InfoWorld has an excellent set of reports on how to “Build your business with open source”, with overviews of products in categories including CRM, CMS, business intelligence, business process management, portals, VOIP, and identity. We’re  huge advocates of open source…

TagCloud is a new folksonomy tool that “searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds.” This is useful because you can quickly see what tags are…

There’s a discussion on Slashdot about the potential for disruption in the operating system marketplace, especially Windows, as more applications can be ported to the Web using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). The consensus seems to be that AJAX doesn’t threaten…

Apparently there’s been an announcement about tighter editorial controls being implemented by the founders of Wikipedia, one of my favorite Internet resources. The point of a wiki is to enable anyone to edit any content as they wish, creating information that…

At DefCon 13, Alex Stamos of iSec Partners gave a very interesting talk entitled “Attacking Web Services”.  In summary, there are currently three known web service attack techniques: Injecting XML into an input box, overwriting tags set earlier in the SOAP…

DefCon (http://www.defcon.org) is a large annual hacking conference that attracts corporate security personnel, federal agents, and of course, hackers.  DefCon is significant since hackers use DefCon as a forum to unveil security vulnerabilities in tools and utilities we use daily.  The first…

I started using Forecastfox some time ago and absolutely love it. It’s a little Firefox extension that shows the current and forecast weather conditions wherever you wish in the browser. Until the latest version, the weather data came from Weather.com but…

TCG has a bunch of staff spread across the country. This presents a number of technical challenges for data security and corporate data integrity. We’ve put in place measures such as our VPN, which has created an internal “LAN” that’s proving very…

At company meetings and email discussions, we realized that we had many opinions and ideas that we simply kept to ourselves.  Therefore, TCG has decided to open a corporate blog so that we could share our thoughts on our areas of…