Thanks For Helping Fix Our Software -- We Won't Sue You This Time

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EFF helping produce anonymizing software

EFF helping produce anonymizing software 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: I have the coolest job: my employer, EFF, is now officially doing development on Tor, an anonymizing network tool that lets people use the Internet without being snooped upon:

Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

Traffic analysis is used every day by companies, governments, and individuals that want to keep track of where people and organizations go and what they do on the Internet. Instead of looking at the content of your communications, traffic analysis tracks where your data goes and when, as well as how big it is. For example, online advertising company Doubleclick uses traffic analysis to record what web pages you've visited, and can build a profile of your interests from that. A pharmaceutical company could use traffic analysis to monitor when the research wing of a competitor visits its website, and track what pages or products that interest the competitor. IBM hosts a searchable patent index, and it could keep a list of every query your company makes. A stalker could use traffic analysis to learn whether you're in a certain Internet cafe.

Donations to EFF are tax-deductible -- you've got a week left to knock some bucks off your tax bill and do some good for the whole Internet! Link

Time Is Money Network Announces New
Fully Web-based Time Billing and Project
Management System for Software
Developers and Service Providers – Free
During Extended Trial Period

Time Is Money Network Announces New
Fully Web-based Time Billing and Project
Management System for Software
Developers and Service Providers – Free
During Extended Trial Period 06/24/2005 04:11 PM
TimeIsMoney.net is being offered at no cost for a limited time to anyone who wishes to try this new fully on-line, web-based time sheet management, time billing and project management system. TimeIsMoney.net was designed to serve the needs of large and small organizations with teams managing project resources locally or remotely. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2005]

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability 09/13/2004 02:58 AM
New Web-based time and billing application simplifies administrative tasks associated with tracking billable hours and virtually eliminates problems with under-billing. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Screen Telephone Calls Over the Internet
In Real-Time - ThePhoneBOT.com
Releases New Version of Telephone
Answering Machine Software and New
Remote Client Application for Real-Time
Voicemail Screening Over Networked PCs

Screen Telephone Calls Over the Internet
In Real-Time - ThePhoneBOT.com
Releases New Version of Telephone
Answering Machine Software and New
Remote Client Application for Real-Time
Voicemail Screening Over Networked PCs 08/27/2004 01:57 PM
ThePhoneBOT.com announced today the availability of ThePhoneBOT version 4.0, the latest release of its popular web-based voicemail retrieval software. Also released today is the new PhoneBOT Remote Client application, an innovative new technology that allows users to expand the Windows-based answering machine and voicemail screening capabilities to serve multiple locations over networked PCs. Designed to replace a standard home/office answering machine or telephone company voicemail, ThePhoneBOT and PhoneBOT Remote Client software is now available for download at www.ThePhoneBOT.com [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Kozio, Inc. Introduces Two New Products;
Colorado embedded systems software
developer saves customers time, money
with ready-to-run manufacturing test and
self-test software for shipping products

Kozio, Inc. Introduces Two New Products;
Colorado embedded systems software
developer saves customers time, money
with ready-to-run manufacturing test and
self-test software for shipping products 07/12/2004 02:14 AM
Kozio, Inc., a developer of embedded systems software, has introduced two new products that provide end-of-production-line manufacturing test and power-on-self-diagnostic test capabilities for manufactured products that use embedded single-board computer systems. [PRWEB Jul 12, 2004]

Time Tracking Software 2.0

Time Tracking Software 2.0 05/18/2004 07:25 AM
A time managment system.

Big software: time to give up?

Big software: time to give up? 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
On today's New York Times op-ed page, Nicholas Carr of "Does IT Matter?" puts the FBI software meltdown in the context of other recent enterprise-scale software train wrecks like McDon ald's Innovate and Ford's Everest (he could have dragged in the IRS, too). As everyone does who addresses this topic, he references the Standish Group "Chaos" report from 1994, with its dire statistics about software failure.

As with his previous arguments on the topic, Carr gets things just about half right: Of course the record of large-scale software projects, particularly those meant to replace existing systems that are functional but graying, has been awful, and the complexity of these systems remains daunting. Carr concludes that the complexity is so overwhelming we should give up on innovating in software and just concentrate on doing the same things we currently do more efficiently: "When it comes to developing software today, innovation should be a last resort, not a first instinct."

