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1. Editor's Note: Tools Rule! Make Mine A Hammer, Please
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- Salesforce.com And NetSuite Debut Links To Google AdWords
Related Stories: E-Business
- YouTube Dives Into Advertising
- Microsoft Sues Domain Squatters
3. Breaking News
- Worm Adds MS06-040 To Four-Bug Attack Kit
- Computer Pioneer Bill Norris, Control Data Founder, Dies At 95
- IBM Launches Major Expansion Of Its Storage Product Line
- Customer Data + Carelessness = Pink Slips At AOL And Elsewhere
- Privacy Worries Spur New Search Engine Tool
- Microsoft Loses 'Product Activation' Patent Suit, Owes $142 Million
- Lab Uses Microsoft's Vista For Cancer Research
- Taiwan Launches $61M Branding Campaign
- eDiscovery Search Tools Take On Compliance Needs
4. Grab Bag
- Windows Vista Beta 2 Plagued By Bugs (Top Tech News)
- Sony Debuts iMac-Like Integrated PC (BetaNews)
- A New Way To Persuade (Baltimore Sun)
- Car Makers Must Tell Buyers About Black Boxes (Reuters)
5. In Depth: The Digital Lifestyle
- Always Connected To Office? Troubled Times Ahead
- Review: Quicken 2007 Manages More Of Your Money
- Brief: Kids To Spend $30K On Mobile Services
- Google Mobile Maps Smooths Traffic Tie-Ups
- Personal Technology News And Reviews
- MTV Finds Growing Hunger For Shows On The Web
6. Voice Of Authority
- U.S. A Middling Fourth In Top 10 Countries For Tech Worker Value
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Sometimes, even in this high-tech era, the right tool for a computer-related job is still something without a plug or a battery.
Or so says one consultant, who advises pounding no-longer-wanted hard drives with, you guessed it, the business end of a hammer. "Remove the disks and crush the cases, making sure that you break or bend the actual platters," says Richard Stiennon of IT-Harvest. He issued this advice after the BBC reported that scammers in Nigeria are buying up old hard drives, on the prowl for personal data about former owners.
Okay, I have to admit it: The prospect of crushing anything from an old PC into submission does give me some pleasure, even if it's only a theory for now. Next time I'm stressed out, I'll try that instead of baking bread. (Kneading dough, even REALLY REALLY hard, has the double benefit of making the bread taste better as well as releasing stress.)
I'm thinking this can be an Olympic-style event at the next Black Hat. One recent year, I hear tell, some of the conference attendees headed out to the desert to skeet-shoot those discs a certain annoying Internet service provider insists on sending to three million of its closest friends. Multiple times a year. Whether we want them or not.
I mean, who among us hasn't thought of inflicting some physical damage on our PCs at some point? Come on now, be honest. The trick here is to time it correctly so that the destruction elicits some reaction from an unsuspecting someone, be it a spouse, coworker, or boss. Taking the hard drive into the back room or garage shop just wouldn't have as great an effect as, say, doing the job in the middle of the company cafeteria. With appropriate safety garb, of course.
If and when you try it, please e-mail photos. I think it would make a heck of a gallery.
As excited as I am to give this newest security measure a whirl, I just can't get my mind around the actual use of mobile-phone maps. Maybe it's a generational thing, or the related fact that I'd need to grope for my reading glasses and then figure out how to use the phone keys to navigate around. All while driving.
Our reviewer of Google's newest mobile-map software says users can navigate around the map via the phone's arrow keys. "Another option is 'get directions,' which requires you to enter your starting point and destination," our reviewer says. "Each time you need the next stage of your directions, you hit the '3' button on your phone for 'next.'"
Uh-huh. All while driving? I don't think so. And if you can do all that while on the road, it's little wonder you need directions.
If I'm lost enough to need a map, I've got another low-tech answer. I'll find the nearest coffee shop or convenience store, go in and load myself up on sugar and caffeine, and ask the friendly clerk how to get out of, or around, his or her lovely town.
What do you think? Would you actually take a hammer to an old hard drive, or do you think that's crazy talk? And what about mobile maps—are those devices you can see yourself actually using? Please respond on my blog entry.
Johanna Ambrosio
Salesforce.com And NetSuite Debut Links To Google AdWords
Related Stories: E-Business
YouTube Dives Into Advertising
Microsoft Sues Domain Squatters
Worm Adds MS06-040 To Four-Bug Attack Kit
Computer Pioneer Bill Norris, Control Data Founder, Dies At 95
IBM Launches Major Expansion Of Its Storage Product Line
Customer Data + Carelessness = Pink Slips At AOL And Elsewhere
Privacy Worries Spur New Search Engine Tool
Microsoft Loses 'Product Activation' Patent Suit, Owes $142 Million
Lab Uses Microsoft's Vista For Cancer Research
Taiwan Launches $61M Branding Campaign
eDiscovery Search Tools Take On Compliance Needs
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1. Editor's Note: Tools Rule! Make Mine A Hammer, Please
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New services can be used to manage search-engine keyword marketing campaigns and measure their effectiveness.
Branded content channels and "participatory video ads" will allow advertisers to customize their own space on YouTube to attract people with contests and videos.
Microsoft is sending its lawyers after four men whom it alleges are profiting from the practice of "cybersquatting" and "typosquatting."
The nasty "Randex.gel" worm opens a back door on any compromised computer and appears to be a derivative of other Randex variants, only with the MS06-040 vulnerability added.
An unconventional thinker equipped with a feisty personality, Norris built CDC into a $5 billion company while pursuing social goals and going after IBM on anti-trust grounds.
With tiered storage, new warranties, and pricing options, IBM is trying to reduce the total cost of ownership of its storage systems.
AOL IT managers are the latest to join the unemployment line after breaches to customer data. They join IT managers at the Veterans Administration and Ohio University, who lost their jobs after data breaches.
The "Lost in the Crowd" tool was built in response to recent furor over AOL spilling search data on the Internet.
A Texas federal judge has upheld a patent verdict against Microsoft and Autodesk, ordering Microsoft to pay z4 Technologies $140 million in damages, and Autodesk to pay $18 million.
California's Scripps Research Institute is one of the first to put the new operating system to work in a production system.
Seeking to move from a production-based economy to a knowledge-based one, Taiwan has launched a $61 million "branding" initiative.
The release of Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator 6.0 is aimed at helping companies dig through files during legal proceedings.
AOL's CTO resigns in the wake of the company's recent search data scandal, eBay raises its fees, and recycled computers pose an ID theft risk.
Google plans to use facial recognition for its photo-organizing software, Picassa, and probably its search engine—raising potential privacy issues.
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