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Red shift meets event horizon

Red shift meets event horizoncentralization risksPhil, Excellent post - much food for thought. I actually agree that there are dangers in too much centralization of the computing grid, though I think that, for economic reasons, we're going to see considerably more centralization for the foreseeable future (though far from total...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Strategic planning, Greg, Amazon.com Inc., data center, centralization, event horizon, Subodh

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

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Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-28

ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government

Let the in-fighting begin!How long before it is subverted for political/ideolical purposes like the U.N. has been subverted?(not to say the U.S. hasn't)A bit of naiveness involvedIt stands to reason that, when governments are involved, that there will be political and ideological squabbles on any decision.The EU as a "unified"...

Tags: Government, Corporate governance, INTERNET, Vertical industries, U.S. Government, ICANN

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

3D football, anyone? Intel offers peek at 21st Century television

TV isn't TV anymore. It's out of the box. It's off the wall and it's not going back anytime soon. That was the opening line of the final keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, delivered by Intel exec Justin Rattner, who took to the stage to talk...

Tags: 3D, Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Astro Compass & GPS 3.01 (Mobile)

The program allows to use the Palm like a real Compass.Put yourself in front to any celestial object of solar system (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) or 28 bright stars (Sirius, Vega and so on): the program calculates its position on heavenly vault and then it will display...

Tags: Mobile, P.Massimino, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Publishing Group Dramatically Reduces IT Manpower Needs With New Messaging System

As one of Malaysia's largest media conglomerates, the Utusan Group places a great deal of importance on the speed, accuracy and security of its communications. After suffering reliability issues and numerous mistakenly blocked mails with its previous mail filtering application and with the Malaysian general elections, a major news event,...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Instant Messaging, E-mail Servers, E-mail, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications

Case studies 2009-06-15

AMC Text Effects 4 Plugin 2.0a.04 (Windows)

Create special-effects text that is difficult to ignore. These are the perfect graphic elements for your web page, PowerPoint presentation, screen saver, Presentation Wizard document or hard copy. The Text Effects plugin offers 21 high-quality text effects that will work with any alphabetic TrueType font in your system. Sophisticated antialiasing...

Tags: Alchemy, Microsoft Windows, Plug-in, Alchemy Mindworks, Text Effects Plugin

Software downloads 2009-06-09

Even large institutions not immune to Conficker

Even large institutions not immune to ConfickerWindows Software Update Service and NAPWSUS is what larger corporations, enterprises and larger institutions use to ensure stability of their platform.It basically lets the administrator decide which patches to apply when. He can also set up policies so that different patches are applied to...

Tags: Patches, Operating systems, Network Access Protection, ONE-Way, patch management, large institution, network, administrator

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?

I attended last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco with a sense of trepidation. A year ago this event was jam packed and had a celebratory, in some cases cocky atmosphere - I was worried this time the expo would be a washout as a...

Tags: Web, Tim O'Reilly, Internet Search, Conference, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?

IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-29

News to know: EMC, Intel Atom, ICANN Chief, Mac event, Green

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: EMC discloses DOJ probe Heather Clancy: EMC joins SmartWay fold Sam Diaz: Intel and...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Apple Macintosh, ICANN, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Sam Diaz, Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Sales Strategy, Linux, Desktops, Storage, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-03-03

So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know

So what is the cloud, exactly? Industry experts would like to know, according to a panel discussion today at Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. The panel, which consisted of six industry leaders whose respective companies are...

Tags: Service, Cloud, JA, BL, PK, KH, AA, VC, MC, Hosting Industry, Cloud Computing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Microsoft's augmented reality check

At TechFest, Microsoft's annual research event, the company demoed here is a video its "Core Tools for Augmented Reality AR," software that superimposes data and graphics onto a display with real time footage, essentially linking the information world and the physical world. At the show, the researchers...

Tags: Software, Researcher, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Augmented Reality, Corporate Communications, Engineering, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Analyst: 6.6 million AppleTV units in 2009; an Apple-connected TV on the horizon

If a Wall Street analyst is on track with his predictions for Apple, we'll see an upgrade to AppleTV - the product that Apple still refers to as "a hobby" - late this year. In addition, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster also sees an Apple-connected television set - think iTunes...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

IBM's Legacy World

I attended a regional 'Lotus Collaboration Summit' yesterday - a very helpful road show style event IBM put on to help flesh out the state of the Lotus universe and give partners a chance to demo their products to the customers in attendance. ...

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

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?

Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?I was disappointed.I was counting on not having to go to work. :-)The destructive fantasy of Freedom*Stultify* has no intransitive sense; Dr. Hawking appears not to know what the word means. Although this could be considered niggling, it...

Tags: fantasy, Hawking

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

25 environmental threats in our future

Environmental scientists and policy makers have done some deep brainstorming sessions about our future, according to this article in New Scientist. 35 representatives from organizations involved in environmental policy, academia, scientific journalism in the UK have used what they call 'horizon scanning.' They've established a list of 25 future novel...

Tags: Scientist, Threat, U.K., Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Which will kill SOA fastest: no money or no skills?

Which one of the following will kill SOA projects faster this year? Lack of money, or Lack of skills? Two separate articles out this week talk about double-trouble for SOA in 2008. Anne Thomas Manes, analyst with Burton...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-01-31