He's forgetting that, in the world of software, innovation is the primary way to add value. We move existing "off-line" systems and processes into software not only to make them more efficient, but to give them capabilities the physical world can't provide. Thus online publishing isn't just about delivering text and images more cheaply; it's about connecting publisher and information consumer in new ways that change the whole relationship. Manufacturers implement inventory control systems not just to save money but to transform their businesses so they can build products when customers ask for them, rather than trying to guess what the market needs. If software isn't providing new capabilities, why bother? It seems obvious that we're a long way away from exhausting the possible new wrinkles software can offer business, government and society.

Carr is right that large institutions get into trouble when they try to replace big old systems and introduce complex new features at the same time. But his advice -- give up on those new features, be happy with what you've got -- is needlessly ostrich-like. The answer is not to abandon change but to structure change so that it's not a big bang but an evolutionary process. The failures in so many of these software disasters don't stem from ambition but from impatience and bad planning.

Software Scams on Internet Time

Software Scams on Internet Time 07/02/2004 06:26 AM
Business Week Jul 2 2004 10:28AM GMT

Ambrosia Software: Aki Just In Time For
Holidays

Ambrosia Software: Aki Just In Time For
Holidays 12/24/2003 08:53 AM

Advertising software distributions
across different time zones

Advertising software distributions
across different time zones 09/18/2004 05:26 AM

Microsoft's Software Moves: This Time
It's Personal

Microsoft's Software Moves: This Time
It's Personal 08/03/2004 02:26 PM

Direct and Related Links for 'Microsoft’s Software Moves: This Time It’s Personal'

“Microsoft executives this week began touting a new tactic in its bid to remain at the forefront of software design and development: Personalization.”…

IBM Readies Software for Real-Time
Reports

IBM Readies Software for Real-Time
Reports 08/11/2004 08:53 PM
Geared toward segments such as retail supply chain and financial risk management, Business Activity Monitoring aims to replace static data reports.

German software pirate, and his father,
get jail time

German software pirate, and his father,
get jail time 09/14/2004 11:13 AM
The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.

German software pirate, and his father
get jail time

German software pirate, and his father
get jail time 09/14/2004 04:40 PM
A German court yesterday sentenced a second member of one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings to three years prison and handed down a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.

Near-Time Flow content management
software debuts

Near-Time Flow content management
software debuts 06/28/2004 11:50 AM
Near-Time Inc. on Monday announced the release of Near-Time Flow, a peer-to-peer collaborative content and knowledge manager for Mac OS X v10.3. The software enables users to access and manage content from sources as varied as XML, HTML, FTP servers, WebDAV, SMTP, iDisk, RSS and Weblogs. A graphical editor provides users with context, versioning and collaborative editing capabilities. The software costs US$99.95 for a single license, $895.99 for 10 licenses and $3,995.95 for 50 licenses.

TouchStar Software - Changing the World
One Country At A Time!

TouchStar Software - Changing the World
One Country At A Time! 12/24/2004 12:19 PM
Changing the World One Country At A Time -- TouchStar Software's New United Kingdom Office Now Open For Business! [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

German software pirate and his father
get jail time

German software pirate and his father
get jail time 09/14/2004 02:27 PM
The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations. After an 18-week trial, a criminal court in Stuttgart, Germany, sentenced the convicted software pirate to three years in prison without parole for copyright infringement and selling counterfeit Microsoft Corp. software. The court also convicted the defendant's father for his participation in the counterfeiting scheme, issuing him a 16-month jail term and 100 hours of community service.

IT Computing Services, Inc. Announces
Time Attendance Software Launch

IT Computing Services, Inc. Announces
Time Attendance Software Launch 04/19/2005 03:45 AM
The ITCS-WebClock v6.0 joins ITCS's quality document management systems offerings. [PRWEB Apr 19, 2005]

When Software Fails to Stop Spam, It's
Time to Bring In the Detectives

When Software Fails to Stop Spam, It's
Time to Bring In the Detectives 05/31/2004 02:19 AM
The fight against spam has turned from software engineers who try to identify and block spam to private investigators, prosecutors and law enforcement agents.

