http://www.theinternetpatrol.com Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Tue, 13 May 2008 17:45:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Air Force Colonel Charles W. Williamson III has written that the United States faces a growing number of increasingly complex and intricate threats to its military and civilian cyberspace, and that the current methods of defense are unfit for the purpose. If a concerted botnet cyberattack on U.S. military computers ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/air-force-brass-suggests-carpet-bombing-the-internet-with-bot-net-vs-bot-net Here's your chance to tell a superdelegate how to vote! Superdelegates Lauren Wolfe and Awais Khaleel have posted a video on YouTube asking for opinions on how they should vote. Once you've joined the almost 15,000 people who have watched the video you can leave them text or video ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/superdelegates-seek-voting-advice-on-youtube The rise in social networking has created an information management and overload problem for many users known as the "Data Portability" problem. Now a new DataPortability project is aiming to address data portability. The problem starts with authentication, includes having data (profile data, media or otherwise) in several different ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/data-portability-a-move-towards-making-your-personal-and-private-data-work-with-all-social-networking-sites It's almost Mother's Day! Be sure to do something special to either honor your own mother, or a special mother in your life! Uh oh, did you forget? If so, it's not too late, and the Internet can help! Here are three fast ideas! One ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/fast-last-minute-mothers-day-gifts-courtesy-of-the-internet This is a review of the Verizon Glyde - the newest of Verizon cellphones - which some are calling the Verizon iPhone (and technically it's the Samsung u940, and conflated by some as the "Samsung Glyde"). The Glyde is perhaps one of the most eagerly anticipated new Verizon phones ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/a-first-hand-launch-day-verizon-glyde-review-aka-the-samsung-u940 If you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (XP SP3) and either already have, or upgrade to, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), you will never again be able to use IE6. That is the word on Microsoft Developer Network's Internet Explorer blog, where Microsoft have just published an article ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/if-you-install-microsoft-windows-xp-service-pack-3-xp-sp3-you-may-have-to-say-goodbye-to-internet-explorer-7-ie7-forever Imagine our shock to discover that VoIP provider Vonage has turned to comment spamming. Oh, they will probably deny it, but what else can you call it when their Online Marketing Manager, Costas Kariolis, shows up at an article about Skype on the Internet Patrol, and posts a comment about the ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/vonage-caught-red-handed-comment-spamming Service by email of a subpoena does not constitute legal service, yet thousands of CEOs and upper-level executives across the United States have recently been taken in by an unwelcome email in their inbox. The email, claiming to be a Federal subpoena (or, if you're from California, "subpena") from "subpoena@uscourts.com," ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/federal-subpeona-email-hoax-from-subpoenauscourtscom-snares-ceos Starbucks recently rolled out the next phase in their ongoing plan for world coffee domination, over at My Starbucks Idea. The Starbucks My Idea is like a Starbucks blog, hopped up on both Web 2.0 and caffeine, and fuelled by customer suggestions of how to improve Starbucks, on which the ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/starbucks-blog-for-customers-my-starbucks-idea We at the Internet Patrol are always looking for and testing the next "latest and greatest" Internet devices, such as smart phones, PDAs, and, of course, our beloved Sidekick, so that we can report our findings to you. Currently we are testing the Verizon Voyager (the LG VX10000), and specifically we ... http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/verizon-voyage-mobile-email-times-out-with-communication-error