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Sleep Analyzer for iPhone 3.0 (Mobile)

Load the Sleep Analyzer program on your iPhone and place it next to your bed while you sleep. Sleep Analyzer for iPhone will pick up and record your coughing, sneezing, snoring, and any other sleep disruptions that may be troubling you. When you awake, it will give you readout of...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Disruption, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Nonprofit Improves Efficiency, Saves Money, and Increases Productivity in Server

The organization has experienced major disruptions in system availability. In the worst case, staff could not work for the duration of the outage. Replacing older systems with new was increasingly difficult because of disruptions of services, missed deadlines, and resolution of issues tied to deployment. These issues sometimes led to...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Disruption, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-02-01

Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem

In previous research the authors documented three significant disruptions to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem as the Cable Companies, Large Scale Network Savvy Content Companies, and Tier 2 ISPs started peering openly. By peering with directly each other they effectively bypassed the Tier 1 ISPs resulting in improved performance, greater control...

Tags: Equinix, Disruption, Video, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing

White papers 2006-09-29

Additional Resources

Ray Ozzie's view from the clouds

In a lengthy interview, Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talked about clouds, lessons Microsoft learned from the recent Sidekick outage as well as why people are wrong to count Microsoft out of the smartphone race. When Ray Ozzie penned his Internet Services Disruption memo back in 2005, he had a...

Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Microsoft, cloud, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-11-18

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

SnapLogic snaps together different data flows and cuts integration costs

I recently had a chance to catch up with one of my favorite Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs Gauruv Dhillon. When I first met Mr Dhillon he was CEO of Informatica, one of the top software companies in Silicon Valley. These days he is founder,...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Developer, Consultant, Snap, SnapLogic, Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Safari Cookies 1.3.1 (Mac)

Safari Cookies is the only cookie manager built for Mac OS X 10.5+ to integrate directly into Safari, for minimum disruption to your browsing experience. Main Features Automatically manage your cookies - only keep cookies from sites which are in your BookMarks, TopSites, or HistorySave favorite cookies to a whitelist...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Cookie, SweetP Productions, Safari Cookies

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Safari AdBlocker 1.1.1 (Mac)

Safari AdBlocker is the only 64-bit ad blocker built for Mac OS X 10.5+ to integrate directly into Safari, for minimum disruption to your browsing experience Safari AdBlocker supports the use of AdBlock Plus subscriptions (url's with the prefix "abp:") - and will be updated automatically, each week Main Features...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Advertisement, Apple Safari, SweetP Productions, Safari AdBlocker, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-10-28

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess

This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...

Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Danger/Microsoft lose ALL Sidekick data, do not reset your device

Engadget tipped us off on the news that all Sidekick users may lose their data due to a failure of the server that backs up and syncs all the data. I started out my wireless data experience with the original T-Mobile Sidekick, but thankfully have moved on to using services...

Tags: T-Mobile, T-Mobile Sidekick, Mobile Operating Systems, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-10-10

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

contextual analysisThanks for the Article, Took me like forever to read though.some over-zealous use of creative ing-grish caused me some contextual analysis paralysis confusions?or I could sayI had to keep leaving the read to go work out what all of the below quotes where about. getting that catalystcultural tractionholistic connectivityvaunted...

Tags: performance

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29

A List: CRM(ish) Reading Worth it.

Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road.  First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Customer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance

Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...

Tags: Pay-to-play

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage

Gmail is down again? And you are giving them a free pass because they are Google? That is crazy talk. What you should be asking is "Why am I using this service that is constantly going down?" With an in-house solution you can have total control of your Microsoft...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, IT IS, expection, Google Gmail, latest Gmail outage, Gmail outage, Unrealistic expection, Google Inc., outage

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage

So Gmail went down again this morning. It's a bit of a bummer, but I keep telling myself that it's OK, since I don't have to actually do anything to make it come back up again. All I have to do is check on the Apps Status page:...

Tags: Google Gmail, Outage, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Groupware, Collaboration, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Moderated Knowledge Sharing Bases

There's so much going on in the cloud world you need air traffic control to figure out what solutions to your problems are safe to bring to earth and put to work. The instant gratification world of cloud - select solution> apply credit card to...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Knowledge Base, MindTouch Collaborative Knowledge Base, Wiki, Strategy, Networking, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-09

The Issue with Virtual Data Rooms - Download White Paper

Data Rooms have evolved over the past decades from physical data rooms to customer-hosted Virtual Data Rooms and to SaaS-based Virtual Data Rooms. Yet still, they are typically very costly, clunky and not adequately secured. The Virtual Data Room segment is ripe for innovation and disruption, as new advances in...

Tags: Confidela, Data Room, Virtual Data Room Segment, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, Leadership, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Management

White papers 2009-09-03

Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter

Users are complaining on Twitter techmeme that Google's free Gmail e-mail service is down. TheNextWeb reports that Dutch news service NU.nl had to remove ads served by Google-owned Doubleclick because they weren't loading. We could only verify the...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Twitter Inc., Outage, TC, UTC-4, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01