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"Go into this with your eyes wide open," says Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity czar.
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The body of Steven Thomas, founder of security software maker Webroot Software, was found dead in Hawaii, some two weeks after he was reported as missing. Thomas was found at the bottom of an almost 1,000-foot cliff in Oahu. According to reports, the 36-year-old millionaire suffered from bipolar disorder and delusions.
Preview articleCommentOne automatic programming tool, SciComp, has hit the marketplace and researchers are working on ever more of them, reports Newsweek. For instance, Kestrel Institute, a nonprofit R&D center in Palo Alto, Calif., has created a tool that translates business needs into guidelines a computer can understand. The tool has been used to create software for scheduling cargo deployment for the U.S. military.
Preview articleCommentSourceLabs has extended its Self-Support Suite to include support for the Xen hypervisor. SourceLabs bills its Self-Support Suite as a method to drive down development costs by identifying potential implementation problems and offering resolutions including suggesting open source products.
Preview articleCommentAfter Oracle purchased BEA Systems it showed the door to overlapping personnel inherited from BEA. This set off worries among BEA customers that Oracle was not planning on supporting BEA software long-term. Yesterday, the company conducted a Webcast in which it outlined plans for the acquired software, some of which will be added immediately to Oracle's line-up while other products will be redesigned.
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If you aren't using the Xobni plugin for Microsoft Outlook, then its time to upgrade from stone knives and bear skins to some new email + social networking tools. I had the pleasure of interviewing Xobni co-founder Matt Brezina earlier this year about Xobni, back when it was still in closed...

Microsoft is buying DATAllegro for, in essence, its data warehouse scale-out technology. And guess what- DATAllegro relies...

In my last post, I told the tale about my travels with UAC and Pre-Vista/2008 Ready Applications. In tonight's post, as...
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[Errors and Omissions Dept: I forgot to include the URL of Dropbox in the last newsletter. It isn't what you would...

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