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A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Avalanche: A Microsoft Code Name a Day: Avalanchehmmm...."MSCD allows authorized content publishers to distribute their content to a large audience via file swarming."How about malware and virus 'swarming'?....just what you needed!;)Message has been deleted.Beating BitTorrent is easy.Beating BitTorrent is easy - just make a BitTorrent like protocol that will go through...; Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., BitTorrent, Avalanche, firewall; Discussion threads 2007-08-10
Sharing enterprise software: Baseline Magazine still one of my favorite sources of information about enterprise computing has an article discussing corporations that share homegrown software using the Avalanche Corporate Technology Cooperative. According to their Web site, Avalanche's mission is to provide: A gated community that enables our members to...; Tags: OTRACK, software, Jostens, Avalanche; Blog posts 2005-04-13
Sharing enterprise software: Baseline Magazine still one of my favorite sources of information about enterprise computing has an article discussing corporations that share homegrown software using the Avalanche Corporate Technology Cooperative. According to their Web site, Avalanche's mission is to provide: A gated community that enables our members to...; Tags: Avalanche, Jostens, software, OTRACK; Blog posts 2005-04-13

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Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past: To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...; Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Brijit: Saving the planet, one magazine at a time: In this age of the digital you'd expect magazines, that old-fashioned idea of putting ink onto paper, to fade away. Magazines seem harder to cure than herpes. Once you get 'em, you can't get rid of them. The multiply, they spread, they just appear. And yet...; Tags: Magazine, Brijit, Jeremy Brosowsky, Web Site Development, TVs, Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-04-15

Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs: Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVsA waste of timeIt never ceases to amaze me. We have seen that music is pretty much dead in the water insofar as getting people to pay for it. DRM is also heading the way of the dodo in music content terms. Movies will follow the...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Blockbuster Inc., music, digital-rights management, TV; Discussion threads 2008-04-11
Leadership vs. Management: This is the tenth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. Note that this is a draft for a new bit to be inserted before the extract published last week - a response to the many...; Tags: CIO, Leadership, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-03-21
Not scared about Cross-Site Request Forgery? You should be... you're scared of jail aren't you?: Not scared about Cross-Site Request Forgery? You should be... you're scared of jail aren't you?You are right.I see it updating a few times per month so there are more and more problems found. I will never tell anyone they are absolutely secure (ok, not networked, you are...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, NoScript, Cross-Site Request Forgery, CSRF; Discussion threads 2008-03-20
Microsoft licenses Adobe Flash Lite, turns up heat under Apple and iPhone?: Microsoft licenses Adobe Flash Lite, turns up heat under Apple and iPhone?Yes, thank you Mr. Jobs for thinking for me. ntntHe's just writing what he's paid forZDNet is mostly a place for sensationalism driving ad renenues here. Their articles aren't real journalism in other words and shouldn't be taken seriously.Apps...; Tags: WM6, advertisement, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-03-17
Microsoft licenses Adobe Flash Lite, turns up heat under Apple and iPhone?: Look for Flash applications to be coming to more mobile devices near you, just not an iPhone. Adobe Systems announced today that Microsoft has licensed Adobe's Flash Lite software to enable Flash-compatible content in the Internet Explorer Mobile browser. This will mean that people using those...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Hardware, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted: As discontent over Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1) continues to swirl, Microsoft is gearing up to launch on February 27 the "other" Windows: Windows Server 2008. Even though it is built from the same core as Vista, Windows Server is different from Vista in a number of...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, General Motors Corp., Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Workstations, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boost: Vista SP1 will deliver big network speed boostOther Performance TestWill you be publishing other test on any performance changes between RTM and SP1? The file transfer performance increase is a very encouraging sign that some one at Redmond is listening to us Vista users along with removing the kill switch.Jumbo...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NETWORKING, File Transfer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, big network speed, network speed, network; Discussion threads 2007-12-06
Upcoming Ubuntu release to improve features for educators, general, power users: Upcoming Ubuntu release to improve features for educators, general, power usersA kid waiting for christmas presentsTo me, the wait for Ubuntu 7.10 feels much like waiting for the Christmas presents when I was a kid.... :-) (I say christmas, but I should say Saint Nicholas evening, December 5, which...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux/BSD, Ubuntu, Linux, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2007-10-04
LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't work: LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't workHow could then not tellA router is down. How do they not notice that? The security guys should have caught that right away. Assuming they have no security the network guys should have caught too.The only way to miss this is to have...; Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, router, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-08-15
News to know: Facebook growing pains; Office wars; Bad IT weekend: Notable headlines:David Morgenstern: Better living without MS Office. Garett Rogers: Google kicks Microsoft where it hurts, again. Google Operating System: Google Pack Adds StarOffice. CNET iLife'08 review.ABC News: Glitch Strands Thousands of Intl. Passengers at LAX.Michael Krigsman: IT failure in action: LAX. Big iron and the failure of Enterprise 2.0....; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-08-13
A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Avalanche: I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...; Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-08-10
Avalanche: A Basecamp Widget (widget): Avalanche: A Basecamp Widget for users of the Basecamp project management suite. Overview page with most recently updated items. Access to multiple projects on the same Basecamp account. Time page showing your last week's time entries. Easy add/edit/delete of entries. Support for time estimates to track on-time completion of tasks....; Tags: Message, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management; Software downloads 2007-07-26
Tech Truth - Time is Money: OCR Enhances Productivity for Law Firms -- Large and Small: For most law firms, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all the work done and shuffling paper eats up time like nothing else. The average legal practice is buried under an avalanche of paper. Finding the right paperwork still requires a human being to dig through...; Tags: Law Firm, Optical Character Recognition, ABBYY USA, Litigation, Business Operations; White papers 2007-06-14
The Technology Avalanche: In this forward-looking News@Cisco podcast, you'll learn how you can define the future for yourself - instead of waiting for others to do it for you. Hear Dave Evans, Chief Technologist for Cisco's Business Solutions Group, speak on improving affordability and capability inherent in technology advancements, as well as the...; Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Podcasts, Internet; Download resources 2007-06-04
Palm 700p woes continue: I've been a longtime and loyal user of Palm devices dating back to when the company made software for the Newton. While there have been bumps in the road through the years (as there have been with every technology brand I've used), the manner in which the widely documented problems...; Tags: Mobility, Hardware, Gadgetry; Blog posts 2007-06-02