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- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Top digital camera vendors partner to develop new wireless transfer technology
- Imagine being able to display photos on your TV screen just by touching your digital camera to the TV--no more card readers or cables to fuss with. Today, Sony along with the likes of Canon, Kodak, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Samsung, and eight other big names in consumer electronics announced an...
- Tags: Consortium, Digital Camera, Camera, Wireless, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Google Talk optimized for iPhone
- Google Talk optimized for iPhoneIM as a free substitute to SMSIM could only be a free substitute if you could receive messages without having to keep the browser/client open all the time on your phone. If I understand the iPhone 3G's push platform properly, they could get it to work...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, 3G, Cellular phones, Google Inc., IM, Apple iPhone, Google Talk, SMS, IM client
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one
- Microsoft's Hyper-V--that long awaited virtualization effort from Redmond--is off and running and the analysis on it falls into three generic buckets: Hyper-V is spin; it's a real virtualization player; and Microsoft is going to crush VMware or be crushed by the incumbent. While those of us in...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Dan Kusnetzky, Paula Rooney, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft
- Given the importance of virtualization to the future of the operating system, it seems fitting that Hyper-V shipped on the the same day Bill Gates exited the Windows company. It is truly a new era for Microsoft. Who could have envisioned five years ago that a Microsoft platform would openly...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., XenSource Inc., Hyper-V, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake?
- Yahoo has made it official: It is teaming up with Google on search advertising, but the ripple effects--both short-term and long-term--are just beginning. The two companies have announced a broad agreement where Yahoo uses Google's text advertising, but stops short of completely outsourcing search. Among the key...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Termination Fee, Text Advertising Business, Carl, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?
- Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...
- Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- Why MinWin speculation matters
- Why MinWin speculation mattersPresumably......Windows CE will continue to exist as a separate product, but future versions would use the MinWin kernel. I would find it hard to believe that MS would maintain multiple Windows kernels if they didn't have to.UNIX-like is more shrinkableBoth Linux and Mac OS X easily...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, iPhone 2, MinWin, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google
- Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than GoogleCreative distruction makes us all stongerI think Ray is right. His biggest competitor is open source. I'm not sure Microsoft will recover unless they learn how to embrace open source. The patent wars they have started make them toxic...
- Tags: PDC, open source, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, disruptive competitor, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Ozzie: Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google
- Google has nothing on open source when it comes to potential competitive threats to Microsoft, according to Redmond's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. Ozzie fielded a number of questions on his role at Microsoft and the company's evolving technology strategies during an appearance at the Sanford Bernstein...
- Tags: Google Inc., Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Productivity, Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- NY commits to open formats as MSFT supports ODF
- New York's CIO, Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart left, submitted a report to the governor and legislature, embracing open document formats but steering clear of picking favorites. Open document formats are a necessity since NY law requires the state to "conduct its business in an open, interoperable and transparent manner."...
- Tags: New York, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, MSFT, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- After Google calls Facebook's bluff, Zuckerberg says "let's see if there's a way to make it work" [data portability]
- When Google announced its 'Friend Connect' product to deliver social networking features to the 'long tail' of the Web, the option "to see, invite, and interact with... existing friends" from competing social networks was bound to raise a few eyebrows. Not least from Facebook, whose inclusion was made possible...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Cloud computing
- I recently read the post, When Is the Right Time to Launch Your Own Cloud? and thought Alistair Croll was on to something. We're all hearing quite a bit of media chatter about "cloud computing." Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as "Mesh computing" or "Elastic Cloud Computing." All...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Supplier, Organization, Data Centers, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?
- InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft's health vision is highly proprietary
- As more details emerge about Microsoft's health strategy, such as its Common User Interface, one thing that becomes clear is that its vision is highly proprietary. While the result is highly attractive, dependence on technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation guarantees the benefits will...
- Tags: Vision, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Design Guidance, Quality, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing
- Speaking from the stage in China's Great Hall of the People last Thursday evening, World Wide Web inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared some of his hopes for the Web with his audience of WWW2008 delegates, impeccably polite and ever-helpful conference volunteers and...
- Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Doing the Microsoft patent math
- Just over a year ago, Microsoft officials threw down the patent gauntlet, claiming free and open-source software violated 235 of its patents -- but refused and continue to refuse to get more specific. Today, thanks to a post by my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow, there's a new piece of...
- Tags: Patent, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucks
- Friday Rant - Here's a perfect example of why DRM sucksI agreeYep, the UK broadcasts look pretty swanky.But, whenever they're showing clips from US news shows or playing Friends on Channel 4 (so that's about... 90% of the day?), the quality is crap. Whether its just because US TV...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, TV & Home Theater, digital-rights management, DRM Sucks, HD-DVD, Friday Rant, perfect example, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-04-11
- Eclipse co-founder Skip McGaughey on Open Health mission
- Skip McGaughey, who was the original co-chair of the Eclipse Foundation while at IBM, has a new mission, to bring that same open source collaboration to health care. McGaughey, who has been based in Asheville, NC since launching Eclipse, is the first head of the Open Health...
- Tags: Health Care, Eclipse, Standards, McGaughey, OHT, Kestrel, Terminology People, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
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