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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.

October 1, 2007 – 06:48
E-Business

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 which store is best for a procrastinating iPhone owner wannabe?

The Apple Palo Alto store had a sizable queue, which isn't surprising after notable technoblogger Scoble began broadcasting from his #1/#2 queue position on Thursday morning. Here is some camera video of the scene:

June 29, 2007 – 06:04
Business & Investing – Personal
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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 firewalls, intrusion detection, I _know_ my machine has never been compromised. I did my own research, including corresponding with their security. Here are my findings. YMMV, but I suspect ot by much.

May 31, 2007 – 04:12
Business & Investing
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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 learned
four tapes were missing, three of which were subsequently

July 29, 2006 – 11:35
Business & Investing
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