Six days to IPv6 Day; I couldn't care less

  The Long View (Computerworld)

It's World IPv6 Day next week: Wednesday, so just six days to go. Is it important to enterprises? Perhaps, but not for the reason most people believe. We're told that addresses are running out fast, but that's not really true. Let's think about this, in The Long View...
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Is Email Dead? Or Just Pinin’ for the Fjords?

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No, email’s neither dead, deceased, nor demised. But neither is it, as Monty Python’s Michael Palin would have said, homesick for the geographical features of its native Norway. You don’t need me to tell you that email is alive and well inside your organization. Beautiful plumage.

But some would say it’s too alive. In many organizations, email is used as a dumping ground for information that doesn’t belong there; email can also be used for certain collaborative tasks for which it’s simply not suited.

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Everything You Know about Spam Filters is Wrong

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Filtering spam email is all about looking in the content of the message, trying to find certain dodgy words or phrases, right? Well... no. Not so much. While that was certainly true in the email Dark Ages of ten years ago, today’s filters are completely different.

Spam filters need to sift through your incoming email stream and automatically decide which are spam and which are legitimate—or ham. It’s a tremendously difficult job to get right; to reach today’s levels of filter accuracy, anti-spam technologists over the years have invested huge amounts of financial and intellectual capital.

To decode the mysteries, read on...

Several Strategic Platform Challenges Ahead

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In my new blog, Mobility Matters, I want to concentrate on the crossover between mobile platforms and enterprise collaboration. MM will discuss how today’s mobile platforms can be employed for truly enterprise tasks, including supporting mobile sales forces, mobile customers, and improving commuters’ productivity. Whether it’s IT-provided or bring-your-own-device, you’ll find it here.

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JCPenney's Google spamming: Don't let it happen to you

  The Long View (Computerworld)

You may have seen the news over the weekend that the uber-retailer JCPenney was slapped on the wrist by Google. It would appear that the store's been boosting its position in search results, via some nefarious practices. Could this happen to your employer? Yes! How can IT people help protect their marketing department from making a similar mistake? Find out in The Long View...

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How should we pronounce "Nokia" anyway?

  The Long View (Computerworld)

So this morning, I made a crack about how Nokia CEO Stephen Elop doesn't even know how to correctly say his own company name. Seems like not everyone agrees with me. Let's have a pointless, Friday debate, in The Long View...

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How NOT to cut code like Facebook

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Facebook's shiny new, radical, "ground-breaking" Messages functionality is seriously, badly broken. Say it ain't so, Richi! Sadly, it is, as you'll discover in today's episode of The Long View...

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You can't stop employees' free speech on Facebook

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Employers: it's not legal for you to restrict what employees say about you on Facebook, or other Internet venues. So says the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), after settling a lawsuit with American Medical Response of Connecticut Inc. Let's examine the implications, in The Long View...

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Mozy's PR disaster: the curse of the all-you-can-eat service

  The Long View (Computerworld)

All you can eat! It's an attractive business model, whether you're an Internet service or an ethnic restaurant. But if you're providing an "unlimited" service, what do you do if it's costing you too much to provide? What if, like EMC's Mozy, people are using it more than you'd expected? I have some ideas, in The Long View...
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Avoid huge CAN-SPAM fines, don't be like Virgin Blue

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Australian airline Virgin Blue was recently fined more than US$100,000 for spamming. What did it do? It failed to unsubscribe people who requested removal from the mailing list. How can you prevent it happening to you? Let's find out, in The Long View...

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Nokia X7-00 canceled: death-march journey continues

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Richi's Rant: Surprise-surprise, the Nokia death-march continues. The Nokia X7 (aka X7-00 aka Journey) has been canceled in the U.S. market. Nokia's blaming AT&T, but this looks like another famous Finnish fail. Let's see what's up, in The Long View...
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Keep Your Newsletter out of Spam Traps

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So you've put your newsletter together and submitted it to the email gods for delivery. But how many of those messages will actually make it through to people's inboxes? Let's talk deliverability.

Really fast broadband DOESN'T require Gigabit Ethernet

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Yesterday, Michael Horowitz described an author's disappointing upgrade to Comcast's 50 Mbit/s cable broadband service. Scott Mueller (pictured) only got half the throughput he expected. Was that because his router didn't support Gigabit Ethernet? Or are there other reasons? Let's see, in The Long View...

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Verizon iPhone 4 -- pros and cons for business use

  The Long View (Computerworld)

The much-ancipated Verizon iPhone 4 will be with us any day now. But how useful could it be for enterprises? That depends on these six aspects, says Richi Jennings.
So it's finally announced: the Verizon iPhone 4 is coming. But is it in the slightest bit interesting for enterprise users? Or is it just a consumer product? Let's analyze the pros and cons, in The Long View...

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Microsoft shows how to mis-manage email loss

  The Long View (Computerworld)

What can we learn from the recent Hotmail data loss? How can you prevent a similar problem in your organization's enterprise email system?
You may have heard that Microsoft's Hotmail service lost the email of more than 17,000 users last week -- including small businesses who rely on Hotmail, many of whom pay for the privilege. What can enterprise IT shops learn from this experience? How can you prevent a similar multi-day outage in your organization? Let's discuss, in The Long View...

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