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Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control: Bob Briscoe Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet. He wants the world to know that TCP Transmission Control Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...; Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-24

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Workday lands big Flextronics deal: Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Rumors: Canon to release sibling dSLR to Rebel XSi?: We're back on the digital camera beat this morning, as news is ruminating 'round the interwebs that Canon may be preparing a younger, potentially cheaper sibling to its popular EOS Rebel XSi. Crack detectives at 1001 Noisy Cameras (by way of Bob Atkins and dpreview, both respected...; Tags: Camera, Canon Inc., Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac: Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to MacBut those are just sales. We all know everyone is......downgrading to Office 2004.Sorry, couldn't resist.Are you sure you linked to the correct article?The one I was taken to was dated January 11, 2006 9:58 AM PSTAdds to the growing...; Tags: Sales strategy, Scripting languages, Microsoft Office, Microsoft VBA, SP1, Microsoft Corp., sales, Apple Macintosh; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media Player 11 with XP SP3 slipstream ISO: Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media Player 11 with XP SP3 slipstream ISOHow do I.......slipstream Netscape Navigator, WinAmp, and XP SP3 into Microsoft Bob? ;-); Tags: Web browsers, Digital music, ISO standards, Digital media, Process improvement, XP SP3, Windows Media Player 11, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Media Player, ISO, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Int; Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Free software great and small: They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...; Tags: Samba, Conference, Jeremy, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jeremy Allison, free software, open source; News items 2008-05-07
Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict: I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...; Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-07
The four horsemen of SaaS: Taleo's acquisition of Vurv, announced today, is a clear play by the SaaS vendor for breakout leadership of the people management sector — one of the hottest segments of the enterprise SaaS landscape, populated by fast-growing startups such as recent Nasdaq entrant SuccessFactors along with privately held Authoria, Cornerstone OnDemand,...; Tags: Revenue, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Taleo Corp., Vurv, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-06
SAP: Security keeps it off Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone for now: SAP has forged an agreement with Research in Motion to run its customer relationship management software on the BlackBerry platform. Just don't expect SAP to roll out to other platforms anytime soon. In an interview with the Enterprise Irregular blogging group Monday, Bob Stutz, SAP's executive vice...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, SAP AG, Microsoft Windows, Symbian Inc., Security, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Betas of Microsoft's management tools announced: Microsoft Management Summit opened on Tuesday. Microsoft's Bob Muglia, senior VP of Microsoft's Server and Tools business announced that two products, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, have reached the public beta phase of product development. It appears that Microsoft's main message...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Beta, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Email voting for overseas troops?: The Pentagon is pushing states to allow email balloting for troops overseas but so far few states are playing along, AP reports. "The personnel that fight our wars, the people who are most affected by the decisions on the use of the military, are being...; Tags: State, E-voting, E-mail, Corporate Governance, Government, Online Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiver: Microsoft earnings post-mortem: The cash cows quiverHa ha haHa ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha...; Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, HA-HA HA HA HA, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, troll; Discussion threads 2008-04-25
Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefield: On February 21 of 2008, just two months ago, Microsoft announced "strategic changes in technology and business practices to expand interoperability." These changes, which would be incorporated into a set of "Interoperability Principles" that would provide API and protocol documentation for connectivity to and from their "high-volume business products" naming...; Tags: Patent, Centrify, Samba, Protocol, Microsoft Corp., Tom Kemp, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-04-22
A successful Veterans Administration is dangerous: The Veterans Administration health system must be destroyed. Or at least hobbled. Why? The VA is a single payer system, the only such system in the U.S. If it does, as Roger Maduro suggests, provide better care than Medicare, for one-third the cost, it is a serious...; Tags: Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-18
Security expert discusses a possible future for PCI-DSS... it's grim: Jeremiah Grossman discussed some recent comments about section 6.6 of the PCI standard made by Standards Council General Manager Bob Russo in a recent Information Security magazine article. I found a lot of thoughts I share with Grossman. Grossman says: I have a love-hate relationship with PCI-DSS. Love it...; Tags: Security, PCI, Web Application, Application Firewall, Security Expert, Jeremiah Grossman, Ruso, Firewalls, Networking, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-04-14
Open source will not save education: Bob Zemsky right of the University of Pennsylvania had an "ah-ha" moment a few years ago, listening to some people demand grants for open source education. He described it to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The problem isn't supply. It's demand. Teachers won't or...; Tags: Education, Open Source, Productivity, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-08
Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel?: In my post about Windows 7 back in January ("Windows 7 = Vista Release 2"), I ended with a statement that deserves some follow-up: Those who are predicting that Windows 7 will include some radically stripped-down kernel (the so-called MinWin project) or a new file system are missing the...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kernel, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-03-31
What value in medical endorsements?: What is the real impact of a celebrity endorsement for a medical product? We all remember the Robert Jarvik contretemps. I thought it was fair that a man whose device was made nearly obsolete by a medicine might do ads for it, but others disagreed, since he...; Tags: Advertisement, Endorsement, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-27
Saying goodbye to ZDNet: Saying goodbye to ZDNetAgreed, Where I noticed a problem..I think a while a go most of the blogs referenced ZDnet News Articles, then after a while the ZDnet blogs began to reference other blogs and now the News articles are becoming harder to find and less informative. This is...; Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Blogs, New Web Site, blog, blogger, goodbye; Discussion threads 2008-03-27
Mozilla CEO accuses Apple of malware distribution practices: Mozilla CEO accuses Apple of malware distribution practicesWhy should you be FORCED to uncheck the box??Seriously, people downloaded iTunes and any updates should be limited to iTunes.Why should any company have the right to FORCE the installation of an unwanted or unrequested software product??The checkbox should be unchecked BY DEFAULT....; Tags: Digital music, Web browsers, Digital media, Apple Inc., malware distribution practice, Mozilla Corp., auto-Update, Apple QuickTime, Apple iTunes; Discussion threads 2008-03-21