Tuesday | 9 September, 2008
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Intel and Yahoo partner for Internet on TV 21/08/2008 07:14:00
Intel and Yahoo have partnered in the development of a hardware and software platform designed to meld television and the Internet. - +
Researcher: Adware vendor Zango profits from pirated movies 19/08/2008 04:10:00
Adware company Zango profits from copyright infringement, a Harvard researcher charged Monday, after the company claimed that sites serving up links to pirated movies were operating within its rules when they pressed users to install its software. - +
Bet on it: Employee wagers help companies predict the future 08/08/2008 08:29:57
Google for the past three years has been allowing its employees to place bets on various questions like if a new Google office will open on time or if a new product will ship on time. The company, which had logged 80,000 bets through March, is aiming to use this method of gathering opinions from employees -- a method often called crowdsourcing through the use of prediction markets technology -- to better gauge their employees' real opinions. And Google has found that its employee bets are usually right. - +
The Top 10 Celebrity Spammers 07/08/2008 10:05:57
No one will deny the global celebrity of Angelina Jolie. She's on the cover of magazines, stars in blockbuster movies and is a ratings bonanza each time she appears on TV. Now that she's had twins, she's got triple the appeal for some fans. - +
Reconsidering Vista 29/07/2008 09:33:21
OK, it's not perfect. But Windows Vista on a new PC is perfectly serviceable for many users. In some ways, in fact, Vista is a better operating system than Windows XP. Unfortunately, XP's heir apparent is also the most derided and discounted Microsoft operating system since Windows Me. - +
Yahoo uses home page to lobby against Icahn 21/07/2008 08:33:30
Yahoo has added a button on its main Web site linking to a page that lobbies shareholders to vote against Carl Icahn's plans for the company, stepping up its rhetoric in the days leading up to its annual meeting. - +
Everybody's got something to hide 10/07/2008 10:32:44
So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom's attorneys soon will. - +
Greasemonkey scripts to turbocharge your browser 30/06/2008 09:06:56
The Internet offers a wealth of excellent tools, information, and entertainment--and it asks very little from us in return. So don't get upset when a poorly designed online tool or site gets on your nerves; instead, use Greasemonkey, a free Firefox add-on that harnesses the power of JavaScript to right usability wrongs and improve the functionality of specific Web sites and of the Internet at large. - +
Blockbuster sued over Facebook Beacon information sharing 21/04/2008 07:48:40
A Texas woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Blockbuster over the video rental company's participation in Facebook's Beacon program. - +
Video Ezy to rollout IPTV platform to more than 1000 stores 16/04/2008 06:48:43
Australia's largest movie rental franchise, Video Ezy and Blockbuster, today announced plans to rollout an IPTV delivery platform and set top box middleware to enable the delivery of an electronic video rental service to more than 1,000 stores. - +
A leader that advocated values and reciprocity 10/04/2008 08:35:45
Mike Clarkin is recognised as one of Australia's great IT leaders and innovators.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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