Monthly Archives: October 2008
Yahoo Open Platform Leverages REST APIs, SQL-Like Query Language, OAuth
Yahoo Oct. 28 launched Yahoo Open Strategy 1.0, the company's bid to unify the disparate user networks within Yahoo and allow outside programmers to...
Texas Governor Suspends IBM Data Center Project for Data Loss, Cost Overruns
Claiming IBM is not delivering on an $863 million contract, Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Oct. 28 suspended state data transfers to IBM data...
Lundquist’s Guide to Not Getting Fired for Losing Your Laptop, the Saga Continues
Back in 2006 during a rash of news about execs losing their laptops with confidential data, I wrote an article titled, "Lundquist's Guide to...
The Global Network Initiative Balances Freedoms and Business Needs
Internet users have enough trouble with criminals attacking them and governments seemingly doing nothing to stop it. The last thing they need is for...
Security Spending Presses Forward, but What About the Clouds?
BOSTON-Technology security spending may stall but not freeze as the financial meltdown works its way through the economy; cloud computing has security implications that...
LinkedIn Opens Applications Platform with Google, Amazon
LinkedIn Oct. 29 followed in the footsteps of Facebook, MySpace and other social networks in opening an applications platform that lets the business social...
Tech Ignorance Isn’t Bliss
Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was recently found guilty of corruption, and seeing him in the news brought back the memory of the senator...
IBM Researchers Show Off New Weapon in Fight Against Online Fraud
Researchers at IBM revealed new technology they say can protect online banking transactions from malware and man-in-the-middle attacks.The company has developed a prototype of...
IT Q3 Report Card: Financial Crisis Impacting IT Decision-Making
OK, so we've endured about 60 days of the zig-zagging U.S. macroeconomy, and now we have a number of quarterly financial reports to view...
EMC Offering Server, Compliance Management Tools
Storage giant EMC is looking beyond its traditional roots in data storage and network management software and will now begin offering a new set...