Cybercriminals are relentlessly attacking Twitter. Over the past few days, Twitter has noticed an increase in phishing attempts and is working feverishly to reset passwords for affected accounts. British politicians are the latest to fall victim to the scams.
Twitter users who have received a direct message or see tweets with phrases like “This you???” or “LOL is this you” followed by a link are warned not to click through because the destination is a crafty phishing site designed to steal personal information.
“While simply receiving this message does not mean your account is compromised, if you do click through and enter your username and password, you’ll want to change your password,” Twitter said in a security update. “If you’ve received this type of spam from a friend, you may want to alert them to change their password.”
Read the rest of my story on NewsFactor.
February 26th, 2010
Nintendo on Thursday revealed its next wave of products. The video-game maker is also planning to release Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M in the first half of 2010, but Nintendo DSi XL is taking the spotlight — and entering the e-reader market.
The new DSi XL handheld system launches March 28 and will retail for $189.99. There are plenty of improvements, beginning with screen size. The screens are 93 percent larger than the Nintendo DS Lite and feature a wider viewing angle so friends and family can share the experience.
The DSi XL will roll out in burgundy and bronze colors and come with a larger pen-like stylus designed to make it easier to play games that leverage the touchscreen. But the news that’s really making waves in the tech industry is the DSi XL doubling as an e-reader.
Read the rest of my story on Newsfactor.
February 26th, 2010
CA on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire privately held 3Tera. The acquisition lets the former Computer Associates move deeper into cloud management with 3Tera’s popular AppLogic solution. The terms of CA’s latest in a string of acquisitions were not disclosed.
AppLogic is a solution for building cloud services and deploying complex enterprise-class applications to pubic and private clouds using an intuitive graphical user interface. 3Tera’s solutions aim to make it easier for service providers to offer application stacks on demand by adding apps to the AppLogic catalog, where they can be deployed to a shared cloud infrastructure.
Following CA’s recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore, 3Tera is yet another move in an aggressive expansion of portfolio solutions to manage cloud computing as part of an integrated information-technology management program.
“By adding this technology to its own strengths in IT management, CA is offering an intriguing value proposition to customers who want to both take advantage of the cloud’s adaptability and maintain rigorous control of their virtual-service delivery infrastructure,” said Rachel Chalmers, research director at The 451 Group.
Read the rest of my story on CIO Today.
February 25th, 2010
What do you get when you combine 600 million searchers with 50 million daily tweets? A new Yahoo-Twitter tie-up. While consumer privacy organizations continue bashing Google about its Google Buzz service, Yahoo and Twitter are partnering on a more benign social-networking play — content sharing.
Yahoo on Wednesday announced the partnership with the popular micro-blogging service that will see real-time Twitter feeds integrated across the Yahoo network. The deal is part of Yahoo’s drive to deliver personally relevant information from various online sources and largely mimics the efforts of Google and Bing.
Read the rest of my story on Sci-Tech Today.
February 25th, 2010
Fifty million. That’s how many tweets Twitter users send every day. It’s the latest stat in a micro-blogging growth story that has taken the social-media world by storm. But as corporations and celebrities join the fray, cybercriminals are lying in wait with spam scams.
Kevin Weil of Twitter’s analytics team posted a graph on the company’s blog that tells the story of how the service has grown over the past three years in number of tweets created per day — not counting tweets from accounts identified as spam.
The results: Users tweeted 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400 percent last year to 35 million per day. Today, Weil reported, Twitter sees 50 million tweets per day — an average of 600 tweets per second.
“Tweet deliveries are a much higher number because once created, tweets must be delivered to multiple followers. Then there’s search and so many other ways to measure and understand growth across this information network ,” Weil said. “Tweets per day is just one number to think about.”
Read the rest of my story on NewsFactor.
February 24th, 2010
What do you get when you combine 600 million searchers with 50 million daily tweets? A new Yahoo-Twitter tie-up. While consumer privacy organizations continue bashing Google about its Google Buzz service, Yahoo and Twitter are partnering on a more benign social-networking play — content sharing.
Yahoo on Wednesday announced the partnership with the popular micro-blogging service that will see real-time Twitter feeds integrated across the Yahoo network. The deal is part of Yahoo’s drive to deliver personally relevant information from various online sources and largely mimics the efforts of Google and Bing.
Read the rest of my article on Sci-Tech Today.
February 24th, 2010
I was reading an interesting article from Karen Condi over at Officing Today. In it, she talked about how technology advancements are making it possible for people to work from just about anywhere in the world. She also speaks of the changing rules of business hours. And she points to virtual offices as an enabler.
Let’s listen in to a bit of what Condi, executive director and principal of Alliance Office Strategies, has to say about the advantages of a virtual office:
“The advantages of a virtual office are numerous but it’s important to fully understand what constitutes a true virtual office. Conceptually, virtual offices started in the mid 1980s, however, the industry has dramatically evolved as technology has changed the way we work.
Read the rest of my story on Davinci Virtual.
February 24th, 2010
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