IBM Shuts Down UDDI Business Registry

November 13th, 2004 I would like to point you to a very thoughtful blog entry on the current state of UDDI at Loosely Coupled Weblog A very critical observation in The Atom End Game on the role of standards body - they should only be defining standards. Their job is to tabulate what works and what doesn't.

December 31st, 2005 Users reported experiencing odd browser behavior after installing the most recent security update which has been identified as being caused by a registry key. Problem: Some reported opening a browser window that promptly hangs IE, others have reported opening links that render blank.

May 17th, 2006 Blue Security came with an innovative solution to target spammers - by spamming them with opt-out requests. It worked surprisingly well and spammer's were naturally not happy.

August 16th, 2005 For mission-critical applications, the process of automating business policies, procedures, and business logic is often better managed by leveraging a Business Rule Engine. Using business rules can help you develop more agile applications with shorter time-to-market.

July 27th, 2006 Andy Patrizio learned the hard way that Windows Genuine Advantage can be a disadvantage in disguise and all without any fault of his own. Such cases apparently flies in the face of Microsoft assertion that only a handful of genuine false positives have been identified.

October 21st, 2005 This tip comes from Pete Freitag: Always, always set autocomplete="off" in the input tag. For example: <input type="text" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /&rt; Otherwise, if people have the form completion feature turned on their credit card number will be stored in plain text somewhere on the computer (in the registry, or elsewhere).

February 6th, 2009 Beep! Beep! Oh! not that beep again. God save you from those ridiculous sounds for trifle CPU errors.

October 4th, 2005 India’s global image and reputation is rapidly growing. Top Internet decision makers, PIR, have decided to make India a hub for the technical backend of all new websites, a move that is expected to significantly reduce time to resolve websites.

September 19th, 2006 "Hi there, I am a brithsh businessman and I contact you for a business proposal. I want to to be my co-worker.

July 18th, 2005 From the start of July, PIR (Public Interest Registry) will provide domain-name sellers with a $5 rebate for every domain they sell in Latin America and India. The cost to registrars is $6 per domain per year, and they are usually sold for a few extra dollars to consumers.

September 19th, 2008 Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to.

May 9th, 2005 Oscarbot(aka Doyorg), an windows only Trojan, continued to spread on Monday among America Online instant messaging clients. It installs backdoor on the infected PC when users click on a link within lines like "hey check out this" or "i thought youd wanna see this" from a buddy on their AIM contact list.

April 21st, 2008 Here is a LinkedIn invitation I received from Elvis Ata (elvisata2001@yahoo.cn): Elvis Ata requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: Angsuman, DEAREST ONE PERMIT ME TO INFORM YOU OF MY DESIRE OF GOING INTO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.FOR THIS SIMPLE AND SINCERE BUSINESS. I AM ELVIS ATA THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR THOMAS ATA, MY FATHER WAS A VERY WEALTHY COCOA MERCHANT IN BOUAKE COTE DIVOIRE, BEFORE HE WAS SHOT BY THE REBELS ON ONE OF THEIR OUTING TO DISCUSS ON A BUSINESS.

June 28th, 2006 Google is pledging to demystify the hidden workings of its search engine while refocussing on its core business. Google admitted that it has come to be perceived as overly secretive in the way it collects and orders information.

July 21st, 2006 Austin Energy isn't using any business process management (BPM) suite, but it is realizing business process improvements as part of its enterprisewide service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative. Two years in the making, the SOA initiative is helping the $1 billion electric utility integrate and leverage disparate legacy systems.