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After all, this software "does for Mac OS X what VMware Workstation did for the Windows and Linux world — full-bl By Stephanie McLoughlin Jun 11, 2007 1 min Technology Industry SOA and Cancelled Flights I speak a lot, and thus travel a lot. I've learned through the years to use a system I call being "tri-redundant." That means if I'm speaking at a conference on Wednesday afternoon, I book a flight that will get me there the day b By Dave Linthicum Jun 11, 2007 2 mins Software Development Sin City Like rubber neckers at a train wreck, the mainstream media just can't let go of the Creation Museum, and neither can I. Late last week AP reported that Eric Linden, the actor/model/whatever who plays Adam in a brief video clip at the museum, is By Robert Cringely Jun 11, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Stupid 64-bit Laptop Tricks As I mentioned Friday, I now have a laptop on which I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate for x64. It's a Compaq Presario V6000, and it's not what I would have chosen for myself, but it was available for me to use, and the price was right By Martin Heller Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Software Development Mashups offered for Web 2.0 Kapow Technologies unveiled two editions of its Kapow Mashup Server on Monday, providing what the company describes as a mashup solution offering universal access to data and services across the enterprise. New products include Web 2.0 Edition, which By Paul Krill Jun 11, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Selling a rewrite Dear Bob … We (the developers) are once again being put in the position of needing to "sell the rewrite" to CEO. The current system started as an Access database, and has now metastasized into a classic ASP / VB com / SQL monstrosity tha By Bob Lewis Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Don’t take a (memory) dump where you eat Stupid hacker trick No. 1: The key to not drawing attention to yourself is to not draw attention to yourself By Andrew Brandt Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Security A spammer by any other name Stupid hacker trick No. 4: Making play as activist victim, Robert Soloway instead draws public ire By Andrew Brandt Jun 11, 2007 2 mins Security Stupid hacker tricks Looking to enter a life of cybercrime? Beware the boneheaded miscues of these infamous cyberschnooks By Andrew Brandt Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Malware Phishing Social Engineering The upper limit of enhancement Stupid hacker trick No. 3: Hard up for a worthwhile defense, alleged Viagra spammer orders hit on witness — from prison By Andrew Brandt Jun 11, 2007 2 mins Security Beware the bounty hunter in gym class Stupid hacker trick No. 2: Teenage anti-spam vigilante gets collared after high school "friend" rats him out By Andrew Brandt Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Access Control Security Here’s how I steal passwords, officer Stupid hacker trick No. 6: FBI stings Russian duo with promise of steady paycheck By Andrew Brandt Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Security Smart software, stupid criminals Celebrating the full spectrum of IQ, from clueless hackers to brainy developers By Steve Fox Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Say my name, worm Stupid hacker trick No. 5: Embedded online moniker leads authorities to Kournikova-feitsh malware maker's door By Andrew Brandt Jun 11, 2007 3 mins Security Virtual Iron Releases Version 3.7 Virtual Iron Software released version 3.7 of its virtualization platform. According to the company, with their support for logical disks, users of server virtualization can take advantage of all the performance and scalability benefits of raw SAN st By David Marshall Jun 10, 2007 2 mins Software Development Many Government SOA Projects Facing Talent Challenges In my practice I'm doing a lot of work with the government and government contractors. I enjoy working with the government now much more than I did in the past, they are clearly more aggressive with technology and in some cases more innovative. By Dave Linthicum Jun 10, 2007 3 mins Software Development VMware Makes a Hosting Move and Changes Pricing Perhaps hoping to add further value to its impending IPO, VMware has announced that it was going to update its pricing model as it enters the hosting market. The company announced its VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) for Web hosting services, t By David Marshall Jun 10, 2007 3 mins Software Development Microsoft was once right on patents (but now terribly wrong) Timothy Lee writes a compelling argument against software patents in the New York Times today. It's the very same argument that Bill Gates advanced back in 1991 against software patents, but now has done a complete about-face. As Lee writes:[I]n By Matt Asay Jun 10, 2007 3 mins Open Source VMware’s Fusion Reaches Beta 4 With Apple's WWDC07 starting next week and Parallels announcing the release of its Desktop 3.0 for Mac, is it any wonder that VMware has announced a fourth Beta of its VMware Fusion for Mac product? Beta 4 of VMware Fusion for Mac includes the f By David Marshall Jun 10, 2007 2 mins Software Development How the world grew rich (WSJ) An excellent op-ed from the WSJ today about how the world (as a whole) has improved economically (and dramatically so) over the past few centuries.Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. By Matt Asay Jun 9, 2007 2 mins Open Source Parallels Quick to Launch 3.0 Mac Virtualization When Parallels announced the Beta of Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac, they told me it would be live soon. And it looks like when they said "soon", they really did mean it! Parallels announced the release of the 3.0 product, however unlike pre By David Marshall Jun 9, 2007 3 mins Software Development VMware’s Second Annual Vanguard Awards As VMware's annual showcase event approaches (VMworld 2007), the company is once again requesting customers to nominate their organization for the VMware Virtual Vanguard Awards. Billed as "Win Fame, Glory and a Pass to the Premier Virtuali By David Marshall Jun 9, 2007 2 mins Software Development More Microsoft Mishegoss Microsoft seems to have left Earth and moved to the bizarro planet where people walk backward and talk in Tonto English.Well, okay, maybe that's a bit strong. Or maybe not.Awhile back I complained here about Microsoft removing one of the best-de By Bob Lewis Jun 9, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Doing the Microsoft patent dance I'm not sure where Microsoft keeps finding the goofball Linux distributors that rush to market with a "Microsoft + Novell/Xandros = Big interoperability win/patent safety win for our customers!!!!" theme, and