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New supercomputers overhaul top ranks

New supercomputers overhaul top rankswhats the number?so whats the number for Commodore 64?or FisherPrice laptop?LOLSoftware?So what OS/software do these things run????Doesn't the hardware need software to work?I think we are only getting half the story here.Surely it must be MS Windows SuperServerCluster 2005.Wonder what a license of that costs.....Is it...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, supercomputer, software, Anticipating Minds

Discussion threads 2005-06-22

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Where to next for ERP et al? (part 1, SAP)

With a Gartner probability of 0.9, I guarantee that what follows is not how things will turn out. At least not exactly. Paul Greenberg's post casting the enterprise CRM runes for 2009 provides the perfect springboard for something I've been thinking about since the middle of the year. Where the...

Tags: SAP AG, ERP, Leo Apotheker, Paul Greenberg, Paul, Claus Heinrich, Wookey, Sales Strategy, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Who put the 'crap' in 'Crapintosh'?

Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", so in the meantime his best friend, Elliot Harrison, has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. The hate campaign certain Windows users have against Macintosh users must ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zack Whittaker, Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Web 2.0 security? What a mash

* Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka "mash-up") possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its user-provided content... A Web adapted to today's powerful machines, linking people together in world...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Codec, YouTube Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-24

H2O + C = cool idea

Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...

Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?

I posted a number of pieces Monday about OLPC and its XO laptop now for sale on Amazon in a reboot of the Give One Get One program, one of which declared that OLPC was dead. A year ago, that would have been worthy of a pretty serious flame...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-19

VUDU shuns economic reality; targets high-end

$1299? Are they out of their minds? Last week, I posted an entry about VUDU, the company that's selling a $300 set-top box that enables consumers to rent or buy downloadable movies. I like the service, but in these economic times, it's tough - though not impossible...

Tags: VUDU, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Branding, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Echosign prepares for tipping point of e-signatures

Electronic signatures aren't new. In fact, they've been equivalent to written signatures since 2000, under the Federal E-Sign Act. But adoption has been slow. Sure, my tax accountant may be submitting my electronic signature on my tax returns but recently, when it came time to put my out-of-state home on...

Tags: Signature, Echosign, Taxes, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Data leaks: Watch out for careless and disgruntled employees

Outside hackers certainly can keep IT departments scrambling to keep a company's network and data secure. But what about "The Insider Threat," employees who are either careless or disgruntled with a company's data and pose even bigger threats? Cisco, completing a three-part study on the topic, released...

Tags: Employee, IT Professional, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD

Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSDMinWinMary, why do you insist on MinWin when he constantly makes it clear that it's not Windows 7? They will use some of the ideas from MinWin and apply them, but it is essentially going to be the improved Vista kernel. Something like...

Tags: BIOS, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Would you flip to Microsoft?

The announcement of BizSpark didn't get a huge amount of attention and I'm not surprised. After 24 years of running Wintel based systems I flipped to Mac and have never missed anything Microsoft offered. OK - I'm an edge case that wants to run as much as I can in...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mike Arrington, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Open Source, Management, Hardware, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-07

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureYour definition of a video game console ...... must be any device on which games can be played. Cell phiones are thus the most popular consoles.For the term to mean anything, this defintion from Microsoft search is better:Definition of: video game console A specialized...

Tags: Games, Game players, Microsoft Windows, console, game, game console, video game

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

Dell at Dreamforce: Brave the economy or prepare for the rebound?

Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., made an interesting observation during a brief appearance on the main stage at the Dreamforce conference. Today's headlines tell us that, around the globe, things are slowing down – the economy, IT spending, investments in new technology and so on. But...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Dreamforce, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Corporate Communications, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-04

SuccessFactors ups guidance

SuccessFactors is not a company many ZDN readers may have heard about but you should. This is an on-demand vendor that primarily sells talent management solutions. My Irregular colleagues Jason Corsello and Thomas Otter follow this space. For the last year, they have been saying that talent management represents one...

Tags: Talent, SuccessFactors Inc., On-demand, Talent Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Blu-ray is dead: the sequel

Blu-ray is dead: the sequelI prefer physical media tooThe question is, when will I - and most consumers - make Blu-ray the default? Dark Knight I'll get on Blu-ray someday - the fabulous 8k special effects work makes it worth while. But romantic comedies? Never. Thanks for commenting.RobinDigital d/ls are...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Revenue Share, REAL PROBLEM

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Code execution flaws haunt OpenOffice

Code execution flaws haunt OpenOfficeCode execution flaws haunt OpenOfficeLOL!! Let the bug hunt begin. This will be one of many bugs found in OpenOffice. Remember when v3.0 was released and all the fanboys were telling us to replace our current solutions with this new version because it works...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, OpenOffice 3.0, OpenOffice, Code execution flaw, Code Execution, flaw, OO.org v3.0

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

CardCops: Stolen credit card details getting cheaper

The dynamics of the underground marketplace are pretty similar to that of the legitimate marketplace, with cybercriminals demanding and supplying, consolidating and start to work together, and coming up with new monetization approaches in order to continue enjoying the high profit margins of their goods and services. The once highly...

Tags: Credit Card, Price, Service, Credit Card Detail, Cloned/Expired Card, U, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-29

Google is oddly silent about Grand Central

Google is oddly silent about Grand CentralAndroid and grand centralGrand central probably made sense when google was in the mode of becoming a wireless carrier it had applied for frequencies and stuff.Now that its strategy seems to be the OS provider for cellphone's and not get into the carrier business...

Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Grand Central, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

Army voices Twitter fears

Army voices Twitter fearsCaps LockCaps lock is cruise control for cool. They teach you this in the military.TWITTERNOTE HOW WELL YOU ARE QUALIFIED TO WRITE ON THESE TOPICSHOW MUCH MILITARY TIME NO YOU HAVE?AS WE ARE MORE AND MORE TECH DRIVEN USING IT TO BE FORCE MULTIPLIER IT HAS BEEN...

Tags: SECURITY, Caps Lock, Twitter, voice

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Fun headlines from last week

Fun headlines from last weekOr not.An example of the thinking which can predominate is the US Supreme Court decisions concerning technology. The logic used is almost invariably analogy. There's settled law on a subject and what the technology does has similarity to that subject. So the settled...

Tags: fun headline

Discussion threads 2008-10-27