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Java 7.0 (Dolphin): Evolving in the Ecosystem

Sun developer Danny Coward says "Compatibility is king", but Sun is not standing still in the Java space. At last week's JavaOne conference he unveiled some projects that R&D is working on for the upcoming "Dolphin" release of Java, due out in 2008. The proposed changes are in three areas:...

Tags: Danny, Dolphin Ltd., Danny Coward

Blog posts 2006-05-21

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Google unloads Performics to Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe will buy Google's Performics search engine marketing unit for an undisclosed sum. Google acquired Performics via the DoubleClick acquisition and the unit sparked a little bit of a firestorm. The problem: Owning Performics could be viewed as a conflict of interest for Google. After all,...

Tags: Google Inc., Performics, Advertisement, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-06

On eve of Olympics, Internet companies agree to code of conduct

Internet companies have reached agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other repressive countries, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced yesterday. "I commend Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and other participants for agreeing on the principles of an internet freedom code of conduct,"...

Tags: Google Inc., Censorship, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Code Of Conduct, Internet, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Crunchbase meets the Semantic Web

Technology web site TechCrunch is one of those staples (like ZDNet, of course) to which we all turn for news and analysis on the companies shaping the Web. Their CrunchBase directory provides a wealth of information on the companies and people featured in their stories (and elsewhere, as it's editable...

Tags: Job, API, Crunchbase, Semantic Web, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Pro - headphones

Ultimate Ears has been a familiar name to musicians and other audio professionals for a decade, but in the past few years, the company has churned out a variety of headphones for several consumer lines that range in affordability. Earphones in its Metro.fi, Super.fi, and Triple.fi lines have gained a...

Tags: aperture, Y-cable, Ultimate Ears, Triple.fi 10, ear piece, headphone

Product reviews 2008-07-22

Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer

So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...

Tags: Thinking Machines, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Computer, Astronaut, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-01

ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us

ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of usGood stuffI've been extremely impressed with Proxmox VE and the developers are readily accessible and responsive via their forum and mailing list.I was going to install plain base Debian just for Plesk on this crazy new dual-socket quad-core (8-way SMP) box...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Leadership, cloud computing, Performance management, Storage management, high-performance, virtualization, KVM virtualization, ProxMox VE

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues

The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-05-07

JavaOne '08: Sun brings back Java applets

Sun Microsystems demos new JavaFX powered applets at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how the new applets can be deployed within a Web browser or dragged over to the desktop.

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, JavaFX, Java applets, Java Applet, Java, Applet

Videos 2008-05-07

Linked Data on the Web, WWW2008

The main programme of this year's World Wide Web Conference gets underway here in Beijing today Wednesday, but ahead of that yesterday was devoted to workshops. With my colleague Tom Heath one of the co-chairs, a paper pdf from colleagues Rob Styles, Nadeem Shabir and the absent...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Play drums? How about in the office -- via USB?

 Sure, this isn't the most serious item on this blog, but for the office worker who moonlights as a rocker, this is big news. May the cubicle emancipation begin! Synesthesia Mandala has hooked up with Tool drummer Danny Carey, of all people, to create...

Tags: Pad, USB, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Google should close down "evil" Performics business

Google should close down "evil" Performics businessChange in search has been noticeableI definitely noticed a change in search behavior in, say, the last 6 months with Google's search results. I agree the paid inclusions are polluting my search results. Alas, I still find it leaps and bounds better than the...

Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine optimization, Google Inc., Performics

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Google should close down "evil" Performics business

Google's recent acquisition of ad network Doubleclick means it is also owner of Doubleclick's Performics, a leader in search engine optimization SEO services. Google is in constant battle with SEO companies because they go beyond its basic SEO rules and trick its algorithms into a higher rank for a web...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Performics, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Looking for a dominant Semantic Web search engine

Despite the continuing efforts of Microsoft, Yahoo! and others, Google remains the dominant horizontal search engine for most people, most of the time. In the United States, comScore reports 58.5% of searches during January were via a Google property. In the Semantic Web space, search is far less established and...

Tags: Search Engine, Semantic Web, Search, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Commercial uses of the Semantic Web at WWW2008 ?

This year's World Wide Web conference (WWW2008) is rapidly approaching, and all over the planet web researchers are grappling with the Chinese visa application process ahead of their trip to Beijing. In contrast to a corporate event like Semantic Technology, the World Wide Web conferences tend to...

Tags: Conference, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'

At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

"Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?

"Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?What went wrong was simple....... MS proved once again that they are a marketing company and not a technology company. Marketing takes precedence. It doesn't matter if the customer gets scr3wed because they're a monoply and the customer's only purpose is to fill the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), No_Ax, marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Capable

Discussion threads 2008-02-28

YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses

It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...

Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Welcome to the Semantic Web

Hello, and welcome to this latest offering from the ZDNet blogging stable. My name is Paul Miller, and I'm delighted that ZDNet have invited me to start a blog with them that can concentrate on bringing you insight and analysis on the Semantic Web. I'm grateful to...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Microsoft employee caught out by Windows Vista Capable logo

Microsoft employee caught out by Windows Vista Capable logoInteresting phrase: caught outI've never heard that before.RE: Microsoft employee caught out by Windows Vista Capable logoI can't feel sorry for anyone who believed something MS paid millions of dollars from the marketing budget to tell them. MS has never once...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Windows Vista Capable Logo, Microsoft Employee, Windows Vista Capable

Discussion threads 2008-02-12