then release something lik By Matt Asay Jun 9, 2007 2 mins Open Source Experts: Immigration reform not dead Despite rumors to the contrary, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill is not dead. It will most likely be revived in another format or come back in a version created in the House of Representatives. Norman Matloff, professor of computer science a By Ephraim Schwartz Jun 8, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry WSO2 to offer open source ESB Open source middleware company WSO2 will announce general availability Monday of its WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for Web services. Based on the new Apache Synapse 1.0 Web service management and integration broker, the ESB features both Web serv By Paul Krill Jun 8, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Making APC network cards play nice with Active Directory Since I'm flush with APC gear at the moment, I've been working with the network management devices (obviously, since I wrote Cacti and Nagios plugins for most of them). One of the features of most of the hardware is the ability to use local By Paul Venezia Jun 8, 2007 4 mins The Geek in Review Between arguments over evolution, stock spam, and Google cams, we missed a few key tech events this week in Cringeville. Here's a recap. The Book of Jobs: Working from recently discovered texts, researchers have determined that The Rapture will By Robert Cringely Jun 8, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development InfoWorld LIVE! Episode 14 After two weeks of reruns due to vicious evil scheduling problems, we managed to get another original episode in the can. This time we're talking about SMB backup trends as they pertain to online backup services. There's been an explosion i By Oliver Rist Jun 8, 2007 1 min Technology Industry SMB Tech News Today; 6/8 Sitting in an APC conference room listening to electrical engineers talk about power and cooling. Another hour of this and I'm going to peel my face off. * Parallels Desktop goes to version 3. Now that the Mac is back, maybe I'll install th By Oliver Rist Jun 8, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: TechEd wraps up, Parallels 3.0 release, and Lewis Black on Google Street View <strong>TechEd 2007 wrap-up:</strong> This year's Microsoft TechEd show certainly had its share of interesting projects and products. Randall Kennedy <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/06/tec By Stephanie McLoughlin Jun 8, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Wow64: A Blessing and a Curse I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that applications certified to run on Windows Vista must run on x64 as well as 32-bit Vista. Wow64 makes this easy for most 32-bit Windows applications: they automatically run in a 32-bit compatibility envir By Martin Heller Jun 8, 2007 2 mins Software Development The security solution revolution Truly stopping malicious hackers and malware requires ubiquitous authentication for all users and devices. Are you in? By Roger Grimes Jun 8, 2007 6 mins Security Technology Industry 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Marc Willebeek-LeMair CTO, 3Com By Paul Roberts Jun 8, 2007 4 mins Access Control Security Technology Industry 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Chris Uriarte CTO, Retail Decisions By Stephanie McLoughlin Jun 8, 2007 3 mins Intrusion Detection Software Social Engineering Technology Industry 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Steve McCanne CTO, Riverbed Technology By Stephanie McLoughlin Jun 8, 2007 2 mins Network Security Security Technology Industry 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Aristotle Balogh CTO, VeriSign By Doug Dineley Jun 8, 2007 3 mins Identity Management Solutions Intrusion Detection Software Malware 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Simon Crosby CTO, XenSource By Doug Dineley Jun 8, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry Taking the low (end) road New products from PMC-Sierra and Brocade converge on the tantalizing low-end server market By Mario Apicella Jun 8, 2007 3 mins EVGA Rejects Warranty for Confidential Reasons <p>It's bad enough when a vendor stiffs you on warranty repair. But graphics cards vendor EVGA recently added insult to injury with a form letter telling a reader that its refusal to honor his warranty was confidential.</p> <p> By Ed Foster Jun 8, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Enterprise HPC News Weekly Wrap-up for June 08, 2007 In this week's enterprise HPC summary Sun releases its new blade platform, partners speculate that Barcelona isn't ready, Google acquires PeakStream with possible implications for the entire software industry, and much more. By John West Jun 8, 2007 4 mins High-Performance Computing Technology Industry Xen Reaches 3.1 and ToutVirtual Goes Pro Recently, Xen made itself much more appealing as it released its 3.1 version to market. It added support for 64-bit as well as its VMotion type capability called Live Relocation. It also offered its XenAPI to help with management capabilities. Also h By David Marshall Jun 7, 2007 1 min Software Development Tata’s Mexico move tackles time zones Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the world's largest outsourcing firms, headquartered in Mumbai, India, announced that it will be opening up outsourcing facilities, a GDC (Global Delivery Center), in Guadalajara, Mexico, to serve the U.S. By Ephraim Schwartz Jun 7, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry “Clean Tech Open” aims to push green ideas to profitability California-based competition, with backing from Google and AMD, will give participants a chance at $100,000 plus valuable guidance By Ted Samson Jun 7, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Enforcing the GPL…contract, license, or promissory estoppel? Luis Villa pointed me to a paper that I had already downloaded, but had yet to read. At his prompting, I went through it this morning (My vacation had already been interrupted by a night of sick children) and though the author, Sapna Kumar of Duke Un By Matt Asay Jun 7, 2007 3 mins Open Source Smile, you’re on Google camera When Google sent cars outfitted with cameras into the streets of five major US cities, it probably didn't expect to snap photos of people breaking into homes and large women wearing scanty underthings. But that's what you'll find on Go By Robert Cringely Jun 7, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development TechEd 2007: UAC in Focus I just got back from TechEd where much of the buzz in back alleys was about User Account Control (UAC). If fact, I counted no less than a dozen different break-out sessions covering some aspect of UAC in the enterprise. 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