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Using RMON and NetFlow to Sniff Out Bandwidth Bandits

Police departments release annual figures detailing the number of crimes committed in a given year. While these statistics may be useful for high-level planning, they don't put anyone in jail. What is needed is convincing evidence of exactly who did what, where and when The same can be said for network management. SNMP (simple network management pr...

Does the iPhone Mean Business?

While Apple's iPhone clearly is aimed squarely at the consumer market, that hasn't stopped business users from coveting it as well -- and putting it to work. Independent software vendors (ISVs) are jumping in, making integration solutions and applications that work with the iPhone NetSuite, for example, has launched an iPhone version of its softwar...

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Creating Opportunities to Chat With Online Customers

More than half of all consumers say a negative online experience leads to online and offline abandonment With the click of a mouse, a customer who has invested time and effort researching your products and services online, and who may have purchased something from your site or store in the past, will disappear forever because of a single, bad onlin...

Sharing Insecurities at Black Hat

Security experts, malware ninjas and hackers of all shades packed the hallways of the Palace Tower conference area at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas Aug. 1 and 2 for the 11th AnnualBlack Hat Briefings USA conference.The event provides security pros with a venue for outlining the latest flaws, both technological and human, in today's digital defenses ...

Judge Slaps Publicity-Seeking Pedophile With Restraining Order

Jack McClellan, the self-professed pedophile who has attracted international attention for his Web site with pictures of kids and tips for other pedophiles, is now barred from coming closer than 30 feet of any minor in California Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Melvin Sandvig on Friday placed a temporary restraining order against McClellan, who ad...

Take 2 Puts Brakes on 'GTA IV' Release

In a move sure to disappoint scores of gamers, not to mention Microsoft and Sony, Take 2 Games announced late Thursday that the release of the latest installation in its hottest gaming property, "Grand Theft Auto IV," will be delayed. The company said its revised plan is to release the game some time after March 2008, six months later than expected...

California Shies Away From E-Voting

Minutes before a looming midnight deadline,California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Friday night decertified e-voting machines manufactured byDiebold Election Systems,Hart Intercivic andSequoia Voting Systems and adopted for use in 39 California counties. The vendors will have 30 days to submit their products for recertification Bowen also issued ...

Nokia to Play Ball With Microsoft's PlayReady

Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, will add support of Microsoft's latest copyright protection software, PlayReady digital rights management (DRM) technology, to its line of Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms beginning in 2008, the two companies announced Monday. The move, according to Nokia, will enable content owners and service providers to deliver nearly any type of digital content in a flexible manner...

Amazon Leads Funding of Social Music Download Site

Arming for battle in the digital music space, Amazon.com has investedin a startup that attempts to blend digital music sales with socialnetworking AmieStreet.com, a digital music store that prices music based on itspopularity among visitors to the site, said Amazon was the lead investor in its first round of outside funding....

Defcon Hackers Send Geraldo Wannabe Packing

A "Dateline NBC" undercover reporter tried a little social engineering of her own at a well-known conference of computer hackers and security experts -- and reportedly failed spectacularly Defcon, an annual convention for hackers and security experts, was held this year at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas....

Bush Signs Sweeping Surveillance Measure Into Law

President Bush on Sunday afternoon signed into law a controversial measure giving U.S. government officials increased authority to listen in on international communications without first obtaining a warrant S. 1927, also known as the "Protect America Act," updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by permitting warrantless surveillan...

Long Reach Overhaul Highlights Open Source CRM

An Ottawa-based provider of CRM for small and medium-sized businesses,The Long Reach Corporation has a surprisingly far-flung customer base, with clients in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan That is likely due to the special niche it fills for SMBs, a corporate constituency that does not typically have a wide selec...

EMI Revenue Falls but DRM-Free iTunes Sales Promising

EMI Group, the UK-based record label that is awaiting a takeover by a private equity firm, posted lower revenue for its second quarter as CD sales plunged but indicated its DRM-free music experiment with iTunes is off to a fast start EMI's revenue was down 5.1 percent overall, in line with its own forecasts. The company cited "tough market conditio...

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Web 2.0 E-Commerce: A New Era of Competition

The online retail game has changed -- again Your customers' expectations are increasing. Will you meet them? Or will you miss them?...

StayinFront CRM Migrates to .Net

StayinFront has shifted its CRM application to .Net architecture in what is the first major overhaul of its flagship product in two years The new product, StayinFront CRM 10, migrated from a client-server model to a platform that allows it to integrate with other software applications more easily and to deploy across multiple platforms, including L...

The iPhone continues to do well for a device of its price and class, but the product that is likely to really break open the segment for Apple is the anticipated lower cost, more limited, smaller nano (picture based on patent application here) offering The product in the market that is most similar to what the nano is likely to be is the Neonode. I...

WEEKEND FEATURE

Web Services Security: Beauty and the Beast

Lately, corporate interest in Web services has been rising -- and justifiably so. The advent of this new way of building applications promises to almost magically allow organizations to exchange information within their own systems with partners and customers While the potential benefits are noteworthy, these capabilities raise new security issues ...

Amazon Offers Taste of Fresh Grocery Delivery

Not content to sell everything from video downloads to cosmetics to furniture, Amazon.com quietly rolled out a new service Wednesday called "AmazonFresh," a grocery store and home delivery site. Currently stating availability only in the Seattle area, the grocery service appears to offer similar services as such spectacular dot-com boom era failures as Webvan.com and Kozmo.com...

Microsoft Tosses Ads Into the Works

Microsoft is launching a pilot program to test a free, advertising-funded version of Microsoft Works, the company confirmed Friday Dubbed "Microsoft Works SE 9," the ad-supported version of the entry-level software will be distributed preinstalled on computers manufactured by a select group of participating OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) s...

Will Bloggers' Netroots Movement Replace Grassroots Politics?

Approximately 1,500 online activists -- bloggers, for the most part, that are collectively called the "netroots" -- are meeting in Chicago for the 2007 YearlyKos Convention, an event named after the super popular, left-leaning DailyKos political blog The convention is the second of its kind ever held, and already it's so important that the nation's...

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