Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Meet the Press
As my most recent information seems to now be on Amazon I have wrapped that into an easy link with links back to this site. It can be found at http://krypted.com/amazon.
In: Business · Tagged with: amazon, Press
Days of our Oracle: Sun
McNealy no longer has an executives page on Oracle.com. He also sent To be honest, this is not a note this founder wants to write. Sun, in my mind, should have been the great and surviving consolidator. But I love the market economy and capitalism more than I love my company. In other words, for [...]
In: Business, Unix · Tagged with: Jonathan Schwartz, Oracle, Scott McNealy, Sun
Twitter Hacked (again)
Really? I guess to quote myself “it’s not hacking if you know the password.” Although to qualify that I must say that is true but getting that password could be… So allow me to rephrase: Twitter got defaced due to a compromised account on their DynDNS service. Obviously I changed my own DynDNS password first [...]
In: Business · Tagged with: dyndns, hacked, twitter, zune
Cyber Monday
You remember in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when Riff Raff and his sister do that weird elbow sex thing? The word “Cyber” conjures up an image of two people on either side of a network connection doing just that with their computer monitor. One looking like Riff (the girl) and the other looking like [...]
In: Business, personal · Tagged with: amazon, Cyber-Monday, Rocky Horror
HP Paying $2.7 Billion for 3Com?
HP is gung-ho to go after Cisco. It’s going to take too long to R&D better switches for the price than Cisco sells. 3Com has those switches for cheaper. Core routers for data centers are pretty complicated as well, so throw in a few extra bucks to get those from 3Com while you’re at it. [...]
In: Business · Tagged with: 3com, acquisition, HP
Trick or Treat Apple Store Style
Many a mall has the stores that lease space do Halloween for cute kids, dressed up in their little costumes (like the sock monkey costume, for example). Kids come through with parents in tow trick or treating. This is especially useful in areas like, er, Minnesota, where it can be a bit cold come Halloween. [...]
Google Apps from the C-Suite
In: Business, sites · Tagged with: Google Apps, Video, youtube
Chinese Hackers & You
For some time now, when we reverse scans on networks, originators of phishing attacks and other types of illicit network traffic we’ve found so often that the trail ends at the Great Wall of China. Basically, if the IP address is a Chinese IP then more than likely you will never have anything done, never [...]
In: Business · Tagged with: china, CSO, hackers, northrup grumman, Timothy McKnight
Microsoft Retail Stores
Microsoft is opening a few retail stores in the upcoming months, with the first having launched just last week, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The stores are similar in appearance to the Apple stores that can be found around the country, which has garnered much criticism. Although if you find a formula that works then you find [...]
In: Business · Tagged with: genius bar, Microsoft, store
Danger Mousing @ Microsoft
I really have no comments on this one: Microsofts_sidekick_pink_problems_blamed_on_dogfooding_and_sabotage Well, OK, of course I have something to say: the word sabotage is libelous. Dogfooding I would assume Every organization wants to run the solution they can best support and extend, whether they write that solution or not. But sabotage? Human errors can happen, no matter [...]


