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by David Strom
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Free Airport and in-Flight Wifi thanks to Google

From now until January 15, 2010, Google will offer free wireless access in more than 45 different airports around the US, and in all …
Making the cloud more enterprise-friendly

Here are ways to make cloud computing enterprise friendly.
100,000 apps on the iPhone milestone

Yes, there are more than 100k apps now available on the iPhone. But useful apps? Sponge-worthy apps? Apps that you will use more than …
Five important Windows 7 mobility features

While the marketing phrase "It doesn't suck as much as Vista" isn't probably top-of-mind in Redmond, Windows 7 does have some things that …
eReader battles will be all about their software

Software is where the eReader battles will be fought and run. And while it is encouraging that Barnes and Noble and Sony have entered the …
Thirty years of spreadsheets

It was 30 years ago this week that the first electronic spreadsheet began shipping. Here are some things to put that event into context, …
Is email dying?

David and Dave Piscitello both take issue with a recent Wall Street Journal article that says email is on the way out.
Forget the new Pepsi Amp Up iPhone App

Pepsi and energy drink maker Amp delivered a controversial iPhone app this week that has some people in a snit.
How to extract your LinkedIn contacts

A new service from Open Xchange allows you to both import and export your contacts and collaborate on calendars and documents across the …
Behind the scenes at the Cisco AXP Contest

Cisco's contest to develop applications for a new Linux-based module drew contestants from all over the world.

Internet Security: Patch your apps now!

Unpatched applications are the real threat

By David Strom

A third independent researcher submitted the same vulnerability on May 19, 2008. All three submissions outlined different approaches of auditing and finding the same vulnerability."

TippingPoint reported that vulnerabilities that were more than two years old were still waiting for patches.

I am a freelance writer, publication manager, and professional speaker on networking and communications topics. Written two books and countless magazine articles, with topics ranging all over networking, Internet applications and including practical tools and ways to be more productive. You can read more of my work over on strominator.com and webinformant.tv, both Web sites that I maintain.