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Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week: Here are ZDNet Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including Apple's 24-inch iMac, a Beltronics radar detector, and the "most sophisticated NAS device." by CNET News.com; Tags: Radar, Photograph, Aerospace & Defense, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Manufacturing, Storage, Hardware, CNET News.com, built-In, Battery, Bottom Line, Navigation System, CNET', Price, Keyboards, Engineering, Peripherals; Image galleries 2008-05-12
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week: Here are ZDNet Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including Apple's new iMac, the LG Vu, and a USB drive that turns any PC into a wireless router. by CNET News.com; Tags: Photograph, Desktops, Routers & Switches, Hardware, Networking, CNET News.com, Game, Phone, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Performance, PC, LG Electronics Inc., Eset, Bottom Line, Graphics, CNET', Price, It', Performance Management, Keyboards, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Peripherals; Image galleries 2008-05-05
Asus' 8.9" Eee draws crowds at CeBIT: Here in CeBIT 2008, crowds descended on Hannover Germany to see the latest technologies. Germany is certainly a lovely country but there's nothing lovable about the 5.60 Euro per gallon gas prices. CeBIT is certainly one of the more unique conventions I've been to since everything...; Tags: ASUS, Webcam, CeBit, Bottom Line, Flash Memory, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-03-07
BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream: BPEL Business Process Execution Language is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Do people need BPEL4People? Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive's approval to...; Tags: Business Process, BPEL, Workflow, OASIS, Bottom Line, BPEL4People, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-02-20
Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole: A little more than a year ago, Sebastian Krahmer posted a question on the Dailydave security mailing list whether Vista's speech recognition was exploitable or not via malicious sound files that could be hosted on websites. I was the first to answer his call with some initial skepticism...; Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Bottom Line, Speech Recognition, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-12

The power of open spectrum: When the history of this era is written, it will be seen that one of the biggest bi-partisan mistakes was to treat spectrum as property rather than a commons. Billions have been earned off the spectrum, first by the government, then by those who won the auctions. But...; Tags: Wi-Fi, Spectrum, Bottom Line, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-07
Brief: 4: This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals 2.1 Processes and ground rules Three kinds of IT proposals come to the board for...; Tags: Project, Information Technology, Board, Benefit, Bottom Line, Decision, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstation: Earlier this month I wrote "Build a Mac Pro equivalent workstation for 1/3 the cost" and the pricing didn't look good for the Mac. Now that the new Mac Pro with updated specifications and a much lower price has come out, I figured it's time to do an updated comparison. ...; Tags: Hard Drive, Video Card, Apple Macintosh, Memory, Apple Inc., Bottom Line, Mac Pro, Desktops, Workstations, Hardware, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-01-28
The missing demonstration project (1): Last week frequent contributor ross44 raised the issue of the missing Sun Ray demonstration project: So - it seems that once again, this time in the public admin sphere, we need a reference installation. Where is that US state or Canadian province...; Tags: Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Bottom Line, Professional Development, Strategy, Career, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2007-12-04
Forrester's prescription for green IT: There's a new report out of Forrester Research with some practical tips for CIOs who have been drafted with crafting a green IT agenda (or, who want to get a jump on this proactively). Forrester suggests there are four overriding goals that IT organizations should consider in...; Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, Bottom Line, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-10-29
Why spam can only be managed, not ended: Years ago when I was still a bit more naive, I thought we could end the spam dilemma if we would simply implement domain-level sender authentication using digital signatures. In fact when David Berlind wrote "Why spam could destroy the Internet" in November 2002, Berlind quoted me saying that every...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Difference, Bottom Line, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-10-26
Enterprise SOA concept falls out of favor: The movement toward smaller, focused SOA efforts -- and away from big, enterprisey SOA -- seems to have been gaining a lot of momentum as of late. Some SOA services may surface at the enterprise level, but most will serve focused, local business needs. And that's okay....; Tags: SOA, Bottom Line, Enterprise, SOA-is-all-about-the-enterprise Mindset, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-10-22
Sun encourages companies to fess up, publicly, about their greenhouse emissions: Say you're a business owner. You've been converted by the green gospel, and you're willing to do your part to reduce greenhouse emissions. But how do you get started? What, in fact, is a reasonable rate of reduction in emissions? What are other companies your size doing? ...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Site, Bottom Line, Greenhouse Emission, Telecom & Utilities, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-09-25
Why AMD's triple core Phenom is a bigger deal than you think: AMD rolled out its Phenom triple core processor and the reactions ranged from "triple core is a marketing spiel" to "triple core gives consumers another option." Both reactions miss the big picture. The big picture is that AMD's triple core chip is a nice intersection where engineering meets...; Tags: Processor, Quad-core, Yield, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Bottom Line, Core, Manufacturing Semiconductor, Manufacturing, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-09-20
Mossberg reviews Ubuntu: I've just finished reading a review of an Ubuntu-powered Inspiron 1420N written by mainstream tech journalist Walt Mossberg. His conclusion: "But for now, I still advise mainstream, nontechnical users to avoid Linux." Now, bearing in mind that I've been pretty critical of Linux in the past (there have been...; Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Codec, Video, Bottom Line, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2007-09-17
The Dell of green-tech alternatives?: Standard Renewable Energy CEO John Berger is on a mission to make residential green-tech retrofits as simple as buying a custom computer from Dell. Essentially, the Galveston, Texas, company is a systems integrator for alternative energy. Its mantra is Review, Reduce and Renew, and its team provides...; Tags: Alternative Energy, HVAC, Dell Computer Corp., Bottom Line, John Berger, Standard Renewable, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-09-14
Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2: Intel claims that its forthcoming Xeon 73XX CPUs are the fastest, bestest, most power efficient processors around, AMD claims the same crown thing for its "Barcelona" line, and Sun says that its T2 ultraSPARC blows both of them away. So which two are lying? ...; Tags: Software, T2, Multi-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Bottom Line, Intel Corp., Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2007-09-13
A question of hard drive capacity: How much hard drive capacity is enough? One of the key differences between the two quad-core systems that I'm building will be how much hard drive capacity each ends up with. This is because one of the quad-core systems will be mine and the other will...; Tags: Hard Drive, Quad-core, ISO, Bottom Line, Hard Drive Capacity, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2007-09-12
Flash drives get a fight from disks: I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to see flash drives moving into the notebook mainstream....; Tags: Notebook, Disk, Seagate Momentus, Performance, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., USB Flash Drive, Bottom Line, Seagate Technology LLC, RPM, GB Mtron, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-09-11
I wouldn't waste money on unlocking an iPhone ... yet: So, the iPhone unlocking software from iPhoneSIMFree is available, for the lavish price of $99. Personally, I wouldn't waste my money. Early reports seem to suggest that this software works and doesn't have any noticeable side-effects, but that's not the point. The issue is that this unlock...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Firmware, Bottom Line, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2007-09-10