Opinion

Hack my iPhone – please

Most high school kids spend their last summer before college bumming around Europe, chillin' at the beach, or hangin' with their homies. Not George Hotz. The 17 year old from New Jersey spent his summer with a soldering iron, an iPhone, and

Get paranoid: There’s a spook in your inbox

Reason No. 7: Every call is a could-be conference call with Uncle Sam

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Get paranoid: Google knows what you searched last summer

Reason No. 2: Lusting after your personal data is the lifeblood of this beast

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Get paranoid: Zombies abound

Reason No. 5: Hackers, crackers, and phishers — need we say more?

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Get paranoid: The Feds are on your tail

Reason No. 3: That letter in your doctor's hand may be hazardous to your health

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Get paranoid: Your ISP knows too much

Reason No. 4: Detailed logs. Of everything you've ever done online

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Get paranoid: Your Wi-Fi net is wide open

Reason No. 8: Oh, I'll just hop on to this FraudDaddy3 Wi-Fi connection and pay bills while I wait for the bus

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Get paranoid: Your boss is watching

Reason No. 1: Privacy and the workplace just don't mix

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Get paranoid: Information brokers are bungling your data

Reason No. 6: Shoddy report vendors put the "credit" in discrediting your reputation

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Get paranoid: Hollywood wants to terminate you

Reason No. 10: Copping the latest 50 Cent single could translate to doing time

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Top 10 reasons to be paranoid

Every bit of your virtual existence is being monitored — get scared accordingly

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Aug 27, 2007 1 min

Get paranoid: You are your own worst enemy

Reason No. 9: Having 185 million close personal friends does have its downside

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Aug 27, 2007 1 min

When it pays to be paranoid

Your privacy is at risk; good thing there’s something you can do about it

By Steve Fox

Aug 27, 2007 3 mins

Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Parallels Quick Hits – 3.0 Beta 2 and New Distributors

Parallels announced that Beta 2 of the Parallels Desktop 3.0 update has been made available on the Website. Beta 2 adds a few new features to the product. You can automatically share movies, picutes, music and documents (and desktops!) between Window

Aug 26, 2007 1 min

Last shot at tough CEOs

Response from the CEO responsible for "Defending tough CEOs," Advice Line, 8/22/2007:Well, seems we disagree. I don't condone, I don't defend. What I know is that top performers need to be and are READY for the grist mill of worki

By Bob Lewis

Aug 26, 2007 3 mins

Green Grid Outlines 2007 Roadmap

The Green Grid, a nonprofit organization looking at datacenter power and efficiency, outlined its 2007 deliverables and technology roadmap. The group, launched back in February, includes such notable technology companies such as AMD, IBM, Intel, Mic

Aug 26, 2007 3 mins

VMware CEO Voted One of Top Five Women in Tech

If you have ever had the opportunity to speak with or hear Diane Greene speak, you would immediately recognize and identify with her passion for virtualization. Along with her intelligence and business savvy, it is this passion that has helped her to

Aug 26, 2007 1 min

Silverlight Versionitis

Earlier this week, I started delving into Silverlight in earnest. Browsing Silverlight samples to understand what was possible with the two versions of Silverlight was great, but I very quickly became frustrated when I trie

Aug 25, 2007 3 mins

Email from an Iraqi Military Interpreter

As you know, I almost never discuss politics in this blog. Nevertheless, I think you should follow this link: Interesting Times: The New Yorker: Email from an Iraqi Military Interpreter…

Aug 25, 2007 1 min

Server Vendors Driving Green Datacenters

The lack of space to expand a datacenter's footprint is a growing problem today for many organizations. Perhaps an even bigger problem being faced by these organizations is the rising power and cooling costs associated with today's datacent

Aug 25, 2007 1 min

3D Programming for Windows

Charlie Petzold was one of the pioneer Windows development writers, along with Paul Yao and a few others. I didn't write my first Windows development book until 1992, and by then Charlie's books were so well-established that I consciously p

Aug 24, 2007 1 min

Apple iPhone unlocked — so what!

The blogosphere and the online news sites are full of reports that the iPhone has been untethered from the AT&T SIM chip. Not by any decision from either Apple or AT&T but through the efforts a various individuals and independent groups that

By Ephraim Schwartz

The Perfmon Dilema

It's no wonder that so many vendors are always trying to come up with a decent realtime monitoring tool. The MS tool Perfmon is good, but for monitoring a lot of counters, it can get kinda thick. The trouble is, for all the technology out there,

By Sean McCown

Aug 24, 2007 4 mins

Databases

Geek Week in Review

Got week? We got news. Here are some of the weirder items to cross my desk of late. Bust a cap in your access. ISPs across the nation experienced an Internet slowdown last Sunday due to problems with Level 3 Communications' fiber backbone outsid

High-Performance Computing Technology Industry

AMD’s marketing chief bails, HP leads blade market, Sun targets transactional memory, Tilera’s new 64-core chip, and more

<p>Sorry for the absence this week. I was working on other projects. In today's enterprise HPC overview we find that AMD's marketing chief bails and leaves PC industry, HP leads blade server market, Sun targets transactional memory fo

By John West

Aug 24, 2007 3 mins

Open source storage gets a virtual lift

Coraid brings network-based virtualization to ATA over Ethernet

By Mario Apicella

Aug 24, 2007 4 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Honeypots as sticky as ever

New developments make honeypots even more valuable

By Roger Grimes

Aug 24, 2007 5 mins

Careers Security

Fake Larry Ellison Blog

A few months back, the Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) blog was making its around the internet. It's a reasonably funny satire that shines a light on technology CEOs and Silicon Valley in general. It's funnier than it sounds as you read Steve ranting

By Zack Urlocker

Open Source

SUN = JAVA?

