Archive for December, 2007...
Filed under Slashdot
A Wired article reports on data loss in 2007, and the numbers aren’t good. Credit card and social security theft was at an all-time high, with even more losses expected in 2008. Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security. “While companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late. ‘More of them are experiencing data breaches, and they’re responding to them in a reactive way, rather than proactively looking at the company’s security and seeing where the holes might be,’ said Linda Foley, who founded the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center after becoming an identity theft victim herself.”
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Filed under Tech News World, Technology
The entrepreneur was not one to pass up a marketing opportunity. However, when Jason Calacanis went on a bit too long about his latest product at a technology conference in August — at least in some eyes — pioneering software developer Dave Winer had had enough. Winer, of Berkeley, Calif., jeered Calacanis from the crowd as a shill. Almost immediately, he took his criticism online and onto his blog, casting the issue into the open seas of the Internet. Calacanis, of Santa Monica, Calif., responded on his own blog.
Filed under Gadgets
Filed under: Home Entertainment
While the corporate IT world has long had access to remotely-controlled power for servers and data centers, it’s pretty cutting-edge stuff for home theater, with PS Audio releasing the first line of Internet-connected power management devices. Ranging in price from $600 to $1,995 and scheduled to release in Spring 2008, the four products in the PowerPlay line differ in number of switchable and isolated plugs, but all offer a web interface to toggle power, schedule reboots, and monitor power quality. There is an RS-232 port for hardwired power control as well as IR blasters for turning devices back on after a reboot. Now you can reboot your TiVo without ever stepping foot in the house.
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An anonymous reader writes “Linux-gamers.net has posted a thorough, although harsh, comparison of free software shooters. It compares seven open source shooter games in a lengthy discussion. Few have gone to the trouble of comparing and carefully examining the genre before. The author ranks the games in the following order (best to worst): Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten. In making these choices, it claims to use gameplay, design, innovation and presentation as criteria and includes a short history of free software shooters in the introduction.”
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Shares of The SCO Group started trading Thursday over the counter after the Nasdaq stock exchange delisted the company. Nasdaq suspended trading on The SCO Group stock at the opening bell, citing the company’s filing for bankruptcy protection in September. “They are kind of stuck on this path of going out of business,” said Rob Enderle, chief analyst of the Enderle Group, which analyzes the high-tech sector. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, SCO said it had lost its appeal to the Nasdaq, which had moved to delist the company in September.
