Hard to believe we’ve been around to post this yet a third time, but here you go. Our list of advice for shopping safely online this year; and we even updated it this time:
PayPal announced their Mobile PayPal offering this week. Really nothing new here from a technology standpoint as it leverages existing services and the Verisign/PayPal security key. Why I was interested in the release was the signal that they are putting more resources behind this market. I am still shocked that payment via cell phone did not catch on like wildfire in US. Look at adoption rates of cell phones, SMS, twitter and the like, and I would have bet that payment would have been right…
Martin and I are preparing for Thanksgiving, just like everyone else in America right now. I don’t know about you, but that primarily means I have five days of work to accomplish in three days of the week. So we didn’t organize a guest this week- instead we sat down together (1000 miles apart) and talked about some of the stories that caught our attention over the last couple of weeks. It’s a good show, and we’re out of here until after Turkey Day.
Last week I talked a bit on the decision by Microsoft to kill OneCare and release a new, free antivirus package later in 2009. Overall, I stated that I believe this will be good for consumers:
When I was with IPLocks in the 2004 time frame, we were exploring the possibility of selling our monitoring and assessment suite into the government. Friends and contacts made introductions, and we began investigating if there was a need for the solution, and if so, how we would approach tackling that type of relationship. While we knew dealing with the government would be tough, we felt that any organization that is sitting on piles of personally identifiable information and literally hundreds…
Catching up from last week I saw this article in Techworld (from NetworkWorld) about an IETF meeting to discuss the impact of Dan Kaminsky’s DNS exploit and potential strategies for hardening DNS.
I installed Parallels 4.0 on the iMac last week, upgraded my licenses and converted my bootable images to the new format. It took a while to do as the conversion process takes a long time. While the installation was trivial, I had 4 different bootable images to convert, which took a good 3 hours to migrate even though they were only a couple of gigabytes a piece and only have a handful of applications installed. But I had no problems and everything worked fine. There are a couple subtle changes…
Since I get asked this question a lot:
Call yourself an analyst.
Convince someone to call you an analyst.
Business cards don’t hurt.
After this week, Rich and I are “Home for the Holidays”, with the last of the year’s travel behind us.