Wednesday, December 03, 2003

The Macromedia XML Resource Feed will be discontinued Please switch to the RDF feed ASAP by Macromedia; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia - Designer Developer Center]

They are switching to RSS 1.0


6:25:34 PM    

Comcast takes on TiVo. The cable giant is developing a digital video recording service in partnership with TV Guide that will be available by year's end. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
6:24:50 PM    

Blogging: One Firm's Experience 

Blogging for the Bryan Cave libraries in St. Louis, MO and Santa Monica, CA was created in response to a need for disseminating information to people in other offices (and time zones) as quickly and easily as possible.  In this brief article, Karen Lasnick, Librarian in the Santa Monica office and Julie Weber, Librarian in the St. Louis office discuss their blogging experiences at two Bryan Cave offices by looking at the origins, evolution and future of blogging at Bryan Cave.

[LLRX.com]
5:42:59 PM    

Red Hat begins education discounts. The company's discount program is meant to attract students and educational institutions, a strategically important customer set for technology companies. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

This is a very good thing for law schools. 


5:40:42 PM    

Sun unveils its first AMD blade. The Sun Fire B100 blade server will be based on AMD's 1.53-GHz Mobile Athlon XP 1800+ processor. [Computerworld News]
5:32:29 PM    

Windows ATMs raise security concerns. Last week's revelation by Diebold that its automated teller machines (ATMs) operated by two financial services customers were struck by the W32/Nachi worm raises the specter of even wider disruptions from virus and worm outbreaks and highlights a growing security concern that cash machines running Windows XP and interacting with other Windows systems are vulnerable to attack. [InfoWorld: Top News]

When ATMs were primarily powered by OS/2 we never heard of things like virus and worm attacks.  I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do any business with a financial institution that featured ATMs that were vulnerable to attack from the outside.


10:42:40 AM    

The (Latest) Seven Deadly IE Sins. There's more bad news on the security front for Internet Explorer. Researchers have discovered seven more security holes in Microsoft's bundled browser. Microsoft, for its part, says it is investigating the reports. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
10:40:09 AM