BBC NEWS | Technology | Slump prompts workplace snooping

The global economic slump is prompting IT staff to snoop on colleagues, suggests research.

A survey of IT workers by Cyber-Ark found that 35% of those questioned had viewed confidential information, such as salaries and redundancy lists.

The majority of those questioned, 74%, said they could get round the controls locking away confidential information.

Many admitted that they would steal information from businesses if they were fired.

Most popular among those planning to steal data when they left were copies of customer databases, passwords for an e-mail administrator account, and merger plans.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Slump prompts workplace snooping

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Google Docs vs Live

Google Docs offers a lot of features, but the interface is sparse and I often find it a bit confusing. No feature changes made over years of this. I get the feeling Google can't bring itself to spend money to improve it or kill it. And the documents begin to be unworkable after about 1000 words or so.


Office Live has less features but a better UI. Live only runs on XP and Vista Windows machines running standard browsers. I could not test on a Mac but it did not work on any of my Linux machines and did not work properly on my Windows 2000 machine.

The use of the Office client has positives and negatives. Negatives is that you have to have Office 2003 or later. Positive is you can build rich complex and large files. So I guess the positive is that it works, whereas Google Docs poor performance on larger files means it does not work.

NPR: A Farmer, His 'Tribe' And The Web That Brings Them Together

NPR: A Farmer, His 'Tribe' And The Web That Brings Them Together

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Microsoft offers unworkable solution to Bing porn | Larry Magid at Large - CNET News

As I pointed out in an earlier post, searching for certain terms on Microsoft's new Bing.com search engine brings up videos that display hardcore porn within the Web site and because the porn is playing within Bing instead of the site where it's hosted, the videos are not necessarily blocked by parental control filters. And monitoring programs designed to tell parents where their kids have been are likely to simply report Bing.com instead of the site that actually hosts the video.

Microsoft offers unworkable solution to Bing porn | Larry Magid at Large - CNET News

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 release date announced

Windows 7, the next major release of the world's most popular operating system, will be officially available to the public on 22 October.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Windows 7 release date announced

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Why Windows 7's netbook success isn't a slam-dunk

Microsoft officials are trumpeting this week, via a new posting on the Windows Blog, that PC World, the largest electronics retailer in the UK, is removing Linux netbooks from all their stores and “going all-Windows.” Microsoft’s public line is consumers have spoken and they “want Windows because it’s the only OS that gives people the choice, compatibility, familiarity and simplicity they need.”

The post doesn’t mention that Microsoft offers PC makers XP at a cut-rate price (estimated to be about $15 per copy for netbooks, compared to an estimated $35-plus per-copy for XP on laptops/desktops. It fails to acknowledge how few netbooks are running Vista — because Vista’s hefty system requirements made that proposition impossible. The post doesn’t mention the growing number of Microsoft OEM partners who are working on Android/Linux netbooks. (The latest to join that pack: Acer, which is promising an Android-based netbook for Q3 2009.) And it fails to note that Microsoft still has not publicly announced how and if it plans to get Windows 7 on ARM-based netbooks.

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Bing Ad

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A Complete Project Management Solution Built on SharePoint

Bamboo's newest, complete solution is called SharePoint Project Management Central or “PM Central”. Want to see how it works? Watch this video.

In a blog post announcing the new solution, Bamboo Project Management Team Lead Wes Bryan says that the functionality built into PM Central is based on two things:

1. Bamboo's years of experience providing Project Management technologies for SharePoint
2. Their own internal experience using SharePoint for project management (they make a good case study)

A Complete Project Management Solution Built on SharePoint

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Office Developer Conference moving to SharePoint Conference 2009

NET: Office Developer Conference will not take place this year; instead we are including the Office Developer Conference content within the SharePoint Conference. If you are an attendee of Office Developer Conference in the past, we strongly recommend you come see us at the SharePoint Conference in October, where we’ll cover Office client development in depth. Be sure to sign up for the Technical Preview as well!

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Office Developer Conference moving to SharePoint Conference 2009

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Holy Twitter! Tweeting from the pews - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com

When Kevin Joyce, the 29-year-old pastor of the nondenominational Imagine Fellowship in San Antonio, Texas, looks out at his congregation during his Sunday sermons, he sees “a lot of illuminated faces.”

But it’s not the word of God that’s lighting them up. It’s their smartphone screens.

“We hold our service in a movie theater and keep it dark so we can protect the screen,” says Joyce, who not only encourages his congregation to use Twitter and "tweet" in church, but projects the live Twitter stream on a giant screen during services. “When I look out, I’ll see a lot of people texting and the screens on their phones light up their faces.”

Holy Twitter! Tweeting from the pews - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com

So if you could learn the #-phrases they use you could Tweet at them

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Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360

Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360, at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles.

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Wave goodbye to Google Docs?

Google is releasing what some have called a SharePoint killer in Wave. I won't go in to reviews of the vapourware product, but just take this chance to remind people that Google already has a SharePoint killing app: Google Docs.

When Google Docs came out I started using it. I set a project for myself to write and store all my graduate school papers in Google Docs, and I have been doing this now since 2006. I have written part of about 10 term paper documents.

Real life usage is so important. If I had just open Google Docs and wrote a page or two I might say its great, but having tried to use it again and again to produce 2,000 to 4,000 word documents (not that big) I can honestly say it is NOT ready for prime time.

The problem is it that it is doing in the web browser more than a web browser can do. I have worked on Ubuntu, Open SUSE, Mac and Windows XP all 32-bit. I have used it with IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox, and Google browser.

The problem always starts to kick in at about 1,500 words in to the document. It takes forever to do anything, and by the time all browsers respond you can have clicked yourself in to a problem. I sometimes forget between term papers but when I return to write a paper I have the same problem again and again. I never have been able to finish a 2,000 page document in Google Docs.

You just need a word processor client. Its that simple. You only want to send up saves to the web and you certainly don't want to use a browser as you main information management tool.