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Should Internet Access be a Right?
Last week, Vint Cerf, one of the undisputed fathers of the Internet, published a controversial op-ed piece in the New York Times that confronted the emerging belief that access to the Internet is a human right. He is onto something … Continue reading
Things I’d Like to See from the Appleverse in 2012
Santa was pretty good to me at Christmas, but what does he have in store for 2012? Here’s my roundup of what I want from the folks in Cupertino and elsewhere. (I hate listicles, but ’tis the season for that … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged Apple, iOS, ipad, iphone, iPhone 5, kung-fu grip, steve jobs
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Microsoft Enables XMPP in Windows Live Messenger, but Questions Remain
A lot of things happened this year to make me wonder if it isn’t time to stop covering technology for a living, but a couple of weeks ago, I was given a ray of hope, in the form of Microsoft’s … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged AIM, AOL, Apple, Google Talk, IBM, iChat, IM, instant messaging, Jabber, Lotus Sametime, microsoft, Trillian, Windows Live Messenger, XMPP
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Software Security Still More Art than Science, Says Veracode
It’s the time of the season where I clear my desk of press releases and whitepapers to make room for the year to come. Although I’m pretty good about herding stray paper into recycling bins, file folders and drawers, there … Continue reading
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Tagged cross-site scripting, developers developers developers, secure coding, Veracode, vulnerabilities
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AT&T’s Purchase of T-Mobile Collapses; Let the Finger-Pointing Begin
There will be some unhappy people this Christmas now that the acquisition of T-Mobile from AT&T is off the table. But I won’t be one of them, and I can say with a straight face that it has nothing at … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged ATT, Carly Foulkes, Deutsche Telekom, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, feds feds feds, Randall Stephenson, T-Mobile, take back the spectrum, US Department of Justice
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Casual Attitude toward Corporate Data Brings Dangers, Study Finds
Newsflash: College kids are careless. Okay, that’s not exactly stop-the-presses material, but thanks to Cisco, one can now get an idea of how careless they actually are. According to the company’s 2011 Annual Security Report, released today, over 85 percent … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged Cisco, data security, get off my lawn, right and responsibilities, security, social media, trust, young employees
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Vendors Working to Add Manageability to Kindle Fire
So it seems that this year’s hot technology gadget is the Kindle Fire. Although it seems to be dredging the ranks of potential customers for other devices such as the Apple iPad, the Amazon tablet is selling well enough, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Apple, Fiberlink, iOS, ipad, Kindle, Kindle Fire, MaaS360, mdm, mobile device management
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New Means to Secure DNS Traffic Looks Promising
If I had to pick the most vulnerable part of the Internet, my choice would be DNS. It’s far too easy to spoof, and the main stakeholders have been fairly resistant to making changes to it that would make it … Continue reading
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Tagged DNS, DNSCrypt, DNSSEC, last mile, network security, OpenDNS, security
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Drive Interfaces: TNG
It’s time to rethink drive interfaces again, if we’re going to wring the most out of solid-state drives. As Chris Mellor pointed out today on The Register, PCI Express is currently unavailable as a means to directly connect SSDs to … Continue reading
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Tagged ATA, IDE, interfaces, Non-Volatile Memory Express, NVMe, Parallel ATA, PATA, SATA, SCSI Express, Serial ATA, ST-506, storage
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Calif. Community College’s Computers Compromised Beyond Belief
SUMMARY: Colleges and universities across the country are trying to do more with less these days, and in most states, the community colleges are at the end of the funding train. Unfortunately, the last decade of belt-tightening at the City … Continue reading →