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- TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7
- IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed
- There's always been an inverse relationship between density and durability when it comes to data storage. Today's silicon memory chips contain a lot of density, but with a lifespan of just a few decades, they lack durability. Yet primitive forms of storage such as information carved in stone are highly...
- Tags: Shuttle, Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Nanoparticle, Memory Chip, Chip, Memory Device, Shuttle Memory, Nanotechnology, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- A 'simpler' invisibility cloak
- Still far from what you've seen on Star Trek, the development of technology to cloak objects--currently too small to see anyway--is heating up. Researchers at Purdue University report that they've created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs, works for all colors of the visible...
- Tags: Purdue University, Productivity, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- News to know: Google; iBotnet; Cisco; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Google earnings deliver; Sales growth slows; Economy still in 'uncharted territory' Statement: GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2009...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, Information Technology, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, IBM Corp., Desktops, Strategy, Open Source, Hardware, Management
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Another reason to love Linux: SiCortex offers high-performance computing in an astonishingly energy-efficient format
- If you're looking to supplement your trading floor applications, business analytics infrastructure or Internet site capacity, SiCortex has a proposition for you: a 72-processor high-performance Linux platform with CPUs that use just 0.6 watts of electricity each. In other words, this is a high-performance computer that is designed to use...
- Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, SiCortex Web Site, Linux, Leadership, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- FriendFeed, Twitter address URL redirection risks; Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace lag behind
- When I compiled my crowdsourced 2009 predictions earlier this month, several people shared with me the same forethought: URL redirection leveraged by phishers could create a bottoming out of sorts for Twitter. The concern is that masked URLs could lead to stolen data or drive-by-malware, making it too late for...
- Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace, FriendFeed, Social Networking, Phishing, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?
- Are cheap flash drives a key to reducing paper?Well . . ."That way, they won't have to print web pages to paper anymore."Well, truth be known most assignments are typed on a word processor. If an English assignment is printed from a web page, it usually means you've cheated.Thanks for...
- Tags: Flash memory, USB flash drive, Adobe PDF, cheap flash drive
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- TechCrunch50: Day 3
- Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...
- Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties
- In January, I mentioned an internal Microsoft memo I had seen which provided details of how Microsoft plans to more tightly integrate its Windows 7 operating system with Windows Live services. Today, I'm providing the text of that memo in full, as part of the launch of my book Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Will IE 8 break the Web?
- There's been one nagging question about Internet Explorer IE 8 about which I can't stop wondering: Once it finally ships, will it break the Web? It's not just because I'm an unabashed Microsoft skeptic that I am puzzling over this. It's also because right up until...
- Tags: Developer, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Twitter, Qik, Mogulus: you're all dead
- ...as far as enterprise land is concerned. My Enterprise Irregulars colleagues have been debating the merits of some shiny new toys like Twitter, Qik and Mogulus. The conversation kicked off with the extremely smart Jason Corsello: Maybe this is Scoble specific but I just don't get it. ...
- Tags: Quality, Twitter, Scoble, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Why 2008 will be a bad year for Microsoft's Ed Tech market share
- Why 2008 will be a bad year for Microsoft's Ed Tech market shareMore problems from AppleAs a worker at a government agency in the U.S. I'm astounded by the number of MacBooks I'm seeing. If you are right about what people using in school being what people want at work...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Ed Tech market share
- Discussion threads 2008-01-01
- What are the best interests of advertisers on Facebook?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk, who has spent 15 years as a creative director crafting messages for advertisers, explains what advertisers really want in the age of Facebook. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg took this weekend off. You know, hung out at Starbucks,...
- Tags: Facebook, Brand, Advertiser, Branding, Marketing, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Google Local squeezes Yellow Pages, Online Directories
- The $39 billion worth of Yellow Pages and Local Search and Directories advertising forecast for 2011 is a big part of Google’s growth forecast, and it is a very Google-centric part.The Kelsey “Drilling Down on Local” Conference this week in Santa Clara was just a local stone‘s throw from Google...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Google Local, Yellow Pages
- Blog posts 2007-03-24
- BloggerCon: The user complaint session
- Chris Pirillo led the first afternoon discussion at BloggerCon on the "power of users." Doc Searls notes on the discussion are here, and you can listen to the podcast from this page or download it. Chris' premise is as follows:As a blogger, you have tremendous opportunities to tell developers what...
- Tags: Blogging, Chris Pirillo, I&rsquo, m, Dell Computer Corp., developer
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Rights of privacy for all?
- Yeah, I know I've been silent for a few days, but this article got my attention: Bad teacher. No apple. Actually, it's worse. Since reading it, I started thinking about privacy. On the one hand, we cherish that privacy, but on the other, we seem to be willing...
- Tags: privacy, teacher
- Blog posts 2006-05-02
- Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the uglyOld ComputersYou have my sympathy. Do you want or need P1 166/200 computers? I have 5 I'll send you on my nickel. I might even be able to send you Win95 disks for some of them. Might be more useful...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Apple's iWork emerges as top rival to Microsoft Office
- Apple's iWork emerges as top rival to Microsoft OfficeAnd OpenOffice still eats Corel's lunchso where does it put iWork at the same table?Sales?Whats the numbers if free non sold software is included?No story here, insignificant"According to market researcher NPD, Apple grabbed a 2.7 percent unit share, while Corel had a...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, AppleWorks, Microsoft Corp., Apple iWork, Apple Inc., Microsoft Office, Corel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-23
- Did Microsoft send the wrong guy to Massachusetts' ODF hearing?
- Did Microsoft send the wrong guy to Massachusetts' ODF hearing?It's all a jokeMicrosoft's representatives didn't help with their tone, either. It was a somewhat informal meeting, but the jokes about coffee came across as belittling. The overall impression was that Massachusetts was in the unenlightened wilds far from...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), MS Office Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, migration
- Discussion threads 2005-09-26
- Blogosfear
- It's amazing how quickly we settle into a notion of what's the right thing to do. Take the crisis over newspaper business models. As my brother and the Cluetrain brothers have lamented, the newspaper business is on the decline. The Times and Knight Ridder have announced significant cuts, with the...
- Tags: Blogging, Green Day, Naomi
- Blog posts 2005-09-25
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