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25% of all computers are in BotNet


Of the 600 million or so computers that are connected to the Internet, approximately 150 million of them may be unwilling participants in a botnet.
It’s an alarming statistic, once you drop the numbers into a percentage, because that’s 25% which sounds even worse when you consider that’s a quarter of all Internet-connected computers.
This startling revelation [...]


From Plan Apple to Plan Zune for Microsoft…


As if written as some contrived plot for an off-beat IT Sci-Fi series, news emerges that Microsoft considered doing a deal with Apple and the iPod.
“A senior Microsoft executive was so frustrated by his experience with digital music players made by global partners that he proposed turning to Apple’s iPod for salvation, documents made public [...]


Boldly buy with booBox


Monetizing ‘blogs is a major point of interest recently. What with the likes of Guy Kawasaki letting the side down by passing up on better ways of monetizing his ‘blog, it’s now clear that it’s unlikely that any one revenue channel is strong enough to make the most of the traffic to your ‘blog. Right [...]


Tags versus Labels versus Categories…


The concept of meta data is often a tricky sell. It’s one of those concepts that requires a little abstract thought. Delivering the idea of meta data without a suitably real-world analogy to a non-technical client, for example, can be a project-ending event.
And so it is with Tags. As ‘blogging enters into the vocabulary of [...]


In bed with embedded Mac OS X


Word is, the Apple iPhone is running the new, soon-to-be-released Mac OS X 10.5 operating system, otherwise known as Leopard. Thing is, that’d make perfect sense. If there’s one thing that Apple likes, it’s complete control. This would also explain why parts of the iPhone are still not complete, under construction, if you will.
What with [...]



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