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Defense Employees to Get Anti-Spyware Software

Computers used by Defense Department employees will be upgraded with software to fight spyware. The contract, awarded to Science Applications International Corp. in San Diego, includes the installation of the software on 4 million computers used by Defense employees, including home computers of employees who work from home. Computer Associates...

Tags: Software, Employee, Computer, National Journal Group, Anti-spyware, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Management

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Best practices group formed for IT data center managers

Struggling to marry your company's environmental concerns with the right IT management philosophies? The Business Performance Management Forum BPM Forum and hosting company Rackable Systems have started a new "thought leadership" program, Think Eco-Logical, to help companies share ideas and data that can serve as the foundation for industry best...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Industry, Best Practice, E-business, Think Eco-Logical, Data Centers, Business Process Automation, Web Technology, Storage, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-05

UK plans lunar phone network

The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists...

Tags: Phone, Mission, Phone Network, Orbit, Satellite, British National Space Centre, Network Technology, Networking, moon, NASA, network, communications, Natasha Lomas silicon.com

News items 2008-12-05

Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

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

NYT takes new approach, taps blogs to keep readers informed

Have blogs become the new AP for news outlets? The New York Times has announced the launch of Times Extra, an online view of its front page that comes with links to content from other news outlets and blogs. For a long time, news outlets have been...

Tags: Blog, NYT, News Outlet, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...

Tags: Consumer, U.S., Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca

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

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

588 Kleiner Perkins iFund developers accidentally leaked to Web

A MySQL file containing contact information, founder bios, business plans, demos and financial information for 588 applicants to Kleiner Perkins's iFund – a $100 million fund to invest in startups building applications for the iPhone – was accidentally posted to the Web and indexed by Google. Kleiner...

Tags: Developer, Web, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Fruux, BIOS, Open Source, Databases, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady

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

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

Sage results show impact on SMB market

Sage results show impact on SMB marketSage revenue classificationsThe way Sage books revenue in the U.S., at least in the division I am somewhat familiar with, upgrades can be booked into the Maintenance and Support category. So a non repetitive upgrade, say a single purchase after 5 years to...

Tags: SMB/SME, Operational accounting, Sage, small and medium business

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Information Age landmark: One billionth mouse produced

Logitech, maker of many mice, has hailed as a major landmark the production of their one billionth computer mouse, which rolled off production lines late last month. The first mouse was created on December 9, 1968 when Douglas C. Engelbart and his group of researchers at Stanford University put...

Tags: Mouse, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Martin free wireless plan brings muni WiFi disaster back from the dead

OK, public spectrum, take 2. Or is it 3? After the infamous D-block auction meltdown, the FCC is set with a new plan to have the private sector deliver free Internet over the airwaves, Reuters reports. And FCC chair Kevin Martin's plan includes another long-held fantasy of policymakers: a...

Tags: FCC, Municipal Wi-Fi, Broadband, Spectrum, Wireless, Martin, Internet, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Government, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Dimdim offers synchronized co-browsing in web conferencing upgrade

Dimdim has released an upgrade of its open source web conferencing software that features synchronized co-browsing, enhanced performance and greater scalability. The Boston-based company said the 4.5 version of its namesake software allows users to plug-in URLs and share web-based data and videos with other browser users...

Tags: Software, Web, Web Browser, Dimdim, Web Conferencing, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Web Browsers, Open Source, Internet, Marketing, Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Craving for that next cell phone hit

Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", and scheduled this post to be released in his absence. I'd like to tell you about a conversation I had with my friend recently; this was seconds after she had lost her purse...

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Zack Whittaker, Telecom & Utilities

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility

Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OOXML, standards, ISO, OpenDocument, Standard, OpenOffice, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2008-12-03