ANTenna Blog -- Matthew McKenzie

Matthew McKenzie covers open source issues for bMighty.com. For more than a decade, he has followed the fast-moving world of Open Source software, open standards and the Internet as an open publishing platform. In the 1990s, as an editor and analyst for Seybold Publications, McKenzie tracked the evolution of the Web as it reshaped -- and revolutionized -- the publishing industry.

In 1997, McKenzie relocated to San Francisco, to serve as Seybold Publications' West Coast Editor and as a planner/content creator for Seybold Seminars' annual publishing-industry conferences. He subsequently worked as an editor and educator for a number of prominent print and online publications, including CNET, PC World, AllBusiness.com and Computerworld.com.

More recently, McKenzie served as an editor for TechWeb's Pipeline sites, launching the company's Developer Pipeline and as editor of Linux Pipeline; he contributed to other TechWeb publications, including InformationWeek.com and NetworkComputing.com. Today, he continues to apply his experience as a journalist, industry analyst and professional cynic to topics including Linux, open-source software and computing technologies and open Internet and IT industry standards.

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Remote Assistance Thriller: Dial "S" For "Scam"

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:51 PM ET | Dec 16, 2009

A new scam involving remote support software recently surfaced in the United Kingdom. Before you snicker at just how gullible the victims appear to be, ask yourself whether your company's PCs are vulnerable to precisely this sort of attack.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Networking & Communications | Security | Windows

Tape-Based Storage: Not Dead Yet!

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 07:38 PM ET | Dec 16, 2009

Is tape dying as a long-term storage medium? It depends upon whom you ask -- although it is significant that this is even an open question.

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Backup | Disaster Recovery | Government | Hardware & Software | IT | Storage

Project Honey Pot: Over One Billion Spammers Served

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 07:02 PM ET | Dec 16, 2009

This week, Project Honey Pot identified its one billionth spam message. Find out what it has learned from that torrent of junk email -- and what you can do to make its efforts to stop spam even more successful.

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Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Messaging | Security | Web 2.0

Remote Access Security Is Everyone's Business

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 11:28 PM ET | Dec 11, 2009

A seedy little story involving some luckless restaurateurs, Romanian hackers, and a ham-fisted software reseller might not sound relevant to your small business. Think again.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | IT | Security

EMC Serves Up Life In The FAST Lane

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 09:38 PM ET | Dec 11, 2009

EMC has been promising great things for its new storage-tiering technology. Now we'll get to see how it plays with the company's customers.

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Dell Revamps Its Ubuntu-Ready Desktop Lineup

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:21 PM ET | Dec 11, 2009

Dell is once again beefing up its Linux-ready offerings -- including one that the company bills as the "world's smallest fully functional commercial desktop PC."

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Company Size: 1-49 | Open Source | SMB Vendor News

E-Mail Client Software Finally Gets A Kick In The Pants

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 11:19 PM ET | Dec 9, 2009

The early reviews for Thunderbird 3 are rolling in, and most of them give Mozilla's updated email client a big thumbs up. Whether business users will notice is another matter entirely.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web | Messaging

Remote Access: Insurance Against Flu Season Woes

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:17 PM ET | Dec 8, 2009

Worried that a flu outbreak will put your small business on life support? A remote access solution can help to keep affected workers productive -- while also keeping them safely at home.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Disaster Recovery | IT | Mobile | Software-as-a-Service

Getting Up Close And Personal With Google Chrome

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 05:08 PM ET | Dec 7, 2009

Want to take a closer look at the work in progress that is Google's Chrome OS? A new InformationWeek hands-on preview is worth a closer look.

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Cloud Computing | Internet/Web | Open Source | Software-as-a-Service | Web 2.0

Surviving The Business Data Tidal Wave

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:43 PM ET | Dec 7, 2009

Can technology alone enable your company to stay ahead of its data storage demands? In many cases, the answer appears to be no.

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