Posts tagged technology
Welcome to the Future
Oct 21st
by Karen Armor, Fiberlink Imagine this: putting away your handheld and your laptop, for an entire day. (Please remember to breathe.) No, seriously. Am I the only one who remembers the old days when we thought having an “email free” workday was the utopian road to improved collaboration and efficiency? Would anyone even suggest such More >
Can we learn from the Wonder Pets?
Oct 12th
by Karen Armor, Fiberlink I admit I need help. I can’t get the Wonder Pets song out of my head. You know, the Nickelodeon show where a baby duck, a guinea pig, and turtle save everything from a mermaid to a cow in outer space. It’s amusing and astounding to me (download it off iTunes—you’ll More >
Microsoft DLL Hijacking Vulnerability
Aug 26th
by David Lingenfelter, Fiberlink Microsoft released this week information about an issue in their OS that has made hundreds of applications that run on Windows vulnerable to attack. Here’s the security advisory from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2269637.mspx The vulnerability basically allows applications to start DLLs that are on remote network shares. A DLL (Dynamic Link Library) is More >
A PC in everyone’s pocket. Financial Services leads the way, again.
Aug 3rd
by Jim Szafranski, Fiberlink Remember the days of investment bankers and investors carrying around the Blackberry 850 that looked more pager than the start of today’s smart phone craze? Also, wasn’t it just two years ago that Blackberry had a stranglehold on the enterprise smartphone? Well, those days are obviously gone and some new smartphone More >
Lucky Number 7?
Mar 23rd
by Clint Adams, Fiberlink Here we go again. Is “7” Microsoft’s lucky number? Maybe “10” is the lucky number (as in 2010). Anyway you look at it, 2010 would appear to be Microsoft’s year and “7” is the theme. A few weeks back, I wrote about the possibility that Windows 7 would go “viral.” Viral More >