Saturday, August 2, 2008

Study: Websites, open source, social networking at risk

Study: Websites, open source, social networking at risk
Open source players join usual suspects on Top Ten list

Very slack proof reading at Vodafone
... and by poor proof reading:


- from the Vodafone website.

It's been up there for a few days since they changed their little advertisement blocks into images...



Mobile coverage comes to Maungaraki - thanks to NZ Comms
If you live in Maungaraki (a hillside suburb in Lower Hutt) you'll realise that in many parts cellular coverage is terrible. This is because neither Vodafone or Telecom believe there is a need for sites and instead rely on coverage from other sites in the Hutt Valley basin below or in Vodafone's case coverage from a site on Mt Crowther in Wainuiomata.

Good news is on the way however, NZ Communications have applied to the Lower Hutt City Council for permission to put a cellsite at the top of Honeysuckle Grove (near the water tower) which would deliver great coverage. I'm not sure if this will be a standalone mast or panels mounted on the existing water tower which already houses radio gear for several organisations including Smartlinx3 who have equipment for their wireless broadband product.

If NZ Comms can do this why can't Vodafone or Telecom?



Thanks Duncan from Orcon
I have a phone again, amazing! My internet has only failed 3 times today (it is of course only mid morning, but that's cool.

And in reply to the comment about how retro I am still having a phone line, think of it this way, it comes with the net and it means that relatives who are still more analogue don't have to pay me, but there's a thought, maybe the ones I don't care to hear from won't lol.Laughing



NZ follows Europe for ultra wide band licence regime
General User Licence regime to be established

Extradition appeal for British hacker dismissed
Gary McKinnon looks set to be extradited to the US

Maclean computing buys ATL Systems
Buy takes Maclean Computing into Wellington market

New IBM tool analyses code for mistakes as it's written
Its operation is similar to grammar check function, says IBM

Renaissance scores 20% improvement
Natcoll buyout pays off

Microsoft Dynamics GP Multiple (4) Buffer Overflows
The Microsoft Dynamics GP is vulnerable to four heap and stack-based buffer overflows. A remote attacker could overflow the buffer and execute arbitrary code or gain control of the affected system by sending malicious queries to the Distributed Process Server or Distributed Process Manager.

FX Networks wins Weta business
Fixed-price deal wins high-profile business

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