Time Warner division moving to latest
HelpStar software

Time Warner division moving to latest
HelpStar software 01/07/2004 02:50 PM
An Ohio-based division of Time Warner Cable is upgrading to HelpStar 8.0 software from Help Desk Technology Corp. for its asset management capabilities.

IBM Readies Software for Real-Time
Reports (Ziff Davis)

IBM Readies Software for Real-Time
Reports (Ziff Davis) 08/11/2004 09:23 PM
Ziff Davis - Geared toward segments such as retail supply chain and financial risk management, Business Activity Monitoring aims to replace static data reports.

Journyx Partners with IDE to Offer
Customers Best-In-Class Time-Tracking
Software

Journyx Partners with IDE to Offer
Customers Best-In-Class Time-Tracking
Software 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
Journyx -- the leader in Web-based time and expense tracking solutions that automate invoicing, payroll and project management -- has been selected by Integrated Development Enterprise (IDe®) -- the leading provider of software solutions for integrated development in the product portfolio management market – to provide the underlying technology for a key solution module. [PRWEB Mar 12, 2005]

Wingpath Software Heralds Testing Time
for Masters with New Modbus Slave
Simulator

Wingpath Software Heralds Testing Time
for Masters with New Modbus Slave
Simulator 06/20/2004 02:11 AM
Wingpath Software announces a new Modbus simulator that enables realistic simulation of multiple Modbus slaves in their environment. Connect Modbus masters to ModMultiSim, instead of real Modbus slaves, in order to test and configure the masters. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

Small Town Software Releases Time and
Budgets 1.2, Introduces TaBulator
Widgets

Small Town Software Releases Time and
Budgets 1.2, Introduces TaBulator
Widgets 09/22/2004 02:28 AM
Small Town Software today released a free upgrade to Time and Budgets, its web-based time tracking and budget monitoring software. Along with new features, speed increases and the usual bug fixes, this upgrade introduces new stand-alone software "widgets" that pull real-time data from the Time and Budgets network -- and display that information in unobtrusive translucent windows, some as small as 1 by 2 inches. [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]

EU Extends Review of Microsoft-Time
Warner Deal for Anti-Piracy Software

EU Extends Review of Microsoft-Time
Warner Deal for Anti-Piracy Software 08/16/2004 10:19 AM
European antitrust regulators have extended their review of a deal between Microsoft and Time Warner to make anti-piracy software together.

MTPredictor Ltd. announces major
enhancements to its Real-time 4.0 and
End-of-Day 4.0 trading software and
customer service

MTPredictor Ltd. announces major
enhancements to its Real-time 4.0 and
End-of-Day 4.0 trading software and
customer service 09/02/2004 02:25 AM
MTPredictor Ltd., the UK trading software firm specializing in Risk/Reward trading using Elliott Wave, has announced a number of enhancements to its Real-time and End-of-Day range and to its customer support. New datafeeds, an updated US index trading record, the introduction of free web seminars and new sales offices in the US and the Benelux region continue the firm’s commitment to traders worldwide. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Mobile Radius accelerates time to market
for wireless service providers with its
new commercial software development kit
(SDK)

Mobile Radius accelerates time to market
for wireless service providers with its
new commercial software development kit
(SDK) 07/01/2004 02:13 AM
Mobile Radius, the first integrated mobile real-time interactive loyalty marketing and secure transaction solution provider, today announced the availability of its first commercial version of Software Development Kit (SDK) for wireless services providers. [PRWEB Jul 1, 2004]

Real-Time Innovations and Green Hills
Software Partner to Provide First
Standards-based DDS Platform

Real-Time Innovations and Green Hills
Software Partner to Provide First
Standards-based DDS Platform 12/19/2004 03:46 PM
RTI's NDDS Publish-Subscribe Solution for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS Now Available for Advanced Distributed Systems [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]

Cutting Edge Communications Firm
Captures 10% in Lost Time with Autotask
Professional Services Automation
Software

