A Retro Mac Theme released today for WordPress was released in memory of Steve jobs, http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/hero/ here is the writeup from the WordPress Team: It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Steve Jobs on technologists, particularly his passion for beautiful, usable products. We work harder and have higher standards because of the bar set by …
With the new fine-grained password policies feature in Windows Server 2008, we can finally create multiple password policies and account lockout policies for users in the same domain. The fact that the fine-grained password policies feature in Windows Server 2008 maps password policies to users and/or groups means that we have virtually unlimited flexibility when …
on the front page of Drudgereport and Tuaw, there is mention of this.. cnet has the story: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116336-37/apple-co-founder-chairman-steve-jobs-dies/?tag=TOCcarouselMain.0 and apple has confirmed this as well https://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ Apple co-founder and Chairman Steve Jobs died today, Apple said. He was 56. Jobs had been suffering from various health issues following the seven-year anniversary of his surgery for …
Taken from: http://informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/231602241 1. Cloud-based Office integration 2. Rights management 3. Enhanced Outlook/Exchange Server support 4. Targeted app distribution 5. Lync Mobile I’ve pretty excited to move away from Android for my primary phone. Anyone have recommendations for which phone i should look at?
According to one digital marketing firm, eDataSource, sales of the cloud-based Amazon Kindle Fire Android-based tablet have reached 95,000 in its first day on the market (all of those sales being pre-orders). I am sure this has a lot to do with the pricetag being $199. Time will tell if Apple has anything to worry about here, …
Read the story on Wired.com, im kinda glad i have the motorola Droid, but this is not a concern for android users alone. Apple has its own privacy concerns as well. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/htc-sense-data-security/ im begining to wonder if i should move to windows mobile again…
The patent titled “Communicating Information in a Social Network System about Activities from Another Domain” was filed by Facebook Feb 8 2011. here is the Abstract: AbstractIn one embodiment, a method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain. The method includes maintaining a …
Saw this on a thread over on Slashdot Friday and just now saw it on Information Week. Apparently one of the features that helps protect end users from RootKits and Malware would also potentially stop users from migrating to open source operating systems such as Ubuntu and Jolicloud. I read a few times that Microsoft …
Just read this and thought some of you may be interested in reading it. http://www.techgineering.org/2011/09/26/2611/facebook-cookies-can-still-track-you-after-your-logged-out/ Apparently even after you log out of facebook. other sites with share on facebook, or “like” buttons are tracked in your cookies.. Maybe it’s time to start tweaking your privacy settings in firefox, and install Adblock plugins.. or …
Ok, there were stories back as far as January of this year speculating that microsoft should or would buy Netflix. Since then Netflix has decided to separate the Streaming Business from the DVD rental by mail part of the company. Maybe Reed hastings wants to keep the core part of the business that made Netflix …