Will 2007 be the year in which AV technology goes into rapid decline? Reading the runes, the answer, most likely, is “yes”. Let's recap on the AVID campaign: I began this campaign, the only dedicated web campaign that I've ever run, by...

Apple has become an industry force. For its last financial year (ending September 06) it had revenues of $19.3 billion, 38% greater than the previous year. As such, you could claim that it wasn't such a good year for Apple as the growth rate in the...

Ever since it started to generate revenues at a dramatic rate, Google has been hailed as a kind of successor to Microsoft—on the basis of the idea that Microsoft was the giant of the PC era and Google is the giant of the web era. To put it...

Apple's announced-this-week iPhone is revolutionary. OK in many ways it is yet another PDA/phone. Yes it has a camera and you can browse the photos you take. Yes it does email and voicemail and SMS. Yes you can play music, and of course, you can...

The initial reports were that Apple had done a deal with Cisco to get full rights to the iPhone trade mark-and I reported this in my instant reaction to the Apple iPhone announcement. However, it was untrue. Apple had negotiated with Cisco but...

If I read the runes correctly, the hopes of many of the committed followers and proponents of Open Source have been disappointed by its progress in recent times. Admittedly, the attempt by SCO to stop Linux in its tracks (or get a royalty from its...

AVID (AntiVirus Is Dead) could also stand for AntiVirus Ineffectiveness Described, which is what this particular AVID posting intends to do; describe the ineffectiveness of Anti-Virus products—especially when compared to the whitelisting...

So I'm here at Lotusphere, the first conference of the year. I confess to being impressed by what I've seen so far. Lotus puts on a good show—the best—great special effects and entertainment. The overture to the keynote session was a...

Rose used to be a popular name, at the beginning of the twentieth century and then it faded to a level of about 200 in a million (these are US figures by the way). So, how do I know this? Go to Baby Name Wizard and you can get a graph of the...

There are two techniques that AV products use to try to spot viruses. I have dealt extensively with one of these—the use of signatures—in articles I've posted as part of the AVID (Anti-Virus Is Dead) campaign. Signatures are like...