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Photos: Black Rock reunion

Burning Man alumni hit the streets of San Francisco to rekindle the spirit of the desert.

Tags: desert, alumni, spirit, San Francisco

Image galleries 2005-10-10

Photos: Black Rock reunion

Burning Man alumni hit the streets of San Francisco to rekindle the spirit of the desert.

Tags: alumni, desert, spirit, San Francisco

Image galleries 2005-10-10

Wheaton College Career Services Reaches More Students, Alumni at Less Cost With IBM Express Portfolio Solution

Founded in 1860, Wheaton College is a private interdenominational liberal arts college located in Wheaton, Illinois. Despite its impressive ranking, the school's College Career Service Department was out of step with what today's Web-savvy college students expect - information on demand, 24 by 7, over the Internet. Career services department...

Tags: Alumni, IBM Corp., Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Channel Management, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

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World's Oldest University Supports 250,000 Students and Alumni With New Technology

The University of Bologna is the second-largest university in Italy. Its 7,000 employees in 23 faculties support more than 120,000 students across 235 degree courses. The University of Bologna wanted to streamline its directory service system to better support its students, alumni, and employees across several sites, departments, and countries....

Tags: Alumni, Directory Service, Microsoft Corp., University Of Bologna, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software

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Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95

Got a .edu e-mail address? If you don't, you might want to ring up your alma mater for an alumni account. Why? Because Microsoft is again selling a 91 percent student discount on Office Ultimate 2007. Officially, you're supposed to be...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Old DEC code open sourced by HP

Old DEC code open sourced by HPMove on... why botherWow, and if IBM open sources OS/2, we'd have two museum pieces to admire. AdvFS was DOA five years ago, the last thing we need is another retrieval from the grave.DEC started search enginesFew people remember that DEC started search engines....

Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Desktops, Olsen, Hewlett-Packard Co., Digital Equipment Corp., AdvFS, VAX, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

MIT students making solar power realistic

MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices

I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-15

MLB Baseball (gadget)

Choose from 60 MLB sites, this is a baseball fans dream get all the stats and scores or catch up on your teams standings and player reviews. This gadget has something for everyone from kids to adults, if your just learning the game look through the MLB rule book to...

Tags: Team, MLB, Baseball, Sidebar Gadgets, Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-05-14

Does Larry Ellison have the best SaaS strategy?

Does Larry Ellison have the best SaaS strategy?it takes a flexible mindsetlots of ex-enterprise software alumni have tried the SaaS route and not all are successful from a product standpoint. In that sense, I think there is value to non-traditional backgrounds, which leads to out of the box thinking when...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Larry Ellison, software-as-a-service, SaaS strategy

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Powerset shows semantic search solution

Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!

Here's a deal that some of you might be interested in: "The semester may be ending, but that doesn't mean the educational discounts have dried up for the summer — yet. Actively enrolled college students with .edu e-mail addresses (and carrying at least a 0.5-credit course load) have one...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-mail Address, E-mail, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-08

NFL Football (gadget)

Choose from 60 NFL sites, this is a football fans dream get all the stats and scores or catch up on your teams standings and player reviews. This gadget has something for everyone from kids to adults, if you're just learning the game look through the NFL rule book to...

Tags: Team, NFL, Football, Sidebar Gadgets, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2008-04-30

QUT Builds Flexible Environment to Sustain Innovation and Accommodate Growth

Queensland University of Technology QUT is a culturally diverse Australian education provider with campuses in Brisbane and southeast Queensland. As a leader in information technology deployment, QUT constantly assesses ways it can reduce costs and better service staff, students, and alumni. QUT decided to upgrade its environment, including implementing a...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Environment, Online Learning, QUT, E-learning, Training And Certification, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services

Case studies 2008-04-01

Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0

Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Billing, On-demand, Aria Systems Inc., Zuora, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-13

Students Use Online Collaboration to Improve Study Habits and Learning Outcomes

In Joplin, Missouri Southern State University MSSU offers students a high-quality education while striving to keep costs down. To reduce spending, the IT department decided to replace its aging, expensive, in-house student e-mail solution with a hosted solution. To provide e-mail and related services for students and alumni, MSSU chose...

Tags: Online Collaboration, Student, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Online Communications

Case studies 2008-03-01

Leaked Intel Nehalem performance projections over AMD Shanghai

Leaked Intel Nehalem performance projections over AMD ShanghaiAMD is the top performerSorry dude, but the reality is that AMD chips perform a lot better than Intel chips at the same Hz.If you compare two CPUs at different speeds w/ different cash memory sizes, you are not comparing performance on the...

Tags: Processors, Intel CPUS, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., WARF, CPU

Discussion threads 2008-02-24

Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Bryant University

Bryant University heard from many alumni that they wanted to keep using the same Microsoft Exchange Server-based messaging solution that they had used on campus. Unfortunately, maintaining this service for graduates wasn't economically feasible for the university. Bryant students and faculty unanimously chose Microsoft Live@edu, a free, Microsoft-hosted messaging and...

Tags: Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-02-02

Does Web 2.0 Need IT?

Does Web 2.0 Need IT?demanding cloud-based apps?I agree with you that users don't care where applications come from, so anyone -- enterprise or consumer -- won't necessarily demand cloud-based applications. I think the important part of that OpSource point is that users *are* more and more used to going...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, tool, intellectual property

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

JotSpot to replace Google Pages soon?

JotSpot to replace Google Pages soon?Jot what?I plead ignorance. What's it all about Garrett? Ask++? Huh? What??! Please elaborate.Inquiring minds what to know! ;)So, every page will be created like a wiki?? This will not run in additionto Google Pages?? Is creating a wiki the same as...

Tags: software, Google Inc., Web page, Wiki, Web, JotSpot

Discussion threads 2007-11-24