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Full story: WordPress 2.1.2 – Essential upgrade
If you use WordPress version 2.1.1, a dangerous security breach in that version has been discovered. The announcement came late yesterday: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. […] No downloads were altered except 2.1.1, so if you’ve downloaded any version of 2.0 you should be fine. When a software alert includes the…
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Full story: The Telegraph’s continuing re-invention
Get your daily business TV news update from your newspaper, not the TV. The newspaper’s website, that is. BrandRepublic reports on moves by the Telegraph Media Group to extend into the broadcasting business: [… Telegraph Media Group] has created a daily business programme, called The Business Show, which will launch on Monday (5 March). The programme, which will run for between four and five minutes, will be available from lunchtime every day at telegraph.co.uk and will be presented by The…
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Full story: Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 2-Mar-07
34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog Cameron launches conventional blog Candidates Get TheirTube Computer glitch exacerbates Dow Jones plunge Hard disk test ‘surprises’ Google HP execs: Spy scandal was ethical wake-up call Is PR in the Spin, Wash, or Rinse Cycle? Lenovo recalls 205,000 batteries McDonald’s puts faith in staff as brand voice Oracle to pay $3.3bn for Hyperion Podtech.net: the dark horse of the new media pack PRWeek opens its website RatFest! Co-locating brands doesn’t pay off…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #219: March 1, 2007
Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; come to the New Communications Forum in Las Vegas next week; still time to take the SNCR survey; Dan York reports from the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony conference; PR Junction podcast debuts; the arrogance of JetBlue’s communicators; IBM in the news: offering corporate jamming, piping Google gadgets into company websites, innovation in Second Life; real speech coming to Second Life; Forrester study in marketing agency integration; David Phillips reports; Tech Tip: RSS good practice…
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Full story: A first skirmish in the digital media war
A major kerfuffle has broken out in the UK between Virgin Media and satellite broadcaster BSkyB, with customers of both services losing out as the ham in the metaphorical sandwich. At midnight last night, a deadline expired for both companies to come to an agreement on licensing rights and fees for Virgin to include some of Sky’s content in the range of TV channels included in Virgin’s cable service. No agreement was reached, so Sky pulled the plug on all…











