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Vista RTM marks the end of an era

Vista RTM marks the end of an eraJim Allchin Should Pick up the GuitarWOW Allchin actually talked to Mary Joe? Hell really has frozen over. Allchin is the most likely patsy for Microsoft's ongoing antitrust problems which are likely to fire up again in the US owing to yesterday's elections....

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Web browsers, Linux, operating system, Service Pack 2, Jim Allchin, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista RTM

Discussion threads 2006-11-08

Why Microsoft should put user data in a separate volume

When I attended Microsoft's Vista preview two weeks ago, Microsoft's Jim Allchin gave a talk and answered some questions to the press. During his talk, Mr. Allchin told us a story about some memories he shared with Steve Ballmer. The way the story goes, Steve Ballmer walked in...

Tags: PC, operating system, computer

Blog posts 2006-06-06

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Back to school special: Big thanks to our green tech kids

I have no children so I really can't appreciate the end of August, when the parents I know count down the hours until their offspring heads back to the classroom. But I do remember mourning the bittersweet end of summer in the northeast, when crickets chirp of a summer evening...

Tags: Green Technology, Canon Inc., Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Comcast undecided on network management scheme

Despite the fact that it's testing a system to cut back bandwidth for heavy (P2P) users during peak traffic time, Comcast says it hasn't decided on any network management techniques as yet, IDG reports. The FCC issued an order this week requiring Comcast to stop network management that discriminates against...

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, FreePress, Networking, Network Administration, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-21

SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?

At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...

Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service

Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

FEMA's PBX network hacked, over 400 calls made to the Middle East

Someone's been chatting a lot during the weekend, but picking up FEMA's PBX network as their main carrier might not have been the smartest thing to do. Over 400 calls, lasting from three up to ten minutes were placed through their network, a breach made possible due to an insecurely...

Tags: Network, PBX, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Telephony, VOIP, Security, Networking, Telecommunications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Amazon: Persistent storage open for EC2

Amazon said Thursday that its Elastic Block Store feature is now available to all of its EC2 Web service customers. The move gives Amazon Web Services a full storage suite delivered as a service. EC2 is Amazon's storage service and the Elastic Block Store gives customers a...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Elastic Block Store, EC2 Web Service, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Novell Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Troubleshoot with the Problem Reports and Solutions feature in Windows Vista

With the many different types of hardware and software that Microsoft Windows Vista has to contend with there are sure to be all sorts of problems, both big and small. The important question is how well Vista handles the problems it encounters. The main utility for handling system problems is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Greg Shultz, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2008-08-21

About Atom: Intel's big plans for its little chip

One of the bolder goals Intel set at IDF this week is that within a decade it wants ship 1 billion Intel-based mobile computing devices each year. That's a big bet when you consider Intel estimates there will be a total of 163 million notebooks shipped this year. ...

Tags: Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Menlow, Moorestown, Advertising & Promotion, Processors, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid

In my last article I described what it feels like to have your house struck by lightning. Luckily there were no injuries or structural damage thanks for your kind words in the comments, but our gadgets and other electronics inside the house weren't so lucky. This is their tale. ...

Tags: Game, Phone, Router, TiVo Inc., Grid, Cable, Cable Guy, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-08-20

New touch screen Classmates unveiled today

Intel unveiled a new iteration of its Classmate PC today, featuring a touch screen with tablet mode, a new wedge design, and motion-sensing internal hardware. According to Intel's press release, "Our ethnographic research has shown us that students responded well to tablet and touch screen...

Tags: Touch Screen, OEM, Intel Corp., Classmate, Accelerometer, Keyboards, Tablets, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Semiconductors, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity

Finally, a fight over remote controls that rely on hand motion, more than buttons. Oh, Nintendo's Wii has about a half-dozen buttons, plus a four-cornered "plus sign" for directional instructions. Well, Hillcrest Labs of Rockville, MD, can top (actually, undercut) that. It markets...

Tags: Cable Television, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Hillcrest Labs, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-08-20

What SaaS can teach us about customer service

In the SaaS model, the power is with the customer and vendors need to take a very different approach to both sales and service, here's how to do it says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. Commentary--Software-as-a-Service SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of...

Tags: Customer Service, Software-as-a-service, Customer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, SaaS, software. customer service, sales, Archie Black, SPS Commerce, Special to ZDNet

News items 2008-08-20

Can Adobe mitigate 'clipboard hijack' issue?

Adobe's product security incident response team PSIRT says it is investigating possible solutions to the clipboard hijack attacks spotted on Flash-based advertisements on high-profile Web sites. A barebones note on the PSIRT blog simply acknowledges the issue and promised more information after the investigation but, by mentioning...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-08-20

The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS

Yesterday, in passing, I mentioned that I'd like to see Windows evolve into an operating system where the OS, installed applications and user data were each contained in separate layers. I didn't go into any detail on this because, a) I thought I'd already covered it, and b) I didn't...

Tags: Operating System, Layer, User Data, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 95, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-20

The news on Intel's Nehalem; chips with integrated GPUs up next

Intel has given new details of what it calls the biggest change in its processor platform in a decade. The new information on Nehalem, discussed in keynotes and presentations at the Intel Developer Forum this week, was expected. Nehalem isn't a single product, but a family of...

Tags: Core, Intel Corp., Chip, GPU, Nehalem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Sam Diaz, wrote an interesting piece yesterday highlighting a vital message from Intel Chairman, Craig Barrett, during his keynote at the Intel Developers' Forum. Quoting both Barrett and Sam's paraphrasing, "Nations are as strong as their educational systems," he said, noting that in...

Tags: Craig Barrett, Intel Corp., Kid, Productivity, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double

Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-20