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- Internet Special Ops - Stalking Badness Through Data Mining
- Today's Internet threats are global in nature. Identifying, enumerating and mitigating these incidents require the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of data, which is only possible through data mining techniques. The paper will provide an overview of what data mining is, and provide several examples of how it is...
- Tags: Consortium, Internet, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Productivity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2009-07-11
- AXMEDIS GRID Content Processing Tools LE 2.1.0 (Windows)
- AXMEDIS editor and GRID AXCP tools, PnP, DRM editor, all you need to create and process any kind of content SMIl, HTML, content adaptation, fingerprint, crawling, indexing, CMS, search, retrieval, control of P2P, etc. Automating: content ingestions, processing, adaptation, protection, repurposing, database access, metadata mapping and processing, posting on database,...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, Consortium, P2P, Adaptation, Microsoft Windows, FTP, SMIL, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-02-09
- Agribusiness Portal a Ray of Hope for Farmers
- The Assam Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium was established to help farmers in the North Eastern States of India earn higher incomes by modernizing their approach to agribusiness. The consortium wanted to collect essential information relating to farming, such as weather, market data, production techniques, significant events, government policies, and new...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Consortium, Assam Small Farmers, Productivity, Portals, Government, Databases, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Is it time to go quad-core?
- Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...
- Tags: Processors, cloud computing, quad-core, laptop computer, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap
- Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....
- Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest
- Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it
- It's not very often that Google makes an acquisition and the target inspires a collective "who?" But that's what happened when the search giant bought On2 Technologies, a penny stock trading in obscurity on the American Stock Exchange, for 60 cents a share. And unless you've followed the wonderful world...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., On2 Technologies, Video, H.264, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- A Good Year for Security Collaboration
- Guest Editorial by George Stathakopoulos It seems like just yesterday when I was at Black Hat. Now as I get ready to fly to Las Vegas again, I look forward to seeing a lot of security researchers, hearing their latest exploits and how they fared over the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Conficker Working Group, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- IBM's chip gang touts 28-nanometer advancement
- An IBM consortium that includes chip manufacturing players Chartered, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics said Thursday it is developing 28-nanometer low power semiconductors. The consortium also extended technology pacts between its members. The manufacturing processes for 28nm chips are in place for so-called "early risk production"---real early...
- Tags: Consortium, IBM Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Australia to build $31 billion fiberoptic broadband network
- Australia to build $31 billion fiberoptic broadband networkSo funny"It will be the largest infrastructure project in Australia?s history, Rudd said, and would support 37,000 jobs ? not a bad idea since the country?s jobless rate may move above 7 percent next year thanks to the global economic downturn."Out of work...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Rudd, infrastructure fund, broadband network, network, broadband
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Australia to build $31 billion fiberoptic broadband network
- Australia says it will build a $43 billion Australian, or roughly $30.7 billion USD, national high-speed fiberoptic broadband network. In a surprise decision that rejected bids from some of the country's top telecoms firms, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Australian government would ask private companies join...
- Tags: Broadband Network, Network, Australia, Broadband, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- A Twitter primer for administrators
- How often have you heard, "So what the heck is this Twitter thing, anyway?" or "Why the heck would anyone want to use Twitter?" To be honest, they're not bad questions. Those of us who are Twitter geeks have to remember that the rest of the world may not...
- Tags: Administrator, Twitter, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- The Open Cloud Manifesto: Whats Up With That?
- This morning, to a lot of pre-launch buzz, the Open Cloud Manifesto OCM, spearheaded by IBM, launched officially, much to no one's surprise. The idea behind the OCM is that there exist a body consisting of many companies - and in the future, many, many companies, that would semi-formally agree...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- News to know: Windows 7 RC; Cloud wars; Scareware; Facebook WWDC;
- 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. Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and the return of the platform wars Microsoft fights the 'open' fight amid the clouds. Techmeme Mary Jo...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- NMC releases Horizon Report
- The New Media Consortium recently released their "Horizon Report", which, among other things, listed the top technologies to watch in the coming years in education. Although some of them are no-brainers (cloud computing, for example), others seem to be a bit of a stretch, while a...
- Tags: Education, Web, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Technology initiatives we should demand from the Obama administration
- As much as many of us would like to continue to revel in the day, the inauguration with all of its rock-concert fanfare, pomp and circumstance is over, and it is finally time for the new administration to get to work. The 44th President of the...
- Tags: Patient, Barack Obama, Administration, Broadband, Digital Television, TVs, Workforce Management, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Networking, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...
- Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
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