EBay prohibits Google checkout service ... Negroponte updates $100 laptop initiative
Today's IT news audio update
EBay prohibits Google checkout service .... AMD lowers revenue forecast .... Negroponte updates $100 laptop initiative
HIGHLIGHTS
News: EBay bans Google payment system
News: Japan scrutinizing tech sales after missile tests
News: July to be another big patch month for Microsoft
News: Paris plans 400 free Wi-Fi hotspots, high-tech seating
News: Negroponte gives $100 laptop update
ITwhirled: 10 people in the tech biz who don't matter
NEWS UPDATES
EBay bans Google payment system
EBay Inc. customers won't be able to use the newly launched Google Checkout service to buy products, according to the auction Web site.
Japan scrutinizing tech sales after missile tests
Japanese companies are likely to face greater scrutiny on certain international sales of IT equipment following North Korea's firing of seven missiles into the Sea of Japan early Wednesday.
July to be another big patch month for Microsoft
With online attackers taking advantage of holes in its Office software, Microsoft Corp. plans to release seven software patches next week.
Paris plans 400 free Wi-Fi hotspots, high-tech seating
Paris plans to offer visitors and citizens free Internet access over Wi-Fi at 400 hotspots across the city, with the goal of city-wide Wi-Fi coverage by the end of 2007. The city administration will also encourage development of new street furniture to make laptop users more comfortable, it said this week.
Negroponte gives $100 laptop update
M.I.T. Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte showed off the latest prototype of the US$100 computer to a gathering of educators in San Diego Thursday.
TIP
Windows Tip: Troubleshooting Cached Logons
By Mitch Tulloch
How can you determine whether you've either successfully logged onto a domain or are merely logged onto your own computer using cached domain credentials? One way to do this is to use Event Viewer to check your System log for an occurrence of event 5719 around the time when you last tried to log on to the domain. An even easier way to do this is to use the following script I wrote to query the System log on my machine for the most recent occurrence of event 5719. Read more.
Friday, July 07, 2006
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Microsoft to integrate OpenDocument for Office ... McAfee sees 400,000 virus definitions by 2008
Today's IT news audio update
Toshiba bows to Rambus SDRAM licensing ... Regulations could slow IPTV
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Rambus wins another round in SDRAM fight
News: Regulatory hurdles worry IPTV industry
News: McAfee sees 400,000 virus definitions by 2008
News: Trojan attacks on the rise, report finds
Tip: Killing Idle Logins with idled
ITwhirled: Font raid!
NEWS UPDATES
Rambus wins another round in SDRAM fight
Rambus Inc. has added another memory chip maker, Toshiba Corp., to the stable of companies finally agreeing to pay a contentious licensing fee for its SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM) and DDR (double data rate) SDRAM memory technology.
Regulatory hurdles worry IPTV industry
Regulations and customer understanding are the two biggest barriers to the success of IPTV (Internet Protocol television), say operators, content providers and vendors that participated in a survey done by the Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. and Accenture Ltd.
McAfee sees 400,000 virus definitions by 2008M
Although widespread virus outbreaks may be a thing of the past, the total amount of malicious software being written is on the rise, according to McAfee Inc.
Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise, report finds
Computer hackers are increasingly tailoring attacks using Trojan horse programs for certain businesses in hopes of filching intellectual property, a new security report released Thursday said.
TIP
Killing Idle Logins with idled
By Sandra Henry Stocker
If you want to allow one group of users to remain idle for several hours while constraining another to only 15 minutes of idle time, you need a sophisticated tool. "Idled" is a small software application that closes idle user sessions. Here's how.
Today's IT news audio update
Toshiba bows to Rambus SDRAM licensing ... Regulations could slow IPTV
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Rambus wins another round in SDRAM fight
News: Regulatory hurdles worry IPTV industry
News: McAfee sees 400,000 virus definitions by 2008
News: Trojan attacks on the rise, report finds
Tip: Killing Idle Logins with idled
ITwhirled: Font raid!
NEWS UPDATES
Rambus wins another round in SDRAM fight
Rambus Inc. has added another memory chip maker, Toshiba Corp., to the stable of companies finally agreeing to pay a contentious licensing fee for its SDRAM (synchronous dynamic RAM) and DDR (double data rate) SDRAM memory technology.
Regulatory hurdles worry IPTV industry
Regulations and customer understanding are the two biggest barriers to the success of IPTV (Internet Protocol television), say operators, content providers and vendors that participated in a survey done by the Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. and Accenture Ltd.
McAfee sees 400,000 virus definitions by 2008M
Although widespread virus outbreaks may be a thing of the past, the total amount of malicious software being written is on the rise, according to McAfee Inc.
Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise, report finds
Computer hackers are increasingly tailoring attacks using Trojan horse programs for certain businesses in hopes of filching intellectual property, a new security report released Thursday said.
