Hacker Mitnick preaches social engineering awareness.

(InfoWorld) - SYDNEY -- Properly trained staff, not technology, is the best protection against social engineering attacks on sensitive information, according to security consultant and celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick.

 

3:34:42 PM    

 

Google Offers Hybrid Satellite and Map View. That's Unpossible! writes "Google Maps now offers a hybrid view which combines their map view with their satellite view. The Google blog has a notice on the update. It appears to use 8-bit alpha transparent PNGs to make it work." [Slashdot]

 

3:32:48 PM    

 

Google Launches Scholar Beta. Jaidev writes ";Stand on the shoulders of giants' is what Google claims its new service allows you to do. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web." [Slashdot]

 

3:31:35 PM    

 

Burningbird: "Webloggers never write in their jammies with their cute little boojums woojums purring on their wappy lapp… Webloggers don’t write about cats." [Hack the Planet]

 

3:29:39 PM    

 

...re-thinking traditional 'modern' communications formats and purposes...is there something in this for landscape architecture, too?  Re-purposing the design process?    BBC opens TV listings for 'remix'. The BBC launches a competition for developers to come up with innovative ways of repurposing TV schedules. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

3:28:04 PM    

 

Sage Software Receives Top Industry Awards (Sage Software).

Sage Software Receives Top Industry Awards for Company Advancements, Innovations in Commercial Construction and Manufacturing Software

From: Sage Software
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

3:24:31 PM    

 

Autodesk Hires 4D Construction Simulation Expert (AECnews.com).

Autodesk Hires 4D Construction Simulation Expert

From: AECnews.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

3:22:45 PM    

 

Nextel, Trimble Join Forces (Trimble).

Nextel and Trimble Join Forces to Deliver the Power of Wireless Mobility to the Construction Industry

From: Trimble
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

3:20:41 PM    

 

Attendance Triples for Laser-Scan User Conference (Laser-Scan).

Laser-Scan’s 16th User & Partner Conference Breaks Industry Mould

From: Laser-Scan
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

3:19:28 PM    

 

Orion's Upcoming Release Announced (Orion Technology).

Orion's Upcoming Release of OnPoint Integrates Multiple Geographic Data Sources

From: Orion Technology
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

3:18:36 PM    

 

Partner: The Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500 Communicator. Learn more about mobile device management and security [Computerworld News]

 

3:13:15 PM    

 

Study: Apple's OS making inroads with business. Apple's Unix-based Mac OS X operating system is gaining ground in the business community, according to market research firm Jupitermedia. [Computerworld News]

 

3:11:41 PM    

 

Doing your banking online?  ...have you ever asked your bank how they protect you???  FDIC advises banks on how to protect against spyware. The FDIC has issued a list of best practices that details how financial services firms can fend off spyware, which the agency said can be used by criminals to collect customer data or hack into banking systems. [Computerworld News]

 

3:10:50 PM    

 

Technology Review: Metal-Cooled Computing. One potential solution to this growing problem is more commonly associated with nuclear reactors: liquid metal cooling. Spearheaded by NanoCoolers, a startup in Austin, TX, the technology takes advantage of a unusual compound of metals that remains liquid at room temperature. [Tomalak's Realm]

 

3:08:32 PM    

 

HSDPA in Germany next year. Faster than DSL [The Register]

 

3:07:32 PM    

 

UK police chiefs seek powers to attack terror web sites. Cyberwarfare goes onto law and order agenda [The Register]

 

3:05:41 PM    

 

Out on a walk this morning, absolutely gorgeous weather, in the low 70s, and cloudless, as I was passing by Parliament on Wellington Street, a huge number of people were converging on the lawn in front of the hall. I took a detour and watched the soldiers on parade, it was quite a spectacle, so of course I took some pictures and shot a movie. [Scripting News]

 

3:04:30 PM    

 

Armantrout Architects Wins AIA Award for ESRI Cafe. Glass walls, natural light, and contemporary style extend the ESRI Café beyond a gathering place for ESRI employees and the public. [ESRI.com: News]

 

3:03:33 PM    

 

ESRI and MRO Software Announce Business Relationship for Enhanced Work and Asset Management. This partnership will result in a first-of-its-kind embedding of ArcGIS components into MRO Software's Maximo Enterprise Suite (MXES), providing users with a geographic framework for improved decision support and work planning. [ESRI.com: News]

 

3:02:25 PM    

 

ESRI GIS Education and Training Survey. Take the ESRI GIS Education and Training Survey at www.esri.com/trainingsurvey and receive a complimentary ESRI Virtual Campus Web workshop. [ESRI.com: News]

 

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