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- Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids
- I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...
- Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Tags: Software, Security, Open Source, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- FCC issues 'radical' order re: Comcast
- The FCC has released its formal decision PDF against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired's David Kravets views it, it's an open invitation for ISPs to censor content – so long as they're protocol-agnostic about it. Calling the decision "vitriolic," Kravets says:...
- Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Network Management, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Networking, Government, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity
- Finally, a fight over remote controls that rely on hand motion, more than buttons. Oh, Nintendo's Wii has about a half-dozen buttons, plus a four-cornered "plus sign" for directional instructions. Well, Hillcrest Labs of Rockville, MD, can top (actually, undercut) that. It markets...
- Tags: Cable Television, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Hillcrest Labs, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- What SaaS can teach us about customer service
- In the SaaS model, the power is with the customer and vendors need to take a very different approach to both sales and service, here's how to do it says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. Commentary--Software-as-a-Service SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of...
- Tags: Customer Service, Software-as-a-service, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS, software. customer service, sales, Archie Black, SPS Commerce, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-08-20
- Android security team appeals to bug hunters
- The security team for Google's nascent open-source mobile platform, Android, has attempted to raise its profile with the security community The security team behind Google's mobile platform, Android, has tried to raise its profile among security researchers by appealing for their vigilance in monitoring the platform. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Team, Mobile, Vulnerability, Security Team, Mobile Platform, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Google, Android, SDK, open source, security
- News items 2008-08-19
- Apple's MobileMe: Why don't we just call it a beta
- Apple's MobileMe: Why don't we just call it a betaIt's the google modelHype it and treat it like a final release, but call it a beta, so that when your customers complain about your crappy service, you have an "out."It's all part of the "don't be evil" vision.People generally don't...
- Tags: Apple MobileMe, Apple Inc., beta
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...
- Tags: Application, Data Center, Enterprise, Data Centers, Storage, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-end
- Office 14: Alpha testing to begin before year-endSlowly but surely going 64-bitI heard about the nominations for TAP and I was interested in joining but after reading about the requirements I think I will skip and hold out until the private technical beta. Its good to see Microsoft is moving...
- Tags: Office 07, Microsoft Office, Office 14, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Carnegie-Mellon freshman gets first Fedora scholarship
- Zhou is an active member of the Red Hat Fedora community, working on the group's web site and infrastructure. He has also worked on localizing the project Web site. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Red Hat Inc., Fedora Project, Scholarship, Zhou, Professional Development, Open Source, Web Site Development, Career, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...
- Tags: Strategy, Torvalds, Linux, vision, Linux coder, open source, chef, picnic
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?So now removing your own product is anti-competitive???[i]limiting consumer choice by restricting the availability of Windows XP on new PCs[/i]What? Seriously... what? Was Chevrolet being anti-competitive when they stopped making the Camaro?Besides, if you believe all the anti-Vista FUD, I...
- Tags: Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC
- I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As the Semantic Web Gang discussed recently, North America has had the excellent Semantic Technology Conference for several years, and this...
- Tags: Europe, Conference, Semantic Web, Research & Development, Benefits, Internet, Business Operations, Human Resources, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Hairstyles for games and movies
- U.S researchers have announced at the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference that they have developed a new method for accurately capturing the look of a person's hairstyle for use in animated films and video games. The research team used multiple cameras, light sources and projectors. Then, the team created 'algorithms to automatically...
- Tags: Game, Geometry, Team, Researcher, Image, Camera, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Netflix back to normal; promises Saturday night movies and 15 percent off.
- Netflix, crippled by an outage that kept it from shipping movie DVDs to its customers for the better part of the week, says it has resumed normal operations. Millions of customers receive their DVDs by Saturday and the company, in a blog entry below, said it will apply a 15...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Outage, Manufacturing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Levin out as Black Duck's CEO
- Black Duck Software -- a pioneer in the open source legal consulting business -- has lost its CEO. On Thursday, Douglas Levin, the company founder and a director at the Waltham, Mass.-based company, announced his resignation, effective Sept. 1. The announcement came the same day that...
- Tags: Black Duck Software, CEO, Corporate Governance, Open Source, E-mail, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Cornyn illustrates U.S. health policy divide
- Cornyn illustrates U.S. health policy divideThere He Goes AgainCornyn is my senator and I'm always writing to him to debunk the statements he makes. Cornyn is classic Marketing 101 -- all talk, no listen.Voting our economic interestYour economic interest is ALWAYS less government, more free enterprise. Regardless of your current...
- Tags: Government, Lou Dobbs, middle class, Cornyn
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- IBM Australia faces strike action
- A section of under 100 employees who work in the "Flightdeck" at Baulkam Hills, Australia want a collective agreement granting them better pay and work conditions. IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action among its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday for employees in a...
- Tags: Ballot, Agreement, IBM Corp., IBM, workforce, strike, Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au
- News items 2008-08-15
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