“We have been forced by legal action to at least temporarily halt the sale of RealDVD by Hollywood’s largest movie studios,” RealNetworks said in a post on it’s site. “You shouldn’t be caught in the middle, and we apologize that you are. As a thank you for your patience we will upgrade your trial to [...]

My suggestion is this: Buy tactically but think strategically. Users should look to work with vendors who can address short-term tactical needs and provide a road map to integrate these products into a more strategic enterprise security architecture over time. At the other end of the spectrum, vendors must clearly articulate this value to users [...]

Think about it–how is it possible to rate any Web site? If you had to take a guess, what would you rate CNET.com? PG? PG-13? R? I’m sure anyone can make the case for any rating. But for our purposes, let’s just say that the ratings board chose PG. In other words, children can go [...]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday introduced its DHS authorization bill (PDF) for fiscal years 2008 and 2009, which calls for the director of the National Cyber Security Center to be appointed by and, in some circumstances, to report directly to the president.

Other authorities of the director include reviewing the plans [...]

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Today we’re racked by the collapse of our nation’s financial institutions, a meltdown in the housing markets and a global climate crisis, and yet here too we may already be seeing the seeds [...]

Flickr, along with its Yahoo sister site Delicious, are well known for having a minimal, and angular user interface. Oates was a big part of that. After her stint as Flickr’s chief designer, Oates moved on to become a senior program manager where she headed up Flickr’s Commons project.

Oates has made no confirmation of the [...]

In the meantime, the current iteration manages to do all of this within an Adobe AIR application just 400 KB in size. Shalit says this system could eventually be ported over to the Web since it’s been built entirely in Flash. “It could be online,” Shalit says, “but in this first iteration of the product [...]

One of the building-mounted roof turbines tested in a year-long study of urban wind turbines in the U.K.

In response to the report, the British Wind Energy Association noted that many of the urban sites chosen in the study have wind lower than 5 meters per second (or 11 miles per hour), considered the lower limit of commercial viability. It also said that the British government’s online wind assessment tool overstated the available wind in cities.

The survey doesn’t co

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SickCity shows you the latest Twitter messages about certain colds and other ailments down to a city level.

Twitter has been great for tracking things like earthquakes, forest fires, and other natural disasters, but what about human health? SickCity, a new Twitter mashup is doing just that, by tracking people’s tweets about being sick, having sore throats, and other physical maladies (like zombification). The tool lets you track these occurrence