July 17, 2007
Microsoft Hotmap puzzler
Seattle Post Intelligencer
During the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, a Microsoft researcher demonstrated his Hotmap project.
“He said he had figured out why there’s such high traffic for the maps of that place in the world, and he asked the academics in the audience to guess. Several of them immediately knew the answer. But I’ll refrain from giving it away for now, and offer it up as a puzzle, just for fun. Feel free to take a guess in the comments. No fair answering if you were there.”
Zero-day auction site
Tech Target
The eBay-like marketplace for zero-day flaws, will make it tougher for companies to ward off attackers.
“Ernie Hayden, the CISO of the Port of Seattle, said the site is a money making venture that will only make it easier for attack code to fall into sinister hands.”
Invitation for an invite
Turbo blog
Todd Watson is in his 15th year with IBM. He began his career working on two software magazines, for which he wrote on a variety of business technology topics before joining IBM’s Internet division in 1995.
“How badly did they hate their current carrier? So badly they were willing to make the switch, pay the $200 fine, do not pass go, etc…Was that the new AT&T or the new Apple? In any case….Speaking of cell carriers, congratulation to us for the $53M deal we signed to help deploy and maintain India-based IDEA Cellular’s interactive voice response (IVR) system.”