Author: Vince Kimball

DEVONthink 1.8 and DEVONagent 1.2.1 updates [The Macintosh News Network]

New Exchange Cookbook Blog. Here's another new Exchange blog to add to your list/subsciptions… it's the Exchange Cookbook blog, which Paul Robichaux, Devin Ganger and Missy Koslosky have created as a companion to the book that they're currently writing, to be called of course, the Exchange Cookbook, and is to be published by O'Reilly. Paul is… Continue reading New Exchange Cookbook Blog

I started my third corporation last week. The new company is called Scripting News, Inc. It owns this site and a few others, and some software I'm working on. It's a Massachusetts corporation. So I guess I'm going to be here for a while. [Scripting News]

OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”. OCLC's Office of Research is offering, experimentally, a service that looks up submitted ISBNs in their FRBRized WorldCat, and returns other ISBNs associated with the same work. E.g.: http://labs.oclc.org/xisbn/0441172717 (the ISBN of Dune). This is something we've needed for a long time to improve automated searching in virtual union catalogues and… Continue reading OCLC Offers ISBN “Concordance”

Welch Makes Another Major Book Deal. John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman of General Electric, sold rights for a how-to business manual to Harper Collins for an estimated $4 million. By Hugo Lindgren. [New York Times: Books]

Watson. People who don’t build software for a living have a quite understandable attitude that you should write your program, fix all the bugs, then ship it. Why would you ever ship a product that has bugs in it? Surely that is a sign that you don’t care about quality, right? Those of us who… Continue reading Watson

IETF = XMPP (Jabber) is the official open standard. IETF Approves Jabber XMPP. Jabber Inc. announced today that the IETF has approved the XMPP protocol as a standard for instant messaging and presence. The standardization effort has been led by the Jabber Software Foundation [JSF], an independent group, who have been working with… [Get Real]… Continue reading IETF = XMPP (Jabber) is the official open standard

Technology Review: False Hope for Stopping Spam. Simson Garfinkel. The spam wars are taking a turn–and right now, the good guys are losing. New legislation, new technology, and draconian anti-spam policies on the part of some Internet service providers are doing nothing to stem the tide of unsolicited e-mail. [Tomalak's Realm]

The PC oligopoly tightens PC maker Gateway announced that it would acquire rival eMachines for around $235 in cash and stock. Both companies sell PCs in the US, but have different strategies. Gateway sells through mail order and its own retail outlets, while eMachines sells mostly through big box retailers like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit… Continue reading Oligopoly Watch