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iPhone Gains 15 Minutes Free Wi-Fi in 28 Airports

2008-05-02 12:04:16 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...famously declared free access to metro-scale services paid for by advertising to be unworkable; that may be so, given that they were the biggest proponent of it for a few years, and no other company followed them into that approach. However, metro-scale ad-supported Wi-Fi, in which residential and roaming users alike looked at banners and...
 
Tags: hotspot, hotspot ads involve, ads, boingo offers ads-for-access, boingo, free wi-fi, wi-fi, access, gain access
 
 
 
 
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TJX staffer sacked after talking about security problems

2008-05-27 10:23:35 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
He says he tried to work through official channels, but after getting no satisfaction and turning to the blogosphere, a young security researcher has been fired from his TJX day job for blabbing about new troubles at the famously breached store chain
 
Tags: tjx day job, official channels, security researcher, store chain, troubles, fired, blogosphere, famously, satisfaction
 
 
 
 
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Opera Chickens Out Of EV-Purist Stance

2008-05-27 22:06:59 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...famously PayPal itself, don't show the green bar in Opera. In then end, it was too much for Opera. They have announced that they will join with the consensus policy for EV , and PayPal will have a green bar in Opera. The complaints must have been serious, and it's not like I can blame them, but it's not like this makes Opera something special...
 
Tags: opera, bar, famously paypal, modern ssl standards, elements, paypal, ditch browsers, top-level document, browser race
 
 
 
 
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Sun Is A Magic Formula Stock

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2008-06-26 18:29:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...famously called these "cigar butts"); from Buffett & Munger, Greenblatt uses the concept of looking for good companies The stocks are evaluated on price via an inverse P/E calculation; and "good" companies are defined as those earning a high return on capital. Then in true value investing style (i.e. not over-complicated), Greenblatt...
 
Tags: greenblatt, greenblatt list, sun, list, companies, companies based, greenblatt takes, formula, tech companies
 
 
 
 
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Google bows to pressure, adds 'Privacy' link to home page

2008-07-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x847372c in Network World on Security
 
For Google, ready Privacy: That could be the subliminal message Google wants to send by replacing its name on its famously spartan home page with a link to its privacy policy
 
Tags: google, subliminal message google, link, ready privacy, privacy policy
 
 
 
 
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Google relents, adds privacy link to spartan homepage

2008-07-09 03:10:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Google has agreed to add a "privacy" link to its famously pure home page, but on the condition that the total word count remains the same. What gets the boot? "Google
 
Tags: google, link, privacy, boot, condition
 
 
 
 
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Assets Good Until Reached For

2008-09-15 09:41:43 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...famously called derivatives financial weapons of mass destruction Charlie Munger, as he is wont to do, went a bit further (from 2004 I think a good litmus test of the mental and moral quality at any large institution [with significant derivatives exposure] would be to ask them, "Do you really understand your derivatives book?" Anyone who...
 
Tags: risk management, information risk management, risk management practices, risk, assets, industry, people, business people, security industry
 
 
 
 
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Wakeup Call for Risk Management

2008-09-19 10:11:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...famously put it during a July, 2007 interview : So long as the music is playing, youve got to keep dancing. Were still dancing. But one month later, the music stopped. Since then, Citigroup and other financial institutions have taken massive writeoffs with more to come. Wall Street titans like Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and...
 
Tags: risk management, risk management debacle, risk management failure, failure, risk management realistic, business risk management, risk management models, risk, risk management situations
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...famously lost money for years - losing a little on every transaction but making it up in volume. When the market is nascent, a quaint security architecture offers cost effective protection. But what about 2008? Those cute little eCommerce buggers have grown they even make profits now - market caps measured in the tens of billions,...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space