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Ad-to-ad combat: Covering your Web tracks

You're worried about the constant advance of ads tied to your behavior online. You're not going to wait for Congress to get around to mandating clear privacy protections online, as suggested last week in a modest proposal. What's an avid Web user to do? ...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, AnchorFree Inc., HotSpot Shield, Mark Smith, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Where's N.O.'s new communications systems?

Remember, in the aftermath of Katrina, all the talk about creating a state-of-the-art communications system for New Orleans, one that would instantly kick in, connect government agencies and leaders and get the word out to residents? As with so much else regarding Katrina, New Orleans is still waiting, Wired News...

Tags: Mark Smith

Blog posts 2006-08-04

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Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light

Updated: Salesforce.com delivered a strong fiscal first quarter, but delivered a mixed outlook where it raised its earnings projections based on cost cutting yet pared its revenue forecast. Meanwhile, Salesforce.com's deferred revenue tally was lower than expected.  Salesforce.com on Thursday reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $18.4...

Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Quarter, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Love QuickQuotes Lite 1.02 (Mobile)

Nice collection of carefully selected love quotes. Some of the famous names quoted in our collection include Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Helen Keller, Amy Carmichael, Aristotle, Alexander Smith, Lao Tzu, and Thomas Fuller. Love QuickQuotes Lite features include bookmark favorite quotes, search quotes, email quotes to friends and family, shake...

Tags: Mobile, Collection, Attogear, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-04-27

Justifying SOA: 12 key metrics to keep tabs on

I've had a great discussion going on over at the ebizQ site concerning the importance of measurement to SOA success. (Additional discussion is also taking place in an open forum at ebizQ.) Loraine Lawson joined the discussion, and did a stellar job of summarizing some of the...

Tags: ROI, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-25

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?YepThe law of diminishing returns applies and the world moves on. Now to see some really innovative technology, who knows where it might come from but I seriously doubt it will be MS. Just like Sony ruled the world with the walkman (now the...

Tags: Word processors, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., post-Windows era, post-Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Web 2.0 Expo: Recommended sessions for social business

It's about that time to gear up for Web 2.0 Expo (#w2e) next Tuesday through Friday at Moscone West in San Francisco. I am excited about the content that TechWeb / O'Reilly Media, Inc., has produced and I have put together the following schedule for myself. Why should you care?...

Tags: Web, Social Media, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-03-27

Ballmer: It's ok to wait until Windows 7; Yahoo still 'makes sense'; Google Apps 'primitive'

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Vista's honor--again--but at least gave a nod to enterprise buyers that planned to skip it and upgrade when Windows 7 launches. He also noted that a Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would still make sense, but there are no talks. And he called Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-16

TechCrunch50: Day 1

When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-08

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Attack, Flaw, Lifelock, Nathan McFeters, Nominee, Security, Vulnerability, XSS, XSS Flaw

Blog posts 2008-07-21

A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic

The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, 'Pinta the robot sailing boat,' has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to sail for three months at a maximum speed of...

Tags: Pinta, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-11

Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux server market?

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on April 24 as planned and will be supported until 2011-2013. But is extended support enough to convince ISVs and businesses to support three Linux distributions? Despite the hoopla around its release Wednesday, Ubuntu’s ambitions in the corporate server space will be...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully

Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community -- but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how...

Tags: Software, Brad Smith, IP, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-26

I can live without gold, buy less gasoline, but NO salmon!

I can live without gold, buy less gasoline, but NO salmon!...Answer is simple Harry... 1. We have over fished many of the salmon populations.2. Due to although this year seems to be a turn around several dry seasons many salmon spawning sites were in accessible to the salmon during their...

Tags: Salmon, river, salmon, habitat

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Teaching Hospital Uses Unified Intelligence System, Improves Education and Patient Care

Washington Hospital Center, the flagship teaching institution of the non-profit MedStar Health organization, is the largest hospital in Washington, D.C. For 50 years, Washington Hospital Center has supported accredited residency and fellowship programs, as well as undergraduate medical education. To provide high-quality healthcare to patients and exceptional training, Washington Hospital...

Tags: Education, Patient

Case studies 2008-02-15

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Lawgarithms Links for 8/27/07

iPhone hacking meets the DMCA, new ways to owe money to the RIAA, bad music and its aftermath, and more — now playing in my Google Reader Starred Items:iPhone Unlocked; Legal Battle Looming?, from Ed FeltenUnlocking the iPhone could invite a lawsuit, from Computerworld Breaking News Is Unlocking Apple's iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, RIAA, Lawgarithms, iPhone Hacking, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-27

Salesforce becomes enterprisey, readies for war

As Salesforce.com sheds more of its 'cool' on-demand status and transitions to looking more enterprisey, I notice it has hired Graham Smith as CFO. Fellow Irregular Mark Crofton muses:...about the irony that a company whose motto is "No Software" keeps hiring big enterprise software company execs...Obviously, as an employee of...

Tags: Sales force management, Dennis Howlett, Salesforce.com Inc., Graham Smith, Marc Benioff

Blog posts 2007-08-23

Global Legal Challenges: General Counsel forum, Stanford's E-Commerce Best Practices conference

(Mark Lemley, Maren Christensen, Daniel Cooperman)There's a group of high profile in-house counsel participated today in the General Counsel forum at Stanford Law School's Fourth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices conference, including: Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School and Keker & Van Nest LLP Maren Christensen, Universal Studios Daniel Cooperman, Oracle Clint Smith, MySQL Kent Walker, Google Ian...

Tags: Software, Search, Patent, Lawsuits, Free speech, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences, Compliance, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-06-18

What will many cores mean to future Windows releases?

Windows and existing Microsoft programming languages work just fine with one- to four-processor PCs. But when 8- 16 and 64-core client machines become the norm -- in the not-so-distant future -- will Windows, C#, Visual Basic and other Microsoft applications be able to keep up?Seemingly, the answer is no. Microsoft...

Tags: .Net Framework, App Compatibility, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Research, Virtualization, Visual Studio Orcas, Windows 7, Windows client

Blog posts 2007-05-31