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Tara Brabazon: Information Obesity – MDX Play

Sharif Al Motawally — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:08:59 +0000

Tara Brabazon offers a striking look at information obesity. An analogy she uses with great insight and accuracy to demonstrate the state of academic information intake. I think the same applies to business and even the public information consumption.

Source: Middlsex University Play (MDX Play): Tara Brabazon final – MDX Play.

The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM

Sharif Al Motawally — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:50:46 +0000

Social Media Globetrotter has an excellent article on the now emerging concept of Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management). This is clearly becoming a new powerful paradigm for CRM by applying social networking concepts.

More at the Source The Evolution of CRM to Social CRM.

MobileApps Academy

Sharif Al Motawally — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:34:25 +0000

Do you have an idea for a mobile application that is innovative, commercially viable and relevant to the Middle East market?

The MobileApps Academy organized by ITIDA and Vodafone, is the right programme for young entrepreneurs like you who want to make it into the world of Mobile Apps.

via MobileApps Academy.

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

Sharif Al Motawally — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:49:22 +0000

Visit the excellent Security Blog By Dr. Eric Cole of McAfee. He delves deep into Advanced Persistent Threats and explains what to do and what not to do to counter these threats.

“APT, the Advanced Persistent Threat, is the buzz word that everyone is using. Companies are concerned about it, the government is being compromised by it and consultants are using it in every presentation they give.

One of the main reasons organizations are broken into today is because they are fixing the wrong vulnerabilities. If you fix the threats of three years ago, you will lose. APT allows organizations to focus on the real threats that exist today.”

via McAfee Security Insights Blog » Blog Archive » Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).

Common Email Sending Mistakes

Sharif Al Motawally — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:30:48 +0000

When sending a message to more than 3 people especially if they do not know each other, please put everyone in the BCC field instead of TO or CC. This way no one will see the other recipients’ emails.

Also if you receive a message that includes compelling well-crafted information asking you to forward to all your friends 99.999% of the time it is a fake or a hoax.

Most likely it has originally been sent by spyware, virus and spam writers to collect people addresses. When you forward it to everyone, this message contains all of our addresses as well as the addresses of previously forwarded people.

If one of the recipients has a virus or spyware program, it will collect all of those precious valid and verified email addresses and send them to the virus owner. They will sell it to spammers. and spam all your friends and you too.

So please make sure to ask an expert first about these messages before sending to everyone you know.

A Simplified View of The Open Source Business Model

Sharif Al Motawally — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:01:33 +0000

Paul Ramsey Provides a wonderfully simple view of the open source business model. Watch the great video:

10 Reasons CIOs Will Get Fired This Year — InformationWeek

Sharif Al Motawally — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:23:54 +0000

The business world has changed fundamentally, but some CIOs cling to the past. And the price they’ll pay is losing their jobs.

By Bob Evans

InformationWeek

via Global CIO: 10 Reasons CIOs Will Get Fired This Year — InformationWeek.

Google Stops Using Windows Internally due to security concerns

Sharif Al Motawally — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:55:05 +0000

According to the Financial Times:

“Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally.”

More at the source via FT.com / Technology – Google ditches Windows on security concerns.

Ninite Easy PC Setup – Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once

Sharif Al Motawally — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:32:49 +0000

Ninite.com is a great web service that batch Install multiple apps at once without toolbars or clicking Next. No Toolbars and other junk. No Clicking Ninite automates installers offscreen. Ninite installs the best version of an app for your PC 32 and 64-bit. Ninite installs apps in your PC’s language. No manual labor means. Installs finish quickly. And it is free. They do have a pro version but the free one is more than most will need.

Ninite Pro has even more features. Learn more

via Ninite Easy PC Setup – Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once.

Sudo for Windows | Get Sudo for Windows at SourceForge.net

Sharif Al Motawally — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:41:00 +0000

Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user’s profile and ownership of created objects. And it’s free, opensource, and works

via Sudo for Windows | Get Sudo for Windows at SourceForge.net.