The Register points out that “[o]pen source server and desktop companies in and around Silicon Valley are now being captained by executives who are either hardened by years of pushing the Linux cause for slow returns or who see the advantages of interoperating with Windows and tapping into the company's [...]
New York Times reporter Brad Stone outed one of our favorite bloggers, Fake Steve Jobs, today. I couldn't agree more with Larry Dignan of CNET who wrote:I’ll still read Lyons, but I really didn’t want to know who Fake Steve was. I feel almost as crappy as I did when [...]
AFP reports that, according to security specialists, “[o]nline sharing of videos and music at the heart of today's Internet lifestyle gives hackers dangerous new avenues for attacking computers. Malicious code can be hidden in video streamed or downloaded from websites such as YouTube or songs streamed from social-networking websites including [...]
The Wall Street Journal warns that, judging from its anti-China rhetoric, Congress still hasn’t learned the lessons from the Smoot-Hawley tariff. The WSJ writes: “Unfortunately, Congress is suffering from a bad case of amnesia. Over the past several months, protectionism has reached a fever pitch with lawmakers in both Houses [...]
New Guidelines Shift Policy from Technology Mandates Toward a More Effective Goals-Based Policy Washington – Today, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Information Technology Division finalized its open format proposal as part of a periodic revision to its Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM). The ETRM version 4.0 is now ready to be [...]