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- Building a data center circa 2007
- Jon Vander Hill has built two data centers since 2000 and is on his third for Berbee, the data center hosting unit of CDW. Since then the landscape has changed dramatically. Power costs matter more than ever, as does cooling design. CDW Berbee is currently building a...
- Tags: Data Center, Idea, kW, Utility, Jon Vander Hill, CDW Berbee, Vander Hill, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
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- Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it
- There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...
- Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Mail Goggles: an idea that goes well beyond drunk emails
- There's a new GMail Labs app: Mail Goggles, by GMail engineer Jon Perlow: When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Jon, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Internet, Online Communications, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack
- Student indicted for Palin e-mail hackno luck for youseems your daddy wont be able bail you out of this one. Just remember to bring plenty of vaseline with you in prisonoh boy, is this kid in the crapperThis little jerky-boy is headed for a really miserable experience. Having a...
- Tags: Palin, Palin e-mail, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac now claims that the "brick" isn't a specific Apple product but rather a manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets...
- Tags: Brick, Apple Inc., BW, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhones
- In a recent piece for Daring Fireball Jon Gruber writes: background processing is the one factor that unites the four dock apps. Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod all continue running in the background; no other apps, including those from Apple, do... ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Application, Backgrounder Extension, Wiki, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- A Consumer Electronics Carol
- A Consumer Electronics CarolUnderstand what you are talking aboutbefore you analyze it.Osborne went under because they pre-announced a product before it was ready, and sales dried up of the current model AT ANY PRICE. The company did not have enough liquidity to keep them afloat while waiting for the new...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Sales strategy, Osborne Effect, Consumer Electronics Carol, consumer electronics
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- The cloud finally comes to education
- Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...
- Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Adobe actively developing a Flash Player iPhone
- Flash Magazine reports Adobe Systems' Senior Director of Engineering Paul Betlem confirmed that Adobe is developing a Flash Player for the iPhone at the Flash On The Beach FOTB conference in Brighton, UK. The only problem is that Apple controls which apps get approved for distribution in the App...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Apple Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- A call to arms for radio fans: Pandora needs you now
- A call to arms for radio fans: Pandora needs you nowhypeI'm a big fan of Pandora and have given them decent blog coverage due to that. But every few months we hear from Tim that there's a crisis and we must save Internet radio. And perhaps it's true. However, this...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, radio, Pandora
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- A call to arms for radio fans: Pandora needs you now
- When I spoke to Pandora founder Tim Westergren last week he told me that there would be a time when the Internet radio site would need to issue a call to arms to its listeners -- that time is now. Westergren sent a pleading message to his...
- Tags: Internet Radio, Radio, U.S. Senate, Broadcaster, Pandora, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Page accuses broadcasters of 'rigging' poor white-space tests
- Speaking on Capitol Hill yesterday, Google cofounder Larry Page accused broadcasters – if not the FCC – of "rigging" tests that found white-space devices interfere with TV broadcasts, the Washington Post reports. "The test was rigged deliberately," Page said during his...
- Tags: Larry Page, Broadcaster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Federal Government, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Times repeats Google spin on Yahoo ad deal
- Randall Stross, a business prof at San Jose State University, offers a full-throated defense of the Google-Yahoo pact, in the NYT today. Stross is currently working on a book called Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know and has...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Auction, Stross, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Intel at Oracle OpenWorld: It's about time - and the cloud.
- The phrase "Time is Money" is likely being muttered throughout Wall Street and Capitol Hill this week as Congress is being urged to quickly pass $700 billion legislation for an economy-saving financial bailout. Here at San Francisco's Moscone Center, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini used the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Networking, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Comcast really does care (aka how Twitter helped save Nick at Nite)
- Comcast really does care aka how Twitter helped save Nick at NiteYou are not the only one...Fresh Prince is still cool and funny. I did the same as you, but once I started making use of my media center in vista I was watching recorded shows of Inuyasha and Angel...
- Tags: DVR, Fresh Prince, Comcast Corp., Nick-at-Nite, Twitter, CableCard
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- How big the Google open source credibility gap
- How big the Google open source credibility gapSame script, different actorsEveryone hates "the king of the hill." Once upon a time, Microsoft was David and the Goliath was IBM... and everyone was filled with schadenfreude as IBM lost control of the PC market hardware and wound up seriously restructuring its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google open source credibility gap, IBM Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional
- The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityClearly a crimefighting imperativeThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is such a nuisance.RE: China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityHmmm, this is quite disturbing. While I can see the benefits in one hand I see abuses in the other. And the abuses I see...
- Tags: INTERNET, Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, Now Let
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Apple notebook refresh rumored to arrive October 14 (updated)
- Daring Fireball's Jon Gruber posted an interest mention in his Notes and Observations piece after Apple's Let's Rock event on Tuesday. Buried at the end of his third paragraph is this little gem that predicts the date of the upcoming MacBook revision: Those of you holding out for a...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Trackpad, AppleInsider, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
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