BRUCEB NEWS
The Great Russia Hack 1: Some Background About Cyber Warfare
Last month we discovered that Russian hackers have been running malware for almost a year in network servers used by thousands of large US companies and government agencies. It’s the largest espionage hack in history. As far as we know. We have all been suffering from...
WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL & OUTLOOK
Windows Live Hotmail got its official launch yesterday, and the announcement included a compelling detail: Microsoft will make a free connector available to sync Windows Live...
GRAPHICS IN OUTLOOK SIGNATURES
Formatted signatures in Outlook have been a persistent problem - here's my writeup about workarounds to make signatures arrive correctly using Outlook 2003.Here's a description...
MICROSOFT & YAHOO
The press is full of speculation that Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to strike a deal. The New York Post and the Wall Street Journal have both reported that discussions are going...
ZIP DECODE
Cool Internet site of the day: ZipDecode. A simple map of the United States with yellow dots on a gray background. Click on the map to activate it, then type in the first digit...
LinkedIn is the hot web site of 2007, getting lots of press and growing fast, fueled by a new infusion of investment capital and a big promotional push. Here's a few articles to...
iGOOGLE
Google has offered a personalized home page for years, but today it was relaunched with new features and the curious name "iGoogle." Curious because the letter "i" preceding a...
AOL FLATTERS YAHOO
Imitation is the sincerest form - you know the drill, right?America Online has just unveiled the new design for its home page, after years of development, feedback, and...
FREEWAY COLLAPSE – WEB RESOURCES
This article has a nice collection of links to online information about the Bay Area freeway collapse - newspaper articles, Google satellite images, suggestions for alternate...
EMAIL RANTING
The Wall Street Journal has a front-page story today following the path of an e-mail message by a 22-year old Kaiser employee criticizing the technology being rolled out by...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER FEATURES
I've mentioned Microsoft's upcoming Windows Home Server appliance before, but it bears repeating - this has the potential to define a new category of home appliance that will be...
SPINAL TAP TO REUNITE
An important announcement today: Spinal Tap is going to reunite and appear at Wembley Stadium on June 7, as part of the worldwide Live Earth concerts.Director Rob Reiner has...
LOGMEIN BACKUP
LogMeIn was one of the first remote control services, and continues to be one of the best. Like GoToMyPC and others, it relies on a small program running on a desktop computer,...
WHY CAN’T IT JUST WORK?
Here's a blog item that we can all sympathize with, written by a Microsoft employee. "Why can't it 'just work'?... "(subtitled - Isn't technology supposed to be making our lives...
GOOGLE RISES, YAHOO SINKS
Only two years ago, Google and Yahoo earned the same revenue and it wasn't obvious which one would predominate for Web searches.You probably saw the business news. Google's...
NETFLIX WATCH NOW
Netflix is rolling out its "Watch Now" service, for watching movies immediately on your computer. If you're a Netflix subscriber, the tab will appear with no fanfare on your...