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IM interoperability a must

IM interoperability a mustWhat abut Yahoo IM?Well, since Yahoo has shown new commitment to the Mac Chat, and Yahoo and MSN Messenger are going to interoperate, would there need to be both clients?Jabber - freedom for IMI strictly use the Jabber protocol at this point. For one its open...

Tags: Instant messaging, IM, Jabber, IM Interoperability, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-07-17

IM interoperability a must

One of my biggest pet-peeves about IM services are their proprietary protocols. If you're on AIM/iChat and your friend is on something else (Yahoo, MSN, etc.) you're hosed. Sure, there are a bunch of third-party IM clients available like Adium but they only interoperate for text - they won't do...

Tags: IM

Blog posts 2006-07-17

Additional Resources

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware

The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...

Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare

News items 2008-10-10

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering

Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....

Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M

Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...

Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Google is NOT your friend

Google is NOT your friendthe old call the enemy of my enemy is my best friendas long as google will pick on MS im willing to live with it happily .... when MS will be out of the picture will trun to the next monsterRE: Google is NOT your friendSure,...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)

How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)Adrian - why would Apple write good Windows software?Apple has historically had an edge with video editing / graphical design applications. Now, since they've moved to an Intel platform, any hardware advantages...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Desktops, Digital media, Operating systems, software, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Vista behemoth, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple QuickTime, quad-core

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Does this make me a member of the mile-high club?

Now I can say I blogged from 35,000 feet. I knew American Airlines was testing GOGO's WiFi service on select flights between New York and San Francisco, but was still pleasantly surprised this morning to find out that my 7am flight out of Kennedy this morning was...

Tags: Flight, Wireless LANs, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-10-07

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room

Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband roomany other Carriers?So Far it's only T-Mobile. There's all this hype, and I don't work/live in a major city. T-Mobile has the fewest towers in the country and is barely rolling out their G3 network to the major metropolitan areas. ...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, mobile broadband, mobile, oxygen, Qt Extended, OpenMoko, phone, open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edge

Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edgeGreat to see Google forcing Apple to be more open. Hopefully Apple will beforced to also unlock the applications so you do NOT need Apples approval to offer an application.RE: Apple lifts iPhone NDA to dull Android's edgeApple will only be as open...

Tags: Branding, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., iPhone NDA, T-Mobile

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

How SocialText is breaking the collaboration mold

How SocialText is breaking the collaboration moldDignan Replaces HowlettSorry about that Dennis. Per your notes here Dignan has now replaced you on my "frumpy-old-guy-thinking" list. He's clearly the king of old-thinking. I'm disappointed. I was sure you had a lock on that title. :)Signed: RotkapchenRE: How SocialText is breaking the...

Tags: Groupware, Socialtext, collaboration

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreement

Economic meltdown: the insanity of disagreementI agree with your points and your questions...Way too many "loopholes" and bad decisions have been put into this bailout bill. Not the least of which is absolutely no accountability.To use Mr. Krigman's IT project analogy it would be like seeing that poor decisions...

Tags: Taxes, Team management, Leadership, Free trade, Financial services, Economic Meltdown, insanity, disagreement

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Thinking about Oracle Fusion applications

Thinking about Oracle Fusion applicationsKilling Oracle DB in the enterprise......will probably be more difficult that killing off the mainframe...Postgres and/or MySQL may match, or even pass, it in terms of capabilities. But Oracle will still have history.And remember, Oracle pretty much works. This isn't like replacing Windows, where...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Oracle Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., sales

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'

Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...

Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Semantic Technology's place in the enterprise; key, but low-key ?

Last week saw over 200 researchers, advocates, implementors and practitioners of Semantic Technology descend upon the delightful Austrian capital for the second European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC. Smaller than the more established Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose and nestling uncomfortably close both spatially and temporally to...

Tags: European Commission, Verizon Communications Inc., Technology, Conference, Semantic Web, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-09-29

ISPs keep their distance from deep packet inspection

ISPs keep their distance from deep packet inspectionIm sure everyone will back away except..Comcast. Anything they can do to line their pockets with more revenue from their "happy" customer-base and make their experience as "COMCASTIC" as possible - they will do. So while Verizon, TWC, and AT&T backaway, Comcast sees...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, packet inspection

Discussion threads 2008-09-26