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- Microsoft builds out its first containerized datacenter
- James Hamilton, one of the all-star architects on the Microsoft Windows Live Core team, has been a champion of using modular datacenter containers to build out datacenters. On April 1, Microsoft announced publicly its plans to build a completely containerized production data center. The company made the...
- Tags: Data Center, Microsoft Corp., Hamilton, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Tragedy: Commercial developer reports 35% of coding time spent on IE/FireFox incompatibilities
- Asynchronous Javascript and XML programming -- otherwise known as AJAX -- may be bringing an entire new level of interactivity to today's Web applications often bringing otherwise lifeless user interfaces to life. But it's also apparently wreaking havoc on developer productivity. While at the Enterprise 2.0 conference today, I...
- Tags: Web technology, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Stamford CT cuts tech in schools
- When middle schools administrators set their budgets for the year, technology often loses out to reading and math. The Stamford CT Advocate reports that the Stamford Board of Education got an earful of complaints recently when middle school teachers protested cuts in applied sciences, including computing. "I implore you,...
- Tags: education, Hamilton
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- YouTube's most wanted
- Could YouTube become a useful tool in the fight against crime? A police officer in Canada thinks so, and has posted a surveillance video onto the site in an appeal for information.The New York Times reports:When Detective Sergeant Jorge Lasso of Hamilton, Ontario, wanted to circulate a surveillance video while...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Hamilton
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Comic relief - courtesy of customer service
- After spending all week on benchmarks and the Mactel disaster, I need some comic relief. Be warned, however, that you should feel distinctly bad about yourself if you do laugh - at least, I laughed until it hurt and then felt very guilty for doing it. On the "socially redeeming...
- Tags: customer service, Hamilton, Kelona
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
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- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
- The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft
- Hamilton "Hammett" Verissimo, the founder of the open-source Castle Project, is joining Microsoft on August 11 as a program manager on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework MEF team. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, .Net, Open Source, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- NASA's lunar breathing system
- When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...
- Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Intel releases 2.5 GHz, 45nm 'Yorkfield' Core 2 Quad processor
- In today's news, Intel has released a new sibling of the 45nm family of Core 2 Quad processors: the Q9300 "Yorkfield" processor, which comes in at 2.5 GHz with a 1333 MHz front side bus. The new chip breaks down like this: You get a faster front...
- Tags: Quad Processor, Overclocking, Intel Corp., Q9300, Blogging, Processors, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Trigence - datacenter application virtualization
- John Hamilton, EVP and Chief Operating Officer of Trigence, and I had a long discusion about application virtualization recently. One of the more challenging issues for suppliers of application virtualization technology is that there are many competitors each presenting different types of technology and this leaves many organizations feeling confused....
- Tags: Application, Data Center, Environment, Application Virtualization, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Just two words: Green plastics. Think about it.
- Why do many of the green tech stories I wind up cover have some sort of moral dilemma involved? I mean, come on, plastics have gotten a rap as one of the most heinous substances I our daily lives. According to the subject of this latest...
- Tags: Plastics, Novomer, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- New Microsoft job site highlights consumer-focused openings
- Microsoft has launched a new recruitment site aimed at recent college and MBA grads, called "View My World." The most interesting thing about the site is the types of jobs Microsoft is highlighting there. Openings on the Xbox, Zune, Silverlight, Windows Live and Windows Mobile teams get...
- Tags: Job, Microsoft Corp., Site, Staffing Manager Heather Hamilton, Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Hey, Skype Developers: Free BBQ, Drinks on Skype this Thursday!
- Yes, really. And if you are a Skype Developer, NOT the general public you are invited. Especially if you are willing to see demos and give feedback. It's true that proportionately, very few of you are Skype...
- Tags: Developer, Beverage, Skype Technologies S.A., Business Structures, Food & Beverage, Finance, Manufacturing, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Today's Debate: Ban cell phones from hospitals?
- Today's Debate: Ban cell phones from hospitals?Improve Hospital MachinesI would hope that the medical companies could figure out a way to shild their machines from such devices. Even if you ban cell phones, as small as they are now, some folks forget they are turned on. I would...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, hospital, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Blue
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- The false choice of a la carte TV
- The false choice of a la carte TVGovernment Regulation Called For; It has and will always be soRather than "Absurd for the government to be puttering around in America's television sets" the author of this article needs to consider the fact that TV has always been regulated and things really...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, goverment, cable, TV, Web 2.0, cable company
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Unified Communications Solution Cuts Costs, Improves Flexible Learning at Tech School
- The Waikato Institute of Technology Wintec is the fifth-largest institute of technology in New Zealand. Wintec has three main campuses in Hamilton, as well as four additional regional centers, which serve 24,000 full-time and part-time students. Seeking further growth, Wintec wanted to offer increased capability and functionality for internal communication,...
- Tags: Communication, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Institute, Wintec, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- OpenTeams does a good job taking the icky out of wiki
- [[07MustangFuelLineRepair|How to repair a Mustang's Fuel Line]]That's an example of what's called wiki markup. It takes the text "How to repair a Mustang's Fuel Line" and links it to another page in a wiki called "07MustangFuelLineRepair". It's not pretty (and reminiscent of the codes we used to see in...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Scrounging around Enterprise 2.0 on Boston's waterfront
- ZDNet multimedia wingman Matt Conner and I are at CMP's Enterprise 2.0 conference today and tomorrow looking for interesting video opportunities. So far, the lineup is shaping up pretty nicely. Today, I interviewed Cisco's senior veep of emerging technologies Marthin De Beer about the company's claims to have revolutionized the...
- Tags: Web technology, Telephony, Office 2.0, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- WV moves forward on electronic equipment for mine safety
- The canary in the coalmine has a digital chirp these days. West Virginia's Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training has approved the first tracking and communications systems designed to help rescuers track and communicate with trapped coal miners, reports the Associated Press.A year and a half after the...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
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