Posted by John Carroll @ 11:43 am   Year:September 5th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 5th, 2007 Competing with Apple Posted by John Carroll @ 11:43 am Categories: Apple, Zune, Microsoft, XBOX, Digital Media Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Microsoft Xbox, John Carroll In Focus ? See more posts on: Zune Reuters recently reported that Mindy Mount, chief financial officer at Microsofts E&D division (the division within which I work) claimed that it wouldnt be unreasonable to conclude that an integrated device like the iPhone, one that combines music player functionality with smartphone features, might exist at some point in the future. Thats not much of a basis upon which to conclude anything about Microsoft product plans. Truth be told, however, Microsoft would be crazy not to try to create a consumer-oriented mobile phone product, a...

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Posted by Harry Fuller @ 11:41 am   Year:September 2nd, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 2nd, 2007 Cabernet, hold the sugar Posted by Harry Fuller @ 11:41 am Categories: Blogroll, climate change, global warming, Europe Tags: Wine, Vineyard, Harry Fuller If a crisp Alsatian Riesling is your plonk of choice, dont read this blog. Itll make you cry. The Washington Post today carries a piece on what global warming is doing to the French wine industry. Radically changing the time table is the conclusion. The picture above is of the staff at the Domaine du Clos St. Landelin. The Alsatian winerye owner talked to the reporter for the Posts story. Here are some of the key points. The vineyards harvest in 1978 was on October 16. Twenty years later it was on September 14. This year havesting began August 24th, earliest in the family records which go back 12 g...

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Posted by Garett Rogers @ 1:52 pm   Year:August 31st, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

August 31st, 2007 Google defies their own send you away strategy with Google News Posted by Garett Rogers @ 1:52 pm Categories: Google News, Google Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Google News, Garett Rogers Google has publicly stated on several occasions that they are not interested in keeping users on their site they want people to find information and leave Google as quickly as possible but their latest move is a sign that Google is taking a second look at that strategy. Instead of sending people to any site hosting content from Press Association, Associated Press, Canadian Press and Agence France-Presse, Google has decided to license articles and host them directly. The pages hosting the articles are plain you get the article you want, and basically nothing else (not even a...

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Posted by Garett Rogers @ 12:54 pm   Year:September 4th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 4th, 2007 Gpay: Send money to people with SMS? Posted by Garett Rogers @ 12:54 pm Categories: Google, Google Checkout Tags: Google Inc., SMS, Patent Application, Garett Rogers Paying for things with your cell phone isnt a new concept, but as with most things, it seems to get more interesting when Google does something with it. A patent filed by the search engine outlines a system for distributing money through SMS. How will it work? Take this scenario directly from the patent application: the user of [Gpay] may want to send twenty dollars to a friend whose mobile number is 850-555-1212. The user may thus type and send the following text message: gpay 8505551212 20 to the Google text message address of GOOGL (46645), or to another address. Ive been digging ar...

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Posted by Garett Rogers @ 1:14 pm   Year:September 4th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 4th, 2007 GDrive to be included in Google Apps? Posted by Garett Rogers @ 1:14 pm Categories: GDrive Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, GDrive, Garett Rogers Tony Ruscoe was playing with the URL while logged into a Google Apps account, and he discovered something very interesting. It turns out that www10 is something like a codename for Platypus which is the codename for GDrive. By modifying the Disable Service URL in Google Apps to include www10, he was presented with a telling screen: This screen pretty much verifies that GDrive is definitely not a rumor, and we may even see it released as part of Google Apps in the future. To see it for yourself, you can use the following URL (replacing example.com with your own Google Apps domain): https://www.google.com/a/cpa...

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Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 11:27 am   Year:September 5th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 5th, 2007 ActiveX flaws haunt QuickBooks Online Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 11:27 am Categories: Patch Watch, Hackers, Zero-day attacks, Microsoft, Browsers, Rootkits, Vulnerability research, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms, Data theft, Open source, Pen testing, Metasploit, Passwords Tags: Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBooks, ActiveX, Flaw, Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition, Exploitation, Ryan Naraine The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning about multiple code execution holes affecting users of Intuit QuickBooks Online Edition. The vulnerabilities, rated highly critical by Secunia, can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable ...

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Posted by Dan Farber @ 11:13 am   Year:September 5th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 5th, 2007 The phoneless iPhone lives: iPod touch Posted by Dan Farber @ 11:13 am Categories: Personal Technology, Apple Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Starbucks Corp., Dan Farber Steve Jobs unveiled the phoneless iPhone, an iPod with all the goodness that debuted in the iPhone. Dubbed the iPod touch, the device is 8mm wide and has the 3.5-inch widescreen display, and Wi-Fi, which will allow users to buy iTunes music wireless. Jobs also announced a deal with Starbucks. When you enter a Starbucks with your iPod touch or iPhone, a Starbucks button pops up that gives you the option to buy music from the featured artist via the wireless connectivity. The batter offers 22 hours of audio playback or 5 hours of video playback. The iPod touch will be available this mo...

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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 11:27 am   Year:September 5th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 5th, 2007 Todays Debate: What should be required of patients? Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 11:27 am Categories: General, Payment Processing, Government, U.S., state government, Ethics Tags: Patient, Compliance, Health Care, Dana Blankenhorn One of the more popular recent posts here was on IBM. I questioned the marketing efficacy of blaming patients for their conditions. But many conditions are preventable. You dont really have to be overweight. You dont have to smoke. You dont have to drink. You dont have to get high. You dont have to sit around all day like a lump, with Cheetos in one hand and a beer in the other. These actions have consequences. Those consequences have costs. Taxpayers dont like paying those costs, unless its their costs. Outside the U.S., thi...

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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 10:58 am   Year:September 5th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 5th, 2007 Health care at the money dance Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 10:58 am Categories: General, Medical Equipment, Medical IT Tags: Health Care, Bear Stearns Co., Dana Blankenhorn Today starts a week-long money dance for health care companies as Thomas Weisel and Bear Stearns hold their annual health care conferences. Weisel starts things off today in Boston with over 150 companies presenting. Most are small and private, in keeping with the fact this is a venture capital conference. William Hawkins, the new CEO Medtronic, will be the exemplar of whats possible and the focus of eager business-card wielding entrepreneurs seeking a buy-out. James Surowiecki of The New Yorker will provide the entertainment. Bear Stearns has even more presenting companies over 18...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 10:56 am   Year:September 5th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 5th, 2007 Heres the screen youll use to size your iMovie 8 videos for iPhone Posted by Russell Shaw @ 10:56 am Categories: Apple Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iMovie, Screen, Video, Russell Shaw In Focus ? See more posts on: iPhone Screen appears in the Sharing Your Movies section of iMovie 08 tutorial that just went up here. Choose Tiny, and then 176144. Plenty of other iMovie and iLife tutorials here. Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations. ...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 10:37 am   Year:September 5th, 2007   Source Site:zdnet

September 5th, 2007 Jobs shows iMovie8 video for iPhone; I have a screencap Posted by Russell Shaw @ 10:37 am Categories: Apple Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Video, Presentation, Russell Shaw In Focus ? See more posts on: iPhone Apple CEO Steve Jobs is still on his keynote presentation. Just showed the new iMovie 8, included with ILife 08. This image, grabbed straight frm his presentation, is a screen capture of an iMovie8 clip with low-res mode that Steve specifically mentioned is good for iPhone. Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations. ...

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