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- Google readies budget search appliance
- Google readies budget search appliancePain--much suffered; Need--ill-formulatedThe Need is NOT: “Search” or “better Search” or “Faster Search” or “Simple Search” or “cheaper Search”The Need IS: “High Precision and Maximum Recall” of response to a query with reference to a collection of documents, even if dynamic.Some ineffective means: Well-known and...
- Tags: E-mail, Cost-Benefit, Google Inc., search appliance
- Discussion threads 2005-01-13
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- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bonfire
- VDI, somewhat ironically, may also work well for market mover Microsoft as it seeks to slow the momentum to outright web-based and OSS/LAMP-supported applications and services for large businesses. Microsoft must realize that enterprises have had it with the high cost of maintaining and managing the traditional Windows OS in...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, SolidICE VDI, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses
- Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game Spore offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Spore, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Electronic Arts, video games, Nintendo
- News items 2008-09-05
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion
- Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Super Tuesday: Nike Pro, iTunes unlimited, Sirius, NFL?
- With Tuesday's iPod event beginning to take shape, a couple of Super Tuesday rumors slipped through the cracks in my fortune teller piece yesterday. 1. TUAW thinks that we may see an updated Nike+ rig (Nike Pro?) for the runners out there. Since the original Nike+ kit...
- Tags: Nike Inc., NFL, Sirius, Apple iTunes, TUAW, Digital Music, Satellite Radio, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), GPS, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Red Hat acquires Qumranet
- I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)
- Dell and Salesforce.com have quite a partnership going on. Dell is developing its internal and some of its external application on Salesforce.com's force.com platform. Salesforce.com is moving its data centers to Dell hardware. And the two are teaming up on marketing pitches. Meanwhile, the relationship appears to be much more...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Live Demonstration on Sept. 4th: Disaster Recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager and Dell EqualLogic PS Series
- Join Dell to discover how the PS Series virtualized iSCSI SAN and VMware Infrastructure 3 enable simple, affordable disaster recovery using Dell EqualLogic Auto-Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager. This one hour live Webcast on Thursday, September 4th at 11:00 am ET / 8 am PT will...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-09-04
- Reduce cost and administration overhead with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
- Organizations are embracing server virtualization as a means of saving money and simplifying management of their network server environment. This sample chapter from Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Unleashed offers a detailed introduction to the capabilities of Hyper-V technology and best practices for getting the most out of it. ...
- Tags: Sams Publishing, Microsoft Windows Server, Administration, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Book chapters 2008-09-04
- Live Webcast: Top Ten Challenges with On-Premise Email Management
- For most organizations, the costs and management burdens of ever more sophisticated email continuity and archiving systems is now a serious problem. To manage increasing data stores, complex retention policies, fast search and recovery of messages and disaster recovery, companies have many choices for on-premise or on-demand services. While...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, On-demand, MessageOne, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications
- Webcasts 2008-09-04
- On stupid mascots and closed source browser plugins
- Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I'm going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out. Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader plugins are some...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web Browser Plug-in, Adobe Acrobat, Web Browser, Plug-in, Flash, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?
- Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?TiVo & DirecTVTiVo are not competing with DirecTV by selling their own boxes since the TiVo HD box does not work with satellite, only cable. By partnering with DirecTV they would then have the cable market AND the satellite market available to them....
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, TiVo Inc., DirecTV
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Revenge of the techies
- Revenge of the techiesThink of it this way.You fired me, i had planned on living my life as it were, i might have a house and kids to take care of, you have essentially ruined me. Now it might not seem right to destroy and take information, but that...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Revenge, job
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Where WiFi succeeds
- Where WiFi succeedsAll Good PointsMost important is your point that the cities' failures result from the failure of their business models. Just because the city council votes it to be true, and then commands, "Make it so", doesn't make it so.Your last point, that WIFI can work well on any...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- iRobot's Brooks starts worker bot company
- Even as iRobot won a wide-open contract with the Army, the company's part-time CTO, Rodney Brooks, left the company to start a new robotics firm, Cambridge-based Heartland Robotics. The new company is focused on industrial robotics, which logic would dictate would put...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Robotics, Bot, Worker, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Canon, Epson add Wi-Fi to new multifunction printers
- Built-in wireless networking capability is slowly infiltrating the home printer market. At the end of last year, we highlighted a dirt-cheap monochrome laser, the Brother HL-2170W, and both Canon and Epson have recently announced a handful of new all-in-one inkjet printers that also feature built-in 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. These four multifunction...
- Tags: Network, Epson, Wi-Fi, Canon Inc., Printing, Built-in Wireless Networking Capability, MP980, Printers, Document Management, Wireless, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Monster power strips have monster price tags
- Monster power strips have monster price tagsYou can do as good or better for 1/4 the price...Monster Cable is for those with Monster Ego's...RE: Monster power strips have monster price tagsWould i pay for there 600$$$$ product,not a chance. It should cost at best 200,no more. Yes i know its...
- Tags: Cable, Monster Cable, Monster, monster price tag
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopper
- Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopperHave you ever read MS EULA? In short...We can go into your machine and do what ever we want.If this is the case with the browser....how are they using your data in their cloud?Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopperI looked...
- Tags: Web browsers, EULA, Google Inc., Chrome EULA, TOS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
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