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Coverity's David Maxwell on Quality Issues in Open Source Software

Thursday - June 26, 2008

Open source software just keeps getting better, according to a new report from Coverity, a San Francisco-based maker of source code analysis tools. Specifically, Coverity's Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008, released last month, found a 16 percent reduction in static analysis defect density in the open source software it analyzed over the past two years, reflecting the elimination of more than 8,500 individual defects. The study is part of the Department of Homeland Security's Open Source Code Hardening Project. [More...]

Alfresco CEO John Powell on the Value of Free

Wednesday - June 25, 2008

Is it possible to make money by giving something away for free? John Powell, CEO of Alfresco Software, believes that the open source software market is worth $60 billion. The value doesn't accrue from the revenue that it generates. Rather, that value is rooted in the cost savings for his customers. Looked at from this angle, open source is the largest tech industry, Powell believes. [More...]

Marathon CTO Jerry Melnick: A Fault-Tolerant Approach to Virtualization

Sunday - June 22, 2008

In March of this year, Marathon Technologies announced everRun VM, a first-of-its kind, fault-tolerant, high availability software package for server virtualization. This product picks up where its first-generation kin -- everRun -- left off in providing companies the ability to prevent outages and data loss in Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures. [More...]

Slashdot Cofounder Jeff Bates on the Self-Cannibalization of Online Advertising

Saturday - June 21, 2008

At one point in the U.S.'s development, there were 1,400 or so railroads. Today, there are three major lines. Admittedly it is a leap -- but not a big one -- for Jeff Bates, cofounder of Slashdot, to apply that history to what is happening on the Internet today. [More...]

Avail Intelligence CEO Rolf Elmer on Bridging the Advertising-Merchandising Gap

Thursday - June 19, 2008

Many e-commerce companies have boosted their fortunes by expanding their markets beyond the U.S. Avail Intelligence is hoping to help such merchants boost profits and sales by doing the reverse. The move comes as e-commerce growth begins to slow and as retailers seek to follow the lead of e-commerce giants such as Amazon.com. [More...]

Top Layer Networks' Ken Pappas: When PCI Compliance Isn't Enough

Thursday - June 12, 2008

High-profile data breaches continue to spotlight the growing risks consumers face of identity theft and credit card fraud. Four highly visible data breaches disclosed in the last 18 months are particularly worrisome because they show a systemic failure in the procedures that both the public and regulatory agencies expect companies to get right. One notorious incident involved retail giant TJX. [More...]

Sugar Labs' Walter Bender on the Sweetness of Collaborative Learning

Wednesday - June 11, 2008

Walter Bender was one of the first people to be involved in the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which seeks to make portable computers affordable and place them in the hands of children who need them across the globe. While at OLPC, Bender was president of software and content. [More...]

Springer eBooks' Cynthia Cleto: Shaking Up the Status Quo

Monday - June 9, 2008

E-books are still plugging along, not quite an afterthought in the publishing industry but not the hailed champion either. Like their newspaper cousins, book publishers are at a crossroads but completely stumped as to which way to turn, so they are largely sitting around just talking about it. [More...]

Bhaskar Rao: Conquering Space and Time With MIMO

Thursday - June 5, 2008

Bhaskar Rao is known for his discoveries in the realm of space exploration. However, he's never ventured beyond the atmosphere of Mother Earth. His space-related technology expertise lies in innovative advances in the world of signal processing. His explorations resulted in the emergence of MIMO, or multiple input multiple output. [More...]

IBM's Steve Sams: Taking a Swipe at Data Center Energy Consumption

Wednesday - May 28, 2008

Steve Sams, IBM vice president for site and facilities services worldwide, is waging a war against energy-hogging data centers worldwide. He will carry his assault to the Computer Measurement Group's international conference later this year. CMG is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals. [More...]

ESET's Randy Abrams: Don't Let Phishers Hook Your Stimulus Rebate

Tuesday - May 27, 2008

Botnet operators intent on duping Internet users out of their savings have proved adept at social engineering, taking advantage of breaking news events and direct marketing -- as well as audio and video files and PDF attachments -- to lure people into downloading a variety of malware and visiting spoofed Web sites aimed at capturing personally identifiable information. [More...]

Hunting Botnets With Randal Vaughn

Friday - May 23, 2008

You might call Randal Vaughn the Botnet Slayer. After all, he spends much of his time researching the intricacies of cybercrime carried out through malware marauders perpetrating their evil deeds with robotized computers around the globe. When Vaughn is not peering through sinuous Internet traffic reports looking for botnet trails, he is lecturing to his students at Baylor University. [More...]

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