Can he do it? Can he get developers to actually care enough about the Blackberry / Playbook platform to come and build apps? Today my friend Alec Saunders, RIM’s newly minted "VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development", took to…
Oct 18
Amazon and the Incredible Disruption of The Publishing Industry
Have you been tracking the insane degree to which Amazon.com is utterly disrupting the traditional publishing industry? Have you been paying attention to how incredibly the business models and the players are changing? As an author of multiple books who…
Oct 17
Asterisk Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP Channel Driver
The folks over at the Digium security team today released security bulletin AST-2011-012 for a remote crash vulnerability in the SIP channel drive. For info about the attack, they state only: A remote authenticated user can cause a crash with a malformed request due to an uninitialized variable. An assumption from this statement would be […]
Oct 17
Awesome Comic -> The Bright Side to the Blackberry Outage
A truly awesome way to start my Monday… courtesy of RWW, this great cartoon from Rob Cottingham showing the "bright side" of the Blackberry outage: Of course, we iPhone owners could have a similar discovery… although whether or not our…
Oct 15
Learn To Curl Clinic Tomorrow (Sun, Oct 16) at Petersham Curling Club in Petersham, Mass.
I’m looking forward to throwing a few rocks at houses tomorrow… the Petersham Curling Club is holding a "Learn To Curl" clinic for the public tomorrow, Sunday, October 16, 2011, from 10-1pm, a their 2-sheet facility in Petersham, MA. I’m not going to be part of the clinic… given that I was last skipping teams, I’m a bit beyond that initial stage (although you can always learn more)… I’m actually going to bring my 9-year-old daughter down to see if it’s something of interest to her. The Petersham C.C. has an active youth curling program on Saturday mornings and we’re…
Oct 14
It’s Official! For Better Or Worse, Skype Is Now Part of Microsoft
And so begins the next chapter of Skype… first it was a scruffy little startup taking on the telecom world… then it became somewhat bizarrely part of eBay… then it went back to a private company owned primarily by Silver…
Oct 13
R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie, half of the K&R Bible for C Programming
For those of us of a certain age, “The C Programming Language“, written by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, was our “bible” as …
Oct 12
The MomsLikeMe.com Debacle and the Need For the Open Internet And To Control Your Content
A ton of online communities of moms are dying this week. After three years, the "MomsLikeMe.com" websites are shutting down on Friday. From the FAQ: All of the MomsLikeMe sites will permanently shut down on Friday, October 14, 2011. At…
Oct 12
Survey: Only 40% of Canadians Password-Protect Their Cell Phones
Only 40% of Canadian cell phone users password-protect their phones or use other privacy options, a survey by Canada’s privacy commissioner found. The results of the 2000-person survey were released in August and written up in a Globe And Mail…
Oct 11
Facebook’s iPad App Now Available With Gestures, Cool Places Display and More
Today, the long-awaited and long-delayed official "Facebook for iPad" application became available in the Apple AppStore. Having been an early iPad user and an avid Facebook user, this is one app I’ve been wanting for a long time. NOTE: I…
