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- Live Webcast: SmartPhone Security and Productivity, Part 2
- Without a doubt, we're now dependent on our mobile phones for keeping up with the speed of business. And nowhere is it more apparent than in the rise of so-called SmartPhones. These all-in-one handsets are fast replacing a multitude of other devices by providing access to everything from...
- Tags: Security, Webcast, Smartphone, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-12-02
- The Paparazzi Social Media Problem
- Jevon McDonald, someone whose opinions I rate highly, has posted a stellar piece on 'The uncertain future of Blogging' today. The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned by blogging. Blogging was the conversation, blogging was the vehicle, blogging was the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Blog, Jevon, Blogging, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward
- I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- AppAsure: Good stuff but is it virtualization?
- Naj Husain, CEO, and Dan Soschin, Director of Marketing, both of AppAssure, brought me up to speed on Replay VRA, a tool that protects messaging-based environments that include BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as Microsoft's Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint. While Reply VRA appears to work in virtualized environments and...
- Tags: Environment, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Ulteo offers server based computing solution for Linux desktops, apps
- Ulteo is now offering what Microsoft and Citrix will not: a server based computing solution for the Linux desktop and Linux applications. The company, which late last year launched the first OpenOffice open source desktop online, has announced the availability of the Open Virtual Desktop...
- Tags: Linux Desktop, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, Ulteo, Open Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Terminal Server, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?
- The MacArthur Foundation just released a study suggesting that, not surprisingly, given the integration of social media into business and modern culture, the time kids spend with so-called new media, is generally neither wasted nor particularly harmful. In fact, as one of the lead researchers points out in the...
- Tags: Youth, Media, Social Media, MySpace, Barack Obama, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Wells Fargo team shares green tech tips for the data center
- In my quest to uncover practical information about what real data center managers are doing to decrease their energy consumption, for real, I recently spoke with two executives from Wells Fargo's Technology Information Group TIG. Scott Dillon, executive vice president and CTO for Enterprise Hosting...
- Tags: Team, Data Center, Green Technology, Wells Fargo & Co., Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks
- Actuate 10 and the Eclipse-based Open Source BIRT framework allows you to build rich reporting applications for your enterprise. Click on the photo to watch a video of the software in action. The title got your attention, didn't it? ...
- Tags: Reporting Tool, Actuate Corp., Open Source BIRT, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Mozilla's financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps
- Mozilla's 2007 annual report reveals a foundation that's well funded--primarily by a Google search deal--and can weather a downturn. Nevertheless, 2008 is going to be a different story as Mozilla's portfolio has taken some big hits. In 2007, Mozilla had revenue of $75 million, up 12 percent...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Taxes, Financial Management, Mutual Funds, Investment, Free Trade, Retirement Plans, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Mozilla Project ready for rough economic times
- The Mozilla Foundation has posted its 2007 financial statements and tax forms, and Mitchell Baker points out that Mozilla's revenue is up over 2006, and things look good for the future as well, even in a lousy financial market. But Mozilla's finances aren't the only part of Mozilla's picture that's...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Operational Accounting, Taxes, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Financial Planning, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- IBM portal technologies help drive more value from dashboards.
- Many dashboards have limitations that can make it difficult for businesses to provide value beyond the executive level. But with IBM portals, you can create a foundation to build more effective active dashboards. This executive brief shows how next-generation dashboards can provide a competitive advantage by helping improve flexibility and...
- Tags: Dashboard, IBM Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Internet
- White papers 2008-11-19
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 2
- Welcome to day 2 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I'll be blogging about the differences between Android and iPhone development. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5] ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, User Interface, Localizable.strings, Android Eclipse Plug-in, UINavigationController, UITabBarController, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Firefly satellite will study thunderstorms
- The Firefly mission is the second project under the new U.S. National Science Foundation NSF CubeSat program. The goal of this program is to provide a low cost access to space research. Firefly will be launched in 2010 or 2011 and will try to 'solve the mystery of the most...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Satellite, Firefly Mission, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille, Atmosphere, Earth, NASA, News Release, Lightning, TGF
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Mozilla to end support for Firefox 2
- Stability and security releases for the browser will end next month, despite ongoing problems with Firefox 3 The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, Firefox, Mozilla, browser, Firefox 2, Firefox 3
- News items 2008-11-18
- Greening the data center
- Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas – are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBM's Christopher O'Connor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Organization, Energy Consumption, IT Equipment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, data center, green, IBM, costs, Christopher O'Connor
- News items 2008-11-17
- What's driving women out of computer science?
- When it comes to higher education, women have achieved parity with men in almost every technical pursuit...except computer science. With all science and engineering fields considered, the percentage of bachelor's degree recipients who are women has improved to 51 percent in 2004-5 from 39 percent in 1984-85,...
- Tags: Women, Computer Science, Computer, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- i-Cards: the next SSN?
- When it comes to the new information cards - the digital wallet initiative backed by the likes of Google, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle - think of this as Phase 1, the information gathering phase This week, another partner in the effort - credit reporting agency Equifax - launched an online...
- Tags: Card, Equifax, i-Cards, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- News to know: Yahoo, Blackberry Storm, Black Friday leaks, Smartphones
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Yahoo dips below $10; Icahn, board called out Larry Dignan: Verizon Wireless: Storm lands Nov. 21 Sean Portnoy: Best Buy...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Smartphone, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free culture
- The Free Software Foundation's latest version of the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL surprised me a little -- but in a very good way. The FSF has ceded some control and allowed for GFDL content to be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This is a major win...
- Tags: Free Software Foundation, Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License, BY-SA, Wiki, Online Communications, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
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