Author: Vince Kimball

Practical Protection Practices for Your Intellectual Property. Legal protection is only one aspect of IP protection. What happens on your network and in your business may be at least as important. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Sun-Sentinel: Florida news – Florida may limit release of driver's license information. TALLAHASSEE · Florida would limit the release of personal information from state driver's licenses under a measure passed Monday by a Senate committee. It appears headed for final approval. The action (CS/SB 2416) was prompted by a threatened lawsuit by the American Civil… Continue reading Florida may limit release of driver's license information

Easy to edit web links.  You might have noticed lots of new features for Manila lately. I guess Dave realizes that he needs all these features – to do his thing at Harvard.  But what about Radio?  Are we still supposed to go into our #HomeTemplates and hack HTML?  Why don't we deserve an easy to… Continue reading Easy to edit web links

Motorola's Cable Modem Plus Wi-Fi. Motorola releases $350 box: cable modem, Ethernet switch, printer sharing: This device is being sold directly via big-box computer retailers. It's unclear to me which consumers buy their own cable modems; it's more likely that cable operators will offer this as an option or upgrade…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]

News.Com: A mosaic of new opportunities. Ray Ozzie. Even though our current use of PCs, productivity tools, e-mail and the Web seems quite sophisticated, we've only just begun to understand how to apply them and effectively realize their benefits. The next 10 years will find us moving decidedly from an era of personal productivity to… Continue reading A mosaic of new opportunities

Waltzing With Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects. The latest book from the heroes of Peopleware, Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister. Makes a brave case that the person (or company, or team) who is responsible for risk management is the person who is going to pay the price when things go wrong. Waltzing With Bears… Continue reading Untitled

Larry Seltzer wants to throw out SMTP and start over. I have to support that. If the European Union can change the money that 300 million people use all on one day, we can change our email protocol. Let's find a protocol with decent authentication and with micropayments to make spam uneconomical, and let's set a… Continue reading throw out SMTP

Chandler Release 0.1 is out. See what all the fuss is about, almost.  [Joel on Software]

Technology at Delta.  This week, both InformationWeek and Baseline have feature stories about new technology at Delta Air Lines, so it's a good opportunity to benchmark Baseline, a new IT magazine from Ziff Davis, to its old school press-release republishing counterparts. The difference: while the InformationWeek article is just a poor rewrite of bland warmed-over… Continue reading Technology at Delta

Spring Cleaning. Dave Seidel on moving from Radio to MT [Don Box's Spoutlet]