Fri, November 20, 2009 - The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with unfinished white walls overlooking a million-dollar view. It was an appropriate setting for Lunch for Good, an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can help humans find common ground.
Tue, November 17, 2009 - In the second installment of his series on "Clearing the Cloud," security expert Ariel Silverstone proposes some clearer definitions and metrics to improve cloud security.
Wed, November 11, 2009 - Security luminaries Anton Chuvakin and Ben Rothke explain why 451 Group analyst Josh Corman is off his rocker when he compares PCI security to a devil and "No Child Left Behind."
Tue, November 10, 2009 - Yes, the user base of the collaboration tool is growing, but it might be shelfware whose hold on the enterprise could be threatened by easier-to-use offerings.
Tue, November 10, 2009 - We like to talk about how much easier or cheaper it is to run applications off the cloud or use software-as-a-service (SaaS), and it is - when our Internet connection is working. When we have network problems, though, it's another story entirely.
Fri, October 30, 2009 - The world got another smartphone this week with Motorola's Droid, available from Verizon. Google rolled out Android 2.0 as well. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers finally voted to allow non-Latin characters in domain names, and Windows 7 news continued apace, among other things. So read on and Happy Halloween everyone (see number 10).
Tue, October 27, 2009 - Michael Oberlaender looks at a practical approach to confidentiality, integrity and availability in the business world
Mon, October 26, 2009 - After a particularly trying weekend moderating the Macworld forums, it occurred to me that there are a handful of ways to become an Internet pariah in a very short period of time. In the hope that you might not fall into some of these traps, allow me to enumerate those ways.
Mon, October 26, 2009 - Do you love your e-mail? Come on, it's just the two of us. Do you really?
Wed, October 21, 2009 - Unlike some people, I maintain a good relationship with e-mail. I keep my inbox empty (see Empty your inbox), and junk mail no longer wastes my time, thanks to the combination of Gmail's spam filtering and C-Command's $30 SpamSieve 2.7. Because I'm almost always too busy for microblogging and random chatting, I use Twitter only occasionally and instant messaging even less. Nevertheless, I've discovered that in certain situations, Twitter is a better way to communicate than e-mail.
