Researchers have demonstrated a new way to hide secret messages in internet traffic that can elude even vigilant network operators. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/28/tcp_steganography/

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The U.S. must preserve an open Internet in order to bring the full benefit of broadband to rural areas, a Federal Communications Commission report on rural broadband said. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133580

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Open-source software gives smaller companies access to enterprise IT tools — without paying enterprise IT prices. And no IT vendor illustrates this trend better than Kickfire. http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/05/opensource_data.html

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I also found performance on this widget to be a tad sluggish. It doesn’t provide the instant feedback you get in the browser. For instance, clicking on my source list of feeds and seeing them appear took about two or three seconds. The same goes for any time you drill down to see any feed’s [...]

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Data center managers speaking on a panel at Interop Las Vegas 2009 told session attendees that they look for energetic, passionate and eager-to-learn candidates to fill current positions rather than IT professionals with specialized skills. Among the reasons cited by the two panelists were a greater need for a broad set of skills, including facilities [...]

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Google Inc. will add scripting capabilities to Google Docs, allowing organizations to customize its online applications and automate tasks, the company said Wednesday. Google plans to sign up about 1,000 customers over the next few weeks to test the feature, called Google Apps Script. It isn’t saying yet when Apps Script will be widely available. [...]

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One of the things I said I’d try and write about are various features that you will see upcoming…and I’ve kind of touched on this before in the “What, no tornados?” entry, specifically Parallel Patching. http://blogs.sun.com/chrisarmes/entry/parallel_patching_for_solaris_10

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The company said that Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable and that Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are not vulnerable. The flaw could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code by convincing or duping a user to open a specially crafted QuickTime media file or to [...]

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Worldwide server sales suffered a 25 percent drop in the first quarter, hitting their lowest level in at least 12 years, according to a new report from market tracker IDC. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10250959-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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Google has begun supporting a new HTML feature to show video in its Chrome browser as an alternative to Adobe Systems’ much more widely used Flash, but the technology overall remains rough around the edges. The support comes in Chrome 3.0.182.2, a developer preview version that on Wednesday inaugurated work on the 3.0 generation of [...]

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