From NSIS WikiNSIS Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.
via NSIS Wiki.
Primus
Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (PTGi) provides advanced communication services to residential, business and carrier customers around the globe. From traditional voice services to VOIP, and broadband to data center services, we bring sophisticated solutions to residential, small and medium business, enterprise, and multinational business customers all with a focus on integrity, innovation, and the highest level of customer commitment.
Via Primus.
VoIP – EdgeAccess Transition Technology
EdgeAccess is a recognized leader in advanced voice over internet protocol, VoIP solutions where integrated functionality and bandwidth efficiency are critical – Mobile and Fixed Solutions that provide responsive communications and essential services, manageable by graphic user interface (GUI).
ISATAP
ISATAP (Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol) is an IPv6 transition mechanism meant to transmit IPv6 packets between dual-stack nodes on top of an IPv4 network.
Unlike 6over4 (an older similar protocol using IPv4 multicast), ISATAP uses IPv4 as a virtual nonbroadcast multiple-access network (NBMA) data link layer, so that it does not require the underlying IPv4 network infrastructure to support multicast.
via ISATAP – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
How ISATAP works
ISATAP defines a method for generating a link-local IPv6 address from an IPv4 address, and a mechanism to perform Neighbor Discovery on top of IPv4.
Edge Series Adaptive NAC Systems
Edge10G solution is the industry’s first 10Gig Adaptive Network Access Control (Adaptive NAC) appliance that provides identity-based access to the network, controlling access at the edge via granular policies and continuous enforcement for 10Gig networks. With 10x the speed, you can also deploy the Edge10G as a Top Of Rack security solution.
via Milton Security Group – Edge Series Adaptive NAC Systems.
DNS-Based Service Discovery
This document specifies how DNS resource records are named and structured to facilitate service discovery. Given a type of service that a client is looking for, and a domain in which the client is looking for that service, this allows clients to discover a list of named instances of that desired service, using standard DNS queries. This is referred to as DNS-based Service Discovery, or DNS-SD.
via. http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd.txt
Urban Airship
Urban Airship was launched in May of 2009. Steven Osborn had been tasked with implementing a backend system for push and in-app purchase for a popular gaming company. While developing the solution, he discovered how resource-intensive the project was. He realized that if he could devote the time, energy, and money to create the perfect solution, he could provide a valuable product for other smart phone app developers. Osborn reached out to former colleagues Scott Kveton, Adam Lowry, and Michael Richardson and the seed of the new company was planted.
An Android smartphone has been trying to use port 1237 to contact this outfit. I will open up that port and see what’s going on.
Update 10/17/2012: Quite a few random wifi platforms contact this company using this port with a very short TCP session.
NGINX, Inc.
NGINX™ is a high performance edge web server with the lowest memory footprint and the key features to build modern and efficient web infrastructure.
Today NGINX is the 2nd most popular open source web server on the Internet.
via NGINX, Inc..
HBGary’s high-volume astroturfing technology and the Feds who requested it
This time, it’s internal emails detailing the creation of “persona management” software to simplify the process of pretending to be several people at once online, in order simulate widespread support for a point of view — astroturfing automation software. The software appears to have been developed in response to a federal government solicitation seeking automated tools for astroturfing message boards in foreign countries.
via HBGary’s high-volume astroturfing technology and the Feds who requested it – Boing Boing.
This allowed the human actor to open a virtual machine or thumb drive with an associated persona and have all the appropriate email accounts, associations, web pages, social media accounts, etc. pre-established and configured with visual cues to remind the actor which persona he/she is using so as not to accidentally cross-contaminate personas during use…
An Excerpt From “Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets”
Over lunch in San Francisco, Hariharan, dapper in a stylish sport coat, starts by telling me all the reasons he loved his job, especially the opportunity to take part in sprawling, complex projects. Sure, the pace was grinding, the hours crazy. One team, he recounts, worked for 110 hours per week for nine months straight. But “everyone believed they were making something important.”
Hariharan says his attitude began to sour after Lucasfilm completed a particularly ambitious project. The very next day, he says, shaking his head, executives came in and “fired almost everyone.” These were employees who hadn’t had a day off in months. “People were running around the office,” says Hariharan, whose own job was not affected. “They were running around crying. It was a bad sight.”
This linked to article is just an excerpt but still a fascinating read.