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You can’t spend more than five minutes on the Internet these days without bumping into the term Software as a Service (SaaS). As software licensing gets more expensive and budgetary belt-tightening becomes a necessity, companies are turning to SaaS as a way to save money, but some CTOs worry about its reliability. As with with most evolving technology, people either love SaaS or hate it. Meet Amy Wohl. She loves it.

You can save big bucks on small items like cables. This month the best price for four items I bought came from - surprise - Amazon.com and its affiliates.

Firefox fans take note: A just-released report from the security company Secunia found that Firefox is far more vulnerable than Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer --- and by a wide margin. In 2008, it had nearly four times as many vulnerabilities as each of those browsers.

In a special IT Blogwatch Extra, Richi Jennings watches bloggers debate the carbon footprint of spam and spam filtering. Not to mention another Photoshop disaster...

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In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the AmazonFail, and asks how this could have happened and what could be done to prevent it. Not to mention Facebook pages we'd like to see...

Given President Barack Obama's adoration for social media, it should come as no surprise the U.S. military is formulating a plan of attack (so to speak) on how federal and local agencies can use Web 2.0 tools. It looks like Uncle Sam is coming to a YouTube channel near you.

Last week I wrote about how rules of social networking are beginning to evolve as more people incorporate LinkedIn, Facebook, and the like into their personal and professional lives. Though I was merely looking at why and how these rules are emerging, some commenters wanted to know more about the rules themselves and I'm happy to oblige.

After working with the latest versions of all three of the major browsers the winner is still Firefox. Here's why.

After reviewing the pros and cons of the Magic Jack voice over IP service recently, users of the device chimed in with comments of their own. I can't substantiate these claims, since I don't have the device myself, but I've shared them below for discussion and comment.

Some readers bring up new issues; others offer workarounds for the ones I brought up last time.

Here's a summary of comments by users of Magic Jack:

In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Michael Mooney exploit cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Twitter. Not to mention LOL-Cat Face...

According to Major League Baseball, you can only watch MLB.com's baseball games on Windows or a Mac. Wrong. You can now watch your favorite team -- go Cubs! -- on most Linux desktops as well.

A hacked Twitter account is the modern-day version of a brick through the front window of your business; it makes a mess and is off-putting for customers. Twitter has fairly good security measures in place but once in a while, hackers sneak through anyway.

This company's main manufacturing plant is located in the sometimes frigid North, while another plant is in a place where it gets cold enough to snow only once every few years.

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers fear for the safety of the U.S. electrical grid in the face of hostile hackers. Not to mention Penelope Cruz necked...

Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, calls those who aggregate others' content "parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet," according to a report in the Australian.