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ColdFusion Spurs A Trio Of Podcasts

A pugnacious pursuer of ColdFusion information can discover knowledge and product tips through podcasts available online.

The continuing case for cutting out the middlemen

Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship – I used the word symbiosis: check the definition – between journalism and PR in politics.

HINCity Revs Up Social Networking

It’s MySpace for cars and hotties. Wait, what did they say it was? Oh, “a new media channel and social-networking community geared toward the fast growing automotive scene while incorporating other youth lifestyle elements like music and fasion.” Right, MySpace for cars and hotties.

Microsoft May Delay Vista Again

A two-sentence post from research firm Gartner has caused some uproar in the technology world, as Gartner researchers claim Microsoft will miss its release of Vista by three months, pushing it back into 2007.

Net Neutrality Gets Bridge To Nowhere

Ready. Set. Flinch. The same senator who fought for the $223 million bridge to Nowhere, Alaska is in charge of rewriting United States telecommunications laws in the Senate. In a working draft of an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has confused just about everybody.

Swaying A Coder Away From Python

One programmer blogged about the powerful attraction he is feeling to C# programming, and departing from six years of tinkering with Python.

New Firefox Busts Out Of The Den

Version 1.5.0.3 represents an update to the Firefox web browser that patches a denial of service vulnerability eight days after it was reported.

Google Maps In ASCII

This is one of the cooler (albeit less useful) Google Maps mashups: ASCII Maps.

New Typepad Anti-spam Features Come Online

My amigo del fuego John T. Unger has some good news for Typepad users.

Vistas RSA SecurID Support Kicked Down A Notch

ZDNet reports that Microsoft has canceled plans to include RSA SecurID tokens in Windows Vista, a two year old goal that never quite worked out.

RSS Lesson for the Day

This week I learned a very important lesson with RSS. Particularly with FeedBurner.

CTIA WIRELESS 2006 Web Casts Now Available

Didn’t make it to Vegas for Borth America’s largest wireless industry trade show?

Lawsuit: Yahoo Encourages Click Fraud

TW points to a Washington Post article on a recently filed class action lawsuit against Yahoo for click fraud.

Skype Releases New Beta And Skypecasts

Version 2.5 Beta of the Skype VoIP software arrived with new features, and Skype also launched a preview version of Skypecasts that allows up to 100 people to connect in a voice chat.

The hReview Microformat in Yahoo! Tech

Alex points out a nice little gem in the new Yahoo! Tech site. All the reviews are marked up in hReview.

MySpace Threat Empties LA School

Every Spring, towards the end of the school year, somebody would invariably call in a bomb threat. We were all pretty sure it was a hoax to get us out of school half a day early, but we were always dutifully shuffled out. But, who needs phones these days when you have MySpace?

Symbol Spreads Wi-NG Over Wireless Tech

Symbol Technologies has plans for the alphabet soup of wireless formats: mix them all together with Wireless Next Generation (Wi-NG), an RF switching architecture that enables the consolidation of WiFi, RFID, VoWLAN (Voice over Wireless LAN), mesh and WiMAX networks.

Suing Bloggers is an Invitation for Bad PR

Late last week Warren Kremer Paino Advertising sued Maine blogger Lance Dutson for copyright infringement, defamation and trade libel and injurious falsehood.

Lunch with the Food Advertisers

MSN and Windows Live are hosting a big strategic account conference. Remember the Google Zeitgeist event I spoke at last fall? This is the same thing, but bigger.

The Shift in Trust

The BBC and Reuters published Trust in The Media (PDF):

Successful Entrepreneurs Need Employee Ownership

“Every individual…intends only his own gain….By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.”

Xbox 360 On a Crash Course With Gamers

It’s been five months since the Xbox 360 landed in short supply just in time Christmas. Many of those who scrambled to get their hands on one, paying thousands on eBay to ensure a Yuletide joy-in-the-box, probably never dreamed they’d be on their fourth console by May.

Industrial Maintenance Management Software

Industries spend nearly $1 trillion annually to maintain their operations, assets and equipment.

Microsoft Leaks Memo, Plots With Yahoo

Shadowy skullduggery, twilight tete-a-tetes, and disseminated disinformation may have all been part of rumored talks between Yahoo and Microsoft about their online rival, Google.