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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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Filtering Government 2.0
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From Our Government IT Blog
Posted By Michael Hickins We're apparently not quite sure if too much citizen intervention in our government's life is a good thing or not, to judge by Anand Giridharadas's piece in this weekend's New York Times Week In Review.
ALSO SEE
A Skeptical Look At The Linux Server Botnet
From Our Open Source Blog
Posted By Serdar Yegulalp When The Register ran news of a "Linux botnet" out in the wild, the bloviation did fly: See? Linux really isn't that secure! But odds are this has nothing to do with Linux security per se, and everything to do with the biggest and most notorious security hole of all: bad system administration.
Breaking Up Isn't Hard To Do
From Our Digital Life Blog
Posted By Jonathan Salem Baskin Yesterday, Google announced that it has a small team of engineers working in Chicago to make it easier for users to quit its various services. This is a novel and smart approach to building its brand.
Celio Redfly Gains BlackBerry Support Posted by Eric Zeman
From Our Mobile Blog
Anyone remember the Celio Redfly Mobile Companion? This device connects a smartphone with a laptop-like display and keyboard. The Redfly Mobile Companion works with Windows Mobile devices, and now, the Redfly will support BlackBerry smartphones. A mobile professional's dream come true?
WinMo 6.5 Smartphone From HTC Sports 4.3-Inch Screen
From Our Mobile Blog
Posted By Eric Zeman The leaks across the Internet continue. The latest smartphone to be exposed comes from HTC. Codenamed "Leo", this Windows Mobile 6.5 device features a massive 4.3-inch display that packs 800 x 480 pixels.
GPS Accuracy Without A GPS Chip
From Our Mobile Blog
Posted By Ed Hansberry More and more phones today come with GPS chips that onboard software can tap into for location based services such as mapping, geotagging photos or just announcing your location via Twitter. The older a phone is though, the more likely it is to be lacking a GPS chip. Soon, that may be irrelevant.
jQuery Conference 2009
From Our Microsoft Blog
Posted By Dave Methvin This year's jQuery conference was held over the weekend, hosted at Microsoft's offices in Cambridge Massachusetts. If the tweets are any indication, the conference was a great sucess.
SQL Vulnerabilities Continue To Plague Web Security
From Our Security Blog
Posted By George Hulme A gray-hat hacker with a reputation for outing corporate Web site vulnerabilities says he's uncovered SQL injection flaws in the Web site of RBS WorldPay. RBS responded, saying no customer data was accessed.
iPhone MMS Roll-Out Gets Off To A (Weird) Start
From Our Mobile Blog
Posted By Eric Zeman Reports have started filtering in from iPhone users that MMS is now active on their iPhones. AT&T contends that a software update is necessary to make the feature work, and that software won't be available until September 25.
Hospitals Are Helping Docs Defray EMR Costs, Challenges
From Our Healthcare Blog
Posted By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee Are hospital-sponsored e-medical records the best way to get lots of doctors using these systems in their offices quickly and affordably?
Haiku OS Beta 1: Simple Is Beautiful
From Our Open Source Blog
Posted By Serdar Yegulalp After years of quiet but steady development, Haiku OS finally has its first beta. Here comes a new competitor for the desktop -- not just with Windows or OS X, but Linux,too.
SSD Drives OPEX Savings Too
From Our Storage Blog
Posted By George Crump Solid State Disk (SSD) is often the solution to drive up performance of a particular application, increasing response time to users and thereby increasing revenue or productivity. There can also be significant CAPEX savings by implementing SSD, what is often missing from the discussion is the operational or OPEX savings that comes from implementing SSDs.
LG Announces Android Phone, Forgets To Share Details
From Our Mobile Blog
Posted By Eric Zeman Today LG announced its first Android handset, the GW620. Not only does the device have an amazingly boring name, but LG managed to say absolutely nothing about it. Why the mystery, LG?
Facebook Page For Government Launches
From Our Government IT Blog
Posted By Mitch Wagner The federal government launched a Facebook page to give agencies tips and impetus to set up and run their presence on Facebook. The page offers links to agency pages already on Facebook, guides, and updates to government Facebook activity.
Deutsche Telekom - Sprint Nextel Merger Rears Its Head Again
From Our Mobile Blog
Posted By Eric Zeman A new report by the U.K. Telegraph says that Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile USA parent company) is seriously preparing to make a bid for Sprint Nextel. The merged companies could become the nation's second-largest carrier. We've seen this story before. Could such a marriage really save either company?
Windows Mobile Update Story Gets Better
From Our Mobile Blog
Posted By Ed Hansberry Like any mobile platform, Windows Mobile has its strengths and weaknesses. One of the weakest areas is the upgrade story, or rather, the lack of much of a story at all. I can just about count on one hand the number of devices graced with an upgrade from one WinMo version to another, but that will be changing with WinMo 7.
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