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Cognition Technologies unveils their Semantic Map

Los Angeles-based Cognition Technologies today announced availability of their Semantic Map to the English language. According to Cognition's press release, "[their] Semantic Map provides software applications with an 'understanding' of more than four million semantic contexts" The...

Tags: Press Release, Software, Web, Cognition Technology, Cognition Technologies, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-16

CognitionSearch seeks more precise results

Cognition Technologies entered the search engine arena with CognitionSearch, which applies linguistic analysis of queries and documents to render more precise results than the popular search engines for English language queries. Currently, CognitionSearch is technology demonstration, focused on three discrete content categories--medicine, politics and legal. The company is also working...

Tags: SEARCH, CognitionSearch, Scott Jarus, Cognition Technologies

Blog posts 2007-03-20

Additional Resources

Intermedia - Pan Manager customer profile

Recently, I had a chance to exchange messages with Brent Rich, Intermedia's Director of Technical Operations. His organization has deployed a managed virtualized environment based upon Egenera's Pan Manager and a Dell hardware platform. Since I posted on the announcement of the Dell/Egenera relationship (see Egenera: New pals for PAN...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Solution, Intermedia, Egenera Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Wi-Fi: the only network you need?

CES, the showcase of all tech that is likely to make a splash over the next year, is upon us. While reserved primarily for, as the name implies, consumer technology, there are fundamental tools and technologies that will impact businesses as well.News coming out of Las Vegas today is around...

Tags: Device, Network, Personal Area Network, Radio, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Chipsets, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Looking ahead to 2009

2008 was a big year for rich Internet applications. We saw companies like Curl and Appcelerator make big pushes into the RIA mindshare. We saw a significant release of Silverlight - a release that most people excited about Silverlight were very happy with. We saw Adobe push more with Flex...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES 2009: Don't count out those Millennials or Online Media, Cell Phone on the rise as entertainment device, says Deloitte

 The idiot box is still king, but don't count out online advertising. (Source: Deloitte LLP) At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Deloitte LLP revealed the results of its 3rd State of the Media Democracy Survey, which are likely to be...

Tags: Social Networking, Deloitte LLP, Advertisement, Phone, Japan, Cell Phone, Online Media, TV, Survey, Entertainment, Millennials, Entertainment Device, Idiot Box, Early-adopter Millennials, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES 2009: LG's 12 new HDTVs, 'Netcast,' Blu-ray, LED backlight tech [day 2]

As I mentioned yesterday at the underwhelming CES Unveiled, LG had some new models to announce, and specs have finally been released: nine new LCD HDTVs and three new plasma HDTVs from 19 to 60 inches, some using LED backlight technology for those HDTVs, and some using "Netcast," a way...

Tags: USB 2.0, HDMI, JPEG, Light-emitting Diode, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV, Photograph, MP3, Blu-ray, USB, LHX Slim Wireless LED Backlight HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Cloud Computing: Apple vs. Microsoft

Both Apple and Microsoft rolled out the beginnings of a cloud computing strategy on Tuesday. Apple introduced a beta of its iWork.com document sharing service and Microsoft's Mac Business Unit unveiled Document Collaboration Companion for Mac Beta. At the Macworld Expo keynote, Phil...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Apple Macintosh, Cloud Computing, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Document Collaboration Companion, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Is the PlayStation Doomed?

Sony, putting aside the human toll of massive restructuring, is a fascinating example of the carnage happening in the business world today, and the stifling of innovation in large companies. Today's multinational conglomerate had humble origins in post WWII Japan: Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Game Players, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-06

'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst says

'SOA' dead as of January 1st, analyst saysSOA marketingWell, to a lot of people, there is a good deal of skepticism about SOA. We've seen a lot of sales pitches, but most of those seem to be centered around selling a Consultant as opposed to any other product. SOA could...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Companies, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Altor Networks security for virtual environments

Altor Networks security for virtual environmentsRe: Altor Networks security for virtual environmentsThis is all good and well but already you're talking about 3 different products to manage: physical firewall, virtual firewall and physical IPS through a partnership.I'd much rather have a solution that has technologies that span both the virtual...

Tags: Firewalls, Altor Networks security, virtual environment

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Storage networks

Storage networksBack me upThe main selling point of SANs was the promised ability to do "offline backups". IOW since you have moved all of your data into one place, you should be able to back that stuff up to tape - in the background. Every sysadmin would welcome giving up...

Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Backups, IP storage, network, storage, SAN, Sun Microsystems Inc., Network File System, backup

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Storage networks

Storage area networks sprang up largely in response to the complexities of managing storage in a Microsoft client-server world - itself ultimately a response to the small machine limitations inherent in both Windows and x86. Today, however, those limitations are receding for most small to mid range businesses and the...

Tags: Network, SAN, Server, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Networking, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Perlow may be a dinosaur, but the kids aren't

Perlow may be a dinosaur, but the kids aren'tYour utter contempt for anything Microsoft is disturbingWell I bought a Zune 120GB with a Zune Pass for my son and he absolutely loves it. $14.95 per month for unlimited music on up to 3 PC's and with full song previews in...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Zune

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: What price?

Behind the scenes at Macworld Expo, developers have mostly good things to say about OS X 10.6, called "Snow Leopard." While details may emerge during Tuesday's keynote presentation, the biggest question mark is the cost of the update. One developer wondered about Snow...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-01-05

HP's SaaS PPM solution

A Relevant and Robust Offering for today's IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen – VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP's offerings in the Project Portfolio Management PPM and IT Management spaces. Background: HP's software...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management Buyer, Project Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-05

The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn

On the heels of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the New York Times had a good read this morning about the fuzzy future of Blu-Ray. It kind of made me chuckle because The Times, much like most mainstream news outlets, didn't touch the one element of this story that really...

Tags: Video, Blu-ray, Adult Industry, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-05

IT's horsedrawn horseless carriages

IT's horsedrawn horseless carriagesStill arguing against the mainframe?The potential new market for mainframes is small. It's possible, Murph, that your real argument is against virtualization in general rather than mainframes in particular, but what you include in the essay doesn't arrive at that point.Also, where did you get the...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, information technology, J-type, virtualization, industry, IBM Corp., mainframe

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Love or hate this post? Sound off for the eavesdroppers

It seems that those comments you leave on blogs like this one may, in fact, be reaching the intended parties - the companies behind the products, services and technologies that you love or hate. Just don't be offended or creeped-out if the messages reach them via cyber-eavesdropping technology. ...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Blog, Technology, Blogging, Handhelds, Wireless, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-05

BIAS Peak LE 6.0.5 (Mac)

Take your audio projects to the next level. Deliver superior-quality audio without the learning curve. Based upon Peak Pro, the industry standard professional audio tool, Peak LE combines pro-quality recording, precision editing, creative effects processing, podcast publishing, and Red Book CD burning all in one easy-to-use application. For professional-quality audio...

Tags: Audio, Apple Macintosh, CD, BIAS, Podcasts, Internet

Software downloads 2009-01-05