Cutting Edge Communications Firm
Captures 10% in Lost Time with Autotask
Professional Services Automation
Software 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Mindshare Interactive Campaigns, LLC, an interactive communications consulting firm, based in Washington, DC, has taken a large bite out of inefficiency by implementing Autotask Professional Services Automation Software to manage its business processes. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

New Remote Capability for Marine
Equipment Health Monitoring Software
Provides Mobile, Real-Time Diagnostic
Data at Very Low Bandwidth

New Remote Capability for Marine
Equipment Health Monitoring Software
Provides Mobile, Real-Time Diagnostic
Data at Very Low Bandwidth 06/17/2005 04:45 PM
Remote capability added to its automated equipment health monitoring software. Diagnostic equipment data can now be viewed from anywhere in the world, in real time, using MACSEA’s innovative technologies. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Electrophysics® Develops Powerful
Real-Time Image Capture and Analysis
Software Bringing Infrared R&D to an
Affordable Level

Electrophysics® Develops Powerful
Real-Time Image Capture and Analysis
Software Bringing Infrared R&D to an
Affordable Level 04/07/2005 03:00 AM
Velocity™ delivers LabView-based functionality and performance for USB2.0-based thermal imaging applications. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
an

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
an 05/12/2004 07:03 AM

SuccessFactors Scores Record Time with
Workforce Performance Management
Implementation at MasterCard
International. Software Up and Running
in Two Weeks; Employees Experience
Seamless Transition

SuccessFactors Scores Record Time with
Workforce Performance Management
Implementation at MasterCard
International. Software Up and Running
in Two Weeks; Employees Experience
Seamless Transition 03/17/2005 03:45 AM
SuccessFactors today announced via a news release over US BusinessWire that the company successfully completed a software implementation at MasterCard International in a record-setting, two weeks time. In addition, SuccessFactors also provided MasterCard's 4000 worldwide employees with a seamless shift to our software while simultaneously reducing performance review-related help desk calls by approximately 25%. - Prior to SuccessFactors, MasterCard was using a workforce performance management technology that was severely limited in functionality. Specifically, there was limited reporting functionality, minimal visibility into each employees' performance history and multiple forms used across their worldwide organization that were unable to be tracked within one system.SuccessFactors was selected to unify the multiple HRMS systems in use at MasterCard, streamline the peformance management process and begin shifting HR's role away from a transactional agent to a more strategic partner driving business at the executive level. The decision to implement SuccessFactors technology was weighted heavily on the company's ASP business model, expansive reporting tools and ability to function as a business partner. [PRWEB Mar 15, 2005]

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
and Tapwave Zodiac

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
and Tapwave Zodiac 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Fish Tycoon is the follow-up to their award winning plant breeding sim, and features beautiful hi-resolution fish that grow, breed, and eat both while the device is turned on--and when it's off! [PRWEB May 3, 2004]

You Never Know Who You are Helping

You Never Know Who You are Helping 12/19/2004 03:08 PM
Friday Foo - Thanks from a long time lurker.

MTPredictor launches unique Real-time
Trading Software for Risk/Reward trading
using the Isolation Approach to Elliott
Wave

MTPredictor launches unique Real-time
Trading Software for Risk/Reward trading
using the Isolation Approach to Elliott
Wave 06/02/2004 02:19 AM
This is a brand new real-time program from the UK software developer MTPredictor Ltd. It is designed exclusively to identify exceptional trade set-ups, evaluate their Risk/Reward outlook, control risk by position-sizing and manage trades consistently on-screen. Partnering with eSignal for data, Real-time 4.0 is for global stocks, futures, indices, currencies and commodities. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]

HP Helping Tax Man With Deductions

HP Helping Tax Man With Deductions 12/12/2003 04:16 PM
Internet News Dec 12 2003 4:04PM ET

Helping the Terrorists

Helping the Terrorists 07/17/2004 01:09 PM
This post is completely self-interested. I fly a lot. I think the idea of having air marshals on board airplanes is sensible and notably increases my safety. I was horrified and astounded to read in the NYT today that these guys have a dress code that make them stand out so that anyone can spot them. There are no words to describe the lethal stupidity at work here.

Helping the wordblind see clearly

Helping the wordblind see clearly 04/20/2004 08:48 AM
Manchester Online Apr 20 2004 12:14PM GMT
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