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- Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?
- What on earth are Facebook doing? Imagine going into a stationery store and buying a Filofax personal organizer and then over time filling it with personal contacts info, photos and notes. You come home one night and it's no longer...
- Tags: Facebook, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Report: Microsoft chooses ad agency for Pink phone campaign
- AdWeek is reporting that Microsoft has selected ad agency McCann Erickson to develop its campaign fo the Microsoft "Pink Project." Pink is the codename for a Microsoft-branded phone and set of accompanying premium consumer services being developed largely by the Danger team that Microsoft acquired last year. by Mary...
- Tags: Advertising Agency, Advertisement, Phone, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Cisco Live! - CEO Chambers on Collaboration Business Value
- The above video clips from my handheld Flip are from John Chambers Cisco Live! keynote address today and are specifically two edits about Cisco's strategic perspective on collaboration and Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. In the second edit Chambers talks about Cisco's business architectural re-engineering...
- Tags: Web, Collaboration, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Failing with online backup
- Failing with online backupAh, the joys of online backupWhat all of these vendors fail to tell people is that there is not enough bandwidth for large backups such as yours. It makes fulls near impossible within a reasonable amount of time.That said, you may want to try a copy...
- Tags: Backups, backup, online backup
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Supreme Court rebuffs Hollywood's attempt to block remote DVR services
- The consumer hasn't often won in Washington when its interests have squared off against Hollywood's, thanks in part to the industry's strong lobbying efforts. But one institution where lobbying money doesn't come into play is the Supreme Court, and Monday's session dealt an indirect blow to the entertainment industry when...
- Tags: Hollywood, U.S. Supreme Court, Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Grace Digital Bravado GDI-IRD4400M
- Photo gallery:Grace Digital Bravado GDI-IRD4400MThe Wi-Fi radio category has grown steadily over the last two years, thanks to greater consumer awareness and the popularity of streaming music services like Pandora. Grace Digital Audio was one of the early entrants to this product category, and the Bravado (model number GDI-IRD4400M) represents...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, background color, LCD Display, Bravado, radio, Grace Digital Bravado GDI-IRD4400M, Internet radio, stereo speaker
- Product reviews 2009-06-29
- Windows 7: Good enough to pay for?
- I finally installed the Windows 7 release candidate that the folks from Microsoft were kind enough to pass on a couple weeks ago at the Intel Classmate Ecosystem Summit. I could have installed it on my Mac, but I already have Vista running with Boot Camp with a fair...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
- SOA services still too constrained by applications they represent
- It almost seemed as if the whole bottom-up versus top-down argument for SOA had been settled, once and for all. The best approach from now on would be bottom-up, with some middle-out, or something like that. None of this "big bang" stuff. Business units will build focused, ROI-generating projects which...
- Tags: SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Pitney Bowes branded community reduces customer support costs
- During the 2007 postal rate change Pitney Bowes, which provides postal equipment and services to businesses, received more than 415K support phone calls on the rate change alone, all in under a month. This was in addition to the company's usual flow of customer calls, so its support teams were...
- Tags: Community, Pitney Bowes Inc., Lithium Technologies Inc., Team Management, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- 10 data center paradoxes -- widening area networks; iPhone inspiration (2)
- Last week, I published the first five megatrends reshaping today's data centers, pulled from my latest article in Database Trends & Applications. Here the remaining five of the top 10 shifts, or paradoxes that are turning data centers upside down, rightside up, and many other directions: ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Data Center Planner, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- My Experience with Dell's Namastechnical Support
- Despite my dislike for all things outsourced, my first experience with DELL's call center in India was a largely positive one. So this week, during a particularly intense session of software testing, the 500GB hard drive on my DELL Precision 530 decided to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, CD, Call-center, Indian, Minesh, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Desktops, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud computing strategy
- Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud computing strategyCan we say Mobile Me Hmmmm..... seems like Apple came up with this idea a few years ago where you been Microsoft?RE: Webcast: Demystifying Azure and Microsoft's cloud computing strategyWhy do Apple Fanboys point out things that are blatantly wrong: Mobile Me =...
- Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Middleware, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Azure, Mobile-Me, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- Closer view in 3D (Image Gallery: Walk through AT&T Navigator on the Apple iPhone 3GS)
- Closer view in 3D (Image Gallery: Walk through AT&T Navigator on the Apple iPhone 3GS)Nice, but too pricey for meThis seems like a very nice application but it is way too pricey for me. Compared to my current Garmin Novi which is free to use it is over priced...
- Tags: AT&T Navigator, Image Gallery, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, 3D, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- Microsoft preps PC makers for Windows 7 Upgrade launch
- Microsoft preps PC makers for Windows 7 Upgrade launchGet Vista, Wipe Entire Machine, Put On Windows 7I've never had a good experience doing an upgrade, it's better to just wipe completely and install the new OS from scratch.I agree but....I upgraded my Vista Ultimate desktop to the Windows 7 Ultimate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, bloatware, Dell Computer Corp., clean install, Microsoft Windows, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- India's IT growth to slow down in 2009
- The global financial meltdown is expected to finally reach local shores this year, dragging India's IT and IT-enabled services ITES industry to its lowest growth in five years. INDIA--The global financial meltdown is expected to finally reach local shores this year, dragging India's IT and IT-enabled services ITES industry...
- Tags: India, Growth, Information Technology, Industry, International Data Corp., Financial Meltdown, IDC India, Swati Prasad, Strategy, Management, IT growth, recession, Swati Prasad ZDNet Asia
- News items 2009-06-22
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .Cloud Computing: The low cost arrived to IT business?Hi Tom,Great analysis, and of course I agree.And dare to say that Cloud Computing is also the IT business ?low cost?:http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/05/cloud-computing-the-low-cost-arrived-to-it-business/RE: The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .i don't think it can...
- Tags: Internet, gravity, industrial revolution, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-06-20
- CIO Jury: iPhone has no place in business
- The Apple iPhone may have got a makeover but it's not enough to convince CIOs the device has a place in business, according to a jury of CIOs. The Apple iPhone may have got a makeover but it's not enough to convince CIOs the device has a place in...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, CIO, Device, Mobile, Information Technology, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, CIO Jury, iPhone, Natasha Lomas silicon.com
- News items 2009-06-18
- AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policy
- AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policyLost iPhoneJust a thought. Why dont you just say you lost your phone and then get a new one???????RE: AT&T revises iPhone upgrade eligibility policyWow, still $399 and $499 for early upgrades. If Apple continues to release a new phone almost every year...
- Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, eligibility policy, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- SOA, IT and cloud governance converge into 'total services governance'
- Is it time to govern the cloud? Should it be the same governance we're working so hard to apply to service oriented architecture? These are the questions tackled at Dana Gardner's latest BriefingsDirect analyst podcast, in which I had the opportunity to chime in. (Full transcript available here.) ...
- Tags: Governance, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Ron Schmelzer, David Kelly, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), B2C, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- The Cost of the Free Internet
- The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free†Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...
- Tags: Payment, Video, Cable, Programming, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
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