Patch Management
BIT, 7/04: Patch Management Best Practices for IT Practitioners
Organizations are increasingly dependent on effective software atch management to secure their operations. The time between the announcement of vulnerability and the appearance of an exploit is shrinking. In this environment, speeding the process of testing and deploying software patches is critical. Company must be able to rapidly deploy software and system updates in order to offer continuous services and interconnectivity with partners and customers.
[From the BITS website: “BITS is a nonprofit industry consortium whose members are 100 of the largest financial institutions in the United States. Serving as the strategic “brain trust” for the industry, BITS focuses on issues related to e-commerce, payments and emerging technologies.”]
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Microsoft
The New York Times, 7/23/04: Microsoft Is Dead. Long Live Microsoft.
By NICHOLAS G. CARR
Published: July 23, 2004
CARLISLE, Mass. — Microsoft's decision to return $32 billion to its shareholders may be a wise business move, but it is also an admission of defeat. With its announcement this week that it will pay a special one-time dividend of $3 a share, the company is confessing that despite years of trying, it has not found an attractive way to invest its cash reserves. After decades of spectacular growth, the world's most famous software company seems resigned to a more sedate middle age.
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Collaborative Technologies
ZDNet, 7/22/04: The calculator gave way to the spreadsheet. What will e-mail turn into?
CNET Editor-at-Large Esther Dyson talks with ZDNet Editor-in-Chief Dan Farber about "meta-mail," her term for the extension of e-mail into a broader set of tools that can manage processes and the user's attention, instead of just information and content. The user remains in a familiar workspace environment, but has the use of the equivalent of "a spreadsheet for process rather than a spreadsheet for numbers." She highlights examples of products on the path to meta-mail, including one from IBM, coming to market soon.
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Otherwise
Wired News, 7/23/04: Catwoman Coughs Up a Hairball
Catwoman is the least urgent, most unconvincing superhero film I've ever seen. It's a fraction as scary as the evening news, and is also stiff, poorly acted and, worst of all, dull.
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C|net, 7/22/04: MP3 creator returns with 3D sound
By John Borland
One of the inventors of the MP3 format is back with a new technology that he hopes will revolutionize audio, creating superrealistic sound for theaters, theme parks and eventually even living rooms.
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