I call bullshit. But if it helps the industry to get off the stick and start building compelling services, it might do us some good to puff up these numbers for a while. I think their interpretation of what constitutes a “user” is fairly liberal. -Ian....
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/technology/19APPL.html Apple’s Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds By JOHN MARKOFF AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 — It has long been Silicon Valley’s favorite guessing game: What is Steven P. Jobs going to do next? The...
Homeland Insecurity: A top expert says America’s approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Forget “foolproof” technology—we need systems designed to fail smartly  by Charles C. Mann The Atlantic Monthly | September 2002  ...
Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation. Or… Shatter Attacks – How to break Windows. By Foon – ivegotta [at] tombom.co [dot] uk http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html Introduction This paper presents a new generation of...
RealNames is the company that attempted to usurp DNS by embedding their keyword mapping tool into Microsoft Internet Explorer, and of course selling those keywords (as does AOL) to unfortunate web site owners who couldn’t afford the prices EJW wanted to charge...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
