoft SQL Server, Data Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Denial Of Service, SQL

  May 20, 2008 8:18 AM PDT

• Are you wary of the insider on the outside?

  Whenever the risks from the inside threat are discussed, it's usually about the disgruntled/malicious employee within the firewall abusing permissions to steal data or plant malware in sensitive parts of ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, Marketing Research, Marketing, Account, Security

  May 20, 2008 7:37 AM PDT

• Wyse, HP hope XenDesktop will drive thin client sales

  Wyse and HP have launched new lines of thin clients that are optimized for Citrix's XenDesktop and the virtualized desktop. Citrix's much anticipated XenDesktop, which will compete against VMware's VDI ...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Sales, Citrix Systems Inc., Desktop, Hardware, Thin Client, Wyse Technology Inc., Paula Rooney, Desktop Virtualization, Thin Clients

  May 20, 2008 7:35 AM PDT

• SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident

  While it is still early days, SAP Business ByDesign customers are quietly confident the service will deliver value. Earlier today, David Suntinger, corporate development at WIMA, a German engineering business ...

  Tags: SAP AG, Dennis Howlett, Finance, Operational Accounting, Payroll

  May 20, 2008 7:31 AM PDT

• MokaFive announces general availability of LivePC desktop-as-a-service offering

  MokaFive, a desktop virtualization company, has announced the general release of v.10 of its Virtual Desktop Solution, a cross-platform desktop-as-a-service DaaS product. The Redwood City, Calif. company says its DaaS ...

  Tags: MokaFive Virtual Desktop Solution, Hardware, Dana Gardner, Desktops, MokaFive Professional, MokaFive

  May 20, 2008 7:28 AM PDT

• Intel to revamp processor lineup for Q3 08

  I'm hearing rumors from a number of sources that suggest that Intel is planning another round of price cuts for existing CPUs and also the introduction of new processors for ...

  Tags: Components, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Intel Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Price, Intel Core 2 Duo

  May 20, 2008 7:07 AM PDT

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