Technology Today

• Patch Tuesday's make investors jittery

  Disclosing software vulnerabilities can be bad for stock price, according to research carried out by security firm McAfee. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Investor, Financial Accounting, Finance, Microsoft Corp., Stock Price, Stock, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Investment

  Oct 13, 2008 8:28 AM PDT

• Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords

  When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Steve O\'Hear, MySpace, Google AdWords, Google Inc.

  Oct 13, 2008 8:22 AM PDT

• DOJ backs off ATI

  More good news for AMD. The Department of Justice has officially closed its antitrust investigation into ATI, the graphics chipmaker it bought in 2006. The Justice Department was investigating practices ...

  Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Richard Koman, Manufacturing

  Oct 13, 2008 8:18 AM PDT

• Peeling Back the Microsoft Oslo 'Onion'

  At the core of the Oslo onion: modeling language and repository by Joe McKendrick

  Tags: Modeling, Microsoft Corp., Oslo, Joe McKendrick, Research & Development, Business Operations

  Oct 13, 2008 7:55 AM PDT

• Deloitte laptop stolen: Clients at risk

  A stolen laptop belonging to consulting firm Deloitte contained confidential personal data belonging to 150,000 UK railway workers and all UK Vodafone staff with pensions. How ironic. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Michael Krigsman, Notebooks & Tablets, Deloitte LLP

  Oct 13, 2008 7:31 AM PDT

• A few financial home truths

  Does it take the world's worst financial crisis since the South Sea Bubble to drive home perennial truths that have always been at the core of successful businesses? Generate cash ...

  Tags: Financial, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Finance, Software-as-a-service, Billing, Emerging Technologies, Home Truth, Revenue, Operational Accounting

  Oct 13, 2008 7:26 AM PDT

• Debate around "Partial Disclosure" heats up

  There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a ...

  Tags: Researcher, Disclosure, Adam O\'Donnell, Security, Vulnerability

  Oct 13, 2008 7:23 AM PDT

• Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge

  Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet, according to a new report from Forrester. Good news for credit crunch ...

  Tags: Management, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Tool, Silicon.com, Productivity, Web, Tools & Techniques, budget

  Oct 13, 2008 7:13 AM PDT

• Negotiating with your hardware vendor 101

  Squeezing the most out of technology budgets seems to be a running theme these days, but customers frequently give up leverage in negotiating hardware deals. According to Gartner analyst Leslie ...

  Tags: Leverage, Hardware Maker, Larry Dignan, Hardware

  Oct 13, 2008 7:05 AM PDT

• Value, value and values in an open source world

  There is a distinct difference in the attitude of open source players, advocates and users. It comes down to a five-letter word, value. Or its plural, values. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Value, Open Source, Cogswell Cogs

  Oct 13, 2008 7:04 AM PDT

• Step-on scanner lets air passengers keep shoes on

  Magshoe has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons. LOD, Israel--Israel has introduced ...

  Tags: Magshoe, Scanners, Peripherals, scanner, Reuters, Hardware, Shoe, Israel, security, air travel

  Oct 13, 2008 7:01 AM PDT

• Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13

  Sun is expected to launch a major upgrade of StarOffice based on the new OpenOffice 3.0 on November 19, sources said. OpenOffice 3.0 is set to be officially launched in ...

  Tags: OpenOffice, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software, Paula Rooney, Office Suites, OpenOffice 3.0, StarOffice

  Oct 13, 2008 6:49 AM PDT

• T-Mobile BlackBerry Flip 8220 now available

  The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 aka Kickstart was announced a short while ago and today I received the press release announcing that T-Mobile customers can now pick up the T-Mobile ...

  Tags: Pearl Flip 8220, Peripherals, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Keyboards, Hardware, T-Mobile

  Oct 13, 2008 6:15 AM PDT

• Desperate times, desperate job hunting tactics

  In a recent post about tactics to help land a job in an uncertain economy I included a cartoon of a sorry-looking fellow wearing a "Will work for food" billboard ...

  Tags: Hiring, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Job, Deb Perelman, Recruitment & Selection

  Oct 13, 2008 6:00 AM PDT

• Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad

  Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at ...

  Tags: Management, Information Technology, Larry Dignan, Strategy, Gartner Inc., IT Budget

  Oct 13, 2008 5:56 AM PDT

• BlackBerry Bold sales halted in UK

  Orange has stopped selling RIM's first HSDPA handset while it works with the manufacturer on a software fix for unspecified 3G-related concerns. Orange has temporarily stopped selling the BlackBerry Bold ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Sales, UK, Handhelds, Hardware, BlackBerry Bold, Consumer Electronics, Orange, Research In Motion Ltd., 3G

  Oct 13, 2008 5:44 AM PDT

• Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model

  While the U.S. launch of WiMAX marks the debut of fast wireless Internet, the overall implications of this technology are much broader. See how this could shake up the cellular ...

  Tags: Sprint Communications, Jason Hiner, WiMAX, Network, Mobile Broadband, Broadband, Wireless, Mobile, Wi-Fi

  Oct 13, 2008 3:03 AM PDT

• Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)

  Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or ...

  Tags: Management, Information Technology, McDonald's Corp., Larry Dignan, Strategy, CIO, Gartner Inc.

  Oct 13, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• Can virtualization help when times get tough?

  When times get tough, many organizations look for new ways to reduce costs while still being able to provide their customers with the products and services they need. This appears ...

  Tags: Utility Computing, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Dan Kusnetzky, Hardware, Virtualization, Storage

  Oct 13, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple

  Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business ...

  Tags: WiMAX, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., NVidia Corp., Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Oct 13, 2008 2:07 AM PDT

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