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• Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail

  Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key ...

  Tags: Bail, Prosecutor, Network, Richard Koman, Networking, Sheriff, Administrator

  Jul 23, 2008 2:03 PM PDT

• 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison

  Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson left, also known as ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, Federal Prison Camp, Online Communications, E-mail, Security, Internal Revenue Service, Restitution

  Jul 23, 2008 2:03 PM PDT

• No e-commerce worries here: Amazon doubles earnings

  Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share, on ...

  Tags: Sales, Finance, Sales Strategy, Larry Dignan, Earnings, Amazon.com Inc., E-business, Sales Force Management, Revenue, Quarter

  Jul 23, 2008 1:15 PM PDT

• Bausch & Lomb puts new CIO in charge of customer service

  Eye care company Bausch & Lomb has given its CIO the customer service reins. On Wednesday, the company named Alan Farnsworth, senior vice president of customer service and information technology ...

  Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, Larry Dignan, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Product Marketing, Bausch & Lomb Inc., CIO, Software, Enterprise Software

  Jul 23, 2008 12:02 PM PDT

• iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws

  Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an ...

  Tags: Spam, Ryan Naraine, Apple Safari, Spam And Phishing, Flaw, Aviv Raff, Spamming, Security, Apple iPhone, Phishing

  Jul 23, 2008 11:58 AM PDT

• Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service

  Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way ...

  Tags: Google PageRank, Ryan Naraine, Attacker, Network, DShield, Internet, Networking, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Security

  Jul 23, 2008 11:21 AM PDT

• Executive 'sleepership'

  Strong executive sponsorship is a practical necessity for achieving successful IT projects. But what about those so-called sponsors who fail to engage and follow through on the responsibilities of their ...

  Tags: Management, Executive Sponsorship, Information Technology, Strategy, Michael Krigsman, CIO, Laurie

  Jul 23, 2008 11:12 AM PDT

• Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?"

  The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Unemployment, Workforce Management, Intuit Inc., Tom Foremski, Job, Recruitment & Selection

  Jul 23, 2008 10:05 AM PDT

• How sick is Steve Jobs?

  Apple Inc.'s stonewalling over this material corporate event says something very bad about the company. It says they're totally dependent on Jobs, that no one can tell him no on ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Cancer, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Steve Jobs, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  Jul 23, 2008 10:02 AM PDT

• MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

  Today, MindTouch Deki releases Kilen Woodds, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Aaron Fulkerson, Collaboration, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Management Option, Mashup, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Microsoft Corp., Databases

  Jul 23, 2008 10:01 AM PDT

• Free the XBOX 360!!!

  It's good that Microsoft has begun to allow home users to create XBOX 360 games that they can sell through XBOX Live. Microsoft, however, could do so much more with ...

  Tags: TV, Game Players, Personal Technology, Microsoft Corp., Game Console, Games, Consumer Electronics, Microsoft Xbox, John Carroll

  Jul 23, 2008 9:29 AM PDT

• Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA

  Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application. ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Sun Java Studio Creator, Entellium, Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart, Hardware, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Desktop Application, Desktops

  Jul 23, 2008 9:18 AM PDT

• Ultra-light micro air vehicles

  Dutch engineers have built the third generation of the DelFly autonomous air vehicle. The DelFly Micro made its first public flight earlier today in Delft. This micro air vehicle weighs ...

  Tags: Roland Piquepaille, Micro, Gram, Photograph, Centimeter

  Jul 23, 2008 9:10 AM PDT

• Enterprise communities: build or join?

  Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps ...

  Tags: Site, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Social Media, Social Networking, Facebook, Customer, Jennifer Leggio, Network, Advertising & Promotion

  Jul 23, 2008 9:07 AM PDT

• Social browser Flock wants to be fashionable

  It's actually a pretty clever strategy by Flock: Build customized versions of the company's social browser, populated with vertically-targeted content from an array of partners -- and in return expose ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Flock, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear, Web Browser, Marketing, Internet, Entertainment, RSS

  Jul 23, 2008 8:58 AM PDT

• 166 Frames of Fame

  "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop ...

  Tags: Gawker, Blog, Post, Warhol, Internet, Blogging, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

  Jul 23, 2008 8:38 AM PDT

• Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

  Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking ...

  Tags: Linux, Ubuntu, Operating System, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Mark Shuttleworth, Desktops

  Jul 23, 2008 8:28 AM PDT

• COPA is unconstitutional

  The Third Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional, AP reports. In its ruling Tuesday, the federal appeals court concluded that the ...

  Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act, Third Circuit, Government, Richard Koman, Parental Control

  Jul 23, 2008 8:23 AM PDT

• MSI to build LG's X110 netbook?

  MSI has been pretty successful grabbing headlines with their Wind -- and it seems they've impressed LG, too. Today's DigiTimes is reporting that LG is hoping to solicit MSI's services ...

  Tags: Components, Memory, Microsoft Windows XP, Hardware, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, MSI, Microsoft Windows, Andrew Nusca, Semiconductors

  Jul 23, 2008 8:09 AM PDT

• What people hate most about health insurance

  In a public system bureaucracy is just waste. But in a private system, bureaucracy is a profit center. As the debate over health care heats up, this is the point ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Bureaucracy, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Carrier, Health Insurance, Benefits

  Jul 23, 2008 8:00 AM PDT

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