2007-10-01
Adobe Share out in beta
Adobe Share service lets you store and share documents online. To test the service, I tried to use the embed feature to share a short story. Unfortunately, my Drupal blog filters some of the crucial tags, even using the "full HTML" setting.
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2007-06-29
iPhone Mania hits Palo Alto
Steve Jobs said people should queue up at an AT&T store for an iPhone, and he was mostly right. Well past midnight on Thursday, Jenn and I did a tour of the three stores around Palo Alto that will sell the iPhone: the Apple retail stores in Palo Alto and the Stanford Shopping Center, and the AT&T store at Page Mill Rd & El Camino Real. Guess ...
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2007-05-31
More on leak of e-mails from Ameritrade
I closed commenting on my previous Ameritrade post, but I'm still receiving e-mails from customers annoyed by spam traced to Ameritrade. Just received an e-mail that suggests the possible vulnerability.
Hi Bill,
A lot of rumors and speculations are flying. Most are 'slashdot quality', I've been a customer of both Ameritrade (before the merger) and TD-Waterhouse. I always give out unique addresses. I run Linux, two ...
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2006-07-29
TD Ameritrade data definitely compromised
In April 2005, Ameritrade reported that several tapes with customer information were lost. From an article on the incident:
The company discovered the loss in February when it received a damaged package containing a number of backup tapes shipped from its secure facilities in the U.S. Katrina Becker, an Ameritrade spokeswoman, said the shipping company caused the damage to the package. Ameritrade immediately launched an investigation and ...
2005-11-14
Audible Wordcast: Hijacking Podcasts?
Last weekend, Audible unveiled their Wordcast system for tracking spoken word downloads. It’s an innovative system that packages hosting, support, and most importantly, a system that supplies a number of tools and metrics necessary to advertisers—dynamic ad insertion, measuring how many people actually heard the ads, relaying where they stop listening, etc. It’s a system that’s technically not possible with MP3 because it requires ...
