| HP's Michael Sutton: Web 2.0 and the New Wild West for Attackers
"The Web is really the Wild Wild West of attackers today," said Michael Sutton, security evangelist for HP quality management. "This condition is now out of the shadows because security experts can actually show proof of the kinds of attacks coming through these Web 2.0 holes. Now we have much better statistics to demonstrate the kind of attacks being made." The Spyware problem is bigger than you think. Spyware is more insidious and costly than viruses because it's designed to go undetected. Learn about a better way to protect your company. Click here for a free trial of Webroot� AntiSpyware Corporate Edition - the standard in anti-malware solutions. .
RFID platform boosts Debenhams' profits
Department store chain Debenhams has credited investment in a new IT platform and its ecommerce website for helping to boost annual profits to �131.4m. Pre-tax profits are up 11.5 per cent for the 12 months ended 30 September 2007, while sales also increased by 5.1 per cent to �2.3bn as the Debenhams revival continues. Rob Templeman, Debenhams CEO, said in a statement: "Despite wider concerns about the macro economic environment and how this will impact on the retail sector, we are confident that the changes we are making throughout Debenhams are benefiting the business. Our new autumn/winter ranges are being well received and this, together with the refitting of stores and previous investment in a new IT platform and distribution centre, is improving the customer experience." silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox.
Leonard Slatkin, From Two Directions
Musical education has pretty much been eliminated in much of the United States, and a whole generation has come of age with little or no exposure to classical music. Most of our orchestras have been in trouble for years financially. One: Well, there's still a good deal of intellectual interest in what Michael Tilson Thomas is doing with the San Francisco Symphony and in what Esa-Pekka Salonen did -- and what newly named 26-year-old maestro Gustavo Dudamel may do -- in Los Angeles. Moreover, they play to pretty full houses (as, I would add, does the NSO; I'm not sure that I would write off the orchestral concert as a spent force). But those other conductors offer genuinely engrossing contemporary music (as opposed to Slatkin's penchant for pastiche), deeply personal takes on familiar scores of the past (rather than gross, gimmicky rearrangements such as Mahler's graffiti on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), festivals of substance and distinction (instead of once-over-lightly looks at film music or "Drums Along the Potomac"), and a fresh energy that has been hard to find in Washington for a long while.
The Wii Failure, How Apple Beats CES, HD DVD Winner, Product of the ...
Had Nintendo been able to meet demand, it would have ended the year so far ahead of the other players that it could have dominated the console and handheld game player market. However, by missing, everyone stays in the game. This is going to hurt in 2008 as the other folks bring their prices in line with the market. The Spyware problem is bigger than you think. Spyware is more insidious and costly than viruses because it's designed to go undetected. Learn about a better way to protect your company. Click here for a free trial of Webroot� AntiSpyware Corporate Edition - the standard in anti-malware solutions. .
Football recruiting
Florida State and UCLA now appear to be Sanders' new front-runners. "He may take an official visit to FSU; he may take an official to UCLA," Vincent Sanders said. "He's going to go where they want him." Vincent Sanders was still stinging Saturday night from the disappointing news. "As his dad, I was hurt," he said. "When a head coach tells you 'you're a part of our school' and then everybody backs away from you, how am I supposed to feel? "I'm not interested in bashing anybody. I'm just telling you what happened. "Zebrie is just fortunate enough that some other doors are still open." .
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