More than twenty years ago, the cutting edge of technology was selling the future of TV and the phone lines. The big attraction then was being able to see each other’s lovely face while talking. None of us believed cable would have made it into the nineties, no less where it is today. It’s been [...]
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Discover Cal: Oil Spill Aftermath
Oil Spill Aftermath Environmental Science and Corporate Responsibility Recovering from the explosion and spill that resulted in 4.9 million barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico — a wound in the earth that could not be staunched for nearly three months — requires our best minds. Discover Cal offers perspectives from Berkeley experts [...]
Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure
Microsoft is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability in ASP.NET. An attacker who exploited this vulnerability could view data, such as the View State, which was encrypted by the target server, or read data from files on the target server, such as web.config. This would allow the attacker to tamper with the contents [...]
If Greed Is Good, Prejudice May Even Be Even Better, In Business
A dozen years back, my old web developer friend Charlie Duff said to me that he didn’t see any reason for the marketplace to develop a new browser, that Redmond, Mr. Softy, had it covered. Netscape, once the leading online browser, and the first to place cookies on desktops, would soon capitulate, we all surmised, and [...]
H.P. to Work With Hynix on New Computer Memory Chips
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it would commercialize a new computer memory technology called memristors with Hynix, the South Korean chip maker. The agreement to build the memory chips validates the work of Leon O. Chua, a UC Berkeley electrical engineering professor. In 1971, he proposed a fourth basic circuit element (the other three are the [...]
Midmarket ERP Solutions Comparison Guide
The ERP Comparison Guide shortens the time needed to purchase ERP software for companies looking to get their quarter off to a successful start! Begin accurately controlling costs, inventory and revenue forecasts. Thoroughly researched by our ERP analyst community, it is an unbiased comparison of midmarket and enterprise-level ERP solutions showing you: * 11 leading [...]
500 LB Gorillas: An Overview
The Internet may be the one thing so many countries and people got right the last fifteen years. Now if our culture and education could catch-up with the rest of the global economy, a competitive edge would at least be possible once again. Today the big money is sorting out the difference between content [...]
Individual Standards like Oxymorons
The maze of security companies and security widgets just got smaller, or did it? What was considered a dozen years ago as a fait accompli, a security business standard, is now a full blown cold war with Red Queens on treadmills trying to keep consumer confidence cranking. If there is a strategic plan for getting [...]
Proliferation of Trusted “Certificate Authorities” Demands Audit
The article in NYTimes, August 13, Technology, reads … “Computer security researchers are raising alarms about vulnerabilities in some of the Web’s most secure corners: the banking, e-commerce and other sites that use encryption to communicate with their users. Those sites, which are typically identified by a closed lock displayed somewhere in the Web browser, [...]
Net Neutrality, Obama, Genachowski, Congress and Jobs Down The Drain
The subject today is Jeff Chester executive director of, “The Center for Digital Democracy,” and one of the many players trying to hold the White House and Congress responsible for their control over the Internet and how things work He has long been on the front lines fighting against the consolidation and commercialization of the [...]
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