4 posts and columns on Vint Cerf

What Can I Say, Mr. Zuckerberg? Your Name Just Never Came Up.

in News on November 8, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, not Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, is the most influential IT personality of the past quarter-century. This according to a survey of IT professionals conducted by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Asked to list the most influential tech personalities of the last 25 years, 84% of respondents listed Gates, and [...]

It's Not a PayPal Mockery. It's a 'Person-to-Person, Stored-Value Payments Celebration'

in News on June 14, 2007 at 10:39 am PT

It’s Not a PayPal Mockery. It’s a ‘Person-to-Person, Stored-Value Payments Celebration’

in News on June 14, 2007 at 10:39 am PT

Better to Have a Botnet in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy!

in News on June 14, 2007 at 12:06 am PT

Vint Cerf wasn’t kidding when he warned attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last year that the Internet is at serious risk from botnets. These vast networks of compromised PCs–used by criminals for sending spam and spyware and for launching denial-of-service attacks–are a very real and quickly evolving problem. To wit, the [...]