Category: Technology
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How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail
How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail: Newegg’s Lee Cheng: Patent trolling is based upon deficiencies in a critical but underdeveloped area of the law. The faster we drive these cases to verdict—and through appeal, and also get legislative reform on track—the faster our economy will be competitive in this critical…
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Getting Your Desktop Back – The (Almost) Definitive Guide
Getting Your Desktop Back – The (Almost) Definitive Guide: Despite every ounce of intuition in your body screaming “No, no, no, no, don’t do it!”, you did it anyway. You just had to click “that” button. The one that should have been big and red and marked “SELF DESTRUCT”. And now your computer’s buggered. Just…
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When is “ACID” ACID? Rarely!
When is “ACID” ACID? Rarely. ACID and NewSQL databases rarely provide true ACID guarantees by default, if they are supported at all Not even Oracle or DB2 provide full ACID (in distributed scenarios at least).
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Not in my house: how Vegas casinos wage a war on cheating
Not in my house: how Vegas casinos wage a war on cheating: “I think most people feel that if you can find a way to beat the casino, more power to you,” says Arnold Synder, his eyes, those telltale features, hidden behind a pair of black sunglasses. I was in Las Vegas for three days…
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The “Red October” Campaign
The “Red October” Campaign – An Advanced Cyber Espionage Network Targeting Diplomatic and Government Agencies During the past five years, a high-level cyber-espionage campaign has successfully infiltrated computer networks at diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organizations, gathering data and intelligence from mobile devices, computer systems and network equipment. Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have spent several months…
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One Server Per Person
One Server Per Person: I have always been a bit curious of the open source communities support of Google. I have even seen distros include “web apps” that launch a browser to open Google Docs or Gmail. I can understand the reasoning, to a point. Good desktop applications are difficult to come by on Linux,…
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Hiding secret messages in Skype silences
Hiding secret messages in Skype silences: A group of researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University of Technology have devised a way to send and receive messages hidden in the data packets used to represent silences during a Skype call. Nice little proof of concept for steganography. It’s still obviously clear though…
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Strategic Shift For SAP With Announcement That Business Suite To Run On Real-Time HANA Platform
Strategic Shift For SAP With Announcement That Business Suite To Run On Real-Time HANA Platform: SAP HANA now serves as the core of the business software giant’s strategy with the news today that SAP Business Suite will run on the real-time, in-memory database technology. Customers will have the option to run on HANA or keep what they…
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CST-01, the ‘world’s thinnest’ watch
Central Standard Timing shows off CST-01, the ‘world’s thinnest’ watch: Central Standard Timing is showing off what it’s calling the “world’s thinnest watch” at CES 2013: an E Ink watch that’s a single, razor-thin cuff. I just bought it. And I confess to being a watch nerd! BTW the similarities to Seiko’s Bendie Watch is…
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On Being A Senior Engineer
On Being A Senior Engineer:u I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. Thinking about our profession.
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