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- Deperimeterization
- “In the past, and even now, companies erect thick castle walls and a moat around themselves. The new model is a more porous environment that makes it easier to connect organizations and people.” —Gordon Eubanks, CEO OblixGordon, among others, calls this movement toward a more porous environment, enabled by the Internet,...
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- Blog posts 2004-06-25
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- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain. The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...
- Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- iPhone 3G poses barriers to business adoption
- UK enterprise adoption of the iPhone 3G may be hampered by security issues and Apple's exclusive partnership with O2, among other factors. For years, Apple has paid little attention to products for enterprise users. Now it's pitching its new iPhone 3G as: "The best phone for business. Ever". But...
- Tags: Barrier, Apple iPhone, Phone, O2 Plc., John Romeis, Gordon Barnes, Paul Jarvis, Phil Jackson, Ignacio Toro Lyng, 3G, Cellular Phones, GPS, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Natasha Lomas silicon.com, iPhone 3G, smart phones, Apple, IT
- News items 2008-07-11
- Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely
- News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal. SUN VALLEY, IDAHO--News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., Murdoch, Internet, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Finance, Reuters, Yahoo, News Corp., Microsoft, Microhoo, mergers
- News items 2008-07-11
- Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
- The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux. Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million...
- Tags: ASUS, Computing, Microsoft Research, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Microsoft Windows, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?
- Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Linux's dirty little secret
- Linux's dirty little secretNice commercial! How much did it cost you?Strange, you publish it under the heading of "Dirty Little Secret"."Upload, design and build dynamic multimedia training courses. We charge a small fee to deliver the courses to the students online. For a few dollars per student, you...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, package manager
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Why your text messages are not private
- The media, including your correspondent, reported last week that the Ninth Circuit decision in Quon v Arch clearly established an employee's right of privacy in his text messages, even on an employer-issued pager. The court said that a police department that looked through an officer's text message...
- Tags: Text Message, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?Mark Cuban - Time Traveller and MastermindMark Cuban "founded Broadcast.com in 1005 and sold it to Yahoo in July 1999". HOLY %&*! Mark Cuban not only travelled back to 1005, but he also registered a domain and started an internet company...
- Tags: Portals, Web technology, Financial accounting, Gordon Gekko, Yahoo! Inc., Mark Cuban, Icahn
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Alex Gordon (exe)
- Alex Gordon is unlike other cats: he'd rather scour the planet for ancient artifacts and collect lost coins than enjoy the comforts of modern life. And he gets to do plenty of both in his thrilling debut adventure! He also encounters a lot of what he'd rather do without: dangerous...
- Tags: Adventure, Alawar Entertainment, Alex Gordon, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-05-12
- Google's open source problem is Affero
- The best open source protection for "the cloud," as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic's GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero closes the "ASP loophole" described by Fabrizio Capobianco here in March. It defines what SaaS delivers as...
- Tags: Google Inc., ClipperZ, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters
- Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...
- Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Sun xVM Virtualbox puts Mac on x86
- The newest version of Sun's xVM Virtualbox adds support for Apple's OSX. (Mac ad satire from Jazebski.Pl in Poland.) The new version is dubbed Version 2.6 and was released during last week's CommunityDays event. This is the first open source virtualization to support the...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel X86, Sun xVM Virtualbox, Virtualization, Desktops, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Oil and the future of cleantech are NOT separable
- Courtesy Gordon Murray & Mohr Davidow. I recently blogged about one VC's efforts in cleantech as it relates to finding renewable replacements for petrochemicals and coal-based products. That same company, Mohr Davidow, has invested in an auto design firm. Why? Because Gordon...
- Tags: Oil, Duck, Clean Technology, Fossil Fuel, Jadoo, Oil Pit, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Microsoft readies 'Albany' subscription trial for consumers
- Microsoft is set to start testing privately a consumer Software + Service bundle code-named "Albany," an all-in-one bundle of Office Home and Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspace and various Windows Live services. Microsoft began signing up testers for Albany in March. Earlier this week, Microsoft...
- Tags: Albany, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- UFO News (gadget)
- Direct links to George Noory of Coast to Coast Am reaching 20 million listeners each night, Jeff Rense his radio show reaches 15 million listeners each night and 78 of the top UFO, Alien abduction, Cattle mutilation and Crop circle researchers on this planet starting with Mar Allin, Colin Andrews,...
- Tags: Horn, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-16
- Churchill Club podcast: Navigating media upheaval
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, experts weigh in on the upheaval in the media and what you can do to cash in. Speakers: Neil Chase, VP, Author Services, Federated Media Gordon Crovitz, Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal and...
- Tags: Upheaval, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Application virtualization or what?
- Application virtualization or what?application service virtualizationI'm pretty sure that when you tally the votes you'll find overwhelming support for SOA as application virtualization.The benefits of decoupling the application from "where" it executes are equally realized by application, or component, services.You've mentioned some of the key benefits: scalability, increased performance, and...
- Tags: Benefits, Application Virtualization, application virtualization, benefit
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Another great contribution to humanity from the folks who brought you Chuck E. Cheese and Atari
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk explores the latest high-tech concept in dining from Nolan Bushnell, of Chuck E. Cheese and Atari fame. We all have our bad waiter stories. I confess that recently, in Europe, I sat in a restaurant for almost an hour waiting for a...
- Tags: Restaurant, Atari Inc., uWink, Squares, Games, Personal Technology, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Taking the reins and tending the cows at WebEx
- As a direct result of rolling out web meeting capabilities across its entire organization in the past six months, Cisco has found that its travel and expense budget is down by almost a third. The statistic is an unexpected benefit of acquiring WebEx in a deal that closed last May,...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Statistic, Cisco Systems Inc., Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
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