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IT Blogwatch: Did Sprint violate customer privacy 8 million times?
A blogger alleges that phone companies and ISPs are routinely providing data on their customers’ activities to law enforcement without a warrant. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers search for the truth. Not to mention don’t try this at home …
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Preston Gralla: Five ways Microsoft can halt Internet Explorer’s slow death
The bad news for Microsoft: Internet Explorer market share just dropped again, to the lowest point ever, at 63.6%. The good news: There are things it can do to stop the slow bleeding. Here are five ways Microsoft can save Internet Explorer, including the unthinkable: releasing it as open source.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Dell releases unofficial Chrome OS Linux desktop
Officially, Dell isn’t one of the companies working with Google on Chrome — but unofficially, Dell engineers have already released a test version of Chrome OS for one of its netbook models.
Preston Gralla: Microsoft: Black Screen of Death claims are flat-out false
There have been plenty of reports circulating claiming that Microsoft’s most recent security updates are causing people to experience the so-called Black Screen of Death. Microsoft now claims that those reports are flat-out wrong. I’ve got details, including information about the Registry keys supposedly at fault.
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Amir Lev: Domain registration fraud spam
This week in Security Levity, I want to talk about domain registration fraud. We’re seeing various patterns of come-on for this type of fraud. I’m going to describe two such spam samples today.
Seth Weintraub: AT&T fails Consumer Reports survey, in full denial
Don’t listen to the bloggers. Don’t listen to the mainstream media. And certainly don’t listen to your users. What should be AT&T’s latest wake up call is flying over its head. AT&T really doesn’t get it.
Robert L. Mitchell: Hailing the death cab for Cobol
Baby Boomers are about to begin retiring en masse. So … who will mind the mainframe?
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Preston Gralla: Prevx on Windows Black Screen of Death: We blew it
The security company Prevx, which recently garnered a great deal of publicity by claiming a Microsoft security patch is the cause of a so-called Black Screen of Death that disables PC, just admitted what much of the world already knew: They were absolutely wrong.
IT News Podcast: SAP offers Constellation as alternative to Google Wave
In today’s podcast: SAP offers Constellation as alternative to Google Wave; Facebook tightens profile security; and Google offers less news for free.
Shark Tank: If we told people then pretty soon everyone would know
On-call pilot fish’s phone rings at 4:30 a.m. with a call from the data center. The servers are down, staffer tells him. Which of the 45 servers are down? All of them.
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Computerworld’s Salary Survey: What’s your earning power?
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Twitter’s dirty laundry
Despite often being a waste of time, Twitter does has value, such as providing Iranians with an outlet during this past summer’s elections. Turns out Twitter can be used to keep you apprised of more domestic developments as well …
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