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August 11, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008 1:58 PM/EST
COBOL Terminates CA Pay PlanNot since the Terminator got crunched by that machine press has Arnold Schwarzenegger been so abused by retro-technology. Schwarzenegger wants to slash the pay of state workers in California, but it's really hard to do because of the ancient...
Monday, August 11, 2008 10:52 AM/EST
Hype Cycle, HypedGartner's Hype Cycle report lists technologies and trends that are moving through Bunyanesque stages (e.g., "Trough of Disillusionment," "Slope of Enlightenment"). The idea is that we get all excited about new things, talk them up, find out that nothing... Read more... | Comment (0) | del.icio.us | digg.com
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Monday, August 11, 2008 9:06 AM/EST
Reading Forbes So You Don't Have ToYou may not have time to wade through the meandering verbiage in this article about data-center costs by Kenneth G. Brill. That's why we're here. The gist: data center costs often are poorly understood and data center assets often... August 8, 2008
Friday, August 08, 2008 9:42 AM/EST
Bad Campaign SitesHow not to build a campaign website. Unless you're into building crummy websites. In which case, it's a how-to list. Previously: Senate Campaigns Lag Online I've criticized the Web 1.0 presentation of the Elizabeth Dole site in my home... Read more... | Comment (0) | del.icio.us | digg.com
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Friday, August 08, 2008 9:24 AM/EST
Security as a ServiceSecurity is quite the hot topic around here this week, and here's one more: a company called Zscaler is offering cloud-based internet security services. More here: [T]he cloud-based service, which is rented to companies by the month, acts like...
Friday, August 08, 2008 9:09 AM/EST
Insecurity at the Black Hat ConferenceA striking example of the limits of computer security, filed by Ben Worthen at the Black Hat conference: Within minutes of arriving on Wednesday we were warned not to use the hotel's wireless Internet network or any ATM on... August 7, 2008
Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:00 PM/EST
Big Brother Steve is Watching Your iPhoneApple's got a tight rein on the iPhone App Store -- and your iPhone. "Note that this is very different from just removing an application from the App Store. In case of this black listing, Apple could presumably deauthorize...
Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:47 AM/EST
Web Politics, Circa 2000Micah Sifry is unimpressed by MyDebates.org, a site launched by the Commission on Presidential Debates and MySpace. Very unimpressed: This is pathetic. It's like saying, "I just bought a synthesizer and all I can think to do with it...
Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:20 AM/EST
Twitter for DummiesAdam Lashinsky explains Twitter for readers who are "over 25 and don't live in a trendy coastal metropolis." The use by JetBlue for customer-service notifications should interest enterprise types (think how handy that would have been when the airline...
Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:02 AM/EST
Control Issues Cloud SaaSQuestions of control and access have always dogged software service-providers, from the days of bubble-era ASPs to the cloud vendors of today. Phil Wainewright, responding to one man's bad experience with Google, says, "Don't trust the cloud at this...
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