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  • UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta

    A change to the User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7 to make it "less annoying" allows a simple override that renders UAC disabled without user interaction, reports Long Zheng at...

    Blog posts | January 30, 2009 11:49am PST

  • The Achilles' heel in Google's phone plan

    Can Google be a partner to cell phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.

    News items | November 12, 2007 4:00am PST

  • Stop the botnets!

    This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against malicious traffic which has become today a...

    Blog posts | November 9, 2007 10:07am PST

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  • The Achilles Heel of Mobile Enterprise Apps

    ...is probably not what you think it is. And it's not something within the control of developers (though IT managers sure as heck do). In order to tantalize/frustrate you a little longer, let's...

    Blog posts | November 22, 2011 7:44pm PST

  • SOA and cloud Achilles heel: too much success

    Who will pay for services the rest of the enterprise uses?

    Blog posts | September 14, 2011 7:43pm PDT

  • Speech recognition: the iOS achilles heel

    Android dominates the iOS/iPhone in terms of speech recognition and it has from the very beginning. Simply put, Android has it and iOS doesn't.

    Blog posts | May 9, 2011 12:01am PDT

  • Why Google lost the Beatles to Apple (and an Android Achilles Heel)

    Amazon and Google didn't stand a chance here. Will barriers to entry in this market keep Android, Google TV, or Amazon's digital services from ever breaking through Apple's near-monopoly?

    Blog posts | November 17, 2010 10:30am PST

  • Google's achilles heel is service delivered by people

    Google faces an increasing number of unhappy customers, and an increasing number of failed initiatives, because there aren't enough Googlers with average incomes to talk them down.

    Blog posts | May 24, 2010 5:34am PDT

  • Can Apple overcome the Tablet PC's one Achilles' heel: The keyboard?

    Apple tablet (iTablet? iSlate?) rumors are flying left, right and center. On top of that I'm being asked questions about the device that given the information that we know for sure about the...

    Blog posts | January 4, 2010 6:13am PST

  • UPDATE: Less than 24-hours on and a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel surfaces

    Yesterday was Windows 7's launch day - WooHoo! Yay! PARTAY!!! - but now that the parties are over and people are settling down to actually use their PC, a potential Windows 7 Achilles' heel emerges.

    Blog posts | October 23, 2009 5:09am PDT

  • UPDATE: Windows 7's Achilles' heel - XP Mode

    According to security firm Sophos, Microsoft risks undoing much of the work it has done on the security front over the past few years by shipping XP Mode with Windows 7.

    Blog posts | August 17, 2009 2:50pm PDT

  • Like the G1, the battery seems to be the Palm Pre's Achilles heel

    I took a look at laying out what we knew about the Palm Pre in my first Clash of the Touch Titans article and found the Pre to be an exciting device. After getting a bit of hands-on time with the...

    Blog posts | June 9, 2009 3:31am PDT

  • CTIA 09: Is the Palm Pre keyboard the Achilles heel of the device?

    Since I didn't have a chance to see the Palm Pre in person and there are no review units out yet, I couldn't really pick a favorite in my first Clash of the Touch Titans article. Last week I was...

    Blog posts | April 6, 2009 6:49am PDT

  • UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta

    A change to the User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7 to make it "less annoying" allows a simple override that renders UAC disabled without user interaction, reports Long Zheng at...

    Blog posts | January 30, 2009 11:49am PST

  • Addressing virtualization's achilles heel

    The benefits of virtualization are quite obvious but when you start to really increase the density of virtual machines in order to maximize utilization suddenly it ain't such a simple proposition....

    Blog posts | November 17, 2008 7:30am PST

  • Android Market opens up and the G1 Achilles heel is exposed

    One fun aspect about the T-Mobile G1, and I imagine the same thing occurs with the Apple iPhone, is visiting the Android Market regularly to check what applications and games have been added. I...

    Blog posts | October 27, 2008 12:12pm PDT

  • Will security become Facebook's Achilles' heel?

    Aaron Greenspan warns that Facebook is sacrificing user privacy on the altar of hyper growth.

    News items | February 22, 2008 5:00pm PST

  • The Achilles' heel in Google's phone plan

    Can Google be a partner to cell phone makers? Only if the company can force itself to beg, beguile, and bluff, says CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos.

    News items | November 12, 2007 4:00am PST

  • Stop the botnets!

    This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against malicious traffic which has become today a...

    Blog posts | November 9, 2007 10:07am PST

  • Symantec sees an Achilles' heel in Vista

    New networking technologies in Windows Vista will be less stable and secure than in XP, at least in the short term, Symantec researchers say.

    News items | July 18, 2006 11:00am PDT

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