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Small business gives Obama a piece of mind

Barack Obama posted a question on LinkedIn and got close to 1,500 answers: How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive? Not surprisingly for a social network, many of the best answers highlighted the importance of...

Tags: President, Entrepreneur, Health Care, Small Business, Incubator, Entrepreneurship, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-03

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The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'

How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...

Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype

Office Labs -- an incubator within Microsoft testing business-focused technologies that may or may not end up part of future Microsoft products -- is showing off this week yet another of its ideas. The latest, known as "TownSquare," is a Facebook-like social-networking tool for business users. by Mary Jo...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Office Labs, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Podcasts, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-11

GWT fireside chat

I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Open source SOA infrastructure project CXF elevated to full Apache status

After community incubation and development for nearly two years, the Apache CXF open-source SOA and middleware interoperability framework evolved last week into a full project of the Apache Software Foundation. CXF, with some 60,000 downloads since July 2007, takes its place alongside 60 other Apache projects. The...

Tags: Iona Technologies, Apache Software Foundation, CXF, Open Source, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-20

Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation formed as Yahoo jumps onboard

Yahoo today announced their support for OpenSocial, the Google-led standard for developing applications that work across supporting social networks (e.g. OpenGadget). Except, technically at least, OpenSocial isn't the sole property of Google anymore, following the formation of the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, whose custodiands MySpace, Google and Yahoo...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NET

Eclipse launches super run-time project as alternative to Java and .NETEquinox is a great ideea...but I'm wondering if Eclipse has the resources to pull it off. Afterall $un and M$ invested billions before their runtime became usable and accepted.No one trusts IBM...Eclipse has lost the trust of the community at...

Tags: Programming languages, Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Middleware, Cross-platform, Java, Eclipse, Equinox, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more

EclipseCon 2008 opens Monday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara CA. The schedule for the week includes a trio of interesting keynote speakers, a ton of technical sessions, and a tinge of controversy over the future of Eclipse development. The first day will be...

Tags: Steve Jobs, EclipseCon, Microsoft Corp., Eclipse, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-16

Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service

Bungee Labs continues its march toward "platform as a service" PaaS with today's announcement that it has opened Bungee Connect as a public beta, inviting all developers to, in Bungee's words, "get inspired, get started, and get involved."Bungee Connect is an end-to-end environment that allows developers to build desktop-like applications...

Tags: Innovation, Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Integration, Bungee Labs, WideLens, Demonstration Video, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Google Health ready for action?

Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped found some shreds Google's forthcoming Health offering. It's only a log-in page, but it outlines what to expect if you choose to make Google part of your digital healthcare program. With Google Health, you can: * Build online health profiles that belong to...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technology

Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technologyPowerspan tests carbon capture technologyThe World Innovation Foundation is the voice of the world's 'INDEPENDENT' scientific community (3,500 eminent scientists, engineers and technologists and counting). It is not dictated too by governments or national academies of science. This independence of mind away from...

Tags: Vertical industries, World Innovation Foundation, carbon capture, Powerspan, carbon capture technology, capture technology, government

Discussion threads 2007-11-25

IPCC: it's hitting the fan right now

IPCC: it's hitting the fan right nowClimate Change and the IPCC ReportThe world's problems are so large and complex that no government or governments in political concert with each other can now solve them. There is only one thing that will provide the means and solution for humankind to survive...

Tags: advisor, ORE-STEM Complex

Discussion threads 2007-11-18

I've seen the future and the Zune becomes a hit

Microsoft launched its second generation Zune amid decent reviews, a good bit of press and even a few personalized devices. But the MP3 game is a marathon not a sprint. So after perusing the news a few reviews from CNET, Engadget and Gizmodo I just had to...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Dignan, Digital Music, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Fortify calls Apache tools insecure

Fortify Software chief scientist Brian Chess and his team have published a white paper demonstrating how cross-build injection attacks could let criminals take control of programs as they are being written. In particular the paper says three Apache projects -- Ant, Maven, and Ivy (the latter is now...

Tags: Criminal, Apache Software Foundation, Tool, Open Source, Security, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Global Neighbor makes the grass greener

Cutting the grass was one of those household chores that had a special significance for my brothers and me in high school: My father owned about eight acres in New Jersey, a full five of which were covered with grass. For some reason, I always pulled push-mower...

Tags: Neighbor, Grass, Global Neighbor, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-13

Ruling on Novell's Unix assets bolsters OSS, binds Novell and IBM

So Novell really does now finally seem to own the Unix copyrights. Linux finds itself on a high-ground pedestal of long-term, low-risk use (unless Microsoft buys Novell [should have when they could have, eh?]). And IBM and Novell are closer than ever.Fun times.The folly of the SCO Group FUD fiasco...

Tags: Asset, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Unix, IBM Corp., Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Project Zero: IBM enables REST-based development

By way of Webservices.Org, details have emerged on IBM's Project Zero, which is, to quote, "an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications."IBM's long-rumored RESTy WebSphere successor? The project provides free development code -- based on...

Tags: Web, IBM Corp., Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Google vs. Microsoft Office? NO: vs. Open Office (.org)!

If we take Google CEO Eric Schmidt at his public words, Microsoft Office is welcome at the Google Apps table. But what about OpenOffice.org? Will the Google chief’s we can all get along in the cloud PR stance apply as well? "FREE OFFICE SUITE" is the succinct,...

Tags: Enterprise, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Dot Mac Dead?

Im actually thinking about it.After 7 years as a faithful user, Im thinking about taking the plunge and severing my bank account from Apples .Mac service. Im seriously getting fed up with the delays and obvious omissions from Apples online strategy, and I tend to believe that if the iPhone...

Tags: Apple, Mashups, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Bungee Labs starts off Web 2.0 Expo with a bang -- web development as a service with a low-cost hosting model

Its time to add another IT category to the official IT lexicon: software development and deployment as a service SDDS. And this ones a keeper.Thats my conclusion after seeing a demonstration of Bungee Labs new Bungee Connect offering, which combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft, Internet, IDEs, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management, Amazon, Akamai

Blog posts 2007-04-16