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- Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
- It was only a month ago that I mentioned the release of Opera Mini 4.1 beta and today I received the announcement that the full release of Opera Mini 4.1 is now available to download and install for free. It is so good that it has now earned a place...
- Tags: Opera Software, Channel Management, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?
- Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- No Brotherly Love: EarthLink will pull its Wi-Fi network from Philly
- EarthLink on Tuesday threw in the towel on its Philadelphia Wi-Fi project, which the ISP was trying to transfer to a non-profit or the city's operating group. Now EarthLink is trying to pull out its gear. EarthLink says in a statement: After months of negotiations with...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., Network, Wi-Fi Network, City, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?
- With the completion of its deal to buy EDS for $13.9 billion, Hewlett-Packard is about to become just as key to Microsoft's fate as IBM is to the fate of open source. How will Microsoft react? While Sun, Red Hat and a host of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews
- Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect -- a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don't worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn't be easier. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., API, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP's to-do list following EDS acquisition
- We now know that HP is acquiring EDS in what appears to be an agreed bid that values EDS at $13.9 billion. Larry Dignan has the main analysis but it leaves open a series of testing questions for HP CEO Mark Hurd. As Larry points out: Overall, Wall Street...
- Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Asset Management, Construction, It Services, It Operations, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Does Larry Ellison have the best SaaS strategy?
- Software as a service sounds deceptively simple: Host an application, charge folks monthly and customers come running because they don't have to implement software. The reality: SaaS is rocket science and few do it truly well. This perception vs. reality SaaS gap bonked me over the head...
- Tags: Strategy, Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Larry Ellison, SaaS Trajectory, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- A U.S military botnet in the works
- Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Integrate Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Windows Media Player 11 with XP SP3 slipstream ISO
- OK, I just knew that posting a how-to looking at the XP SP3 slipstream process was going to generate a number of questions, but I hadn't expected anywhere near as many as I've had. Skimming through the list, I've shortlisted the top four questions peppering my inbox....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Media, Slipstream, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, ISO, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows XP, Iso standards, Microsoft Windows, Process Improvement, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- HP to take out EDS: does it make sense?
- We've heard these rumors before but this time it seems HP is in serious hunting mode with EDS as the target. Larry Dignan offers his take on the rationale behind the story. Fellow Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani adds to the debate suggesting both pluses and minuses: HP could use a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5
- Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack (SP) 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Astoria, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Sourceforge missing community manager opportunity
- Sourceforge community manager Ross Turk called today and we had a nice talk about the site's Community Choice Awards, whose nominations opened today. (Shown is the avatar of Socrates Jansma, community manager for OurVirtualHolland. Notice the nifty virtual tie with matching handkerchief. Every girl's crazy about a...
- Tags: SourceForge, Community Manager, Wiki, Benefits, Online Communications, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- PrinterSetup project for CUPS
- A recently released printer utility for larger Mac deployments is in "prototyping phase." For those managing mass-quantities of Macs and Unix machines, this project could be useful. PrinterSetup is a component of PrintingWorks, an open-source CUPS "print accounting solution" by Lucid Information Systems. The docs say it's...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, PrinterSetup, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Mobile software Monday: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting
- My plan was to post software reviews here every Monday, but at times my schedule and life doesn't allow me to give a full test of a software package and write up my thoughts so I missed last week. Thus, I am posting a double review this week on Mobile...
- Tags: Application, Device, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Podcasting, S60, Nokia Podcasting Application, Submissions, Podcasts, Storage, Databases, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
- What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...
- Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Is Cisco vulnerable to open source?
- A few years ago Cisco accidentally put some open source code in one of its Linksys routers. It released the code, then quickly brought out a new, closed source version. The point is that while Cisco is a good corporate citizen it is not a friend of...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Vyatta, Open Source, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Powerset shows semantic search solution
- Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Introducing the User Interface Resource Center
- Late last week effectiveUI rolled out the User Interface Resource Center as a place for developers and designers to get information about various RIA technologies. They interviewed people from Adobe, Microsoft, and independent developers on a variety of topics. There's obviously a heavy user interface focus and they dive into...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Creating an XP SP3 slipstreamed ISO file
- If you are not a TechNet or MSDN subscriber then getting your hands on a copy of Windows XP with SP3 means having to do some legwork yourself (or shell out for a new license ... but I'm assuming that you have better things to spend your money on!). ...
- Tags: CD, ISO, nLite, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Microsoft Windows XP, Quality, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
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