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This is the tale of one man’s nervous foray into social networking.
By DAN KAUFMAN – SMH | Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Innocently thinking it was an online dating agency in disguise, I optimistically joined Facebook in the hope that desperate women would soon be knocking on my door. Fast forward four months, however, and my life is still devoid of vamps and vixens – but I can count almost 40 friends.
Dutch police have arrested a teenager who stole £2,500 worth of virtual furniture from an online hotel.
Authorities said in what was the first case of its kind the 17-year-old was arrested after playing Habbo Hotel – an international game and online community with an estimated seven million members.
The 19-year-old man will have to pay more than $42,000 to three Swedish universities and to the national supercomputer centre
A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorised access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is also suspected by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code. read more »
A proof-of-concept shows how easy it is to eavesdrop on the VoIP calls
By John E. Dunn London | Friday, 23 November, 2007
An expert has released a proof-of-concept program to show how easy it would be for criminals to eavesdrop on the VoIP-based phone calls of any company using the technology.
Called SIPtap, the software is able to monitor multiple Voice-over-IP (VoIP) call streams, listening in and recording them for remote inspection as .wav files. All that the criminal would need would be to infect a single PC inside the network with a Trojan incorporating these functions, although the hack would work at ISP level as well.
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER – The Dominion Post | Monday, 19 November 2007
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PUR-MANENT WORK WANTED: Even with 22 years experience in the IT industry, American Charlie Bluehawk, still has trouble finding work. Time is running out for American job hunter Charlie Bluehawk, who will be on a plane back to the United States at 6pm tomorrow if he doesn’t secure an information technology job before then.
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER – The Dominion Post | Monday, 19 November 2007
MAARTEN HOLL/Dominion Post
PUR-MANENT WORK WANTED: Even with 22 years experience in the IT industry, American Charlie Bluehawk, still has trouble finding work. Time is running out for American job hunter Charlie Bluehawk, who will be on a plane back to the United States at 6pm tomorrow if he doesn’t secure an information technology job before then.
Simpl Group chief executive Bennett Medary launched his CEO’s blog today with a broadside against talent poaching.
Medary, who took to the blog this week joining the likes of Jim Donovan from Fronde and Xero’s Rod Drury, says the TUANZ ICT Skills Shortage conference may not have acknowledged some realities about how services companies are really managing the talent crunch.
He says two other strategies are in play in addition to those covered in the “virtue” press given to the conference. One is robbing “Peter to pay Paul”, where service providers fleece established projects to service new contracts “they could not otherwise possibly fullfil”.
The second is poaching.
Medary says “vendors with the deepest pockets target and ‘buy’ specific talent required for immediate deployment to meet new or unfulfilled commitments. This often has the secondary effect of wounding the competition (and their customers) — killing two birds with one stone.
“Neither response is good for the industry or its credibility with customers!”
In a remark that appears to be targeted at Gen-i he comments: “Vendors with 50 – 60 vacancies each month do not have time for graduate programmes and other long term training/recruitment approaches! We have had a number of key staff specifically targeted by one large vendor recently, and my industry colleagues assure me that we are not alone.”
Medary concludes offering to sign mutual non-poaching clauses with anyone “and publish who is and who is not willing to do the same”.
Vodafone New Zealand has announced the launch of its Vodafone at home service, replacing the traditional fixed-line home phone with a new device that will allow users to simply plug their existing handsets (corded or cordless phones) into the “at home” box and carry on making calls.
Microsoft can afford to wait for Vista to become a success, says analyst
By Gregg Keizer Framingham | Monday, 12 November, 2007If Microsoft’s Windows Vista were graded for its first year, the report card would read “not meeting expectations,” analysts say a year after the operating system code went gold and was sent off for duplication. read more »
Microsoft can afford to wait for Vista to become a success, says analyst
By Gregg Keizer Framingham | Monday, 12 November, 2007If Microsoft’s Windows Vista were graded for its first year, the report card would read “not meeting expectations,” analysts say a year after the operating system code went gold and was sent off for duplication. read more »
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