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Using Mobile Phones for Domain Specific information appliances

The authors have investigated how mobile phones can be used as basis for domain specific information appliances. In many areas in service and production industry mobile workers use specifically designed handheld information appliances. Such appliances are developed to be highly suitable for the task that has to be performed. However...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Domain, Cell Phone, Information Appliance, Worker, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2005-07-24

C.P. Technology Pursues Smart Home Market With WebSphere Software From IBM

C.P. Technology (C.P.) is a provider of Information Appliance IA solutions. C.P. Technology identified a major need for a communications infrastructure that would allow users to manage home systems and devices remotely. C.P. turned to IBM for a solution based on IBM WebSphere Everyplace Suite Embedded Edition and Linux. The...

Tags: IBM WebSphere, Information Appliance, IBM Corp., WebSphere Software, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

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National Semiconductor Conceptual Products Group Decided to Create a Multifunction information appliance

To top its awarding-winning product concepts from previous years, the National Semiconductor Conceptual Products Group decided to create a multifunction information appliance that performed equally well on a desktop or in a mobile location. To ensure maximum reliability, versatility, interoperability, and a broad set of features in a small footprint,...

Tags: Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Information Appliance, National Semiconductor Corp.

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Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email

Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated)

Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today.  Although RIM hasn't said...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Electronista, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use

Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need to check the time without needing to flip open the phone. Well, now that...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Screen, RSS, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Web Browsers, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA

Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...

Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Facebook flap: Google's side

Amid the Facebook move to block Google's Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook's privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There's a lot of debate on Techmeme about the issue and it's a big one as all of...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google Friend Connect, User Privacy, Third Party App, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16

News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments

As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...

Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Federal charges in MySpace suicide case

Federal prosecutors have indicted Lori Drew for actions on MySpace that led 13-year-old Megan Meier right to kill herself, USA Today reports. She was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of computer crimes. The grand jury charges that she accessed protected computers without authorization to...

Tags: Count, Distress, Computer, MySpace, Mulford, Ron, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software

Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....

Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand

Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking

Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards

The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600

Check out the joystick ports, circuitry, and other parts that made the venerable game console tick.The Atari 2600 in all its cracked-open glory. I never owned one of these consoles--I was an Intellivision II man. (George Plimpton convinced me it was better.) Do you still play your Atari 2600?...

Tags: Joystick, Photograph, Atari Inc., CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-15

OS security scorecard for Q1 08 - Do patch numbers mean anything to anyone?

Jeff Jones, director of security strategy for Microsoft, has published two papers this week which look at OS vulnerabilities. According to Jones, Windows sees fewer patches than any of the other operating systems looked at. If you're in the mood for a read, here are the papers:...

Tags: Security, Operating System, Patch Management, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-15