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- Application Center
- Software from Microsoft for managing IIS Web servers. It provides support for load balancing, fault tolerance, clustering and replication. Formerly AppCenter Server, Application Center also provides a centralized...
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- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Doh! HP has some "green" data center news, too
- Sometimes, I SWEAR that companies put out green IT-ish press releases on the same day just to divert attention from their rivals. So, here's the thing, after writing about Dell's latest data center proclamations and new optimization services this morning, I would be remiss not to point to some of...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Group calls on Washington to establish national Broadband strategy
- It's time for the U.S. to step up to the broadband plate. A coalition of companies that includes Google, Cisco, AT&T and Verizon, among others, has sent an open letter PDF, asking President-elect Obama and Congress to make broadband deployment a high priority for 2009, according to a CNET report....
- Tags: Strategy, Washington, Network, Broadband, American, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best luxe Mac accessories
- What do you get for that special person on your list already owns a Mac, iPod and a nice digital camera? Accessories! Here are my picks for the Best Luxe accessories ($200 and up) that are perfect for the Mac user with everything. Don't forget...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Accessory, Video, Blu-ray, Camera, FlipShare Software, 7xx-series, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- PARC VP, hardware systems laboratory: Scott Elrod
- Scott Elrod, vice president of the hardware systems laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center, talks to CNET's Dan Farber about researching and supporting innovation at one of Silicon Valley's most storied tech institutions. He discusses new advancements in erasable ink, clean tech and what it takes to stay...
- Tags: Innovation, Xerox PARC, Hardware, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Sage to step into the on-demand ring
- News started leaking late last week that Sage, the UK's largest software company, will release an on-demand accounting application called SageLive aimed at the SMB market. Details are sketchy beyond a blog post by competitor KashFlow but it seems the company is finally getting serious about the on-demand space after...
- Tags: Accounting, On-demand, U.K., Details, Sage 50, Cloud Computing, Smb/Sme, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Databases, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Apple Confuses Speech with a DMCA Violation
- Apple recently sent a "cease and desist" email to bluwiki demanding the removal of postings by users who are trying to figure out how to write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod touch. According to the EFF: Apple doesn't...
- Tags: Apple iPod, DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict
- Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Dell applies its own data center lessons to new green IT services
- As a business society, we've been pretty much used to thinking of information technology as a disposable asset. Even data centers were built with a 10-year lifespan in mind, which means a lot of the work done and systems deployed around the year 2000 is quickly reaching that maturity point....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward
- Zoho just can't stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff. For the...
- Tags: SQL, Cloud, Zoho, Smb/Sme, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study
- The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...
- Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-02
- Compare prices with the iPhone
- Here's a cool iPhone trick: Download the free Snappr application for the iPhone and iPod touch iTunes. Scan the 2D Codes and (the first of it's kind) 1D Barcodes found on books and movies and stuff and get all kinds of price and shopping...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 2D Codes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Joost arrives for iPhone
- Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required you to download a proprietary client, then in October 2008 it morphed into a Web-based service. In its...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Joost, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus
- One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses malware but Macs are automatically protected. As PC "ah-choos" his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers that he's immune to the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Malware, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Openbravo to push open source ERP more aggressively in US
- One open source project is giving thanks for reaching the one million download milestone and believes the worldwide financial crisis will only accelerate its growth. Openbravo, a purveyor of a popular open source ERP application and newly acquired open source POS solution for the small to medium-sized enterprises, predicts...
- Tags: ERP, Openbravo, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack
- Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren't able to do business through the service yesterday, due to the fact that AlertPay was under a large scale DDoS attack, according to a notice left by a company representative. Seven hours of downtime right...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, AlertPay, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Virtualization and Emulex
- Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint. How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...
- Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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