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Photos: A high-tech future dawns in China

Beijing is a blend of the old and the new, from Lenovo's headquarters to the massive groundwork for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Tags: Summer Olympics, blend, groundwork, Beijing, Lenovo Group Ltd., China, photograph

Image galleries 2007-04-19

Groundwork targets mid-market enterprise

Groundwork is at Interop this week, using its open source monitoring solution on the InteropNet. The East Coast show is much smaller than those on the West Coast, but that's fine with Tony Barbagallo, vice president for product marketing and management at Groundwork, because he's targeting mid-sized businesses anyway....

Tags: Groundwork

Blog posts 2006-09-20

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Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall

Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook. The company has been...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Acquisition, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?

Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?The perception is ...... Apple can't be great without Steve Jobs. I personally don't feel this is necessarily the case even though when Jobs was ousted proved to be a disastrous decision for Apple.Apple is in a strong growth period and...

Tags: Quality, Desktops, Digital media, Steve J, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Why Flash and Silverlight will save the web

Flash and Silverlight are viewed in some circles as undermining a free and open Internet. The truth, however, is that both technologies are part of the process by which we map out a problem domain sufficiently, laying the groundwork for standardization committees of the future. Deviation from standards,...

Tags: Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Technology, Paul Ellis, Standardization Committee, Problem Domain, Channel Management, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-15

IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41ò0of execs stumped about mashups

IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41ò0of execs stumped about mashupsEnough propaganda and anyone...can be a believer.Enterprise IT is turning into a bloated money pit. Good for the person selling the story, bad for the one buying it.Did someone say IT failures? Expect more. IT departments need to get...

Tags: Channel management, Strategy, Groupware, Enterprise IT, Web 2.0, Web, information technology, accounting system, IT-departments, collaboration, mashup

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Bad leadership causes failed IT [guest blogger]

Bad leadership causes failed IT [guest blogger]From the Obvious to the executionMuch of what you say is true, and as you point out much has been written on this subject, and very little changes.Having delivered some very successful projects myself, the biggest success factor is a clear delineation between, business,...

Tags: Strategy, Leadership, True Leadership, information technology, Bad leadership cause, Bad leadership, guest blogger

Discussion threads 2008-06-29

Windows 7: The information lockdown

Windows 7: The information lockdownSeriously!They're not even saying anything when they should be going beyond open sourcing their new product! They should give it away, I mean, that's how everyone makes money isn't it?! Giving away your stuff? I mean, yeah, *I* can't do that because I need to pay...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Quick Look, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

Microsoft's competitor to Adobe Lightroom gets another champion

What's Microsoft want with Adobe Photoshop guru Mark Hamburg, who recently joined the Redmond juggernaut? Hamburg a programmer who has been part of the Adobe Photoshop team since version 2.0 and helped lead the Photoshop Lightroom one, is now a Softie, as News.com's Stephen Shankland reported on...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-29

XP SP3 vs. Vista SP1 - Which is fastest?

In the TalkBack section on my post looking at SP3 benchmarks, _deitrich asked a really good question: Adrian, how about a comparison of XP SP3 vs Vista SP1? Oui? C'est possible? Good question! Fortunately I've already done a fair bit of the groundwork in that I used the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-04-28

3Tera proposes 'cloudware' architecture

3Tera, which provides utility computing services and applications to provision, manage and monitor infrastructure via a browser, will announce Wednesday plans to lay the groundwork for a new architecture for the cloud. 3Tera will outline its vision at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Here's what...

Tags: 3Tera Inc., AppLogic, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Network Technology, Software, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-23

openQRM goes solo after Qlusters dumps open source strategy

openQRM is looking for a new sponsor following its separation from Qlusters earlier this month. On April 9, on the release of openQRM 3.5, Qlusters announced it decided to donate the open source data center management provisioning and monitoring project to the community on SourceForge. The project, which will continue to be...

Tags: Strategy, openQRM, Qlusters, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction pool

Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction poolLost cause by then[i]- XP SP3 will keep it alive until then while MS franticly tries to push Vista harder and bring it up to snuff.[/i]Vista will be a lost cause by then. Too tainted except by the most...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Release Date Prediction Pool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows7, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...

Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-26

GroundWork launches enterprise edition, version 5.2 upgrade

GroundWork Open Source is moving higher up the food chain. To that end, the company launched at the start of the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco its first enterprise edition and a significant upgrade of its networking monitoring platform that is more scalable and extensible. ...

Tags: Enterprise Edition, Open Source, Monitoring, GroundWork Open Source, GroundWork Monitor 5.2, GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Putting together a portable office - MKII

Putting together a portable office - MKII"Most Popular" isn't always "Best"I know a lot of people who "live" off of their thumb drives. I do it quite a bit myself.After much experimentation, though, I've concluded that a little extra effort is well-rewarded regarding portable software.Take a look at Italian-based WinPenPack....

Tags: portable office, MKII

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

A look back at MIX 2008

Alistair Croll has a post up about his impressions of MIX and talks a bit about Microsoft's "three front war". In general, it's a pretty good post that encompasses everything Microsoft is doing. And I think it's very interesting just how deeply the RIA space is running through Microsoft. It's...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Video, Microsoft Corp., Alistair Croll, MIX, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-09

TechNet Webcast: BOIS and Windows Server 2008 (Level 300)

This webcast discusses the overall goal of the branch office design: to provide a positive branch office user experience in a secure, efficient, and affordable manner with minimum ongoing management and support overhead. It uncovers Branch Office Infrastructure Solution BOIS 3.0 and how the Windows Server 2008 operating system provides...

Tags: Secure, Webcast, Branch Office, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2008-02-20

Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!

Microsoft just announced a $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the half-cash, half-stock offer in a brutal carrot-and-stick open letter to Yahoo!'s board of directors. The Redmond giant appears to laying the groundwork for a hostile takeover if it comes to that. Ballmer...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Common Stock, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-02-01

OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"

As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-01-31