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- Don't be fooled, Linux is not free
- I just finished reading Chris Dawson's most recent piece Linux definitely has a place in education and I couldn't agree more, until he said ..."If the choice is arbitrary, then would you rather pay hundreds of dollars or many thousands or millions at the enterprise level or would you rather...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- Is your university IT department leading or following?
- While K-12 decision makers are often not the ones who have to implement those decisions, many in K-12 settings still have the advantage of one or two experienced IT people who somehow figure out how to do more with less. The importance of thinking like a CIO not a consumer should be clear...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Schools fights IT outsourcing fears
- How much does outsourcing jobs overseas affect enrollment in IT courses in colleges? Computer degrees have seen a sharp decline since the dot-com bust and thats putting pressure on colleges to recruit students, reports the Tampa Tribune. Some teachers such as Kaushal Chari, the head of an information technology...
- Tags: Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Vacation time in education IT
- In an educational IT setting, where tens of thousands of students may be dependent upon access to thousands of identically configured workstations anytime, day or night, the challenge to keep those workstations current and up to date can be daunting. Unlike Summer break, when student populations are down dramatically...
- Tags: Education Technology, Policy, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
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- Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch
- With the launch of its long-hyped WiMax service XOHM scheduled to debut in September in Baltimore, on Thursday Sprint announced a set of location-based personalization features that will enhance the user experience of WiMax subscribers by allowing them to, for example, quickly look up restaurants, check traffic and weather, and...
- Tags: Sprint Xohm, Privacy, Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Next generation of business intelligence
- Data warehouses collect gigabytes of data everyday but the information is not always meaningful. Why? Angela Shen-Hsieh, President and CEO of Visual I/O, says it's because the tools are not user friendly. Find out how the next generation of business intelligence will move beyond the spreadsheet to let you...
- Tags: Generation, Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, whiteboard, visual, visualization, interactivity, information, database, time, intelligence, business
- Whiteboards 2008-08-28
- An IE8 Beta 2 Q&A
- Yesterday I published my first look at the just-released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. I got some great comments in the Talkback thread and via e-mail and thought it would be worth answering them here. Should you install IE8? Where can you download the correct code for your OS....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows XP, Beta, IE Beta Newsgroup, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Why does Safari stink?
- I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn't access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education administrators could access it, but several teachers and counselors were discovering (since this was the first student day back...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browsers, Portals, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated
- News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the service quickly retracted the release, it's an eerily-fascinating read complete with XXXX marks for the cause and...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Datacore - nothing but storage
- Angie Gonzalez, of Datacore, and I had a conversation about how virtual storage complements any type of virtual processing solution. Nearly all virtual server-based solutions gain a great deal of benefit when a supporting virtual storage strategy is also deployed. Why is that? ...
- Tags: Datacore, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Live Webcast: Closing the Deal: Online Presentations That Result in Higher Sales
- Closing deals is an art form. You've got to know your prospects, understand their concerns and speak their language. How do you accomplish this in order to make the sale? Join this interactive BNET webcast with live Q&A moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speakers, Tom...
- Tags: webcast, prospect, citrix systems inc., sales strategy, sales force management, sales
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- Live Webcast: Enterprise Search Architectures of the Future
- Businesses today increasingly recognize the benefits of universal search, the ability to search all corporate content sources from a single secure search box. Many enterprises have heavily invested in developing content management systems and their associated processes. These systems and portals hold valuable information; however, lack of quality search...
- Tags: Google Inc., Enterprise Search, Webcast, Benefits, Search, Human Resources
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- How do we address the have-nots?
- I attended a leadership summit on Monday (it was actually pretty good stuff, with concrete plans, goals, and generally more than you get out of your average bit of professional development) and, not surprisingly, a serious focus was on technology. I think people are finally realizing that, while technology...
- Tags: Kid, Productivity, Business Structures, Wireless LANs, Transportation, Leadership, Wi-Fi, Finance, Wireless, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated
- The Irregulars draws its 'crew' from a wide and varied group of technology interests. One is Charlie Bess, an EDS Fellow. These are the brightest of the brightest among EDS thinkers and we are honored to have Charlie's insights. Now that the HP-EDS deal has been consummated, Charlie felt free...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- It must be a rough day in Cupertino
- It must be a rough day in Cupertinonot having an issuesettings>general>passcode lock on>require passcode immediatelyRE: It must be a rough day in CupertinoThe lawsuit over Psystar has a precedent, in favor of Psystar.Remember that there was a lawsuit like this against Data General some years back, alleging illegal tying because...
- Tags: Apple Inc., RDOS, rough day, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1All part of the MS plan to keep browsers dumbded down. If we had reallygood browsers, how would they get people to use MS proprietary solutions for rich internet applications.RE: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 vs. Firefox 3.0.1The title says Firefox 3.0.1The graph...
- Tags: Web browsers, Scripting languages, Quality, Adrian, Firefox 3.0.1, Mozilla Firefox, JavaScript, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Internet Explorer 8 Beta, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Don't leave that fridge by the curb!
- I saw a television out on our street a couple of mornings ago when I left for my morning job/walk, waiting for pick-up by the garbage dudes. I resisted the urge to narc on my neighbors, since it's actually illegal to place said TVs curbside in New Jersey, but it...
- Tags: Southern California Edison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
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