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“Dilbert” creator charms at EclipseConFiled under: Application Development
EclipseCon attendees were treated on Tuesday to an entertaining presentation by Scott Adams, author of the “Dilbert” comic strip, featuring Adams showing some memorable entries in the strip and detailing his rise to prominence in his field.
Although rejected as a child by what he called the “Famous Artists [...]

Forgotten passwords top help-desk callsFiled under: Help desk
IT admins may be heartened to know that at least 20% of end-users don’t write their passwords on sticky notes and affix them to their monitors or foreheads; they forget them and call the help desk instead.
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Symantec’s Vista Research Not So Damning After AllFiled under: Security
Despite their best efforts to highlight problems with the security features Microsoft has added in Windows Vista, Symantec researchers are admitting that much of the work done to protect the new OS is pretty effective.
Speaking at the Black Hat DC 2007 conference last week, Ollie Whitehouse, [...]

Microsoft readies Vista tools updateFiled under: Application Development
Microsoft this Friday or next Monday morning plans to offer an update to its Visual Studio 2005 development environment to tackle issues with building applications for Windows Vista.
The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack Update for Windows Vista tends to issues such as debugging and profiling and creating ASP.Net [...]

NYT: Cisco will buy social network Tribe.netFiled under: Social networking
The New York Times is reporting that networking giant Cisco Systems will announce that it is purchasing social networking site Tribe.Net next week.
The paper, citing anonymous sources, said that Cisco is purchasing the “underlying technology” assets of Tribe, an early mover in the social networking [...]

Another gap-toothed Black Hat BriefingsFiled under: None

Another year, another gap-toothed Black Hat Briefings. Last time, as you remember, it was lawyers from networking giant Cisco Systems that forced show organizers to rip out materials concerning a security hole in Cisco’s IOS operating system from the 2005 Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas.

Star Trek-style health care envisionedFiled under: Platforms
If an invention think tank founded by a former Microsoft CTO has its way, those Star Trek healing gadgets will become a reality.
Remember Star Trek III? When Dr. McCoy, sent back to 20th-century San Francisco with the rest of the crew, encounters a woman being readied for surgery at [...]

Serena gets new CEOFiled under: Application Development
Serena Software announced on Monday the appointment of Jeremy Burton, a former Symantec and Oracle official, as president and CEO.
He takes over for Michael Capellas, who had served as acting president and CEO since December and who will return to his role as a senior advisor for Silver Lake [...]

Corticon links business rules, appsFiled under: BPM
Corticon on Monday plans to announce Corticon Business Rules Foundation, which enables embedding of business rules management capabilities within enterprise applications.
Business Rules Foundation features a library of model-driven business rules management system functions delivered as “headless” services that can be exposed in any form within any application,
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IBM expands SOA waresFiled under: SOA
IBM on Monday plans to announce another expansion of its SOA software and services.
With Monday’s unveiling, the company believes it is further enabling organizations to more easily embed integration capabilities within SOA-driven processes.
Featured as part of the announcement is IBM Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) Version 3, [...]