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One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?

At the Consumer Electronics Show last January, Microsoft and Yahoo made a big deal out of a Vista-optimized version of Yahoo Messenger that was supposedly one of many compelling Windows Presentation Foundation WPF apps in the pipeline. On December 6, one year later, Yahoo announced a pre-beta...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Client Platform Technical Evangelist Tim Sneath, Sneath, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-12-06

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Facebook Connect goes live; Tell your favorite Web site

The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.Techmeme Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networking site. Now, using Facebook Connect, members can share information about...

Tags: Web, Facebook, Web Site, Curtain, Web Site Development, Social Networking, Web Technology, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft hires former Yahoo exec to run online services

Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits

Microsoft's search for a leader for its beleaguered Online Systems business is over and at least one of its top execs seemingly is none too happy with the results. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Exec, Lu, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack

Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing usability trade-offs and urged users to take advantage of its improved passphrase mechanisms -- ElcomSoft's Dmitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov provide...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Adobe Acrobat, Encryption, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

A Tour of Nortel's WebAlive Virtual World for Business

Nortel's new WebAlive world combines a virtual world with fantastic audio to make a business collaboration platform. Here's a preview of that world. by David Greenfield

Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Virtual World, VoIP, Virtual Reality, Conferencing, David Greenfield

Image galleries 2008-12-04

Microsoft Big Brains: Dave Campbell

The Microsoft "Big Brains" series, via which I am profiling Microsoft's roughly two dozen Technical Fellows, continues. This week's fellow is Dave Campbell, the head of strategy and architecture for SQL Services. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Team, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Databases, Storage, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

WebAlive: A Virtual World that Means Business

The campus with its tapered lawns, water fountains, and post-modern styled buildings, were typical of any professional campus. Only this wasn't just any campus. It was Nortel's virtual online campus in WebAlive, its new virtual world service. I was just given...

Tags: Virtual World, Nortel Networks Corp., WebAlive, Altadyn, LDAP Integration, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-12-04

The emerging case for open business methods

The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...

Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft to tweak 'compatibility view' with next IE 8 test build

Microsoft is planning to make further tweaks to the "compatibility view" feature in Internet Explorer IE 8 when it releases the next public test build in early 2009. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Web, Opera Software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Site, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

First cell towers, now solar panels? Expect squawking over "appropriate" sites

Last year, there was a major fight in my modest-sized north New Jersey town over whether or not there should be a cellular tower built up at the high school. Are we destined to start hearing the same sort of flack about solar panels? Over the past...

Tags: Solar Panel, Southern California Edison, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Metatomix seeks to bridge divide between structured and unstructured information

Recently I spoke with Howard Greenblatt, CTO of Semantic Technology company Metatomix. Headquartered in the north-eastern US State of Massachusetts, Metatomix provides a 'Semantic Platform' that; "intelligently connects all of your data in real-time and makes it available to any application, providing a 360° picture...

Tags: Metatomix Inc., Analysis, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Open source does not need new buzzwords

You can lose budget in the short term with Microsoft and its proprietary approach. But you will gain it back. A disciplined, long-term approach, based on open code and royalty-free standards, is how you keep the weight off. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Turn your iPod touch into a VoIP phone with Truphone

I've talked about the Truphone VoIP solution here on this blog a couple of times in the past and have had it on my iPhone for several months. Now that my ZDNet Smartphones & Cell Phones blog focuses on phones you may be asking why I am posting about a...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, VoIP Phone, Fring, Digital Music, Telephony, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-04

IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features

IBM has added a Linux desktop with new virtualization capabilities to its portfolio. The Virtual Desktop, which bundles Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, Virtual Bridges' KVM-based desktop virtualization software and IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution, is available now, Big Blue announced on Thursday. None of the...

Tags: IBM Corp., Virtual Bridges, IBM Lotus Symphony, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX

In the run-up to today's launch of JavaFX, ZDNet sat down with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to get his thoughts on JavaFX, Flash, and the future of Java. [ Read: Sun launches JavaFX 1.0, and JavaFX Q&A ] [Ed] Q. Why did Sun create...

Tags: Developer, Java Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Audience, JavaFX, Ed, Jonathan, Microsoft Obviously, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

JavaFX Q&A

To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...

Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...

Tags: Environment, Virtual Iron, Stephen, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud

Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...

Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04