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Taming Online Identity Management
The beauty of cloud-based applications is that any employee with a credit card (and sometimes not even that) can provision really useful corporate services on the fly. The ugliness of cloud-based applications is that any employee can provision services on … Continue reading
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
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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
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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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Just git pushed the WordPress 3.3 update. Watching for assorted explosions now…
December 12, 2011
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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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Penguin Computers, Assembled in Silicon Valley
I think Fremont, Calif. counts as being part of the Valley, so I was shocked to find out that Penguin Computing has an assembly line there. People actually assemble racks of high performance Penguin designed computers, along with high speed … Continue reading
Right now I’m working on a review of Apprenda’s .NET PaaS. I’m struck by how much less convenient dependency-installation always is w/ the Microsoft stack, compared to Linux. I wonder how CoApp is faring these days… share:
December 9, 2011
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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 →