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- America backs away from the Internet with a whimper
- When I covered ICANN in the mid-1990s the big issue was democracy, and whether individuals around the world might have a way to participate in network governance. This move means the model is being replaced by a balancing of interests among governments and private business. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Network, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- The 10 biggest moments in IT history
- Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...
- Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- VMworld, Red Hat Summit news takes cloud computing beyond the hype curve
- Many of the concepts first proposed and extolled during the Internet hype curve in the mid-1990s are now bearing fruit. Perhaps we should think of cloud computing as less than a separate hype curve, and more as the realization of the original Internet value curve , now some 15 years...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Curve, Internet, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?
- Do we put competitive advantage at risk when moving to generic services? Or perhaps the whole scenario of enterprise IT being edged out by the cloud is overblown? Consider the the mainframe, as Dana Gardner recently put it: "In the early 1990s, IT pundits, and my former boss Stewart...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Information Technology, SOA, Cloud, Jim, BBrad, Business Intelligence, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Web Services, Management, Servers, Hardware, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Can velocity revolutionize the data center business?
- Digital Realty Trust is trying to do to the data center business what Dell did to computer manufacturing and Wal-Mart continues to do to the retail market â€" make delivery efficiency the killer app. It claims it can build out a complete enterprise-class, energy-efficient data center in as little as...
- Tags: Data Center, DRT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petard
- With the launch of the Google Chrome OS, Microsoft is shafted by the same tactic it used to neutralize competition from Netscape's browser in the mid 1990s, and invites comparisons to the Windows vs OS/2 struggle earlier in that decade. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Software, Internet, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- The ISDN to IP Migration for Videoconferencing
- Since the release of IP-capable videoconferencing solutions in the mid-1990s, the percentage of video calls hosted over IP networks has continued to grow. In addition, virtually all video systems today include IP network capability, while only a limited percentage support ISDN. For some, the justification for migrating from ISDN to...
- Tags: Video Conferencing, IP, Migration, ISDN, Tandberg, Network Technology, Networking, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications
- White papers 2009-06-17
- Microsoft doesn't win at everything
- Rest in peace Microsoft Money. It won't be the first creation from the software giant to flop and it won't be the last. And that's just fine. There's a good bit of hubbub about the demise of Microsoft Money Techmeme. Yes, Intuit is the victor with Quicken,...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., CNet News, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Six awesome photo-related apps for the iPhone
- I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but when I bought the iPhone (first-gen model), it really changed my life. Besides all the maps, e-mail capability and other applications, it was great having a camera around. Instead of writing things I saw that I wanted to remember or buy later, I could...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Photograph, Camera, Photogene, Camera Phones, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Will enterprise mashups kill off corporate portals?
- Are enterprise mashups making portals unnecessary? That's the view of Michael Ogrinz, author of the recently published work, Mashup Patterns: Designs and Examples for the Modern Enterprise. Corporate portals -- soooo 1999 Corporate portals have been the unending rage since the Web first...
- Tags: Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computing
- Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computingNot Sure!Not Sure if ICELAND can be a hub for global cloud computing.I am worried about the initiatives the Govt of Iceland will be willing to take in the given economical crisis. And moreover ICELAND is one of the worst hit...
- Tags: Iceland, pollution, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-03-29
- Survey: technology investments boost odds of success
- If you're looking for evidence that technology investments can make a difference in your company's success, a survey made available by The Economist Intelligence Unit and underwritten by Oracle may help supply you with some ammunition for your argument. (Available for download here.) Overall, 78% of survey...
- Tags: Information Technology, Technology Investment, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Will Android and Windows Mobile get squeezed as smartphone market shakes out?
- While the iPhone has shown that there is a large consumer market for smartphones, the primary market-driver for the smartphone is - and will remain - enterprises and small businesses. This dynamic is similar to the PC operating system market. Think about Windows Vista. It has largely...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Platform, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Business, Microsoft Windows, RIM BlackBerry, Symbian Inc., Informa, BlackBerry Let, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Continuous Cluster Replication and Direct Attached Storage: High Availability Without Breaking the Bank
- When Exchange Server 4.0 was introduced, internal drives (or, for the well-funded, direct attached storage) were widely used. When the author first started working with Exchange in the mid-1990s, many of the organization's Exchange Servers used 2GB internal drives; these servers provided file and print services, and also ran SMS....
- Tags: Bank, Direct-Attached Storage, Clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server, High Availability, Replication, 3Sharp, E-mail Servers, Storage, Groupware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2009-03-02
- Pioneer Provider of Vehicle-Pricing Information Uses Technology to Expand Reach
- For many decades, the Kelley Blue Book has served as the leading source of vehicle-pricing information for car buyers, sellers, manufacturers, dealers, and financial institutions. Since the mid-1990s, the company behind that publication has used the Internet to deliver its much-sought-after information. To do this successfully, Kelley Blue Book recently...
- Tags: Car, User Interface, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureTalk about B & GThe Balkanization and Gerrymandering organizational style of UNIX is the number 1 reason why UNIX never took off like Windoze did. Here's some examples:I worked at FORD on the UNIX server development team. We were responsible for developing...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, Unix, standards
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- The open source value of responsibility
- The open source value of responsibilityAre you kidding"To those who take more, who feel more, the open source priests, rabbis, imams and lamas, I personally want to salute you. By taking this value seriously you drive the movement forward. And you make society better as well."Movement? Better society? It's fucking...
- Tags: Android Phone, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- Learning from Walmart
- Learning from WalmartTelxonIt's interesting that this technology still gets mentioned by name. We worked with Telxon units at a small IT software development company I worked at in the mid to late-1990s, developing client/server solutions for Fortune 500 companies. What we worked with was handheld computing form factors. We ran...
- Tags: Handhelds, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Telxons, free trade
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- Lemons into Lemonade â€" Business Suite 7
- (mid-press conference post - subject to update) SAP today announced its Business Suite 7 today. Here’s a set of capabilities that extend the core ERP solution set. Specifically, what BS7 does apparently, is to take some the lessons SAP learned from the expensive development of its Business...
- Tags: SAP AG, BS7, SOA Ability, BOBJ Functionality, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
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