3rd December 2005 Archive

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The bizarre world of Patrick Byrne's Overstock

Analysis A CEO Apart

The SCO Group and Senator Hatch aren't the only strange things you'll find in the beautiful state of Utah. Take Overstock, whose CEO Patrick Byrne has held calls with financial analysts in which he delved into his sexuality and experiences with cocaine, in the midst of a tirade on how a cabal led by a "Sith Lord" was out to …

Financial News 3 Dec 2005, 00:04
HP storage closes in on EMC

Disk booms in Q3

Disk was king in the third quarter with storage sales surging a record 13.3 per cent, according to market researcher IDC. The storage vendors pulled in $5.7bn in the period. IDC noted that this was the highest growth rate since it started keeping track of the storage sector in 2001. Total petabytes increased 58 per cent year- …

Storage 3 Dec 2005, 01:14
Phishing with Google Desktop

IE CSS exposes all. Again

It's nice to see Microsoft and Google's respective technologies working in tandem - but not so nice to see it used to expose data on your own hard disk to a malicious website operator. Security researcher Matan Gillon has published a proof-of-concept flaw that exploits Google Desktop, the search software that runs on a local PC …

Spam 3 Dec 2005, 01:24
Cingular pushes the PTT button

Chirp

Cheeky Cingular took the wraps off its Push To Talk service today, inviting subscribers to join the "largest Push To Talk network" in the US. That honor belongs to Sprint-Nextel, of course, it's a feature that Nextel pioneered using Motorola's IDEN network, birthplace of the chirp that announces an incoming message. Cingular is …

Mobile 3 Dec 2005, 01:38
Hands on with Hosted Exchange

Price isn’t everything

Running an email infrastructure has always been a thankless job. When it is all going well, you’re lucky to get an odd grunt of appreciation, but the bulk of the feedback generally comes in the form of complaints, threats and abuse when things go wrong. There is then the hassle of managing all of the associated stuff like …

Data Networking 3 Dec 2005, 07:03
EC opens investigation into dotcom contract

ICANN put under anti-trust eye

The European Commission has opened an investigation into the new dotcom contract following a formal complaint by a lobbying group calling itself the Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT). According to CFIT, the proposed contract drawn up between internet-overseeing organisation ICANN and registrar VeriSign breaches EU …

Music and Media 3 Dec 2005, 07:15
Cisco’s AON: Jeeves in a router or a box of evils?

Cisco's latest contribution to the networked world

At first glance, Cisco’s AON (Application Oriented Networking) looks like a brilliant idea. Essentially, it proposes to suck all manner of security, administrative, and even business policy functions into its routers and switches. That looks as if it should benefit everyone – especially existing and prospective Cisco customers …

Data Networking 3 Dec 2005, 07:25
Hibernate Object Relational Mapping

First in a two-part series by Java guru John Hunt

How many Java applications have you built that store data in a database? For me, almost all the Java systems I have been involved with have, at some point, involved a database. In general, what has happened is that data held in objects, at some point has been stored into the database, so that it can be restored back into objects …

Developer 3 Dec 2005, 07:55