So it took around 80 days for the axe to fall at Target.

The person blamed is the CIO, in a letter by the CEO.

I’m hearing a lot of chatter that Target treats their IT department as a cost center, so its interesting how/if this huge security breach, and its repercussions (specially legal), will change DM’s view on IT and specially software security.

Dry article
<a class="colorbox" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104901/target-cio-resigns-following-breach.html”>http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104901/target-cio-resigns-following-breach.html

and some dark (longer security) reading:
<a class="colorbox" href="http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/target-cios-resignation-7-questions/d/d-id/1114161″>http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/target-cios-resignation-7-questions/d/d-id/1114161

I accidentally clicked the “Viber” app button on my phone, and the app started then came up with a page that said “Sticker Marketplace”

Come on Viber? Do you seriously NOT get why “WhatsApp” sold for 19B?

Even though Viber has better technology! Even though the viber calls are better than regular calls...

The reason is of course, that viber calls and texts are so frustrating to use, uh hum, to try to use. Yes, when the calls do work, they are magical and probably sound better than being in the same room. But why do the texts take 4 or 6 minutes to reach and calls just don’t work.

WhatsApp, simply works. I don’t even know when I switched to WhatsApp from Viber. Also, I was not aware how much I used WhatsApp (basically all day, at least once every couple of hours).

Viber, focus on the following in the order:
– text messages that work instantly... Just like Viber
– feature where u choose a person u want to talk to, and viber calls that person and connects you WHEN the network is good enough on both sides
– address book management, simplify it... A button that says “import and sync from address book” would be nice (auto syncing is not working well on my phone)
– perhaps during a call, a button to send photo shot, which only sends a photo

So it took around 80 days for the axe to fall at Target.

The person blamed is the CIO, in a letter by the CEO.

I’m hearing a lot of chatter that Target treats their IT department as a cost center, so its interesting how/if this huge security breach, and its repercussions (specially legal), will change DM’s view on IT and specially software security.

Dry article
<a class="colorbox" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104901/target-cio-resigns-following-breach.html”>http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104901/target-cio-resigns-following-breach.html

and some dark (longer security) reading:
<a class="colorbox" href="http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/target-cios-resignation-7-questions/d/d-id/1114161″>http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/target-cios-resignation-7-questions/d/d-id/1114161

I unfortunately never registered the .net version of the domain name webolize, and a few years ago it (<a class="colorbox" href="http://webolize.net/”>webolize.net) was acquired by a young design company named Webolized in Philadelphia, PA.

As luck would have it, I just registered the name (<a class="colorbox" href="http://webolize.net/”>webolize.net) after finding it has been released.

I accidentally clicked the “Viber” app button on my phone, and the app started then came up with a page that said “Sticker Marketplace”Come on Viber? Do you seriously NOT get why “WhatsApp” sold for 19B?Even though Viber has better technology! Even though the viber calls are better than regular calls...

The reason is of course, that viber calls and texts are so frustrating to use, uh hum, to try to use. Yes, when the calls do work, they are magical and probably sound better than being in the same room. But why do the texts take 4 or 6 minutes to reach and calls just don’t work.

WhatsApp, simply works. I don’t even know when I switched to WhatsApp from Viber. Also, I was not aware how much I used WhatsApp (basically all day, at least once every couple of hours).

Viber, please focus on the following software changes:
– text messages that work instantly... Just like WhatsApp
– feature where u choose a person u want to talk to, and Viber calls that person and connects you WHEN the network is good enough on both sides
– address book management, simplify it... A button that says “import and sync from address book” would be nice (auto syncing is not working well on my phone)
– perhaps during a call, a button to send photo shot, which only sends a photo. Basically video calling, that gracefully degrades video to just intermittently sending pictures while allowing audio.

Thanks, all of you free communication apps out there!