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- Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round
- Trilliant, a green tech company that's working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment...
- Tags: Green Technology, Ontario, Trilliant, Vogel, Government, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised
- Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The suspects are believed...
- Tags: Taiwan, Hacking, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- MeteoSwiss watches the skies in 3D
- MeteoSwiss, the Switzerland's National Weather service, is using a new system to build 3D maps of Swiss skies. This LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging weather measurement system has been developed at the Lausanne-based Federal Institute of Technology EPFL. According to EPFL, this new system will be able to provide real-time...
- Tags: 3D, Laser, MeteoSwiss, LIDAR, EPFL, Sales Force Management, Sales, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The role of media in the Internet age
- Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...
- Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Media, News, Jon Stewart, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs
- With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in service longer, uncluttered and free of malware, viruses and hacking programs. At...
- Tags: Software, Dumb Terminal, Virtualization, Network, Information Technology, IT Cost, Virus, Computer, Virtualization Software, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Cisco buys PostPath: WebEx to compete with Exchange, Outlook, Office?
- Cisco on Wednesday bought email and calendar software maker PostPath for $215 million in a move that may signal bigger plans for WebEx. Simply put, Cisco and Microsoft are increasingly on a software collision course. Cisco said its latest acquisition will be used to "enhance the existing...
- Tags: Microsoft Outlook, WebEx Communications Inc., Microsoft Office, Cisco Systems Inc., PostPath, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- DataSynapse survey claims HPC leading IT initiative
- Datasynapse recently released the results of a survey that indicated that IT executives were more concerned about high performance computing than virtualization (I guess that meant using virtual machine software to create a virtual server-based environment rather than a more comprehensive use of the term). I must have not been...
- Tags: Information Technology, DataSynapse, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Microsoft, eat your own dog food
- Microsoft, eat your own dog foodReally?"Using hidden aspects of Windows to advantage Microsoft's own applications has been disallowed and behavioral remedies including disclosure demanded."I can't find these in the DOJ settlement, please help: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9495.htmWe can of course look to the EU which did demand documentation of a small subset of...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, food, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.Yep, going green allrightIt's called moss growing over all the abandoned homes and industry as Colorado slips into economic depression.The question now becomes how much misery will Americans allow greens to foist upon us until we've finally had...
- Tags: serious greening, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up
- HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Webcast: Spend Your Capital on Your Customers - Not Your IT
- As Web-based businesses and SMBs adopt more sophisticated technology to stay competitive, they often struggle to meet the high capital costs and expertise required to manage these technologies. Web and IT hosting offers an effective alternative--whereby hardware, software and support are provided as a service. You get enterprise-class Web...
- Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Managed Hosting, Webcast, Information Technology, Web Hosting, It Services, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Webcasts 2008-08-26
- Collage Maker (txt)
- Collage Maker is a tool that simplifies the process of building photo collages. Create eye-catching collages quickly and effortlessly. Select a group of photos and let Collage Maker generate the collage according to your preferences. The Auto-Collage Templates let you create interesting collages by arranging the photos in various layouts....
- Tags: Photograph, Galleria Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Office 2.0: Eating our own dogfood...
- It's been a fascinating experience helping Ismael Ghalimi organize the third Office 2.0 Conference, which runs from September 3rd to 5th at San Francisco's St Regis Hotel. As well as the terrific group of sessions and speakers we've organized, plus the action packed 'unconference' ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Amazon.com Inc., Conference, Session, Office 2.0, Office20.com, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- New StopBadware guidelines take aim at software update bundling
- If the StopBadware coalition has its way, software updaters from Sun Microsystems see screenshot above and Apple will carry the embarrassing "badware" label. According to a draft of revamped guidelines (.pdf) from the Google-backed computer security consortium, the badware label will expand to...
- Tags: Software, Guideline, Automatic Update, Consent, Apple Inc., Software Update, Patches, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
- In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Microsoft to roll out more granular 'porn mode' with IE 8
- Microsoft to roll out more granular 'porn mode' with IE 8Sex is a shameful thing?You can look at Internet porn all day and night and not libido.There's no libido there.Is this human nature to see naked as unnatural,dirty or even wrong?Or is it that you don't want your significant other...
- Tags: Web browsers, porn mode, IE 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Tags: Innovation, Conference, Office 2.0, Mashup, Unconference Session, Ross, Susan Scrupski, Zoli Erdos, Vinnie Mirchandani, Vinnie, David Tebbutt, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Vertical line issue also plagues some iMacs
- Vertical line issue also plagues some iMacsWhat part is breaking?The video chip on the mobo or the LCD?Good spooky story timingMy four year old Dell LCD monitor (1704FPTT) began displaying a vertical yellow line, or two, recently. Mine is still sporadic, but I'm sure it will stay or get...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Apple Store, Dual-Core box, Apple Inc., line issue, monitor, LCD
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
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