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Google launches their app development framework

April 8, 2008

… and the web application hosting business cowers in fear. Now, my friends, people are discovering what Google’s REAL differentiated IP is.. Application scaling is a real problem for the managed hosting business unless some software company comes up with a platform/solution that lets them leverage their existing computing infrastructure. This is allegorical to, and [...]

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Cingular’s FastPitch Sessions: How not to build an ecosystem

June 1, 2007

I’m frequently amused and bewildered by the naivety and arrogance displayed by the folks who, early in their careers, find themselves in mid-level positions nestled within the comfortable fold of a large Telecom company, and begin to, as they say, believe their own press. I know what of I speak, since if you check my [...]

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Verisign’s At It Again..

September 17, 2003

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19860-2003Sep16.html washingtonpost.com Software Aimed at Blocking VeriSign’s Search Program By Anick Jesdanun AP Internet Writer Tuesday, September 16, 2003; 4:00 PM NEW YORK — The developer of software that essentially guides Web surfers sought Tuesday to neutralize a controversial service designed to help users who mistype Internet addresses. The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit organization [...]

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2002: The Year In Technology

December 27, 2002

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993215 * 2002: The year in technology* 09:00 25 December 02 Will Knight The entertainment industry upped its attack on the internet file-sharing in 2002 by introducing new and controversial “copy protection” technologies to prevent computer copying of music and movies. The year began on a sour note when the company behind the Compact Disc [...]

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Some execs scored big as company values plunged

December 9, 2002

Duh! But LOOK at how much wealth converged on so few people… what was the economic purpose of the bubble? -Ian. Begin forwarded message: > ———- Forwarded message ———- > Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:44:23 -0500 > From: Dave Farber > To: ip > Subject: [IP] VERY INTERESTING — Some execs scored big as [...]

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Sign Up For DJ School!

October 2, 2002

Forget flying to New York. Come to my place and Mario and I will teach you. For an extra $500, Gersham will sit in the corner and tell you what a wanker you are for selecting anything with lyrics. -Ian. —– http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id 9693 Magna Cum Loud The art of DJing has come a long way. [...]

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Homeland Insecurity..

August 13, 2002

Homeland Insecurity: A top expert says America’s approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Forget “foolproof” technology—we need systems designed to fail smartly   by Charles C. Mann The Atlantic Monthly | September 2002   ….. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/09/mann.htm. To stop the rampant theft of expensive cars, manufacturers in the 1990s began to make ignitions [...]

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How to break Windows.

August 12, 2002

Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation. Or… Shatter Attacks – How to break Windows. By Foon – ivegotta [at] tombom.co [dot] uk http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html Introduction This paper presents a new generation of attacks against Microsoft Windows, and possibly other message-based windowing systems. The flaws presented in this paper are, at the time [...]

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Here’s A Story…

July 27, 2002

Let’s imagine it’s 1999. You’re the CEO of the world’s largest media conglomerate, happily leeching money from your cable news network, your britney spears sound-alike franchise, and a few dozen feature films (among other things) and turning a respectable profit in the process. Times are good, you’ve relegated Ted Turner to his penthouse live-in office [...]

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Microsoft’s Hiring…

July 26, 2002

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020726/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_dc_13 Microsoft to Pump Up R&D, Hire 5,000 Thu Jul 25,11:43 PM ET By Reed Stevenson REDMOND, Wash. (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would boost spending on research and development by 20 percent and hire nearly 10 percent more workers this year, buoyed by strong sales of Windows XP ( news – [...]

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