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- Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype
- Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, E-books, e-reader, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline
- Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server
- What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-10-29
- iRetirement for iPhone 1.2 (Mobile)
- iRetirement for iPhone lets you see the future two ways. First, you can see how your 401k or IRA will grow so you will know how much will be there when you plan to retirement. It allows you to study various scenarios with just a few key strokes and secondly,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Retirement, 401(k) Plan, Mobile, OpenStack, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Personal Finance, Investment, Social Security, Smart Phones, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Windows 7 hourly tracking
- ?won't it be better to check at the end of every week instead? If you check every day you won't see any big changes but at the end of every week the increase will be more obvious.I'll say it before others do"look, it already has a larger market share than...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Enterprise investment in online communities continues to grow
- Sharpie Uncapped Community ExampleJennifer - Your story is correct. Enterprises like Newell Rubbermaid are increasing investment in online communities. Our first online community is Sharpie Uncapped (http://sharpieuncapped.com) that we launched earlier in 2009. We expect to launch more branded communities focused on specific consumer targets in 2010....
- Tags: Branding, online community
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Analyst: non-exclusive iPhone could dominate world
- Apple's iPhone could dominate the world's smartphone market - if the company can dump those exclusivity deals, such as the one it has with AT&T in the U.S. I've more or less said that in the past, too - that exclusivity deal with AT&T in the U.S. is holding the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- OIN outmanuevers Microsoft, buys Linux patents
- The Open Invention Network seems to have one upped Microsoft. Â Or has Microsoft one upped OIN? Either way, it's win-win for Linux. Yesterday, OIN, whose mission is to defend Linux and open source from patent trolls, purchased 22 Linux related patents Microsoft recently sold...
- Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., Patent Troll, Open Invention Network, OIN, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Is the Palm Pre a failure?
- Wrong, so what's right?You say the ads don't work.What kind of ads do you suggest would? I'm interested to hear what you think would be effective.Those silly adsI think the Palm Pre ads are worse than the initial Windows ads. They are really bad. Their only really good quality is...
- Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Palm Inc., advertisement, Sprint Communications, Verizon Communications Inc., Palm Pre, Apple iPhone, CDMA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down
- RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- U.S. national broadband strategy: Funding is the elephant in the room
- we don't need big governmentThe broadband has to be build by private businesses and everyone needs to pay to get it.The government should only provide incentives like tax cuts that are deficit neutral.And of courseAnd of course ZDNet is still pushing the crazy idea that broadband everywhere is inevitable. Somehow,...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Highways, broadband, broadband over power line, U.S. national broadband strategy, U.S. National
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld Experiences
- I've been running from meeting to meeting at IDG World Expo's OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/CloudWorld Conference at the Moscone Center in the heart of beautiful San Francisco (see OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld.) Here are my initial impressions of the event: The event is significantly smaller than any I...
- Tags: IDG World Expo, Event, Vendor Area, Data Centers, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
- Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Moving Data.gov towards the Semantic Web
- Government transparency in all its forms would appear to be very much in vogue at present, spanning everything from the Obama administration's Data.gov portal and Prime Ministerial pronouncements in the UK Parliament to municipal proclamations of openness in Vancouver and compelling grass-roots demonstrations by activists and even newspapers. ...
- Tags: Government, Semantic Web, Podcasts, RDF, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- The state of Edubuntu...Your thoughts
- I haven't had much opportunity recently to play with LTSP within any of the major distributions. Ubuntu is my desktop OS of choice everywhere except on my Mac, but the Linux Terminal Server Project, though powerful when I last used it in an Edubuntu test server early last year,...
- Tags: Edubuntu, Thin Clients, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...
- Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Groovy says it can make IT apps work in real-time
- Groovy, an Australian startup, says it has a real-time database that runs 105 times faster than the fastest mainstream relational database - a highly tuned MySQL. The company recently relocated to Silicon Valley to better showcase its technology. Today it released the results of tests that show...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Groovy SQL Switch, Storage, 64-Bit, Data Management, Databases, Hardware, Processors, Semiconductors, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOL
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOLAOL's decline not due to outsourcing search...I understand the comparison, but AOL's decline was not due to outsourcing search to Google. It declined because it was too slow in migrating to broadband and because it kept charging for too long what other properties...
- Tags: INTERNET, Free trade, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Search Deal
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment
- Sir Richard Branson unveiled his latest aircraft, or rather spacecraft. In a few years, for $200,000, thrill seekers will be able to ride into sub-orbit space. Separately, Virgin Galactic landed a $280 million investment from Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments. In this raw video, you get a look at...
- Tags: Virgin Group, Investment, Virgin Galactic, Aabar Investments, Business Structures, Aerospace & Defense, Network Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
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