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Object Management Group: (Object Management Group, Needham, MA, www.omg.org) An international organization founded in 1989 to endorse technologies as open standards for object-oriented applications. The OMG specifies the Object Management Architecture...; Full Object Management Group Definition >>

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Crazy sales video rocks out: 'Gotta get me some' Windows Vista: Microsoft can't seem to catch a break, whether from Apple's latest ads targeting switchers, or in a crazy music video celebrating Vista SP1 that was done by Redmond's channel group. Jupiter Research Analyst Michael Gartenburg pointed to this video on YouTube called Windows...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Object Management Group, Gartenberg, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-04-22
iPodPink appears just in time to save the economy: iPodPink appears just in time to save the economyIt might just be fluff...Different colors might just be "fluff"...but fluff sells. Every female I know who has a Moto Razr, has the pink one. Go Apple!enough is enoughI enjoy my nano but the Apple hype machine is getting to...; Tags: Quality, Digital music, Object Management Group, iPodPink, JIT, Chuck Norris, Pink; Discussion threads 2008-01-22
OMG! Study finds iPhone texting 2x slower than QWERTY: OMG! Study finds iPhone texting 2x slower than QWERTYI think it is a worthwhile evaluationThe test highlights one of several significant lackings in the iPhone's current implementation - lack of haptic feedbackThe all touch screen interface is cool albeit swiped from LG and Apple's UI mavens definitely gave the device...; Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Object Management Group, Apple iPhone, phone; Discussion threads 2007-08-16
OMG! Study finds iPhone texting 2x slower than QWERTY: Updated below: A study has determined that iPhone's touchscreen is two times slower than QWERTY phones when it comes to texting. OMG!This study was conducted by User Centric, a Chicago-based usability consultant. User Centric concludes:It took QWERTY users almost twice as long to create the same message on the iPhone...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Object Management Group, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-08-16
OMG... not another iPhone post!: OMG... not another iPhone post!iPhonequoteyou've had it with iPhone posts on blogs everywhere. Well I have something a little different for you. I'm not going to waste your time explaining why I am or am not getting an iPhone on FridayAVS DVDtoGo, a smart wizard-styled tool, copies movies and converts...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Apple iPhone, Object Management Group; Discussion threads 2007-07-19

OMG... not another iPhone post!: I know... I know... you've had it with iPhone posts on blogs everywhere. Well I have something a little different for you. I'm not going to waste your time explaining why I am or am not getting an iPhone on Friday. I'm not going to get into an exhaustive feature...; Tags: Mobility, Mac; Blog posts 2007-06-27
SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA Consortium's advocacy objectives with OMG CEO Richard Soley: Read a full transcript of the discussion.When the hype curve descends, advocacy takes over. And so it is with the SOA Consortium, formed earlier this year to establish SOA as a business productivity benefit and to glean proven adoption paths and proof-points from primarily end-users and enterprises. The advocacy group's...; Tags: Agile Development, IT Management, ITIL, Podcasts, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure; Blog posts 2007-05-25
Second Life child pornography investigation: Second Life child pornography investigationUS Supreme Court decisionThe crime in child pornography has been defined as the abuse of the child. If no child is abused - as in a drawing - then no crime has been committed. That's the oversimplification as I understand it.The law overturned would...; Tags: Object Management Group, child pornography, Second Life, child pornography investigation; Discussion threads 2007-05-10
More buyers home in on Office 2007: More buyers home in on Office 2007It's been everywhere""With almost zero advertising and marketing until the January 30, 2007 retail launch"MS has been talking about these product for years with MS press release section in overdrive.The difference between Office 2003 and Office 2007Lets see Office 2003 came out less than...; Tags: Mac Commercial, Object Management Group, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2003; Discussion threads 2007-02-12
OMG Kitty (msi): Save Kitty by guessing the hidden words. This game will test your knowledge and have you biting your nails. If you like the Hangman style games, you will love OMG Kitty. Hours of fun for the whole family.; Tags: Object Management Group, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2006-11-09
OMG CEO Richard Soley on standards, complexity and productivity: Dr. Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group OMG, joined me last week for a BriefingsDirect podcast on OMG's latest activities and the status of the ongoing counter-force to complexity -- standards.Indeed, OMG through its auspicious history has developed a methodology for federating standards, which themselves often...; Tags: Object Management Group; Blog posts 2006-05-15
Phishers go after World Cup fans: Phishers go after World Cup fansOMG is nothing sacred?Not the World Cup? Say it isn't so. When will it end? Now the Phishers have gone too far. I think the UN Security Council should conduct an investigations and sanctions be placed against all countries that harbor...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, Object Management Group, phishing, World Cup; Discussion threads 2005-09-29
Phel program threatens latest Windows XP: Phel program threatens latest Windows XPThis has gotten too oldThankfully I finally took the plunge and bought a Mac. Just waiting for it to come in the mail and Windows is out of my life for good (except at work though, unfortunately). I'm so unbelievably excited, it feels like when...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, Patches, Microsoft Windows XP, computer, Object Management Group, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer; Discussion threads 2004-12-29
CORBA / UML Success Story: Zuercher Kantonalbank - Banking/Finance: An IMS Information Management System database keeps parameters and reference data for virtually all mainframe-based Zuercher Kantonalbank banking applications. This caused various problems, ranging from outdated information over redundancies to wrong associations between data, which further led to occasional malfunctioning of the bank's core applications. ZKB needed a new system...; Tags: Solution, Object Management Group, Finance, Tool, Data Management, Corba, Banking, UML, Storage, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Financial Services, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Canada Europe Collabotration in RTD: The European Community now plays a very active role in giving concrete expression to the new developments taking place in modelling languages and in UML Unified Modelling Language in particular. These developments are carried out mainly by the OMG Object Management Group. The main objective of the NEPTUNE project (Nice...; Tags: Object Management Group, Tool, UML, Productivity, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Case studies

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Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta: We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release we just posted a new Flex SDK that works to support the Flash Player beta so for the time being this is primarily so that...; Tags: 3D, Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player 10, Complex Effect, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-15
What open source teaches publishers: I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...; Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says: And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...; Tags: Bell Canada, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge: In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?: As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15