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- Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
- Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?
- This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- News to know: Oracle's Fusion guru quits; Dell; Windows 7 boot times
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dennis Howlett: Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: New dual/quad core CPUs enter Intel price list, AMD drops prices ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Portals, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Software, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Webcast: Growing Your Business with CRM
- Smart business owners and executives already understand the importance of customer service to the long-term success of their business, but many fall short when it comes to effective customer relationship management, or CRM. To learn proven strategies for getting customer service right, join Growing Your Business...
- Tags: Strategy, Customer Service, Webcast, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Webcasts 2008-09-04
- Logitech tries to take network music player mainstream with Squeezebox Boom
- In the press release announcing the new Squeezebox Boom, Robin Selden, vice president and general manager of Logitech's Streaming Media business unit, says that "[t]he network music player will be the CD player of the 21st century." That may be true—eventually—but at $299.99, the Boom probably...
- Tags: Audio, Streaming Audio, Network, Logitech, Music Player, Network Music Player, Media Players, Web Technology, Digital Music, Digital Media, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- On stupid mascots and closed source browser plugins
- Everyone's been harping on Google this week with the release of Chrome, so I thought I would be different -- today I'm going to give Adobe some love. Because I bet they feel left out. Adobe's Flash and Acrobat Reader plugins are some...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web Browser Plug-in, Adobe Acrobat, Web Browser, Plug-in, Flash, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Silicon Valley's Judy Estrin warns we are running out of innovation
- I recently met with Judy Estrin, a former CTO at Cisco, and one of Silicon Valley's top serial entrepreneurs. Since the dotcom bubble burst she has been concerned that Silicon Valley has not been investing enough in startups pioneering innovative technologies. She warns that we are living...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Leadership, Research & Development, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Who wins with Google Chrome
- Who wins with Google ChromeChrome adds a lot. By about any measure, Chrome will be way ahead of IE8.If there was nothing new here, there would be no excitement.Chrome Adds Nothing NewAt this point in time, Chrome adds effectively nothing new. It's little more than a late attempt to...
- Tags: Web browsers, WebKit, FF 3.1, Chrome, Google Inc., Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Who wins with Google Chrome
- The winners and losers in Google Chrome are technologies. Not companies. Not sites. Technologies. And those which are open source are naturally advantaged. It's the open source process itself that is the biggest winner with Google Chrome. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Malware Writer, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?
- Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?TiVo & DirecTVTiVo are not competing with DirecTV by selling their own boxes since the TiVo HD box does not work with satellite, only cable. By partnering with DirecTV they would then have the cable market AND the satellite market available to them....
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, TiVo Inc., DirecTV
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?
- I used to watch TiVo. There's actually a double-meaning there. As a consumer, I loved my TiVo box and the TV-viewing flexibility that it introduced to my household. As a journalist, I watched the company, as well. No contest: I liked the service far more than I...
- Tags: TiVo Inc., DirecTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- TiVo's new strategy: Too little, too late?
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz says it's time for TiVo to focus its resources on licensing its technologies for the non-TiVo DVR boxes offered by cable and satellite TV providers. TiVo should abandon developing its standalone set-top boxes, since it has never been good at luring a mainstream customer base,...
- Tags: Strategy, TiVo Inc., Satellite TV, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Tivo, DirecTV
- Videos 2008-09-03
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the worldFive reasons Chrome will take over the worldYou know what ZDNet needs? More articles about Chrome! 12 over the last 24 hours just isn't enough so why not add to that number.Chrome isn't taking over anything because its terribly broken. It doesn't render...
- Tags: Development tools, Web browsers, chrome, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Mozilla CEO: No worries about Google Chrome
- Mozilla CEO: No worries about Google ChromeLike it!I like Chrome and IŽll keep using treehoo.com (the Google-based site that plants trees) as my default hoempage!With more competition, the market share for alternative browsers will gonowhere but up, and as more and more are exposed to and become knowledgeable about alternative...
- Tags: Web browsers, Lilly, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Google Inc., Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting case
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...
- Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Murph, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., IT IS, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- 10 tips for implementing green IT
- As the push for businesses to adopt eco-friendly practices gains momentum, IT leaders are searching for ways to bring greener technologies and more environmentally responsible strategies to their organizations. See how you can boost efficiency and reduce costs by going green.This download is also available as an entry in our...
- Tags: Green IT, Deb Shinder, Blogging, Leadership, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Download resources 2008-09-03
- What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?
- So during lunchtime today I got to play with Chrome a bit. It's got a nice clean implementation, and it's fast. Sure, it doesn't do everything that either Firefox or Internet Explorer does yet, but hey, it's a beta. I like it. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Security-wise, Google Chrome is (potentially very) Good
- Security bloggers are already commenting on Google's slightly premature "Chrome" browser leak. Built on top of the Apple sponsored WebKit engine, the browser offers several security features that we have only seen so far in the beta releases of IE8. The most interesting feature discussed so far...
- Tags: Security, Google Inc., Application, Web Browser, Security Blogger, Chrome Philosophy, Web Browsers, Internet, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
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