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Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts

In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Intel Corp., EETimes, Microsoft Research Folk, Dryad, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-17

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Snow Leopard geared for multicore future

You do realize that...You do realize that GCD is just a combination of 2 technologies that already existed previously on other platforms, right?a) Apple finally added "closures", aka "anonymous methods" or "lambda expressions" to Objective-C. Other languages have had this for many many years, and it is what you need...

Tags: Apple Inc., multi-core

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Renaissance to deliver 0.16 prototype this week with hybrid toolbar

The Renaissance project plans to release this week another prototype of its next gen OpenOffice GUI that offers a "hybrid" toolbar combining traditional menus and tabbed toolbars, project leaders say. "0.16 should be available early next week," wrote John McCreesh, marketing project lead for OpenOffice.org, in an...

Tags: Prototype, Toolbar, Microsoft Corp., Ribbon, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-08-23

NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf

Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two more strident and different speakers than Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen. As an enterprisey guy, Keen's assessment...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Computing, Conference, CODA, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Dell to launch Android and Windows Mobile phones

Dell to launch Android and Windows Mobile phonesWindows = Turn offUse a Linux device OS for crying out loud, goin the 'Windokes' path always leads to a dead end.Blackberry actually works without locking up, rebooting, and draining batteries in 1 day.The concept phone looks like a sad prop to anunder...

Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Keyboards, Handhelds, Operating systems, Cellular phones, cell phone, Dell Computer Corp., phone, smart phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Google's iPhone app is really good

Google's iPhone app is really goodOMG! How many iPhone stories can ZDNet pump out in 36 hours???C'mon ZDNet this is ridiculous...how many more iPhone / Apple stories are you going to bombard us with??????Then stop reading them!What's so difficult about that concept? There seem to be a lot of things...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., Microsoft strategy, Apple iPhone, Donnieboy, Google iPhone app, people like, Google iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-12

The search engine conundrum

The search engine conundrumlove it!Great article. More please...garyAll search engines lack clarityThe simple truth is all text-based search engines lack clarity and reliability.Whenever I search for something, there are literally thousands of ranked results that have nothing to do with what I am doing, and why? Because there...

Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottawa at a day long event. Dubbed Project Chainsaw, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Project...

Tags: Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Project Chainsaw, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Windows (in)security and open source

Windows insecurity and open sourceIt is "Fife", not "Fyfe"Despite the link you posted to an article discussing "Barney Fyfe Syndrome", per IMDB the character's last name was "Fife".As to the topic, I do think the security folks want us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!Funny you...

Tags: error rate, OSS, security, Microsoft Windows, open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Eight reasons SaaS will surge in 2008

The coming year is going to be a pivotal one for anyone involved in software-as-a-service. For everyone else, it's going to be the year when SaaS becomes impossible to ignore. Here's why. It's all about services. I'll start my list by repeating the prediction I made at...

Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-01-02

Upcoming Ubuntu release to improve features for educators, general, power users

Upcoming Ubuntu release to improve features for educators, general, power usersA kid waiting for christmas presentsTo me, the wait for Ubuntu 7.10 feels much like waiting for the Christmas presents when I was a kid.... :-) (I say christmas, but I should say Saint Nicholas evening, December 5, which...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux/BSD, Ubuntu, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

Jobs unveils new iMacs, iLife and iWork

Jobs unveils new iMacs, iLife and iWorkOK, let's get this started.First impression: at least its not as god awful ugly as the previous Macs. I know, Macs are supposed to be these beautiful, artsy, some people even say sexy machines, but beauty is really in the eye of...

Tags: Desktops, OOA/OOD/OOP, Apple Macintosh, IMACS, Apple iLife, Microsoft Corp., Apple iWork, Apple Inc., information technology, job

Discussion threads 2007-08-07

Build ERP on social media: not a joke

Shel Israel is undertaking a research project for SAP:I am trying to answer a single, overwhelming question: "What is going on in the world with regard to social media? ...Mostly I am looking for real people with stories and personal experience about what is happening with blogging, video, online communities...

Tags: ERP, Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 - No way dude!

Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 - No way dude!I've heard of problems with Ubuntuon virtual machines before as well. What it boils down to is whether the correct Xorg graphics driver is present on the LiveCD.Now, if you know what you're doing (and admittedly ~99.999% of people don't) you could...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Ubuntu, Microsoft Virtual PC, Virtual PC 2007

Discussion threads 2007-02-22

Vista launch: The day after

Vista launch: The day afterNvidia killed Nforce 2 chipset support vistaSo I got a fast machine I can't get Vista because of Nvidia kill support for Nforce 2. The Vista upgrade tool told me I was good to go.Not like I care but thought people would like to know.Short of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., 64-bit, Razer

Discussion threads 2007-01-30

Microsoft backpedals on programming patent

Microsoft backpedals on programming patentMicrosoft backpedals on programming patentIt's all good. Mistakes happen which is all it was in this case. Microsoft retracted its patent application and everyone is happy. Well everyone except Michael Kölling. Writing a full length blog crying about how he will be...

Tags: Web browsers, Blogging, Development tools, programming, patent system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-29

Apple 's iPhone - Wow!

Apple 's iPhone - Wow!Only 500 bucks!You've got to be kidding me?In the world of phone company subsidized phones, I don't see how Apple can succeed with this unless they allow phone companies to brand them and "give" then to their customers.I recently got a Blackberry Pearl (and bought a...

Tags: Handhelds, Treo 750, NYU, RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, iphone, Apple Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2007-01-09

China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?

Fresh off giving a keynote speech in Beijing during an event that was organized by the Chinese National Institution of Standardization the CNIS, Andy Updegrove is now stateside with a report that the Chinese government has come up with its own document standard called the Uniform Office Format or UOF....

Tags: Uniform Office Format, CNIS, Office 2.0, Government, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2006-11-09

China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?

Fresh off giving a keynote speech in Beijing during an event that was organized by the Chinese National Institution of Standardization the CNIS, Andy Updegrove is now stateside with a report that the Chinese government has come up with its own document standard called the Uniform Office Format or UOF....

Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Government, Office 2.0, Berlind, CNIS, Uniform Office Format

Blog posts 2006-11-09