Last year, when I first started poking around in social media from my security high horse, people asked me what it was like to live in two totally different worlds. Keep in mind I m no technology thought leader, hacker or researcher -- but I ve been working in security for the better part of 10 years and I respect all aspects, from all the different shades of security hats. My background aside, there is a crossover between the two disciplines and it s not new. While this weekend s Twitter phishing scam is giving people an "epiphany" about the dangers of the Web it was a long time coming, right? Internet threats are not new. Were social media lovers really so naive as...

Twitter is quickly becoming my favorite social news feed, but it s hard to keep up with it all the time. People follow you and sometimes you forget to follow them back. Mr. Tweet does much more than that though. It gives you a detailed look at people who follow you, their ratio of followers to followees, how often they post, and if they regularly follow people back. The service also recommends interesting people to follow based on how many of your friends follow them. It helps you get a good idea of who you should be following back. @mrtweet only works if you follow their account. They are still in private alpha, but give them a try. You might find...

I m not buying the rumored 15,000-person layoff that first percolated on Mini-Microsoft s blog before Christmas. There is a long legacy -- and lots of layers of fat -- protecting Microsoft from annihilation. This isn t a Microsoft apologist talking; it s a Microsoft realist.

My desk is a bloody mess. There s more crap sitting where I work than Amy Winehouse s music taste. Productivity is a word most people recoil from in utter horror; the connotation of having to sit down and "be productive" releases gasps of shock amongst the student community. I make it my New Year s resolution is to halve, at least, the amount of technology on my desk, to make me a faster, more efficient worker. For example, this is my desk as it is now. (Click for a larger, annotated version of this over-cluttered mess, of which I call a "workspace"...) As you ll see, I ve got myself a laptop, a keyboard and mouse (obviously), a monitor, and a digital frame with...

Customers will point to FileMaker s friendly new interface in Version 10. However, some significant improvements in the database s programming support may drive sites to upgrade, according to several FileMaker consultants.

Seagate has announced that it is shipping the densest 3.5 inch desktop hard drive available - cramming an incredible 329 gigabits per square inch.

Last week I blogged about a piece of information that was handed to me: "... A Mac version of Picasa will be launched this year at Macworld ..." It turns out that Google did indeed launch Picasa at this year s Macworld Expo, and it looks great. I haven t had a chance to try it out yet, but I will surely be installing it on my Macbook tonight. today, we re releasing Picasa for Mac. While we ve previously offered both a standalone Picasa Web Albums uploader and an iPhoto plugin for Mac users, Picasa for Mac finally brings all of the advanced sharing and sync features of Picasa to the millions of Mac OS X users who use Picasa Web Albums. Not...

A Relevant and Robust Offering for today s IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen – VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP’s offerings in the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and IT Management spaces. Background: HP’s software organization is a large entity although that may get overshadowed by HP s hardware or services product/service lines. The firm has expanded its PPM software offerings in recent years via acquisitions and the most relevant to this discussion include: Peregrine (2005), Mercury Interactive (2006) and Kintana (2003). The company now possesses a relatively complete and formidable line-up of solutions to help internal IT groups manage complex projects and project portfolios. So who is HP’s target customer for...

The core problem we ve solved is the ability for our engine to redistribute the data and the computation on the fly, as these queries and analysis are being performed. ... The combination of the software-switch interconnect, which Greenplum built into the Greenplum product, and the underlying use of commodity parallel computers, is brought together in this database system that makes it possible to do SQL query and languages like MapReduce with automatic parallelism.

In Washington D.C. the stakes are high. The stakes are huge. The stakes are for a major porton of the cash that will go into the United States mounting federal debt. That means big money. How much will Obama s version of the federal government put into greentech? That is the multi-billion dollar question. The line forms in front of Uncle Sam s seeminglh bottomess ATM. Bottomless as long as China and Japan and Saudi Arabia are willing to lend the U.S.ever more money. Who wants what? The Union of Concerned Scientists are asking for more faqts, less faith, in making regulatory decisions. Here you ban find their list of ten things they want to see from the Obama Admin. To save...

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Take-Two label issues limited-time online coupon for Sid Meier titles, sports games, and PS3 edition of Award-winning undersea adventure.

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