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What will next-generation multicore apps look like?

What will next-generation multicore apps look like?PLINQ Is Part of the Multi-Core StoryMicrosoft is staffing up its Parallel LINQ PLINQ development group to take advantage of multicore processors in handling LINQ expressions especially Group Join and Group By.Joe Duffy has more information and a set of PowerPoint slides about PLINQ,...

Tags: Joe Duffy, PLinq, multi-core, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, musing

Discussion threads 2007-07-30

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Eco-ears: Why downloading your music from the Internet is inherently more green

Someone, somewhere in Apple's Cupertino headquarters is kicking themselves for not thinking of jumping on this theme first: Intel and Microsoft have published a whole bunch of case studies and scholarly analyses that look at the various impacts of technology-enabled habits and processes on the environment. One of the...

Tags: Internet, CD, Album, Music, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-18

The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem

One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...

Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Where's Bin Laden? New theory, Google Earth offer clues

A couple of geography professors at UCLA have done some legwork that just might help the U.S. get closer to capturing Osama Bin Laden. The professors, John A. Agnew and Thomas W. Gillespie, today published a theory on the MIT International Review site PDF that identifies three...

Tags: Google Inc., Osama Bin Laden, Professor, Theory, Google Earth, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-19

IBM's Legacy World

I attended a regional 'Lotus Collaboration Summit' yesterday - a very helpful road show style event IBM put on to help flesh out the state of the Lotus universe and give partners a chance to demo their products to the customers in attendance. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Oracle's Mix Network, thoughts on remote conferencing

A couple of thoughts on the large scale Oracle OpenWorld Conference, which has a downtown San Francisco street closed, over 40,000 people in attendance and 1,700+ sessions. The logistics of catering to this number of people is huge, and so is the associated airlift. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Mix Network, Web 2.0, Blogging, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Too much 'whining' and not enough action on SOA?

Too much 'whining' and not enough action on SOA?I'm sure he would like people to act without thinking.Yes, when you are selling vapor it is good to discourage debate and discussion, and instead shout at people to "get moving".The author (not Joe, this Petreley referred to in the article) clearly...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Technologies, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

How sick is Steve Jobs?

How sick is Steve Jobs?Not appropriate to ...discuss someone's health in a public blog. Privacy should remain private.how long before M$ goes belly up?with Gate$ gone, M$ is even in a worst position since he too was relying on brainless drones.RE: How sick is Steve Jobs?[i]Jobs has insisted to friends...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Steve Jobs, health care

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Confirmed: Apple files suit against Psystar

Confirmed: Apple files suit against PsystarThis may end the US based Mac clonesBut it is a big, big world and other countries don't honor the US's laws. I would not be feeling to secure about my overseas markets if I was Apple.Adrian, the hater of PsystarHe seems to have a...

Tags: Psystar, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

War of words over alleged Firefox vulnerability

War of words over alleged Firefox vulnerabilityInteresting...I don't know, but I suspect...I suspect the Mozilla guy is right this time. Since the just-fixed vulnerability dealt with exactly this issue, I find it hard to believe that the team did not test this very thing. I am betting that...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Ryan, vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox vulnerability

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Oh, go on, techies, read some bloody fiction during the holidays

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk offers some reading suggestions for this holiday season, when techies should be taking a respite from their digital labors. It is holiday time, and, in my tech naivete, I am assuming that the hard-working, soft-partying readers of this site take a few hours,...

Tags: Advertisement, Movie, Techie, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Ontology-Based Information Extraction for Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence BI requires the acquisition and aggregation of key pieces of knowledge from multiple sources in order to provide valuable information to customers or feed statistical BI models and tools. The massive amount of information available to business analysts makes information extraction and other natural language processing tools key...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language, Extraction, Ontology, University Of Sheffield, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Databases, Strategy, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Investment, Finance

White papers 2007-08-24

'Keeping the lights on' stifles tech innovation

'Keeping the lights on' stifles tech innovationExactly.Keeping the lights on is what is funding technology. If the lights go out, so does technology. along with the rest of society as we know it Capitalism at its finest.It still comes down to business needAs I lead the IT direction...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, RSS, innovation

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

EMI ditches DRM

EMI ditches DRMConsumers are still thieves?[i]Such a response, to me, sounds like a market that is still trying to rationalize its desire to download free music though generalizing based on the Talkbacks to my blogs is a very bad idea.[/i]I didn't get that idea at all from your talkbacks.Buying tunes...

Tags: digital-rights management, music, EMI Group Plc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

What Microsoft is telling Google about mobile search

Google recently warned investors about the “formidable competition” it faces from number one rival Microsoft, underscoring in particular that Redmond bests Mountain View on the cash resources front.In its acquisition of Tellme Networks, Inc., Microsoft is wagering an estimated $1 billion of its competitive kitty that it will loudly beat...

Tags: SEARCH, Tellme Networks Inc., mobile search, mobile marketing, Google Inc., vision, radio, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-25

Vista Hands On #1: What you need to know about product keys

Vista Hands On #1: What you need to know about product keysWell goodyNow we have another CLI invocation to manage Windows:ipconfigmsconfigand now slmgrJust for managing whether we're in "good" with the gang at MS. What WILL they think of next?So Slmgr.vbs is a VBScript file. I wonder what kinds of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux Guy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Hands-On, product key, Linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-02-12

End of the PC? No, iPhone is the end of the cell phone

You can read a lot from what the Apple iPhone will do, and surely there are a lot of glaring deficiencies. What can we read of them?And what should we make of the iPhones company on stage at this weeks Macworld? Google, Yahoo, and Cingular. The best of the Internet,...

Tags: Home, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Mobile, Apple, Microsoft, Windows, SaaS, Patents, content delivery network, Internet, convergence, Google, Google Inc., iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Journalism 2.0: News or chatter?

What is the future of news? A debate is underway in the blogosphere. Additionally, What is news? Who writes news? Haydn Shaughnessy asks: Are readers really writers? Some are but we know participation is always on the low side. The reader is a writer sounds good, but it’s...

Tags: Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-10-15

Is Office 2007 the real Office 3.0?

Theres been a lot of hype in recent months about the future of the Office -- written in caps I imagine to distinguish it from Microsoft Office, which of course also being in caps is no distinction at all. Nick Carr -- he who sees no innovation in IT and...

Tags: Microsoft Office

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Opera Mini is a good little browser

I've recently been musing about what mobile device to buy. The bottom line is that nothing is perfect. The question has generated dozens of comments, probably as many private emails, and even spawned a discussion on Mobile Tech Roundup. ...

Tags: Cingular Wireless, mobile, Opera Mini, Opera Software ASA, Phil Windley, Web browser

Blog posts 2006-08-31