Rose Cantine

Think all those Facebook widgets are so cool? Watch out for this one which installs the Zango adware / spyware, says Fortinet:
Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a malicious Facebook Widget (officially, a “Platform Application”) actively spreading on the social networking site which ultimately prompts users to install the infamous “Zango” adware/spyware.
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Now that EarthLink’s plan to deploy a citywide wireless broadband network is officially dead, who’s going to pick up where it left off? It appears that Meraki, a mesh equipment provider funded by Google and Sequoia, has come up with a plan to create a Wi-Fi cloud throughout the city by getting residents to install [...]

Since everyone is making a list at the end of the year, I decided to create one, too. Here’s my top 10 most useful applications — things I couldn’t live without in 2007. Some are online apps, others are software that you download to your computer. I have a Mac Book Pro running Leopard (Mac [...]

Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo (the human-powered search engine) gave one of the best presentations at the Le Web 3.0 conference in Paris which took place from December 11-12, 2007. Jason’s presentation was entitled “Internet Pollution and How to Stop It”. He points out that much of the content on the Internet is spam and [...]

Not a day goes by without some kind of revelation about what’s being done with our user-generated content and our personal information on social networking sites and blog networks. The scandal around Facebook’s Beacon project, whose aim is to track and broadcast what Facebook users are doing on the Web, forced Facebook to back down.
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Deloitte’s annual media consumption report says 66% of Internet users would click on more online ads if they were better targeted to them, younger users don’t mind ads as much as older users since they are less likely to pay for content. What must surprise and annoy video portals like YouTube is that people hate [...]

A few days ago I broke down and bought Apple’s latest operating system, Leopard, and the new Airport Extreme 802.11n base station. I’ve been thinking about upgrading for several months but reports of problems experienced by other users who upgraded, scared me into sitting on the sidelines. I have been fortunate in that I [...]