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05/19/2013 02:42:58 Daily, June 25MySpace: Online Safety In Focus
In This Issue:
1. Editor's Note: Taking A Break This Summer? Or Taking The Laptop?
2. Today's Top Story
- The MySpace Dilemma: Keeping Your Kids Safe Online
Related Story:
- School Safety Index Shows Progress
3. Breaking News
- Review: Samsung's Q1 Ultra -- Mobile, Yes, But Is It Fully Functional?
- Review: Movable Type 4.0 Beta Offers Radical Changes For Dedicated Bloggers
- Imeem Launches Ad-Supported Streaming Music Service
- Rumored Google, Grand Central Deal Shows Increasing Rate Of Acquisitions
- Apple Now Third-Largest U.S. Music Retailer
- With Hype High, iPhone May Have To Fight A Flop
- Cisco Dropping Iron Curtain On Web And E-Mail Attacks
- Google Seeks Microsoft Antitrust Decree Extension
- Computers Read News, And Trade On It Quickly
- Addiction Experts Say Video Games Not An Addiction
- Boingo Offers Worldwide Wi-Fi For $39 A Month
- Nokia Counterpunches iPhone With E-Phones For U.S.
4. The Latest Microsoft Blog Posts
- What We Think Of Bill Gates
- Microsoft Freshman Course: How To Monetize Patents
- Microsoft Lets A Wizard Help Sell More Dynamics
- Don't Shut Off Vista UAC, There's A Better Way
5. Job Listings From TechCareers
6. White Papers
- Content Engine Scalability Using HP Integrity Servers
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Quote of the day:
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." -- Henry Ford
Sunglasses, check. Bathing suit, check. Camera, check. Laptop -- that's a double negative.
Yes, I'm doing that increasingly rare thing: having an untethered, nontech vacation. No electronic leash for me for the next two weeks. I'm even leaving my cell phone at home (what the heck, it wouldn't work where we're going anyway).
Unfortunately, a lot of people aren't willing -- or able -- to do the same. According to CareerBuilder's annual survey about vacation plans, 27% of workers say they plan to stay in touch with the office during vacation time this year using some kind of electronic device. An AP-AOL poll found that of the people who took a vacation in the last 12 months, approximately one out of every five adults said they took their laptops with them; twice that number checked e-mail regularly.
And, believe it or not, those were the lucky ones. The AP poll found that 41% of respondents don't plan to take a vacation at all within the next 12 months.
Been there. Because of a summer rife with conflicting events, my family just couldn't get it together to go somewhere last summer. The previous year, we got away, but I worked every day. This year I was determined to do it differently: all my editors know I'm off -- really off -- my stories are filed (well, they will be by the time I board my plane), the cat has a sitter, the tomatoes a waterer ... yes, I think the checklist is about complete.
What are your plans? Do you ever get away from your e-mail and voice mail? Or is your laptop the first thing that goes into the bag? Drop me a line and let me know -- bearing in mind I won't get it until mid-July.
Alice LaPlante
The MySpace Dilemma: Keeping Your Kids Safe Online
Related Story:
School Safety Index Shows Progress
Review: Samsung's Q1 Ultra -- Mobile, Yes, But Is It Fully Functional?
Review: Movable Type 4.0 Beta Offers Radical Changes For Dedicated Bloggers
Imeem Launches Ad-Supported Streaming Music Service
Rumored Google, Grand Central Deal Shows Increasing Rate Of Acquisitions
Apple Now Third-Largest U.S. Music Retailer
With Hype High, iPhone May Have To Fight A Flop
Cisco Dropping Iron Curtain On Web And E-Mail Attacks
Google Seeks Microsoft Antitrust Decree Extension
Computers Read News, And Trade On It Quickly
Addiction Experts Say Video Games Not An Addiction
Boingo Offers Worldwide Wi-Fi For $39 A Month
Nokia Counterpunches iPhone With E-Phones For U.S.
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Windows Vista: Meeting Expectations Or Falling Short?
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What We Think Of Bill Gates
Microsoft Freshman Course: How To Monetize Patents
Microsoft Lets A Wizard Help Sell More Dynamics
Don't Shut Off Vista UAC, There's A Better Way
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1. Editor's Note: Taking A Break This Summer? Or Taking The Laptop?
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The anonymity and anything-goes nature of the Internet is a lure for sexual predators. We need to reconcile this with our children's growing passion for online social networking.
Eighty-one percent of the districts monitor student Internet activity, while 89% place computer monitors where adults can see them.
Ultramobile PCs are hot right now, but can a device with a small screen, a split keyboard, and performance in the PDA class convince you it's a fully functional PC?
The next version of this professional-level blogging solution boasts a revamped interface, an open source licensing option, and an impressive range of new features.
Leading social networking site uses a digital registry and content identification platform from Snocap to compensate artists and owners of the 3 million tracks available on the site.
Google's purchase of online phone company Grand Central Communications would put it on track for tripling its 2006 acquisitions.
Apple's iTunes is now the third-largest music retailer in the United States with 10% market share, overtaking Amazon.com in the first quarter, according to a new survey.
Not since Alexander Graham Bell has so much attention been lavished on a phone.
The company will add malware- and spam-inspection capabilities to its firewalls using technology from its recent acquisition of IronPort Systems.
Google on Monday asked a federal judge to extend the consent decree that settled the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft in order to address competition concerns centering on Microsoft's computer search function in Windows Vista.
It takes a person about 10 minutes to read a 2,500-word feature story. Computer programs increasingly being used by investors to parse news stories can process one in about three-one-hundredths of a second.
Doctors backed away Sunday from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more.
"The days of per-minute charges and incremental roaming fees for Wi-Fi Internet access are over," says Boingo president and CEO Dave Hagan.
Nokia says it also has 140 registered value-added resellers authorized to resell the devices to their business customers.
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4. The Latest Microsoft Blog Posts
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He's analytical, driven, calculating, irritable, confident, inquisitive, opportunistic, boyish, wealthy, generous, smart, and competitive. Microsoft's co-founder and chairman has been called many things, some flattering, others unprintable.
I watched Microsoft as a leading-edge company make has-beens out of those who couldn't keep up with its frenetic pace of Windows development. WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 spring to mind. Now Microsoft, a little longer in the tooth itself, has found a way to make has-beens out of a new set of companies -- those that agree to pay Microsoft royalties on open source code.
After a year of educating its partners on the benefits of Dynamics, Microsoft is extending the accounting and CRM business software to more customers with the help of a third-party IT integrator called Wizard ... pointy hat and wand not included.
One of the most annoying things about Microsoft Windows Vista is User Account Control and all the warnings it pops up to ask if you just did something you really wanted to do. Like, either (a) it wasn't you who pressed the Enter key, but the ghost of your grandfather standing at your shoulder, or (b) you really are too stupid to be trusted to know you want to install a program or open an attachment. The temptation is strong to turn off UAC warnings by disabling the controls, but that causes more problems, like making it even more difficult to do some things in Vista. Fortunately, there's a better way.
5. Job Listings From TechCareers
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