This email I received recommends me to download the “security update” http://downloads-microsoft.de/MS_bugfix_270509.exe from an alleged Microsoft website downloads-microsoft.de, according to denic the domain is owned by a German citizen from Riedering who put his contact data online.
It is much more professional than those spoof scam attacks I am used to, despite the link to the [...]
Archive for May, 2009
downloads-microsoft.de
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged security on May 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ballmer Cannes Lions media person of the year 2009
Posted in Cloud, European Union, tagged Cannes on May 31 2009 | 1 Comment »
Microsoft Corporations’s Steve Ballmer was announced as the Cannes 2009 media person of the year in advertising. Together with its prestigious movie festival Cannes is also known as the Mekka of commercial advertisement. Over 28,000 ads from all over the world are showcased and judged at the Festival. Winning companies receive the highly coveted Lion [...]
European Council for open satellite technologies
Posted in Future of the Web, tagged ESA, eu, ICT, internet, open, satellite on May 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Council Resolution on “The Contribution of space to innovation and competitiveness in the context of the European Economic Recovery Plan, and further steps” as adopted by the Competitiveness Council meeting on 29 May 2009.
…HIGHLIGHTS the potential of satellite communications technologies to bring broadband to European citizens and enterprises, ensuring a better access to modern ICT [...]
Twitterverse
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged twitter on May 30 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A map of services around twitter.
Google Wave Developer Preview
Posted in Future of the Web, tagged google, open source, wave on May 29 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IE bundling and the mad client desease
Posted in European Union, tagged competition, incompetence, Internet Explorer, Microsoft on May 23 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In European competition enforcement cases you can request a hearing which you should better do. Of course it is optional, an opportunity for you. Same in the recent Internet explorer bundling case.
Opera, a Norwegian browser manufacturer filed a compaint, the competitor’s product Internet Explorer is as we know bundled with the Windows operating system, [...]
Community Choice nominations
Posted in Cloud on May 20 2009 | 1 Comment »
I nominated Co-Ment for the Sourceforge award.
Filtered Internet
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These days there are strong public discussions about the good old free flow of information principle. Often overlooked is that a filtered internet is a reality in parts of the world. From my daily mail communication:
Mist, ich kann dein Blog in China nicht erreichen. Hab grad keinen
passenden Proxy konfiguriert.
(translated: What a pity, I cannot read [...]
Amicus letter of Donald E. Knuth
Posted in European Union, Future of the Web, tagged EPO, G03/08, knuth, patents on May 16 2009 | 1 Comment »
Prof. em Donald E. Knuth, the algorithm pope, sent an Amicus Curiae letter to the European Patent Office in the case G03/08 and expressed his desire to “innovate in peace”:
Dear Ms Brimelow,
A friend in Europe just told me that you are interested in “amicus curie” letters to explain why so many computer scientists around the [...]
Kaspersky warns of enterprise cloud scenarios
Posted in Cloud on May 14 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cloud won’t become standard, says Kaspersky
