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The NERV: What First Responders Need

In this free video, you'll see how a little technical preparation goes a long way toward helping a community survive a catastrophe. In Johnston County, North Carolina, a devastating hurricane is just another day. Watch as Cisco helps keep its residents prepared with full voice, video, and data connectivity--all in...

Tags: Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Networked Emergency Response Vehicle, Corporate Communications, Crisis Management, Marketing

Presentations 2008-02-19

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It's not easy being green--Optimizing eco-friendly packaging

Early adopter brands have further differentiated their products and won consumer affinity by adopting green strategies in their brands and packaging. But risks are many says Affinnova's Steve Lamoureux. Commentary--On every progressive brand manager’s short list is a sustainability initiative. In just a few short...

Tags: Risk, Brand, Standard Quantitative Approach, Branding, Marketing, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, green, packaging

News items 2008-10-15

Smart fabrics and interactive textiles

The European market for smart fabrics and interactive textiles SFIT represents about 300 million euro today and is growing at a yearly rate of about 20%. These smart textiles are used in 'clothes that monitor your heart, measure the chemical composition of your body fluids or keep track of you...

Tags: Textiles, Vertical Industries, Monitors & Displays, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille, Sensor, Information And Communication Technology, SFIT

Blog posts 2008-10-15

McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use (at least for pols)

YouTube's speedy response to DMCA take-down notices has been the subject of lawsuits – notably Stephanie Lenz, who with the EFF sued when YouTube deleted her video of her kid rockin' out to a Prince song. Now John McCain has a problem with YouTube take-downs. In a...

Tags: YouTube Inc., John McCain, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits

In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing...

Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-14

How green is your vendor?

Gartner analyst Simon Mingay on Tuesday unveiled ratings for technology vendors to highlight who's talking green and who's actually delivering. Just don't expect anything too quantitative just yet. Mingay's presentation at the Gartner Symposium ITXpo caught my attention given that every vendor is...

Tags: Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementEclipseRyan - I guess the point with the Eclipse stuff is to appeal to Java developers who don't want to step out of Eclipse to do RIA development, much the same approach Adobe took with Flex.RE: Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementHey Ryan,I totally agree...

Tags: Java development tools, .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Systems Inc., Eclipse

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Still pushing the obvious: Sun Ray

Still pushing the obvious: Sun RayGreat for the environment to!Lasting up to 20 years and pulling 8-10 watts ( inc. network overhead ) reduces materials energy and waste... And once you buy more than IRO 50, cheaper purchase price, running costs, support maintenance updates and no upgrades...So why would any...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Recruitment & Selection, Anton, Sun Ray, security, Sun Microsystems Inc., attack

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

(Update: It also looks like you can grab the final bits as of 12:01 this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0) After listening to the Q&A from the press conference today recording here, digging into some of the details, and reading some of the commentary on various blogs, there are a...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Eclipse, Numbers Game, Linux, Java Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Psystar OpenPro

Psystar OpenProCommending Illegal Behavior?I must say, I didn't expect to see this kind of response from a legitimate, mainstream blog and review site like ZDNet. Pystar is openly breaking the OS X User license by installing it on non-Apple hardware. It's rather disappointing that this organization would "commend" Pystar's illegal...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Psystar, Apple Inc., operating system, hardware, Pystar

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

LaCie's 5big Network offers five drive bays, up to 7.5TB storage

LaCie is bringing its distinctive aesthetic sense to small business networked storage with its new 5big Network device, which offers—surprise—five drive bays and up to a whopping 7.5 terabytes of capacity. If that's still not sufficient (or you want to back up what's on the 5big Network), the included USB...

Tags: Network, LaCie, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-13

CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Open source protectionism?

I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...

Tags: Open Source, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Debate around 'partial disclosure' heats up

There are many ways of telling the world about a security vulnerability. A vulnerability can be announced without telling the vendor, it can be announced after giving the vendor a period of time to fix the issue, or it may just be circulated amongst the underground without ever coming...

Tags: Disclosure, Researcher, Vulnerability, Security, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead

Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work aheadMay as well part nationalise some big IT playersFinanciers have proven that their own short term self interested greed can screw finance.It would be a good idea to have nationalised IT development sectors too, to stop the "jobs for the boys"...

Tags: Strategy, Financial accounting, IT WORK, financial crisis, information technology, financial

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Mad Medley Battle (exe)

Download the game Mad Medley Battle, and get off whole-hog. Trash shooter will help you relax after hard working days, and will release the stress. Decision makers ordered you to collect the elements of a powerful weapon. They are scattered in tropics of South America where hostile soldiers are concentrated....

Tags: MyPlayCity, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-13

Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead

Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...

Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-10-12

Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!

Valleywag's Jason Calacanis believes that Apple is working on a networked HDTV. Why not, after all, Apple has the expertise in all the areas necessary to pull this off. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple iPod, HDTV, Apple Inc., Valleywag, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-12