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- What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?
- What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?The biggest thing in IE8 for the enterprise: continued compatibilityproblems and continued foot dragging on the standards front. Also very slow JavaScript. Much slower than the already released version of FireFox, Opera, and Safari. Pretty sad . . . .RE: What's in IE 8...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, enterprise user, standards, Mozilla Firefox, IE8, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round
- Trilliant, a green tech company that's working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment...
- Tags: Green Technology, Ontario, Trilliant, Vogel, Government, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Live Webcast: Enterprise Search Architectures of the Future
- Businesses today increasingly recognize the benefits of universal search, the ability to search all corporate content sources from a single secure search box. Many enterprises have heavily invested in developing content management systems and their associated processes. These systems and portals hold valuable information; however, lack of quality search...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Webcast, Benefits, Search, Human Resources
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs
- Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costsMicrosoft puts out a free tool that does essentially the same thingSteadystate... google it. We currently use it on kiosk computers, but you could use it for what they are pushing it for. You could also deploy group policies that prevent...
- Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, dumb terminal, Virtualization Software, virtualization, IT cost, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- An argument about switching costs
- An argument about switching costsJust a question...If you're going to be using Windows desktop apps with Sun Ray's, doesn't that mean you'll have to deploy Windows Terminal Server too?Why not drop the cost of Sun Ray and just use WTS (if you're paying for it anyway)?RiskThe core of Dr. Dogs...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Switching Costs, WTS, information technology, Murph, Sun Ray, window
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Olympics set the stage for Web tech fight
- The summer Olympic games provided the first battleground for a war between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition. SEATTLE--As the world's best athletes competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the stage for a battle between Microsoft and Adobe over the Internet's next big competition....
- Tags: Software, Developer, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Reuters, Adobe, Microsoft, Silverlight, video
- News items 2008-08-25
- Google and Sirius XM: Build my "Dream" Handheld
- The current rumor-mongering seems to indicate that HTC's "Dream" will soon be making landfall in the US. Based on the initially leaked specs of this device, it still sounds like it doesn't do what I really would want it to do in order to replace by Blackberry 8820. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Handheld, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Video, Sirius, Android, Mesh Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- Apple puts on back-to-school full court press
- Apple has always been a big player in the education market and this year it appears to be grabbing more share by selling Macs with iPod discounts among other moves. Let's connect a few dots: AppleInsider reports that RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is projecting...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- FlashPioneer Video Chat (zip)
- FlashPioneer Video Chat is a non-client, audio & video chat solution based on FMS. It helps you deploy an online community with features in text, sound & video communication, real-time doodle and animation smiley besides advanced functions of database integration, multi-language and multi-platform support. It is a white brand system...
- Tags: Video Chat, Video, SourceTec Software, FlashPioneer Video Chat, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-08-21
- Convenience Store Chain Enhances Security, Boosts Mobility With New Operating System
- Seven-Eleven Japan operates the largest chain of convenience stores in Japan. With its North American subsidiary 7-Eleven, the company operates or franchises approximately 32,300 stores worldwide. The Seven-Eleven Japan sales staff is highly mobile, often working outside of the main office. The company wanted to help these remote employees work...
- Tags: Security, Japan, Operating System, Mobility, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Sales, Marketing, Software
- Case studies 2008-08-21
- Windows: You say major; I say minor
- Windows: You say major; I say minorThey can call it anything they please. It is still overpriced JUNK.Get Linux :-)Duck the questionMaybe they should do another theme change. For a while it was a series number (3.1), then a year (95, 98, 98SE, 2000), then a letter combo XP,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days
- Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership -- strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today -- is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days. Why? Because of recent...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Interoperability, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, ISO, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Virtualization, OpenOffice, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Hyperic gets on Google's cloud
- Hyperic CloudStatus is now available to users of Google AppEngine cloud. The program was already available to users of Amazon's Web Services cloud. Hyperic principal engineer Jon Travis said the integration with Google is even "tighter" than with Amazon, but the two clouds serve different customer...
- Tags: Google Inc., Monitoring, Cloud, Hyperic CloudStatus, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Global IT Firm Poised to Enhance Security, Cut Costs With Operating System Upgrade
- EDS is a global supplier of information technology and business process outsourcing services that supports more than 3 million Windows-based devices. The company decided to deploy Windows Vista Enterprise starting with a pilot deployment for 1,000 users. EDS plans to continue its rollout to approximately 130,000 users over the next...
- Tags: Security, BPO, Information Technology, Operating System, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Microsoft Windows, Outsourcing, Operational Planning, It Services, Strategy, It Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- Case studies 2008-08-19
- My bad day with Windows Server 2003
- My bad day with Windows Server 2003I'm intrigued...Not by Win2k3 server, but your mention of Ikea furniture. What's that for? Computer desks, lab desks, general tables? My mind is boggling as to what school would let you use that, and what it's being used for!Partition MagicI've had some nasty experiences...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, Linux, Desktops, IKEA, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Partition Magic, server, bad day
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives
- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still livesWhaaa?!? Win7 != NT 7?If Windows 7 is not based off of NT kernel 7 then why call it 7 in the first place?WinNT = kernel 4Win2k = kernel 5WinXP = kernel 5.1WinVista = kernel 6Win7 = kernel 6.1?No way.If we remember the...
- Tags: Operating systems, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, kernel, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows NT, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, server, Microsoft Windows Server
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives
- What do you do with a blog post that is so messed up that you can't even go in and edit it to fix it? That's my dilemma with my post from August 15 about Microsoft skipping over Windows Server 2008 R2 and proceeding direct to Windows 7 Server. by...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Core OS Change, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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