Protection racket, same old software, snubbed founder...
From here, there and everywhere in our blogosphere..... network security specialist George Ou reports that a French security company which sells early exploit warning services has released a zero-day exploit that attacks Microsoft's browser. How low can you get?..... In his Software as services blog, Phil Wainewright suggests a new phrase to identify on-demand applications unworthy of the name -- call them SoSaaS for Same old Software, as a Service. Acronyms aside, ZDNet reader Jonathon Doe considers the Software as a service model technologically unsound..... From IT Facts comes this statistic: 80% of corporate PCs are infected with adware/spyware.....And here, in Between the Lines, Dana Gardner sees Sybase set to serve the mobile enterprise, while David Berlind reports on OSI's snubbing of co-founder Bruce Perens....