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- Save water, save energy, save money, save manpower
- Click to see full image. Remotely directed irrigation controller. Courtesy HydroPoint. Moving water around uses a lot of energy in the United States and many other agricultural nations. A Petaluma, California, firm is selling digital control systems that can save both water and...
- Tags: Courtesy HydroPoint, Weathertrak, Paul Ciandrini, Caindrini, Roi/Tco, Cellular Phones, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Roadmap: Open source to take over mainstream IT
- Open source-based IT jobs will grow and the cloud will be ubiquitous, as long as the community takes certain steps, according to a roadmap from the Open World Forum. Within the next 12 years, 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, and open-source-based cloud computing...
- Tags: Information Technology, Floss, open source, cloud, Floss Roadmap, Open World Forum, predictions, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for, because it could influence the...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Apple: Don't believe the iPhone 3G truth
- Don't believe what Apple says in its iPhone 3G advertisements, even though the company claims it's not lying. In a nutshell, that's Apple's legal response to a lawsuit alleging misleading advertising for the iPhone 3G. You follow? The corporation's nine-page legal...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's Live Search (finally) adds malware warnings
- Microsoft's Live Search team has officially announced the integration of warnings for potentially malware infected sites within Live Search, following last week's introduction of a malware warning service aimed at webmasters. According to a post by Christian Seifert, Software Design Engineer at Live Search Anti-Spam & Anti-Malware...
- Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search Team, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Apple removes anti-virus recommendation
- On November 21 the blogosphere was abuzz when Apple updated a technical note on its Support Web site that says Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult....
- Tags: Software, Antivirus, Apple Inc., Virus, Viruses And Worms, Cyberthreats, Security, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Apple removes Mac antivirus language from site
- Eagle-eyed Elinor Mills, reporter at sister site CNET, has the scoop that Apple has removed the 2007 item from its support site late last night that urged Mac customers to use multiple antivirus utilities. Now, the company says the Mac is safe "out of the box."(What say...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Apple Inc., Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel
- The enterprise-software company has collaborated with networking-hardware company Emulex to produce Linux kernel data-integrity code. Oracle has announced that it has contributed data-integrity code to the Linux kernel. The open-source code, which has been accepted into the Linux 2.6.27 kernel, is designed to reduce data corruption...
- Tags: Data Integrity, Oracle Corp., Emulex Corp., Linux, Data Centers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Storage, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Oracle, Emulex, Linux kernel, code, open source, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Java SE 6 update 11 is out, 64-bit support still lacking
- Two months after Java 6 update 10 was released, Sun has just released update 11. For many users the new version will automatically be detected and installed, but you can always get it from the Sun Java site. Developers should download the JDK package Java Development Kit...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., 64-Bit, Programming Languages, Java, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study
- On December 3, Microsoft issued a press release entitled "Microsoft Gives Businesses Lower TCO Versus Hidden Costs of Open Source." The message: Open source software costs businesses more than Office and other closed-source Microsoft products. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Software, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Speedy Hire Case Study, Roi/Tco, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Dimdim offers synchronized co-browsing in web conferencing upgrade
- Dimdim has released an upgrade of its open source web conferencing software that features synchronized co-browsing, enhanced performance and greater scalability. The Boston-based company said the 4.5 version of its namesake software allows users to plug-in URLs and share web-based data and videos with other browser users...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web Browser, Dimdim, Web Conferencing, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Management, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- 40 percent of IT jobs will be in open source, study
- By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule in the cloud - with the result that 40 percent of IT jobs will be related to open source, according to a report. By 2020, the cloud will have taken over, and open source will rule...
- Tags: Job, Information Technology, open source, patents, FLOSS 2020, cloud, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
- Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OOXML, standards, ISO, OpenDocument, Standard, OpenOffice, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Apple's "install antivirus on your Mac" page is gone, but the idea lives on
- The knowledge base article on Apple's support site which encouraged the widespread use of antivirus software on Mac systems has been removed, but the idea that Mac users might still benefit from protection still lives on. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antivirus, Apple Inc., Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- AV on my Macs? Say it ain't so!
- As fellow ZDNet blogger, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, notes, Apple now recommends the use of antivirus software on your Mac. UGH. Really? The relative immunity of Macs to the plethora of malware floating about the Net has always been a selling point for the machines, especially in schools. ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Malware, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Sage results show impact on SMB market
- Earlier today, Sage, the UK's largest software vendor announced its full year results to 30th September and provided an update on how it sees the market going forward. Both the UK and US markets are the most affected by the economic downturn. In his review, CEO...
- Tags: Revenue, Growth, Health Care, U.K., Small And Medium Business, Sage, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Novell updates PlateSpin and rebrands Orchestrator
- Richard Whitehead, one of the interesting people from Novell I speak with on an irregular basis, contacted me to tell me about an update to the PlateSpin portfolio and how Novell the PlateSpin product family and the former ZenWorks Orchestrator have been rebranded. Novell's products in the area of virtualization...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
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