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Ariel Builds Strong, New Municipal Storage Network on HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System

Ariel is home to more than 20,000 residents - and to 10,000 students at Ariel University Center of Samaria, the largest college in Israel. Ariel wanted to provide highly available, easily-managed shared storage for critical municipal applications. Ariel used HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems and Microsoft Windows Storage Server to...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, HP StorageWorks, Storage System, Ariel, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-01

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WizzFit Add-on for Publisher 1.2 (Windows)

This Microsoft Publisher add-on enables you to do a content aware image resizing. You can crop and scale a picture shape without loosing the important message in it. You can as well easily remove object in your picture without affecting the background. Effective resizing of images should not only use...

Tags: Algorithm, Microsoft Windows, Image, WizzFit, Engineering

Software downloads 2009-07-08

TechCrunch50: Day 1

When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Neocleus and Endpoint virtualization

Recently I've had the opportunity to speak with Ariel Gorfung, CEO, and Etay Bogner, CTO, both of Neocleus about their concept of "Endpoint Virtualization." At first I didn't understand how this differed from the various forms of desktop virtualization that others are speaking about. Now I understand that they're bringing...

Tags: Desktop, Hypervisor, Operating System, Physical Machine, Virtual Machine, Neocleus, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Jun/Jul 08

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Jun/Jul 08The CaseI own the case that you show here. I've had it for several months and let me tell you, it's GREAT. A few thing other thing that you don't mention that's worth noting are the built-in cable routing ability, included...

Tags: Cable, Construction, Enermax, Hardware 2.0, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Section 230 to Twitter and others: Delete away

Community and content management don't void a site's immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Participation in an unlawful act does. I was thus taken aback by the legal analysis included in Wired's/Betsy Schiffman's post about Ariel Waldman and Twitter...

Tags: Alteration, Immunity, Twitter, Regulations, Government, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-05-24

More reasons why Twitter won't make it to the enterprise

I've written before about Twitter's lack of understanding about scaling issues which is a lot more than simply size but today I learned that Twitter doesn't bother enforcing its own terms of service. Ariel Waldman's treatment by Twitter is a model case study in how to mess up customer service....

Tags: Twitter, Harassment, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Neocleus - A different take on desktop virtualization

Ariel Gorfung, CEO, Neocleus, and I had a fast paced, interesting discussion about the company's notion of "endpoint virtualization" and how that can change how organizations deploy and use desktop and laptop systems. At first I had trouble really getting to the heart of what they were doing. Their use...

Tags: Security, Desktop Virtualization, Information Technology, Environment, Xen, Neocleus, Xen Community, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-19

With friends like these... how can Seesmic fail?

Having secured $5.5 million of funding from investment group Atomico (Skype's Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis and co.), Loic Le Meur admits he didn't need the money. And yet he's enlisted a further twelve individual backers for his new startup Seesmic -- which has been described as "Twitter for video" --...

Tags: Board, Connection, Image, Investor, Seesmic, Pendants, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-02-18

Photoshop plug-in developer onOne acquires Liquid Resize technology.

Calling all digital photographers: If you haven't seen this video from Siggraph 2007, you must check it out. Ignore the monotonous voice of the narrator--he doesn't sound nearly as excited as he should be--and watch his demo of "Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing" presented by Shai Avidan and Ariel...

Tags: Developer, Adobe PhotoShop, Plug-in, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-01-18

Salesforce adds $5 per login pricing option and new developer tools

Salesforce.com has added a per-login pricing option for consuming less frequently accessed applications built on its Force.com platform. "As people build a wide variety of apps on the Force.com platform, we have some high usage of some applications, such as recruiting," Ariel Kelman, Salesforce.com senior director of...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Application, Development Tool, Pricing Strategy, Tool, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Rice re-engineers Gleevec for Novartis

Ariel Fernandez, an Argentine native and a professor of bioengineering at Rice, has led a group of scientists in re-engineering Gleevec, the Novartis anti-cancer drug, to avoid a rare heart-related side effect. Fernandez is among those given credit for the dehydron, a hydrogen bond with a propensity...

Tags: Novartis AG, Molecule, Fernandez, Productivity, Investment, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Spotlight on 'seam carving'

At the 6sight conference in Monterey Calif., Ariel Shamir, a visiting scientist with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, discusses "seam carving" technology, which lets an image be expanded or shrunk without distorting the important parts.

Tags: 6sight, image, distorting, seam, carving, news, stephen shankland, scientists

Videos 2007-11-15

The Little Mermaid Bubble Blast 1 (Windows)

The Little Mermaid Bubble Blast is an exciting, action-packed puzzle game featuring everyones favorite deep-sea princess, Ariel - and her trusty sidekick, Sebastian the crab. Go bubble crazy with big bubble chains. The bigger the chain - the bigger your score. Get ready to blast your way into the Bubble...

Tags: Disney Corp., Little Mermaid Bubble Blast, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-10-24

Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: Who Googles what?

Sex, Nazi, burrito and Viagra: Who Googles what?Were the values normalized for the population?I'd be interested in getting more on how they compute those stats. Is that by percentage of the overall number of hits from each country? Is it just a raw number of hits?Of course, the...

Tags: Google Inc., burrito, Nazi, Viagra

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

No more distorted faces with content-aware resizing

If you hadn't seen the new image scaling techniques of Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir yet, take a look at the video above and be impressed.  I was already impressed with it two weeks ago when I first saw it but the more I look at it the more I like...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Video, TV, Image, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-04

A robot that travels through the body

The reference to the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" is maybe too obvious. But Israeli scientists have developed a 1-millimeter-diameter medical robot that will be able to crawl within our veins and arteries. It's too early to know when this medical robot is allowed to explore a real human being. But...

Tags: Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Transforming Lab Notes Into a Corporate-Wide Asset

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has one of the largest and strongest portfolios of consumer product brands in the world, including Pampers, Ariel, Pantene and Pringles. The company wanted to develop a method for sharing information among laboratories; create a platform for existing vertical applications; and identify a scalable product that...

Tags: Siemens AG, IBM Lotus Notes, Product Marketing, Strategy, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2007-01-01

Vodafone CIO: Paul Wybrow - Transcript

Vodafone's mobile communications empire spans the globe and the challenges facing its CIO are also far-reaching. From negotiating with telecoms equipment makers, where he also wears his CTO hat, to overseeing a global IT workforce of 4,000 his is one of the biggest CIO jobs in the UK. But how...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Vodafone CIO: Paul Wybrow - Transcript

Vodafone's mobile communications empire spans the globe and the challenges facing its CIO are also far-reaching. From negotiating with telecoms equipment makers, where he also wears his CTO hat, to overseeing a global IT workforce of 4,000 his is one of the biggest CIO jobs in the UK. But how...

Tags: Innovation, Vodafone Group Plc., TH, PW, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2006-12-12