Tim Said What?

In a bolt from the blue, Cisco has announced it plans to kills off its famous Linksys brand.
Talking to Euro press at a roundtable Cisco CEO John Chambers said (in somewhat broken English) Linksys was ‘end of life’ and the networking giant would soon pull its products under the larger Cisco tag.
“It will all […]

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IBM, which began using virtual sites to conduct meetings for remote employees, recently decided to establish virtual guidelines for the over 5,000 staff members inhabiting Second Life and other online worlds.
The Globe and Mail dubs IBM the first corporation to build offical regulations for online denizens. Executives say a code of conduct helps officiate corporate […]

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Mozilla has announced that it is to divest its Thunderbird email client in order to focus its efforts on Firefox.
Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker announced Thunderbird is to move to a “new, separate organizational setting” that she believes will allow developers and users to determine its future.
“The Thunderbird effort is dwarfed by the enormous energy […]

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Silly Wabbit…. hacking is for kids….
A group of U.S. security researchers claims to have discovered an iPhone flaw that can open the door for malicious hackers to take control of the smartphone remotely.While Jon Lech Johansen, also known as “DVD Jon,” was busy cracking the activation codes for the iPhone, a team at Independent Security […]

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Microsofts anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys.
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that the FBI and Chinese Public Security Bureau busted a syndicate selling and distributing more than $2 billion in counterfeit Microsoft software. The WGAs role in the bust highlights the […]

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Poker champion Phil Laak has a good chance of winning when he sits down this week to play 2,000 hands of Texas hold’em — against a computer. It may be the last chance he gets. Computers have gotten a lot better at poker in recent years; they’re good enough now to challenge top professionals like […]

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Oh yes! Every time I get a notion to add something else to this site, a scare come about on the internet and puts off my idea for a while. I was going to add some neat e-cards of my art, and photos, to send to others, and this pops up in the news.
I guess […]

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I adore the use of Google. It is very handy to use almost 65% of the time on the internet, but isn’t there a time, when a company can go to far?
I just found this clip and it disturbed me. Google is not giving any other search engine a fair chance in competition. Read on.
INTERNET […]

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Google Inc. executives will testify before the House and Senate on the company’s $3.1 billion DoubleClick Inc. acquisition and its effect on consumer privacy and advertising, according to a reports Thursday.
Numerous reports said Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is expected to go before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel in September at a hearing focusing […]

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Now that the euphoria surrounding the launch of Apple Computer’s iPhone has died down, the gizmo’s once again made it to the headlines… and how?
SPI Labs’ security researchers have cautioned iPhone users not to use the ‘Web Dialer’ feature that allows them dial telephone numbers over the Web through iPhone’s Safari browser.Lead researcher with SPI […]

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A new update for the Firefox browser fixes an unusual vulnerability that could cause malicious code to run if the browser is launched by Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer.
The critical vulnerability involves Internet Explorer’s ability to launch other applications such as Excel or Firefox after a user clicks on a specially written link in a Web […]

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If you have done a repair operation on XP SP1 or SP2 using the original XP installation CD, you might find that when you visit the Windows/Microsoft Update web sites, they no longer scan for updates.
You might also see an error message in the WindowsUpdate.log file that says Windows Update ActiveX is not the right […]

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A new security vulnerability has been discovered that will allow exploits on computers that run both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
It’s the same type of vulnerability that was discovered in Apple’s Safari 3 browser shortly after its release, and there’s a lot of argument in the blogosphere about whether this vulnerability is the fault of IE […]

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Chris Pirillo leaned away from his webcam and pointed to his printer/scanner/fax machine, which stopped scanning and faxing after he installed Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows Vista operating system a while back.
“I can’t live in Vista if the software that I use in my life for productivity does not work,” Pirillo said in the third minute […]

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As of noon Friday July 13, a total of 378 people had claimed they experienced salmonella illnesses after eating food purchased from the Pars Cove Persian Cuisine booth at Taste of Chicago, compared to 126 reported Thursday, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.
Now third of the 378 have been confirmed through laboratory testing […]

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