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Green Dam enforcement watered down
News China's Web filtering efforts face more hurdles as school administrations and Internet cafes are without, or have uninstalled content sifting software.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Business applications, Government, Personal Computers, Computer, software, Business applications, Web sites, Web 2.0
How secure are your wireless device drivers?
Techguide Even with the emphasis on securing wireless devices and how they communicate with operating systems, flaws have still surfaced, and attackers have exploited them.
Yahoo's about face on jurisdiction issues
Blogs In 2000, Yahoo was sued in a French court over the fact that French citizens could view Nazi items sold on the portal's ...
New malware attack infecting Web sites
News About 40,000 Web sites have apparently been infected with code that redirects visitors to sites hosting malware, according to security firm.
Tags: Security, Malware, Site, Web Browser, Computerworld, Attack, Ukraine, Websense Inc., Google Analytics, analytics
US lawmaker wants Google Maps to blur certain buildings
News Proposed California state law would criminalize displaying churches, hospitals, government buildings and schools on online maps unless they were blurred.
Tags: Privacy, Security, Republican, India, Google Inc., Google Earth, Computerworld, First Amendment, assemblyman, Mumbai
Apple adding 3G to MacBooks?
News A job posting on Apple's Web site could mean that the company is pondering the inclusion of cellular modems inside future MacBooks.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Consumer Technology, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Computerworld, Notebook, Bluetooth, 3G, Wi-Fi, job posting
Microsoft creating an enterprise social network
News Site to blend Facebook-like functions with SharePoint feeds, according to a Computerworld report.
Tags: Web 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Computerworld, social networking, Facebook, network, blog, Microsoft SharePoint, Web
Analyst predicts Apple will unveil netbook
News Technology Business Research predicts a netbook will be unveiled at Macworld as a way of getting the company in front of price-sensitive customers.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Computerworld, Apple Macintosh, Computer, Apple video iPod, Gottheil, Apple Intel Mac Mini
First Android netbook to cost US$250
News The first laptop running Google's open source operating system is expected to be available to consumers in the next three months.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Notebooks and tablets, Hewlett-Packard Co., operating system, software, Laptop Computer, Google Android, Microsoft Windows, manufacturer
Google quietly starts behavioral targeting
Techguide Last month, Google initiated what it calls interest-based advertising, or behavioral targeting to the rest of us. If this concerns you, find out what you can do.
Tags: Web sites, Privacy, Microsoft Corp., Cookie, Google Inc., Web Browser, behavioral targeting, Michael Kassner, Rep Boucher, Advertisement
Vignette to power China portal
News Vignette Corp, a provider of integrated content management applications, said that it has been selected by China's Shanghai Cable Network (SCN) to power the latter's broadband portal.
Apple buys map service to compete with Google?
News Apparent purchase of PlaceBase may explain why Apple required Google Latitude to be a Web-based app and not a native iPhone app.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Google Inc., Apple Inc., mobile, PlaceBase, Google Latitude Episode, Business Strategies & Functions, Dell Latitude, Web Browser, Eric Schmidt
10 qualities of IT greatness
Techguide CIO success depends on connecting the chaotic IT environment to high-level strategic and business priorities that matter to the broader organization. Here are 10 qualities of IT units that have successfully bridged the strategic gap.
Tags: Strategy, Security Team, Successful IT Group, Ace Hardware, Paul M. Ingevaldson, Michael Krigsman, CIO, software, allocation, CEO
New MD5/SSL exploit is not end of civilization as we know it
Techguide MD5 insecure? Absolutely. SSL hacked? Sort of, but it's not broken. A case of certificate authority negligence? You decide.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Security Management, Certificate, Security, SSL, VeriSign Inc., SHA-1, Tool, Risk
The ethics of freebies
Blogs It's well known now that Microsoft, in collaboration with AMD, gave away some 90 laptop computers with Windows Vista ins...
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