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- Scalent Systems wins best virtualization solution at Linuxworld
- I just heard the news that Scalent Systems was awarded "Best Virtualization Solution" at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Since quite a number of virtualization technology providers or technology projects were at the event; such as FastScale, OpenVZ, SteelEye, SWsoft, VirtualLogix and 3Leaf Systems; that's quite a complement.For those of...
- Tags: Real estate, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky, virtualization, Scalent, environment, agent, server
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- BlackBerry Patent app describes tethered BlackBerry user alarms
- A newly published BlackBerry Patent application describes technology that would wirelessly tether one BlackBerry to another- and would devise a way for the first BlackBerry to "alert" the second if it is disabled somehow.The Patent application is entitled, Plural wirelessly connected devices with user alarm if wireless connection is lost...
- Tags: Security, News, BlackBerry Patents
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
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- Needed: iPhone radio toggle application
- It's pretty well documented that the iPhone 3G can barely eek out a full day's use on a single charge. So much so that a cottage industry is cropping up for external battery packs. Here's a free tip that I previously mentioned for an enterprising developer that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Battery, 3G, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Assessing winners and losers
- Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn. The two remaining seats will be filled based on...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone
- General Electric, the venerable multinational that was founded in 1878 in New Jersey, have at their core a hugely sophisticated enterprise collaboration system that is arguably the largest in the world. I was able to see Dr Sukh Grewal, Manager of GE's 'SupportCentral' collaboration...
- Tags: Backbone, General Electric Co., SupportCentral, Collaboration, Groupware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Has Asus forgotten what the Eee PC was all about?
- Has Asus forgotten what the Eee PC was all about?The answer is simpleAsus has discovered there's no money in the bargain basement bin. You're in a pretty shaky business when you have to choose your BIOS because it costs you one penny less.Just like any other vendor, they are ....
- Tags: Keyboards, ASUS, Eee PC, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- SQL Heartbeat (zip)
- SQL HeartBeat is a tool, which monitors your server wait categories, IO activity, checks your current Cache Hits ratio, analyzes your I/O system performance, gets details about active processes, display locks, and deadlocks. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: SQL, Lakeside SQL, SQL HeartBeat, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-23
- Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I upgrade?
- Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I upgrade?Can you evaluate it?If it does seem like you are achieving $100/mn more productivity with the additional speed, I'd say go for it. It comes down to a value issue for me.RE: Verizon FiOS goes 50 Mbps across U.S.: Should I...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, Mbps, Verizon Communications Inc., Verizon Fios
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?All software eventually expires and is upgraded.The operating system is no different.Personally, I think that this entire conversation has been missing the point.Most people, by which I mean consumers not IT staff, don't care what operating system is on their computer. They will use...
- Tags: Service Pack 1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Carl and Yahoo's dueling banjo routine gets old
- See Carl Icahn blast Jerry Yang and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock over a compensation plan to fend off a Microsoft bid. See Roy tell Carl he's manipulating facts and using allegations from a complaint that has no merit. See Larry's eyes glaze over. Anyone else sick of...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0
- More vaporware from OLPC - Here comes XO 2.0Possibly the deal isbeing made with Fisher-Price for manufacture and distribution. It certainly looks cheap and cheesy from the picture, with a color scheme reminding me of angry fruit salad.delusions of grandeurThe more I see and hear out of Negroponte's operation the...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Here comes XO 2.0, More Vaporware, Negroponte
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Open source as the villain in its own story
- Maybe because of JavaOne and Sun's well-known concerns about open source profit the idea of proprietary hooks which make people pay for open source software is big again. After all, if the code is free and visible why should an enterprise customer write a check to its...
- Tags: Asset, Open Source, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs
- Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsOther winners include1) Office chairs producers2) The free marketsRE: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsGoogle is a winner? Uh no. Google has been intefering with this deal from the beginning and should be put...
- Tags: advertisement, audio track, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan B
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac Clones
- PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac ClonesHistorical revisionismApple killed the clone market because it d@mn near killed Apple as a business. Or don't you remember that Jobs was brought back on to save the company from bankruptcy?This stupid old Apple should become an OS vendor argument raises it's...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OSx86, Apple Inc., PC Industry Episode II, hardware, EFI emulator, PC, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- iTunes leaps to the top of the charts
- iTunes leaps to the top of the chartsThis argument doesn't wash any longer...With Amazon offering MP3's without DRM, the ONLY reason one HAS to use iTunes is to load the Amazon purchased MP3's onto the iPod which is what I do.The surveys don't count iTunes use. It counts _purchases_.I do...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), Apple iTunes, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- First look at Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta
- First look at Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" betaUbuntuMy only concern with Ubuntu and other Linux Distros has been incompatibility issues with wireless equipment and games. However, Ubuntu continues to improve and I have high hopes for the future versions of Linux.If Only...Adrian; If the development world such as Symantec,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, .NET, Wired Internet, Ubuntu, bèta, Linux, GNOME
- Discussion threads 2008-03-22
- Not scared about Cross-Site Request Forgery? You should be... you're scared of jail aren't you?
- Not scared about Cross-Site Request Forgery? You should be... you're scared of jail aren't you?You are right.I see it updating a few times per month so there are more and more problems found. I will never tell anyone they are absolutely secure (ok, not networked, you are...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, NoScript, Cross-Site Request Forgery, CSRF
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?
- Retiring eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman now joins ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina on John McCain's campaign and fund-raising trail. Hmm. Former and Soon-to-be former Empresses of Multi-Billion dollar dot-coms and powerful computer industry giants -- are we seeing a pattern here? Is it possible that we could we be seeing...
- Tags: Meg Whitman, Industry, John McCain, CEO, Gender And Diversity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Human Resources, Investment, Finance, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debate
- The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debateIs Apple, Inc. arrogant?Just watch the "Mac vs. PC" ad.RE: The Mac snobbery, arrogance, confidence debateFile this one under "Duh". All it takes is a few minutes reading "MS=Eeeeeviiiil" posts to convince you that, regardless of any technical merits to Apple products, Apple users are...
- Tags: Desktops, Mac-user, Apple Macintosh, arrogance, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-09
- Why obsess over how old hardware runs new OSes?
- OK, I've got to ask this. Why do some people obsess over how old hardware runs new operating systems? Over the past few weeks I've been neck deep in Vista benchmarking. Each time I've published a set of results I've been questioned regarding the operating system's power...
- Tags: Web, Operating System, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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