Monthly Archives: August 2008
Wozniak: I Wanted to be an Engineer for Life
SAN FRANCISCO ?ö?ç?? If Steve Wozniak had his wish, he would have remained an engineer for life at Hewlett-Packard.Instead, Steve Jobs encouraged Wozniak to...
Amazon Launches New Cloud Storage Option for EC2
Amazon is extending its Web service offerings for enterprises that want to move more of their IT into that ever expanding Internet "cloud" and...
Microsoft Buys $100M of Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Support
Microsoft will buy $100 million worth of Linux support certificates from Novell to redistribute to Microsoft Windows Server customers for Novell for SUSE Linux...
Sun Gets Some Some Much Needed Good News
Sun Microsystems, which has made data storage one of its top three priorities, has been wrestling with a boatload of financial difficulties recently. Its...
Google’s Democratic Convention Big Tent Reeks of Pandering
You may have heard Google is planning to set up an 8,000-square-foot "Big Tent" for bloggers covering the Democratic convention in Denver Aug. 25...
Microsoft, Novell Expand Interoperability Partnership
Microsoft and Novell have announced an incremental investment in their partnership to promote interoperability between the SUSE Linux platform and Windows, with Microsoft pledging...
Verizon: Keep Politics Out of Network Neutrality
Verizon CTO Richard Lynch told the Progress & Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen Summit Aug. 19, "We need to guard against turning technical and business...
Facebook, Twitter Use in The Enterprise Sparks Hot Debate
A story I published nearly three weeks ago about the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social applications in the workplace has taken on...
Browsers And Unsigned Certificates
Browsers And Unsigned Certificates
by Larry SeltzerRead Larry Seltzer's article on The Untrustworthiness of Self-Signed Certificates.
Browsers And Unsigned Certificates - Suspicious of SSL
Making the Web...
Mozilla Looks to the Future of Messages
Click here to see screenshotsMozilla Snowl
One of the biggest negative side effects of the Web 2.0 boom has been data overload. From the many...