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• The key to an open, transparent malware filtering system

  * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Max Weinstein It's no secret that Web sites have become a medium of choice for delivering malware and soliciting personal information ...

  Tags: Web Site, Ryan Naraine, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security

  Jul 09, 2008 8:43 AM PDT

• Google has legacy system issues too

  Google's growth has led to redundant systems and the need for a "Project Spaghetti" designed to unravel the potential rat's nest. That's one of the big items in a Wall ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Armstrong, Legacy System, YouTube Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 8:22 AM PDT

• Open source lending tinged with racism

  If open source lending is to work out the problem of racism must be fixed. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Loan, Racism

  Jul 09, 2008 8:16 AM PDT

• Attacking phishing at the source

  Good news on the phishing front. Google reports that they are now authenticating all e-mail that purports to come from eBay and PayPal. Using e-mail authentication standards including DomainKeys and ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Spam And Phishing, Bank, Online Communications, PayPal, E-mail, eBay Inc., Robin Harris, Security, E-mail Authentication

  Jul 09, 2008 8:08 AM PDT

• Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in August

  The long wait for SQL Server 2008 is nearly over. At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston on July 9, Bob Kelly, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Infrastructure Server Marketing, ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Enterprise Software

  Jul 09, 2008 8:06 AM PDT

• Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers

  It's a common problem in computer science: how do you get data from one part of your program to another part? What if the two parts were written by different ...

  Tags: RPC, Web Development, Hardware, Ed Burnette, Networking, Software/Web Development, Software Development, Programming Languages, XML, Google Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 7:48 AM PDT

• MSI Wind notebook hits stores, promptly sells out?

  The much-delayed MSI Wind has finally started to ship -- well, sort of. Pre-orders for the mini machine have started to ship, supposedly. Newegg, Fry's, Buy.com and others are supposed ...

  Tags: Serial ATA, Components, Microsoft Windows XP, MSI Wind, Hardware, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Chipsets, Notebook, Andrew Nusca

  Jul 09, 2008 7:35 AM PDT

• On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire

  The road to "Midori" is paved with lots of other Microsoft codenames, according to tipsters who've been coming out of the woodwork since I made public my latest couple of ...

  Tags: .Net, Software Development, Midori, MinSafe, Codename, Microsoft Windows, Managed Code, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

  Jul 09, 2008 7:18 AM PDT

• Keeping the web open, by letting the EU deal with things

  Privacy International have said that Google's new Street View tool could breach data protection laws if people's faces are shown, according to the BBC, whereas the creator of the web, ...

  Tags: Imagery, Europe, Channel Management, Zack Whittaker, Web, Marketing, European Commission, Street View, Google Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 5:45 AM PDT

• VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper

  It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks ...

  Tags: Management, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Jason Perlow, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Virtualization, VMware Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 5:00 AM PDT

• NVIDIA helping to bring PhysX to the Radeon GPU

  Here's an interesting development. Remember last week I blogged about a third-party project that was attempting to bring PhysX support (NVIDIA-owned technology) to the Radeon GPU? Well, it now appears ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Marketing, DVD, Corporate Communications, NVidia Corp., Home Entertainment, Public Relations, Hd Dvd, GPU, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 4:54 AM PDT

• How to: Using TrueCrypt 6 to hide an operating system

  When I read about a new release of TrueCrypt (open source, free ...), and found out that using this software you could essentially have a hidden OS and a visible ...

  Tags: Operating System, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, TrueCrypt 6, Password, TrueCrypt Boot Loader

  Jul 09, 2008 4:21 AM PDT

• VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits

  Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence ...

  Tags: Management, Financial Services, Financing Startups, Venture Capital, Mark Cannice, Entrepreneurship, Confidence, IPO, VC, Investment

  Jul 09, 2008 3:39 AM PDT

• Mossberg, Pogue and Baig pass judgment on the iPhone 3G

  The top trio of Apple fanboys (Mossberg, Pogue and Baig) pass judgment on the iPhone 3G. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Apple Inc., Battery, Pogue, Baig, Apple iPhone, Wireless, Consumer Electronics

  Jul 09, 2008 3:27 AM PDT

• Parallels Operating System Virtualization for HP Integrity Line

  An announcement when out last week that Parallels and HP have chosen to collaborate and offer Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to HP Integrity server customers. The goal of this partnership is ...

  Tags: OS Virtualization, Operating System, Dan Kusnetzky, Hardware, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, HP Integrity, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linux

  Jul 09, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?

  Google has entered the virtual world game with a project called Lively and Second Life and IBM have pulled off a few interoperability experiments. Add it up and we may ...

  Tags: Virtual World, Larry Dignan, Avatar, Google Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 2:08 AM PDT

• News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

  Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, HP iPAQ 910, Apple iPhone, Consumer Electronics, Domain Names, 3G, Cellular Phones, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 2:06 AM PDT

• Harry Potter and the da Vinci book of Sudoku

  The really weird part about a title combining Harry Potter with Da Vinci and Suduko is that there's an open source context in which the linkage makes some sense - ...

  Tags: Open Source, Paul Murphy, Internet, Blogging, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Title, Google Inc.

  Jul 09, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Should free broadband be neutral?

  A lot of politicians are bandying about the idea of licensing unused or underutilized radio frequencies to create a free, nationwide broadband network. As the US gets repeatedly dinged for ...

  Tags: Telecommunications, Network Technology, Christopher Dawson, Networking, Broadband, Broadband Internet

  Jul 08, 2008 11:04 PM PDT

• Summer reading for kids

  A user on Slashdot asked yesterday for summer science fiction reading suggestions for his preteen kids. There were, of course, plenty of great thoughts from other Slashdot members that included ...

  Tags: Kid, Christopher Dawson, Slashdot

  Jul 08, 2008 10:41 PM PDT

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