When the Web Got it Wrong
April 22, 2009Did you hear? Britney Spears had a fatal run-in with a pretzel, a guy named Homosexual ran in the Olympic 100-meter dash, and President Obama attended a Muslim academy.
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'Cataloging error' lands Amazon in hot water over gay-books listings
April 20, 2009Amazon.com said a glitch that removed sales rankings for gay and lesbian-themed books and knocked them out of search results was caused by a cataloging error, not a hack of its Web site.
Hollywood's Victory Over Pirate Bay Will Be Short
April 20, 2009From Sweden, London, to Hollywood, protectors of copyrights are celebrating the conviction of the four men behind the world's most popular torrent tracker The Pirate Bay. The four convicted men behind The Pirate Bay, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom, say they can't and won't pay the $3.6 million in damages and promised the site will continue running. So much for Hollywood's sweet victory and happy ending.
Study: US venture capital spending plummeted in Q1
April 18, 2009The recession has taken a staggering toll on U.S. venture capital investments, resulting in a nearly 50 percent drop overall during the past three months, according to a new industry report released Saturday.
Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 3
April 17, 2009For the last two weeks I've been considering how to analyze Twitter messages using Excel 2003. Having been thwarted by the deficiencies of Excel and Twitter (turns out that Twitter Search returns malformed HTML and Excel won't tolerate that) I have a new plan: Let's use cURL to retrieve the raw XML returned by Twitter search and then haul that data into Excel for the analysis.
Managing mobility requires casting a wide net
April 16, 2009Mobility represents one of the fastest-growing line items in most IT budgets as an increasing number of employees request and receive mobile services. Yet most companies don't even have a mobility strategy: Only 40% of the IT pros I work with have deployed one (though another 40% say they're developing one).
Fact-checking the fact-checkers
April 16, 2009What's your first thought when someone spreads an e-mail around the office claiming that Oprah is giving away a million bucks or that your penny-pinching state will no longer send out reminders about driver's license renewals?
Less freedom in the new digital world?
April 16, 2009"And that," put in the director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."
Alaska Airlines flies ahead with in-flight Wi-Fi
April 16, 2009Alaska Airlines will deploy in-flight Wi-Fi systems on more planes and test prices after what it called a successful trial run.
'Mebroot' rootkit slides further under the security radar, researcher says
April 16, 2009A security researcher said that thousands of Web sites have been rigged to deliver a new variant of the Mebroot rootkit, which infects the master boot record on vulnerable PCs -- effectively making it invisible to Windows and security tools.