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Archive for September, 2007


Patents stifle innovation and competition

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 9:55 am from  Nick on IT by Nick Galea

Its long been known to most that patents are bad for business. The software business in particular suffers a great deal: Ridiculous patents such as “One click ordering” (Amazon) and other such totally obvious methods can from that point onwards only be done by the company who filed the patent. Patents are relatively easily obtained, since the patent officers are overworked and not particularly ...

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Voice mashups at Internet Telephony Expo 07 in LA

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 10:53 pm from  Nick on IT by Nick Galea

3CX exhibited at the Internet Telephony show this week and today i had the opportunity to visit a few of the sessions about VOIP at the conference. One really interesting session was on voice mashups, by Thomas Howe. By marrying mashups and voice, business processes and customer service can be radically improved - cost effectively. For example assume that your flight is cancelled - rather then ...

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Free cross site scripting scanner

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 6:12 pm from  Nick on IT by Nick Galea

OK, another post related to Acunetix. But what we are giving away today is pretty good i think. We have decided to make the cross site scripting functionality free - anyone can download it and check his website for cross site scripting vulnerabilities. This is a major security risk these days so this will really help the security conscious webmaster. This is pretty significant technology, we ...

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Germany to use Trojans to infiltrate Terrorist groups

Monday, September 3rd, 2007 7:58 pm from  Nick on IT by Nick Galea

German politicians have defended plans to email Trojan horse software to terror suspects in the hopes of monitoring their conversations. The measures have sparked a fierce civil liberties debate. More on http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/03/german_trojan_plan/ An amazingly bad plan by german government too crazy for words. And this only months after an arguably even more ridiculous action by ...

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