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- Who is afraid of the GGG?
- Dan Farber was one of the first to cover the Giant Global Graph, here on ZDNet. A few days on, though, there's value in taking a look at how these ideas are being discussed across the blogosphere. The GGG, or Giant Global Graph....
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Network, Relationship, Onus, GGG, Tim, Scepticism, WebTop, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Why I don't block YouTube anymore
- YouTube has long been on my list of banned sites, not because it's inherently a bad place to hang out, but because there is plenty of content that simply isn't appropriate for the average public school. Recently, however, several teachers have come to me and asked if we could...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Streaming Video, YouTube Inc., Video, Onus, Teacher, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- NYT: "Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain"
- NYT: "Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain"I said this was coming a year ago...NTWhat's the upside?[i]"...it is now the first company to come along in a long time that stands any kind of a chance at challenging Microsoft's dominance."[/i]Why would Google want to challenge Microsoft? The...
- Tags: Financial accounting, onus, Bill Gates, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-24
- Comcrash Internet service outages a bad omen for VoIP customer support?
- Comcrash Internet service outages a bad omen for VoIP customer support?Comcast has e911, there'll be no confusion thereComcast VOIP was not affected. You do bring up a good point though not in the way you intended. VOIP support services from MOST companies fail to mention that they don't...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, onus, VoIP, Comcast Corp., Comcast VOIP
- Discussion threads 2005-04-16
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- WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too
- Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrisy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital Divide" while privately refusing to support the XO simply because Linux was a supported operating system. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Gates Foundation, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Microsoft Windows, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft
- Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month's time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Jeremy Allison, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Samba 3.2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- If I were to design Windows 7
- My colleague and fellow ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley continues to polish her crystal ball about Windows 7's delivery date in her last Friday's column, based on interpreting new statements from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates as well as the party line about the already stated 3-year release cycle. I've always...
- Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- SAP's Succession Plans: Making Things Safe for Business ByDesign?
- SAP executed the beginning of a well-orchestrated and otherwise somewhat boring and boring is good management transition with the much-expected elevation of co-CEO Leo Apotheker to the more important title of heir-apparent. In the process, Henning Kagermann assumed the title of retiree-in-waiting, and all was good with the world. ...
- Tags: Peter Zencke, SAP AG, BBD, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Mozilla CEO accuses Apple of malware distribution practices
- Mozilla CEO accuses Apple of malware distribution practicesWhy should you be FORCED to uncheck the box??Seriously, people downloaded iTunes and any updates should be limited to iTunes.Why should any company have the right to FORCE the installation of an unwanted or unrequested software product??The checkbox should be unchecked BY DEFAULT....
- Tags: Digital music, Web browsers, Digital media, Apple Inc., malware distribution practice, Mozilla Corp., auto-Update, Apple QuickTime, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- SAP Takes A Swing at Oracle
- SAP has been hinting and mentioning and otherwise suggesting that it is taking away customers from Oracle's much vaunted Hyperion product line, and now it has issued a formal press release to that effect. While the press release talks about over 100 Oracle customers choosing SAP products over Hyperion, the...
- Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Can+we+cut+Microsoft+some+slack+here%3F
- Can+we+cut+Microsoft+some+slack+here%3FWho is that loon?That guy in your blog talking about pre-emptively whatever is a kook. They are the ones that act like Microsoft is the great satan. I think Microsoft has done alot to help advance this industry and no one can deny that fact. Its funny how...
- Tags: Government, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Microsoft: 'We try to reproduce every vulnerability that comes in'
- Microsoft outlined what it does with incoming vulnerability research, how it designates flaws and playing the cloak-and-dagger game with hackers. In a Q&A with Ryan Naraine, Jonathan Ness, the lead software engineer on Microsoft's SWI Defense team, addressed a big emerging issue between the software giant and...
- Tags: Team, Researcher, Priority, Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Ness, Team Management, Security, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- RIM: here's what's going on with the service outage (and it ain't good)
- RIM: here's what's going on with the service outage (and it ain't good)nonot at all...RE: RIM: here's what's going on with the service outage (and it ain't good)Give me a break. If anybody thinks that any service will be up 100% of the time, they are kidding themselves. Not...
- Tags: Handhelds, Telecom & Utilities, Research In Motion Ltd., service outage, RIM BlackBerry, outage
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Should doctors feel threatened by nurses?
- There is always a bit of tension between doctors and nurses. (Want tension? Try this Academy Award winner from 1975.) These days there's also a growing competition in a new area, the billing relationship. Living in Georgia I have been treated to annual legislative...
- Tags: Billing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Operations Management in UK Financial Services
- The extremely competitive nature of the financial services industry today and the changing landscape of customer expectations and their approach to investing in financial products, puts an onus on suppliers to consider how well they are dealing with new and existing customers' business transactions.This research investigates how technology is being...
- Tags: Quocirca, Financial, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management
- White papers 2008-01-14
- OLPC responds to Intel breakup
- OLPC responds to Intel breakupSounds like Intel was only in it to see if they could distract them andslow them down. Intel shames themselves with this behavior.RE: OLPC responds to Intel breakupGET REAL to quote this site "The emerging market is big enough for multiple players and it's not clear...
- Tags: Negroponte, Personality Conflict, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- Outsourcing Predictions for 2008... in a nutshell
- Let's not beat around the bush...here's what happening next year in the "O" world: 1) Offshoring panic will continue, but will force providers to innovate. Concerns over the appreciating rupee, weakening dollar, wage inflation and employee attrition will continue to have a powerful impact on the global...
- Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., BPO, Outsourcing Company, Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Phil Fersht
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Hey Lane Hartwell, what about watermarking your images?
- Hey Lane Hartwell, what about watermarking your images?yeah, but...then she might be "uglying up" her photos. i don't know her work, but if she is a fine art photographer, that could be an issue.RE: Hey Lane Hartwell, what about watermarking your images?Why not put the onus on the people who...
- Tags: photograph, image, watermark, Lane Hartwell
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Paranoia, money, and research
- Paranoia, money, and researchInteresting bunch of problemsConvincing a resourceful determined intelligent paranoid and their lawyers that the mirror system is identical, down to every last line of every last config file, every last piece of hardware, e.g. CPU stepping, is identical. Every last hard drive (including the ones swapped out...
- Tags: Financial accounting, duplication
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
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