I'm sure someone with better insight than I (evil Geir?) thought this was a great idea. Schwartz states: "Most know Java, few know Sun – we can bring the two one step closer." I don't understand why Sun would want to market the fa

By Savio Rodrigues

Open Source

Plan your next printer purchase carefully

Last year I bought a Samsung 1700 series laser printer for the amazing low price of $40, after the rebate. Boy, was I happy. I do most of my printing in the office so for about a year this home/office printer served me in good stead. Then I needed to

By Ephraim Schwartz

Aug 23, 2007 2 mins

Compuware challenges developers

Compuware is running a contest called the "Broken Code Challenge," in which developers must spot the errors in a sampling of code. Participants are eligible for prizes ranging from a Starbuck's gift certificate to a Bose stereo, with o

By Paul Krill

Aug 23, 2007 1 min

AOL goes AWOL

AOL – or at least the Webmail portion of the service – appears to have pulled a Skype. According to postings on AOL's webmail messageboards, the service has been inaccessible for roughly 24 hours, with no explanation forthcoming as t

Aug 23, 2007 2 mins

Test Center Tracker: Lotus Notes is new again

Notes lives! If you're still thinking of Lotus Notes as a giant, awkward, and ornery beast, or as a decrepit desktop version of the Winchester Mystery House, look again. Mike Heck previews the modernly modular and mashup-friendly Lotus Notes and

By Doug Dineley

Aug 23, 2007 1 min

Freebase is open

Freebase, which I discussed just the other day, has now opened to anyone, at least for reading and searching. Registering so that you can contribute to the site still requires an invitation. I have 20 invitations, and I can probabl

Aug 23, 2007 1 min

Chillin’ at the HP datacenter

A video tour of HP's test lab datacenter reveals some of the company's cool CRAC innovations

By Ted Samson

Aug 23, 2007 4 mins

Kiss and make up with IT?

The Wall Street Journal balances its recent slam of IT departments with a pseudo-apology that does more harm than good

By David Margulius

Aug 23, 2007 3 mins

Careers

StorageCraft Updates ShadowProtect – Server and Desktop Backup

StorageCraft Technology, provider of disk-based backup and disaster recovery for Windows-based servers, desktops and laptops, announced upgrades to its ShadowProtect backup and disaster recovery software. ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowPr

Aug 23, 2007 2 mins

Can You Name 10 Virtualization Companies To Watch?

With VMware's IPO and Citrix's planned acquisition of XenSource, people are starting to wonder if saying that your product lives in the red hot virtualization camp automatically gets you brownie points… or even better! NetworkWorld recent

2 MOBILE 2 MOVE

You might be wondering why I posted nothing last week. I was in the Bay Area tapping the ample brains of people from Apple, Sun Microsystems and Adobe, and traipsing about at LinuxWorld Expo in my spare time. But my true reason for existing last wee

By Tom Yager

Aug 22, 2007 3 mins

WSO2 adds Web services for PHP, C

Open source middleware vendor WSO2 this week launched Web services frameworks for the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) and C languages. WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP), 1.0 is a framework for provision and consumption of Web services in PHP

By Paul Krill

Sun celebrates green datacenter innovations and tools

As part of its Eco Innovation Initiative, Sun shined a green-hued spotlight on its massive datacenter consolidation efforts yesterday and unveiled a host of tools and services to help datacenter operators inject some energy-efficiency and eco-friendl

By Ted Samson

Microsoft LiveWriter64

First and foremost, many thanks to Joe Cheng of the Microsoft LiveWriter team for rushing through his burrito to help me out. LiveWriter for 64bit platforms (Windows XP 64, Vista Business, etc) installs a slightly different version

By Brian Chee

Process Monitor

As long as I'm giving away my secret weapons, I should probably mention Process Monitor, by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. There are lots of times when I need to figure out how Windows, IE, Firefox, or some application does somet

Aug 22, 2007 1 min

Defending tough CEOs

Dear Bob …I was surprised that you even bothered to comment on that letter ("How to deal with a really bad CEO," Advice Line, 8/8/2007) for advice.People want to play close to the heartbeat but can't stand the thumping sound – get ov

By Bob Lewis

SOA ROI in Question?

Everyone is talking about this study from Nucleus Research stating that SOA is having limited success when considering ROI. "Only 37% of enterprises have achieved a positive ROI from SOA deployments." Michael Krigsman followed up with his c

By Dave Linthicum

Aug 22, 2007 3 mins

Sorry Google, VMware is After Valley’s Best

A little known technology company called VMware just got a lot more famous in Silicon Valley and the financial world after its monstrously successful stock IPO – raising just over $1 billion. And now, just as expected, the company is looking to grow.

HP support: Cross-eyed and brainless

I have to admit, Hewlett Packard has kind of fallen off my radar lately. It hasn't had a spy scandal in months. (Though it is getting sued by four of the reporters who got snooped on.) It continues to sell PCs at a feverish pace, while Dell sink

Closed iPhone opens road for Linux phones

With iPhone a closed platform, Linux gets an wide-open road for phones and other smart devices Linux developers have been dying for a phone of their own ever since Sharp killed the Zaurus Linux-based PDA. Apple's decision to close iPhone to 3rd-

By Tom Yager

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Does Vista suck?

Though not without its warts, Microsoft's much maligned OS gets the job done for enterprise users

By Oliver Rist

Aug 22, 2007 7 mins

The Impact of Virtualization Software on Environments

Virtualization of system resources aboard x86 servers is one technology that has the distinct potential to really change the dynamics of the industry in many ways as it quickly becomes a de facto component of modern computing. Today's use of vir

Aug 22, 2007 1 min