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- News to know: Comcast-NBCU; Chrome netbooks; Google Public DNS; Psystar; Accenture
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alertand RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage: Larry Dignan: Meet the new Comcast-NBCU: Content meets conduit everywhere; Will it work? John Morris: Will Chrome netbooks really be...
- Tags: Google Inc., DNS, Accenture Ltd., Microsoft Office, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Sam Diaz, Global Warming, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Security, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- Harvard study condemns HIMSS approach
- HIMSSHIMSS: Carefully crafted rules governing software development that effectively create 'barriers to entry' which has the 'side-effect' intentional or otherwise of limiting the number of vendors that can 'compete' for market share.Does HIMSS have a conflict of interest?Why isn't more being done to endorse open source initiatives like GNUMed?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUmedA lot...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, HIMSS
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- 11 open source business models
- You are looking at it sideways.It's never as simple as you make it seem. Things usually can't be broken into neat little lists which are really just stereo types.From Wikipedia: Business Model: "A business model describes the rationale of how an [b]organization[/b] creates, delivers, and captures value[1] -...
- Tags: Strategy, business model, open source, EULA Ware, software
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- Are you using Joomla! yet? Why the heck not?
- And how does Google Sites compare with this?Google Sites is available to both Gmail and Google Apps users.Good work!! And of course you should pay somebody to host it, so as to not waste tax payer money hosting it yourself.And, of course, you can run Joomla on a reliable platform!...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, cloud computing, Joomla, Google Inc., Google Sites, Joomla!
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud
- RE: Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloudI still don't understand what in Azure is different for the better or worst than Amazon's or Rackspace's or other instant-server-on-demand cloud offerings.Interesting. Let's see if fellow ZDNet bloggers will acknowledge this..The more offerings, the better, as...
- Tags: Blogging, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, dev, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Azure, open source, Google Inc., Microsoft Azure
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- (Inside Microsoft's retail store (photos))
- If it works, try to copy itContrast these images with the Apple store opening in Paris. That one had long lines of people anxious to get into the store. These have large numbers of employees loitering.I see that they even tried to copy the genius bar. How...
- Tags: Retail, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Apple Store, photograph
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Intel vs. AMD still isn't a fair fight
- There are more hindrances to AMD’s ability to penetrate the market with its Opteron CPUs; and Intel’s not a fault this time. In an earlier blog post on the AMD-Intel settlement I brought up an example of a type of incompatibility that exists between the two CPU makers that isn’t...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Server, VMware Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- Are open source developers suffering?
- Open Source tends to be anti-job.Open Source tends to be anti-job. Unless you fancy yourself as the next big advertiser."And one thing I can say for certain is that, while they all like to eat, most don?t measure their self-worth strictly on the bottom line."You don't need to measure yourself...
- Tags: OS developer, open source, software, job
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Microsoft investigating 'black screen of death'
- RE: Microsoft investigating 'black screen of death'Here we go...it's Vista all over again.It could...I don't know if this has happened in safe mode, it would be hard to test. But I don't believe there is anythign you can turn off or change to fix it either. From what I've seen,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Win 7, black screen, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Will you or won't you (print that document)?
- Dead tree publishingUsing paper is more about you than it is about the process. I read all documents on screen and virtually all documenst are sent as email anyway without the need for paper.Having to print things out is just a hangover from the old days and the younger...
- Tags: Using Paper
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Can Chrome OS save us from racket ware?
- Open Source / Repositories vs. Windows Closed SourceThe idea of having GPG-protected repositories which contain open source apps is central to the notion that these apps' source code is viewed by 'many eyes' and as such, vetted.Get your app outside of your designated O/S approved repos and you 'tempt fate'.In...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system, software, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Open source is not about Wall Street
- only M$ ia about wall street greedand yet it failed to deliver because of its flawed business model.The answer to the Golden Rule"My way or the highway," may work for proprietary, closed code, but with Open Source there is always a FORK in the road.MySQL can easily become OurSQL. Larry...
- Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Will the Adult Industry Drive Android Adoption?
- Oh come on Jason.Porn can be received on the iPhone/iPod Touch to. Try going to www.youporn.comon your browser or mobile web browser.Not as apps.Web sites, sure. But not as apps.The "Vibrator" appSimply adjusts the rate of haptic feedback, so there is little reason for apple to reject it.ACTUAL Adult content...
- Tags: Smart phones, Web site development, Web technology, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Web application
- Discussion threads 2009-11-29
- Does Chrome OS mean anything for schools?
- Benefits of the ChromeOS approachOne of the features of HTML5, that commentors on other posts seem to forget, is that HTML5 web apps can be "installed" in app cache, for offline use (Google "HTML5 manifest").If web apps can be used offline AND made to perform like desktop apps, with web...
- Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Desktops, NOW IT, HTML5, operating system, Chrome OS, Does Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-28
- Making Money with Twitter
- Twitter Japan Digital Garage, which is already advertising supported, are experimenting with a pay per tweet model. Media.asia are reporting According to local reports, the plan will allow audiences to view some text on all tweets but will charge a fee to...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Twitter Japan, Media.asia, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-27
- East Anglia: anger and aggro
- One must live through it in order to fully understand itOnly in this case some will have to face huge collateral damage. Fortunately those who will suffer the most are living in already hard hit areas so they are quite used to a life of pain and suffering and as...
- Tags: E-mail, East Anglia
- Discussion threads 2009-11-26
- Death of the black box EULA
- Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...
- Tags: EULA, black box, software
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Does virtualization equal cloud computing?
- I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- Larry Augustin's practical revolution at SugarCRM
- Dana, what is the trend in the Open Source community?OS started as a software development and delivery model "for the people by the people", i.e. free use enabled by free contributions. Now free contributions are likely drying out. Companies with paid employees are contributing the most significant part of code....
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Welcome Back, SugarCRM
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
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