Monthly Archives: November 2007
The Decline of the CAPTCHA
This is what we get for taking Alan Turing's name in vain. The 'T' in CAPTCHA is for Turing and his famous proposition that...
Yahoo Counsel Denies Misleading House Committee
Michael Callahan, Yahoo's chief legal counsel, on Nov. 1 said he did not deliberately mislead a U.S. House committee last year about the company's...
Document Format Dispute Spills into the Open
The recent decision by the Open Document Foundation to substitute the World Wide Web Consortium's Compound Document Format in place of the format it...
6 Ways to Win Microsoft’s Favor
Want to slam-dunk your next interview with the Redmond, Wash. software giant? It's as easy as one through six.In an Oct. 30 blog entry...
Classmate PC Useful but Not in XO’s Class
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It's been a strange year for Intel's Classmate PC. At first it was pushed as...
Mobile Assembly
As the power of mobile devices continues to increase, so, too, does companies' desire to increase the number of applications running on them. Developers,...
Moving Targets
Microsoft's recent announcement of its new System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 should be a galvanizing moment for the mobile security industry. While the...
VARs: IT Ready for Fall Back
While March's "spring forward" may have caught some by surprise, with many VARs and IT staff losing more than just one hour of sleep,...
Server OS Numbers at Issue
During the past few fiscal quarters, Margaret Lewis has seen an interesting trend in the server space: Windows is garnering a greater share of...
Leveraging Web 2.0 to Recruit
Historically, recruiting has not been a particularly transparent process. Organizations looking to hire put a job description out on a Web board such as...