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- IBM expects Linux to make money
- For Sutor today, the bottom line is the bottom line. I see nothing wrong with that. Having profit going to vendors who use Linux may be the best possible advertisement for open source. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Bottom Line, IBM Corp., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- The Energy Scene Right Now
- We're using less petroleum than a year ago, but it does not seem to be deliberate conservation. The International Energy agency says we're down about 3% from our 2008 consumption rate, but are slowly creeping upward. Meanwhile, in Washington there's a party divide over oil and nuclear energy....
- Tags: Bottom Line, Government, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- A 3G phone you can drop, freeze, and use in a downpour
- When Motorola told me I would be able to put their new Tundra mobile phone through "extreme" tests, I couldn't resist. Who doesn't want to intentionally drop a cell phone? As it turns out, the Tundra lives up to the hype. Officially the VA76r,...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Motorola Inc., TUNDRA NOTES, BOTTOM LINE, 3G, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Carbon trading in the real world
- There has been some talk of beginning a national carbon trading, "cap=-and'trade" system in the U.S. Are we sure we want efforts to stop air pollution to be tied to the same uncontrolled market forces that created our current financial mess? That give the U.S.the most expensive health...
- Tags: Gasoline, Health Care, Bottom Line, Carbon, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-08
- What I learned in 2008
- If politics is the art of distorting reality for your own purposes, IT really ought to be seen as the art of applying reality for corporate purposes - but IT politicians often win, and it's not good for anybody when they do. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Bottom Line, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- Open source and the bottom line
- It has been a hard decade for software billionaires and the next decade will be just as hard. Because the open source genie is not going back into the lamp. But net-net, the world is much better for it. The bottom line is in the eye of the beholder. by...
- Tags: Bottom Line, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Matt Aslett, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Management, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including Roku's new Netflix player, a travel USB hard drive, and a set of Bluetooth speakers from Nokia.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Aperion Intimus 5B Harmony SD Black ...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Performance, RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Bottom Line, CNET', Price, Smart Phones, Performance Management, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-24
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a fashionable Bluetooth headset, Bose on-ear headphones, and the BlackBerry Curve 8330 for Sprint.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Aliph Jawbone 2 black Editors'' rating: 8.7 The...
- Tags: Headphone, Bose, RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Bottom Line, CNET', Price, It', FireWire, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Wireless, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-17
- 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
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