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Robin Bloor | 7th June '07 AV technology is gradually dying and being replaced by far more effective IT security technology based on whitelisting. You could view this as an inevitable development, given the horrible inadequacies of AV technology, or you might want to pin the... |
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Robin Bloor | 11th June '07 You may or may not have picked up the news that Estonia came under cyber-attack in early May. Cyber attacks—usually consisting of multiple denial of service attacks—are pretty bloodless really. You don't see buildings reduced to piles of... |
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Robin Bloor | 12th June '07 Here they are:
The Black Hats form a well integrated community that shares knowledge effectively.
Should you, after months of research and effort, create an exploit that allows you to hack Windows or any other frequently used software product, you... |
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Robin Bloor | 14th June '07 In a recent conversation with Dale Vile, CEO of Freeform Dynamics the rising UK analyst company, Dale questioned my expectation that Apple would eventually overhaul Microsoft to become the dominant force in PC computing. I understand Dale's... |
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Robin Bloor | 22nd June '07 Stone beats scissors, scissors beat paper, and VHS beats Betamax. Those are the rules of the game that is played by consumer electronics companies everywhere. In a recent comment on Apple, I suggested that Apple is a consumer electronics company and... |
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Robin Bloor | 18th June '07 The market for streaming software bloomed into existence when it spawned a whole series of start-ups, led by Apama (now part of Progress Software) and StreamBase. Larger companies including TIBCO, Avaya and BEA joined the fray either with their own... |
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Robin Bloor | 19th June '07 I received an email recently in respect of the blog/article I wrote entitled Second Life: The Campaign For Real Life. It was from Chris Gayson and it read as follows:
Robin,
Disclosure-
Until very recently I was an AD with Ogilvy—the... |
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Robin Bloor | 21st June '07 The Apple v Microsoft piece I wrote generated enough comments for me to want to provide further thoughts. Primarily I'll confine this to responding to Dale's posting, but also I'll add some words to the Apple Hardware v Software... |
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Robin Bloor | 26th June '07 The recent acquisition of SecureWave by PatchLink was not so much an acquisition as a merger, with PatchLink being the senior partner. With 3400 customers it had about twice the customer base as SecureWave and it also had about twice the staff. The... |
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