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• MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search

  The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Acquisition, Tom Foremski, Search

  Jul 04, 2008 12:44 PM PDT

• July 4th, 2008: A trip down memory lane

  A 1 question civics quiz Today American's celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the legal foundation of the USA and, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of ...

  Tags: President, U.S., Hardware, Robin Harris, Storage

  Jul 04, 2008 11:29 AM PDT

• Web 3.0 - the future of social networking

  I would put this very much on par with a past Scoble moment, as I've been lucky enough to see something which actually impresses me. I've seen a lot over ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Web, 3D, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Scene, Marketing, Social Networking, Web 3.0

  Jul 04, 2008 9:09 AM PDT

• Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump

  Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited ...

  Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Roland Piquepaille, Engine, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Jul 04, 2008 9:09 AM PDT

• Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign

  A Storm Worm's Independence Day campaign is circulating online using email as propagation vector, attempting to trick users into visiting a Storm Worm infected host, where a multitude of what ...

  Tags: Exploit, Worm, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Day Vulnerability, Dancho Danchev, Storm Worm, Software, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security

  Jul 04, 2008 8:44 AM PDT

• TechForward advocates the cause of temporary ownership

  I have been MEANING to write about the Los Angeles-based start-up TechForward for weeks now, but felt like I didn't have enough time to write the truly thoughtful post that ...

  Tags: Electronics, Retail, Heather Clancy, Lebovitz, Apple iPhone, TechForward

  Jul 04, 2008 3:54 AM PDT

• As you sow...

  Not quite off topic but something that cuts Oracle a break and shows us here at ZDN to be as capable as anyone of getting things messed up. Check this ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Internet, Blogging, Finger

  Jul 04, 2008 1:42 AM PDT

• Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar

  OK, I admit it. When I bought my car a year-and-a-half ago, comparing the fuel consumption metrics among the different models WAS part of the equation, but not the most ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Performance, Performance Management, GPS, Heather Clancy, Monitor, Technology, Consumer Electronics

  Jul 03, 2008 5:15 PM PDT

• Stolen: Google employees' personal data

  Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Privacy & data protection, Social Security, Government, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, ZDNet Australia, Google Inc.

  Jul 03, 2008 4:52 PM PDT

• Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?

  The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG.  Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer.  AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to ...

  Tags: Spyware, Adware & Malware, Peripherals, Scanners, Hardware, Webmaster, Nathan McFeters, Register, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security

  Jul 03, 2008 2:11 PM PDT

• The ToyBox presents: Top 10 Summer Gadgets 2008

  It's high time you left the office and got some sunlight. You hear me? It's the Fourth of July weekend, for Pete's sake! ...what's that? You'll have to leave all ...

  Tags: Andrew Nusca, Gadget

  Jul 03, 2008 1:16 PM PDT

• On deck from MS: Four 'important' patches but nothing for IE

  Next Tuesday, Microsoft plans to ship four security updates for multiple flaws affecting Windows, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server but the absence of fixes for publicly known Internet ...

  Tags: Patch Management, Web Browsers, Ryan Naraine, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Security

  Jul 03, 2008 12:57 PM PDT

• Beaches and BBQs vs. Blackberrys: Holiday weekends of the IT set

  "Weekend? What's a weekend?" While the rest of the country is escaping their offices for a leisurely weekend, many in IT could end up back at theirs at the beep ...

  Tags: Workforce Management, Handhelds, Information Technology, Hardware, Consultant, Holiday, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Deb Perelman, Recruitment & Selection

  Jul 03, 2008 12:48 PM PDT

• Apple caught neglecting iPhone security

  If you're waiting on iPhone 2 to standardize your business on the awesome new device (yeah, I'll be on line to buy one), you might want to pay attention to ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine, Krebs, Operating Systems, Apple Inc., Software, Security, Apple iPhone

  Jul 03, 2008 11:37 AM PDT

• Viacom vs YouTube exposes Google's data retention policy

  In the ongoing litigation between Viacom and YouTube Google over alleged copyright infringement, a US court has ruled that Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ...

  Tags: YouTube Inc., Steve O\'Hear, Video, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Viacom Inc., Google Inc.

  Jul 03, 2008 11:33 AM PDT

• 4.2 mln Internet users signed up for fiber in Q1 2008

  Fiber providers added 4.2 mln customers in Q1 2008, while 2.5 mln customers signed up for cable modems, according to Point Topic. The bulk of the new fiber subscribers are ...

  Tags: Internet User, Network Technology, AM, Internet, Networking, Fiber

  Jul 03, 2008 11:29 AM PDT

• Nothing stealthy about this Windows Update update

  For years, Microsoft has occasionally updated its Windows Update client software automatically on systems that are configured to check for updates. This has been true even when Windows Update is ...

  Tags: Operating Systems, Ed Bott, Software, Update, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows

  Jul 03, 2008 11:27 AM PDT

• EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)

  On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about all the search happenings this week--Google and Adobe, Microsoft and Powerset and the never-ending Microhoo saga--as well as the ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Podcasts, Larry Dignan, Games, Internet, Viacom Inc., Google Inc.

  Jul 03, 2008 11:23 AM PDT

• Opera patches serious code exection flaw

  Opera Software has joined the list of browser vendors shipping fixes for serious remote code execution vulnerabilities. The company's new Opera 9.5.1 patches at least four security issues, the most ...

  Tags: Patch Management, Opera Software, Ryan Naraine, Flaw, Security Statu, Security

  Jul 03, 2008 11:11 AM PDT

• Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!

  If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security.  Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Scanners, Privacy, Attack, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Nathan McFeters, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Finance

  Jul 03, 2008 10:52 AM PDT

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