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- Zoho's login gambit: It works
- Zoho on Wednesday said that anyone with a Yahoo or Google account--basically everybody--can use the company's on-demand applications without creating a new account. The gambit worked on me. I perused a few Zoho demos before, but didn't get around to creating a full account. But since my Yahoo and Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Zoho, Chances, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition
- This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications....
- Tags: Software, Format, Data, Open Data Definition, Data Portability, Service Closure, Chances, Semantic Web Community, RDF Parser, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, RSS, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Apple earnings cheat sheet: It's all about the Mac units
- Apple reports its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday and the most important item driving the quarter will be Mac sales. All eyes will be on Mac units. Apple's Mac--despite a lot of focus on the iPhone--will make or break the quarter. Chances are pretty good that the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Unit, Quarter, Apple Inc., Earnings, Chances, Wall Street, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- 13 reasons IT hates metrics
- I've blogged about the importance of establishing clear metrics to help align IT and business, especially in relation to areas such as project portfolio management. In a great counterpoint, Ed Yourdon has compiled a list of "13 common political problems associated with metrics initiatives." Ed's a...
- Tags: Metrics, Information Technology, Perception, Metrics Initiative, Chances, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Reminder: US Daylight Saving Time starts this Sunday morning
- In case you didn't know, this is the weekend when US Daylight Saving Time starts - this is the switch where you get an hour less in bed. At 02:00 local time Sunday morning the clocks go forward an hour. Chances are that most of your critical...
- Tags: Daylight Saving Time, Chances, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
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- Freak helicopter death turns into an anti-iPod story
- Is it me of has this story of death by helicopter been hijacked by the anti-iPod brigade? The death of a pedestrian in Cranbrook, B.C., on Tuesday has raised the question of how loud is too loud when it comes to listening to iPods and other personal music players. ...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Helicopter, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrasy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards
- The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues
- Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- To Catch a Thief
- To Catch a ThiefApple should market is as an anti-theft systemThey have something similar for an iPhone where you can wipe it completely once lost or stolen. I can't believe they haven't came out with anything similar for laptops.Generally, IP Address would be more usefulIn most cases, it probably would...
- Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, Handhelds, laptop computer, data wipe, data encryption
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Logged into Google? You may see more ads
- Logged into Google? You may see more adsThis is win-winI've seen people arguing in the past that behavioral ads are a violation of their privacy but I say: give me more! Properly targeted ads are actually [b]beneficial[/b] to both the consumer and to the business because they do what middle-men...
- Tags: advertisement, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Second Life is the latest reason our kids are doomed
- I'm kidding of course, but U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) apparently isn't. According to the Chicago Tribune, Kirk sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting a consumer-alert warning about its dangers....Kirk said he knew of no cases in which children were targeted by...
- Tags: Second Life, Internet, Engineering, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Sun's continuing open source problem
- Despite its best efforts Sun Microsystems still has a big open source problem. Commitment. (Affordable Wedding Bands sells rings in both gold and platinum.) Any salesman is expecting a commitment from a buyer. But an open source salesman is expecting a deeper commitment. A...
- Tags: Commitment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Why many MCSEs won't learn Linux
- Here's the entirety of a note by discussion contributor nhudd responding to my e-mail exchange with "MCSE Mike": On behalf of MCSE Mike's everywhere... Paul, I think that the vast majority of techs/geeks out there can relate to MCSE Mike's question at the top...
- Tags: MCSE, Newcomer, Nathan, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- The Ultimate Vista Troubleshooting Toolkit
- If Windows Vista is operating at less than peak efficiency, chances are there's a simple cause. Find the problem, fix it, and you're back at full speed. So where do you begin digging? In this screenshot gallery, Ed Bott describes 10 built-in diagnostic utilities that every Vista user should know...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ed Bott, Windows Vista, performance, utilities
- Image galleries 2008-05-06
- 2008 BMW 135i Coupe
- Photo gallery:2008 BMW 135i CoupeBMW's announcement of the 135i hit us like Pavlov's bell, the one he used to make his dog salivate. Once we got into the 2008 BMW 135i Coupe, all of our expectations were met, and more. BMW threw its best engine into its smallest car, leading...
- Tags: BMW AG, Mph, Laguna Seca
- Product reviews 2008-05-05
- SAP CEO: Ballmer should have bought Yahoo
- If Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer were to call SAP CEO Henning Kagermann for advice on what he should do with his $40 billion to $50 billion the advice would be: Spend it on Yahoo. That call isn't totally out of the question given that Ballmer and Kagermann...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Microsoft's elephant in the OS room: Apple
- Are all of those Apple OS X vs. Vista commercials making an impact? Microsoft's client revenue--Vista and XP came in below expectations--and the company cited three primary reasons: A tough comparison from year ago levels, OEM inventory build and piracy. But the elephant on the conference call may have been...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, OEM, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Brendan Barnicle, March, Macbook Air, TR, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Silverlight to star in NBC's online Olympics coverage
- NBC is relying heavily on Microsoft's Silverlight to present its online Olympic coverage which will include about 2,200 hours of free on-demand video. Perkins Miller is counting down the days to the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing this year. NBC's senior vice president of...
- Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, Miller, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Silverlight, Olympics, Microsoft, video, on-demand, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia
- News items 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
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