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Podcast: Google & Postini execs discuss specifics of Google's Postini acquistion

Regarding Google's $625M acquisition of Postini, today's edition of my IT Matters series of podcasts is an interview with: Dave Girourd, vice president and general manager, Google Enterprise Rajan Sheth, product manager, Google Apps Quentin Gallivan, president and CEO, Postini Scott Petry, founder, CTO and exec VP of product development, PostiniIn what appears to...

Tags: General, Google Apps To-Do List, IT Management, IT Matters Podcast, Office 2.0, Podcasts, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Google improves 'Apps', offers organizations clear path off Exchange, Notes, etc. to GMail

Although the company doesn't like to position itself as competition to the likes of Microsoft, the announcements made by Google today -- particularly the one about a way for organizations to siphon the e-mail out of any IMAP-compatible server including Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes into GMail -- clearly...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Office 2.0, IT Matters Podcast, IT Management, Google Apps To-Do List, General

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Podcast: 'Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps

For at least a couple of years now, critics of Web applications like those served up by Web giants Google, Yahoo, and Salesforce.com have argued that those apps can never replace their desktop counterparts because of the so-called "off-line problem." The offline problem is where a loss in network...

Tags: General, IT Matters Podcast, Mobile, Office 2.0, Open Source, Personal Technology, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Monkcast #2: IBM retrenches around SOA. Are XML Web services a 'virtual' sub for ActiveX?

"From the desktop to the enterprise." That's sort of the way Redmonk principal analyst and co-founder James Governor and I summed things up this week when we decided that the same sort of architecture for integrating loosely coupled services on the server side is probably the way it should work...

Tags: General, IT Management, IT Matters Podcast, MonkCast Podcast, Office 2.0, Personal Technology, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-05-30

ZDNet's first MonkCast: Will SAP's A1S service disrupt its on-premises A1?

In what I hope will be a regularly recurring podcast here on ZDNet, we've launched our first "MonkCast." On a periodic basis weekly is the goal, I'll be interviewing James Governor, principal analyst and co-founder of the research outfit Redmonk see his blog and his fellow researchers at Redmonk...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Matters Podcast, MonkCast Podcast, Open Source, Podcasts, Software Infrastructure, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-05-18

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News to know: Palm CEO; Barry Diller; iPhone upgrade; Iomega; MS Money

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Palm injects Apple DNA: Colligan out as CEO; Rubinstein in Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Barry Diller: The Internet 'Absolutely'...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Iomega Corp., Palm Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-06-11

News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Why Agile development matters [podcast]

Why Agile development matters [podcast]Agile Development beyond ITMichael -- happy to see your talking about this topic the very same day as me: http://tinyurl.com/3shth7. What strikes me is so many people think this is strictly an IT topic when the more sophisticated business users are expecting and wanting exactly the...

Tags: Podcasts, Strategy, podcast, Agile Development, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Why Agile development matters [podcast]

Lengthy IT projects are more prone to fail than shorter ones. Agile development can help reduce these failures. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Developer, Information Technology, Business User, Agile, Lengthy IT Project, Agile Development, OutSystems, End-user Engagement, Podcasts, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to know: Vista search; Android; Gmail

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search Phil Wainewright: Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software Ed Burnette: 50 questions asked and answered on Android News.com: Google to let users test new...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail Providers, H-1B, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Macs+and+iPhones%3A+impolitic+Apple+hardware+can+be+hard+to+hide

Macs+and+iPhones%3A+impolitic+Apple+hardware+can+be+hard+to+hideWhy would Microsoft care?[i]However, Microsoft appears to be okay with at least one of its employees running Vista on a MacBook in the office.[/i]We keep getting told by the DoJ and by Apple users that Apple is a hardware company and Microsoft is a software company so the two don't...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple MacBook, phone, Microsoft Xbox Live

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Naked IT: Shel Israel on social media and IT (includes podcast)

The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and read this blog post for additional analysis not included in the recording. In this segment, we talk with Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble...

Tags: Podcast, Information Technology, Social Media, Enterprise, Shel, IT Guy, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-01-09

With tech titan support, Green Grid to help datacenters go green with measurement standards

With so many tech vendors claiming their solutions to be green and looking for a leg up with customers wanting to be more power efficient with everything from their servers right up to their entire datacenters, one big problem in the industry is a lack of standards on how "green"...

Tags: Data Center, Consortium, Grid, Standards, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office's strengths

With Web 2.0 being the rage that it is, Web-based productivity software from the likes of Google, Zoho, and WebEx appears to be getting all the buzz while Microsoft which has so far eschewed the idea of a Web-based offering. But if Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the beta program of...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Google Apps, Document, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Workspace, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?

Like Apple's iPods and the iTunes Music Store iTMS from which they can so effortlessly acquire their content, the transparency of the automation and infrastructure that makes Amazon's Kindle work so effortlessly with the Amazon.com Web site is a marvel in terms of the user experience. But the same...

Tags: Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Consumer Electronics, David Berlind, Digital Media, Digital Music, E-books, Internet, Personal Technology, Podcasts, Quality Solutions

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Who is afraid of the GGG?

Dan Farber was one of the first to cover the Giant Global Graph, here on ZDNet. A few days on, though, there's value in taking a look at how these ideas are being discussed across the blogosphere. The GGG, or Giant Global Graph....

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Network, Relationship, Onus, GGG, Tim, Scepticism, WebTop, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Dell: The M2300 may look like a subnotebook, but it's certifiably a 'workstation'

While I get into the "workstation" argument all the time, I decided not to belabor the point too much when questioning Dell Precision workstation product managers Don Maynard and Chris Spencer about Dell's newest entry into the mobile workstation space announced today: the M2300. The new notebook-cum-workstation hails from...

Tags: OpenGL, Podcast, Notebook, Dell Computer Corp., Workstation, Subnotebook, M2300, Workstations, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Full audio of MySpace/Google/Flixster news conference; Also, how is identity handled?

As promised in the video that I just posted that demonstrated how Flixster used Google's just announced OpenSocial APIs to build the functionality of its social movie reviews Web site directly into a MySpace profile a part of the news that MySpace is now supporting OpenSocial, we've got the entire...

Tags: Audio, Friend, Identity, MySpace, GetFriend, Podcasts, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-01

There's much more to GMail's support of IMAP than meets the eye

If you're like me and you saw last week's announcement from Google regarding GMail's support of the IMAP mail retrieval protocol and you know what IMAP is, then you probably reached the same conclusion I did: Given the way GMail lets you tag e-mails with labels (as opposed to the...

Tags: Folder, Google Inc., Google Gmail, IMAP, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-31

Podcast: Web 2.0 Summit action, Twine, Ballmer will dunk Google, the gPhone and more

This week on the Dan & David Show, Dan and I kick things off with a discussion of Google's worst kept secret: the gPhone. Dan briefs us on what it is and then I riff on why I love it and hate it at the same time. The...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Web, Podcast, Steve Ballmer, Dan & David Show, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Podcasts, Linux, Channel Management, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-19