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Index ranks IT industries by nation

Index ranks IT industries by nationcompetitiveness enablersInteresting article. Recent discussions on Zdnet involving the HP identity theft, WiMax, Iphone and Abramoff have identified competitiveness enablers which if allowed to proceed will ensure US dominance economically for quite some time, possibly 1000 years.The first enabler is the unique form of democracy...

Tags: information technology, Web 2.0, democracy, younger democracy, Web, enabler

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

EnablerLite (zip)

Enabler is a program designed to enhance your productivity. I personally use Enabler as a memory saving replacement for explorer. When I am running many programs or a memory intensive program I will stop explorer.exe from running and instead use Enabler to launch my applications. I also find the ability...

Tags: Program, Memory, EnablerLite, Enabler, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2007-03-21

Test Bed for a Wireless Network on Small UAVs

Small (10kg) UAVs are low-cost low-risk candidates for emerging UAV applications. Examples include multi-UAV swarming, flocking, and sensing operations; or, as a communication relay for a network of ground radios mounted at fixed sites, on vehicles, or in sensors. A key enabler is the ability of the UAVs to communicate...

Tags: Network, Radio, Wireless Network, Wireless, UAV, Enabler, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing

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Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?

Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista R2, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, new name

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRM

Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRMI don't know... seems a lot of people are enraged...... over the introduction of such a DRM system to their computers. I've read numerous incidents where people have to constantly restart their game, uninstall the games to get another program running, etc...Also it...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Games, Rootkits, SecuROM, game, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Broadcast or communicate?

When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...

Tags: E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-08

MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?

Confusion over exactly what MinWin is -- Is it a concept? a new operating system kernel? a floor wax? a dessert topping?) -- and how/whether it will be part of Windows 7 is still rampant, a week after Microsoft "communicated" about Windows 7 via a Q&A with News.com. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-02

The company people want Microsoft to be

The recent announcements regarding Microsoft's plans to include native support for ODF and PDF as part of Office 2007 SP2 was certainly unexpected. They had just managed to get OXML ratified by ISO, a move that was clearly aimed to counter a format that had benefited from its decision to...

Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, IM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Instant Messaging, Game Players, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Confessions From a Performance Management Road Warrior

The presenter of this webcast explains why there is no single component of the Performance Management suite that drives improvement, but rather the synergy from their integration. The attendee will learn how strategy maps and their companion, balanced scorecards, communicate strategic objectives with target-setting to help cross-functional employee teams align...

Tags: Performance, Competitive Advantage, SAS Institute, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management

Webcasts 2008-05-23

Enomaly's open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloud

Enomaly is a software developer in Toronto whose open source cloud computing platform is getting a lot of attention these days. The platform, Enomalism, is a virtual infrastructure tool that allows customers create their own cloud capacity and move virtual machines from one's data center or from...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Platform, VMware Inc., Enomaly, Enomalism, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Certification Services Firm Uses Hypervisor Solution to Cut IT Costs, Improve Service

Sporton International is a mobile communications certification company in Taiwan. Sporton had an overcrowded data center, incurring rising electricity and cooling costs for underutilized servers. Using manual provisioning and administration processes, IT employees were unable to respond quickly to requests from Sporton's developers for test environments. All that changed when...

Tags: Hypervisor, Information Technology, IT Cost, Sporton International, Virtualization, Servers, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2008-05-01

Carbon management dashboards and SOA's uncertain role in Green IT

There's been plenty of discussion about 'Green IT' over the past year, but, as far as I can tell, there has been little discussion about SOA's role in all this. It can be assumed that as data centers are consolidated and streamlined, SOA methodologies will be employed to play some...

Tags: Green IT, Dashboard, SOA, Carbon Credit, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Questioning IT

Questioning ITSome grammarYou have quite the run-on sentence (Basically if your organization ... — skills mismatch disaster.)You also need to remove negative words like fail (Windows skills don’t carry forward to Linux, mainframe skills cause Solaris to fail.), and replace them with "pleasant sounding euphamisms" like "have difficulty" or "be...

Tags: Corporate governance, Strategy, information technology, corporate board, Enron Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened

Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...

Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-07

As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users

The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...

Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile linux is poised for commercial takeoff in 2008

The momentum behind mobile Linux is accelerating because several communities -- and commercial giants -- are finally backing it. Despite earlier efforts from pioneering companies like MontaVista, Lineo and Access, the open source operating system has always taken a back seat to proprietary mobile operating systems such as Nokia-backed...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Mobile, Intel Corp., Mobile Linux, LIPS Specification, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-04

The CIO's innovation dilemma

The CIO's innovation dilemmaHolistic approach vs Google or MicrosoftGreat stuff, Dennis.A lot of companies treat the enterprise like medical specialists. They love the kidney and that's all they worry about. Google is explicit that they want to work around IT. And Microsoft clearly focuses 100% on IT at the exclusion...

Tags: Benefits, IT IS, innovation dilemma, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

Economist Intelligence Unit on sustainability

The Economist Intelligence Unit this week publishes a report on the state of business and sustainability entitled: Doing Good: Business and the Sustainability Challenge. (Disclosure: SAP was amongst a number of co-sponsors of this report) The report captures nicely the zeitgeist - most businesses have accepted sustainability as a mainstream...

Tags: Sustainability, Truth, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-13

OnState Unified Messaging for Skype debuts today

Contact center solutions provider OnState Communications has just announced OnState Unified Messaging for Skype. This is a single-platform, subscription-based Skype messaging solution that integrates email; voicemail; business chat; and customer contact messaging and recording systems. With a starting price as ...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Messaging, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Citrix moves to integrate XenSource's technology

Now that Citrix has completed its acquistion of XenSource, one would expect an announcement in which the company tried to put all the pieces together into an integrated story. Can you guess what the company just did? Right, presented an integrated story. Since the two companies worked together in the...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Pricing Strategy, XenSource Inc., Citrix Delivery Center Product Family, Citrix Workflow Studio, Tech Preview, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-07