TIP
Killing Idle Logins with idled
By Sandra Henry Stocker
If you want to allow one group of users to remain idle for several hours while constraining another to only 15 minutes of idle time, you need a sophisticated tool. "Idled" is a small software application that closes idle user sessions. Here's how.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Yahoo-MSN IM interoperability delayed ... IBM faces fewer claims in SCO suit
Today's IT news audio update
Taiwan invests $3.1 billion in Web 2.0 ... Judge denies some claims in SCO case against IBM .... U.K. domain body calls truce with ICANN
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Yahoo-MSN IM interoperability behind schedule
News: ICANN settles feud with country-code TLD operator
News: BenQ Mobile to lay off 10 percent of workforce
News: IBM faces fewer claims in SCO lawsuit
Opinion: Killing Idle Logins
ITwhirled: 2+2=5
NEWS UPDATES
Yahoo-MSN IM interoperability behind schedule
Yahoo and Microsoft Corp. said late last year that they would launch a service in the second quarter of this year that would allow their customers to send and receive messages and share buddy lists between the two instant messaging (IM) networks. With the second quarter come and gone, representatives from both companies say the interoperable service will launch globally "very soon."
ICANN settles feud with country-code TLD operator
The company that manages the U.K.'s top-level domain has struck a truce with the U.S.-based organization responsible for overseeing Internet domain names, cooling ongoing disagreements over administrative control of the Internet.
BenQ Mobile to lay off 10 percent of workforce
BenQ Mobile plans to lay off up to 10 percent of its German workforce as part of a restructuring plan meant to return the handset maker to profitability.
IBM faces fewer claims in SCO lawsuit
A U.S. judge has tossed out almost 200 of The SCO Group Inc.'s claims of intellectual property violation against IBM Corp. on the grounds that SCO didn't identify the alleged infringements in enough detail.
Google tries to have page-ranking suit dismissed
Google Inc. can use any criteria it wishes to rank Web sites, including downgrading competitors, a lawyer for the search giant told a federal judge Friday.
OPINION
Killing Idle Logins
By Sandra Henry-Stocker
It is not at all unusual for systems administrators to get a little antsy when users' login sessions sit idle for hours or days. Not only can login session consume resources, tie up software licenses and prevent file systems from being unmounted but, since we generally can't see what is going on at the user end of these sessions, we don't know whether these users could provide opportunities for unauthorized individuals to execute commands and access data under the guise of authorized users. A user who leaves for lunch without logging out or securing his login sessions by locking his screen, for example, might be giving someone else a chance to run commands using his account.
Read the full article here
Today's IT news audio update
Taiwan invests $3.1 billion in Web 2.0 ... Judge denies some claims in SCO case against IBM .... U.K. domain body calls truce with ICANN
HIGHLIGHTS
News: Yahoo-MSN IM interoperability behind schedule
News: ICANN settles feud with country-code TLD operator
News: BenQ Mobile to lay off 10 percent of workforce
News: IBM faces fewer claims in SCO lawsuit
Opinion: Killing Idle Logins
ITwhirled: 2+2=5
NEWS UPDATES
Yahoo-MSN IM interoperability behind schedule
Yahoo and Microsoft Corp. said late last year that they would launch a service in the second quarter of this year that would allow their customers to send and receive messages and share buddy lists between the two instant messaging (IM) networks. With the second quarter come and gone, representatives from both companies say the interoperable service will launch globally "very soon."
ICANN settles feud with country-code TLD operator
The company that manages the U.K.'s top-level domain has struck a truce with the U.S.-based organization responsible for overseeing Internet domain names, cooling ongoing disagreements over administrative control of the Internet.
BenQ Mobile to lay off 10 percent of workforce
BenQ Mobile plans to lay off up to 10 percent of its German workforce as part of a restructuring plan meant to return the handset maker to profitability.
IBM faces fewer claims in SCO lawsuit
A U.S. judge has tossed out almost 200 of The SCO Group Inc.'s claims of intellectual property violation against IBM Corp. on the grounds that SCO didn't identify the alleged infringements in enough detail.
Google tries to have page-ranking suit dismissed
Google Inc. can use any criteria it wishes to rank Web sites, including downgrading competitors, a lawyer for the search giant told a federal judge Friday.
OPINION
Killing Idle Logins
By Sandra Henry-Stocker
It is not at all unusual for systems administrators to get a little antsy when users' login sessions sit idle for hours or days. Not only can login session consume resources, tie up software licenses and prevent file systems from being unmounted but, since we generally can't see what is going on at the user end of these sessions, we don't know whether these users could provide opportunities for unauthorized individuals to execute commands and access data under the guise of authorized users. A user who leaves for lunch without logging out or securing his login sessions by locking his screen, for example, might be giving someone else a chance to run commands using his account.
Read the full article here
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