Posted by Phil Windley @ 7:05 pm   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Political Identity Posted by Phil Windley @ 7:05 pm Categories: General, Security Tags: On the heels of the 2004 election, one of the things that candidates want is email addresses. Not just any email addresses, but email addresses of likely voters with particular persuasions in their district. Broken down by precinct, if you please. The fact that they want them isnt surprising. The Internet was shown to be a powerful way to connect to voters during the last election cycle and any tech-savvy political operative knows that its only going to be more so in the next. We could talk about whether we want to start getting political Spam, but thats not as interesting to me as to think about who has those addresses right now. For example, Amazon, has them, or at le...

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Posted by Steve Gillmor @ 3:30 pm   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Om Opens the RSS Kimono Posted by Steve Gillmor @ 3:30 pm Categories: RSS Tags: Om Malik comes through in the clutch: Steve DA RSS Gill-more wins … feeds restored to full length. Now I need him to convince ZD to remove its registration form! Not sure what he means by ZD, Ziff Davis Media, who I used to work for, or ZDNet/CNet who host this blog, or what the registration issue is. Im sure Ill find out though. Parenthetically, Googles trial move into Adsense in RSS feeds is being offered by Feedburner. Now would also be a good time for Feedburner to follow through on Dick Costolos promises to address the ability for Feedburner users to reclaim their feeds if necessary. In fact, the inability of individual publishers to move their subscribers from one ...

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Posted by David Berlind @ 2:41 pm   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Clearing the air on IBM Workplace-OpenOffice.org connection Posted by David Berlind @ 2:41 pm Categories: General, Open Source, IT Management Tags: Yesterdays blog entry by Joe Brockmeier about why he found the comments reported to have been made by Sun officials to be petty politics has drawn a response from Suns Simon Phipps as well as a clarification to a blog I wrote on the issue from Open Source Diva Danese Cooper (formerly of Sun, now with Intel). It has also flushed out some clarity over a connection that exists between IBMs Lotus Workplace and OpenOffice.org (OO.o). Two comments, one by Suns Phipps, the other by OO.o project leader Louis Suarez-Potts caught Brockmeiers eye. The Phipps comment that captured Brockmeiers attention came at the end of a ...

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Posted by David Berlind @ 2:41 pm   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Clearing the air on IBM Workplace-OpenOffice.org connection Posted by David Berlind @ 2:41 pm Categories: General, Open Source, IT Management Tags: Yesterdays blog entry by Joe Brockmeier about why he found the comments reported to have been made by Sun officials to be petty politics has drawn a response from Suns Simon Phipps as well as a clarification to a blog I wrote on the issue from Open Source Diva Danese Cooper (formerly of Sun, now with Intel). It has also flushed out some clarity over a connection that exists between IBMs Lotus Workplace and OpenOffice.org (OO.o). Two comments, one by Suns Phipps, the other by OO.o project leader Louis Suarez-Potts caught Brockmeiers eye. The Phipps comment that captured Brockmeiers attention came at the end of a ...

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Posted by David Berlind @ 10:14 am   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Is IBM close to avenging OS/2s death? Posted by David Berlind @ 10:14 am Categories: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure Tags: Its been almost 15 years since Microsoft jilted IBMs OS/2 at the altar, kicking Big Blue while it was already down (financially), and exacerbating the old school companys global state of disarray one that outsider (IBMs first ever) Lou Gerstner managed to turn around after he was brought on board in 1993. One year later, a group of Gerstners handpicked technical advisors identified Suns Java as the strategic technology on which some of IBMs fortunes could be protected or regained from Bill Gates, who, with a roadmap for Windows NT then firmly under his belt, was beginning to turn his attention tow...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 9:37 am   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Consumer semiconductors brought $14 bln in 2004 Posted by ZDNet Research @ 9:37 am Categories: General Tags: The consumer semiconductor market will more than double between 2004 and 2009, expanding from just over $14 bln to almost $30 bln, according to IDC. The market will experience the fastest year-over-year growth rates through 2007. Consumer semiconductor growth is fueled by their increasing importance in both existing and developing end products in the digital home environment. Consumer semiconductors are the enablers of both the underlying technology and the consumer-facing features of the digital home. Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals. ...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 9:37 am   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 26% of online adults use Web as main source for news Posted by ZDNet Research @ 9:37 am Categories: General Tags: The number of online adults who prefer the Internet as their main source of news has grown over 35% in the last four years, at the expense of television and newspapers. Currently, over 26% of online adults prefer the Internet for national and international news, compared to 19% in 2001, JupiterResearch says. The number of online adults using the Internet for daily news had been flat - hovering around 50% - for the last few years. Preference for online local news is growing, but hasnt exceeded 10% among online adults. Young adults, ages 18 to 24, are helping drive the preference trend, especially in national news. 33% of online young adults say th...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 9:37 am   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Firefox preferred by 10% of business users Posted by ZDNet Research @ 9:37 am Categories: General Tags: Based on the types of browsers used in accessing 10 business-to-business websites, slightly more than 10% were the Mozilla Foundations Firefox, according to Janco Associates. About 83% were Microsofts Internet Explorer, nearly 4% were Mozilla, and less than 1% were Netscape, America Online and Microsofts MSN. Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals. ...

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Posted by David Berlind @ 2:37 pm   Year:July 14th, 2004   Source Site:zdnet

July 14th, 2004 UKs Ministry of Defense forbids iPods. Should you? Posted by David Berlind @ 2:37 pm Categories: General, IT Management, Personal Technology, Security Tags: Recognizing that iPods pose?a serious security threat in terms of data that can walk off its premises and malicious code that can be brought in, the UKs Ministry of Defense has banned the device from most parts of its offices. The iPod joins a list of other mobile gadgets that, due their USB connectivity and extraordinary capacity, are prohibited from being brought to work.? Sure, given what it does, the MoD has a reason to be sensitive to the capabilties of such devices.? But should businesses adopt a similar model considering how such devices represent a hole in their firewalls?? Or should they entrust ...

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Posted by ZDNet Research @ 8:58 am   Year:April 27th, 2005   Source Site:zdnet

April 27th, 2005 Firefox preferred by 10% of business users Posted by ZDNet Research @ 8:58 am Categories: Software Tags: Based on the types of browsers used in accessing 10 business-to-business websites, slightly more than 10% were the Mozilla Foundations Firefox, according to Janco Associates. About 83% were Microsofts Internet Explorer, nearly 4% were Mozilla, and less than 1% were Netscape, America Online and Microsofts MSN. Alex is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. ITFacts is created and updated by a group of statistics-obsessed individuals. ...

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