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- Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids
- I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...
- Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Tags: Software, Security, Open Source, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Corporate Innovation . . .
- Late last week I caught part of SDForum's SDForum's first "Corporate Innovation and Research Fair." Here is an edited video of the lunchtime panel: From left to right: Roger Meike, Sun Microsystems Harold Yu, Orrick David SMith, Tynax Deborah Magid, IBM Roy...
- Tags: Innovation, Dr., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... again
- Apple tops customer satisfaction survey ... againDellI have always owned Dell machines. Although I have never had to have one of them replaced, I have heard fro mothers that it was a painstaking process. So it makes sense that they are 10 points behind Apple. My friends that have had...
- Tags: Linux, Product marketing, Operating systems, UNIX, customer satisfaction, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more
- So far, the main green tech consulting offerings have emerged from the biggest of the big systems vendors and this latest service I'm referencing today out of IBM is no different. The new IBM Green Sigma offering, for those companies that do the Lean Sigma thing, focuses...
- Tags: Green Technology, Carbon, IBM Corp., Transportation, Research & Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Smart self-service scales
- Smart self-service scalesIBM VeggieVisionIBM developed this technology more than a decade ago and sold it to Mettler-Toledo. FYI, IBM still holds the basic patent.http://www.research.ibm.com/ecvg/jhc_proj/veggie.htmlhttp://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05546475__http://public.mt.com/mailings/uk/images/UC_SVR1.pdf-- Jon
- Tags: self-service scale, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- The company claims the mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and holding strong globally, despite a shortage of related skills among IT workers The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong globally, according to an IBM executive. ...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware, Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia, mainframes, IBM, datacenters, emerging markets
- News items 2008-08-18
- Don't downgrade me to XP!
- Don't downgrade me to XP!except thatVista won't with our printers, or our scanners, or our cameras, or much of our vital s/w.It isn't logical to buy all new and then have vista be slower than tar on a winters day on the machines it's put on.Don't downgrade me to XP:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?Check with the college to see what is their preference...If there isn't one then being as I'm from a Windows IT background that moved over to Mac I'd chose the Mac. If you do need Windows you can run Boot Camp, VMware,...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, college life, Apple Macintosh, notebook, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S. Gilbert, Gondoliers.So many managers. An employee without a management title will feel overlooked.Murph, you outline the functional groups for your organization based on the leader. That means the effectiveness of each one...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, disaster recovery, leader, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., job, data-processing, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- IBM Australia faces strike action
- A section of under 100 employees who work in the "Flightdeck" at Baulkam Hills, Australia want a collective agreement granting them better pay and work conditions. IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action among its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday for employees in a...
- Tags: Ballot, Agreement, IBM Corp., IBM, workforce, strike, Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au
- News items 2008-08-15
- News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Open Source, Health Care, Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- What the CoBIT framework does is establish minimal guidelines for data center operational documentation -as distinct from the actual operation. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, PC, Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Data Management, Help Desk, Data Centers, Service Level Management, Call Centers, Desktops, Storage, It Operations, Hardware, It service Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Apple market capitalization tops Google
- Apple market capitalization tops Googleit means nothingEasy comes, easy goes, that number is just that, a number; prosperity doesn't always last forever...This news comes as great relief to manyThis will totally make up for the fact that MobileMe doesn't work, the iPhone 3G doesn't work, Mac video cards don't work,...
- Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., market capitalization, Apple market capitalization, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making
- System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the makingIT management SaaSIt’s good to see the discussion of SaaS being broadened. It is interesting to note that the majority of the movement in SaaS continues to be by companies that are focused on either the front or back office. There...
- Tags: IT management SaaS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?Instant boot into full OS...I imagine there has to be a way to perform this instant Linux boot while loading the full OS in the background and seamlessly giving you the full OS functions once its loaded. Now if the Linux community concentrated on that...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, notebook, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
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