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- Shut down blogs.pi.edu
- A newly-launched site called blogs.pi.edu is happy to sell you your own blog with a .edu domain for the low low price of $50. LinkAdage is partnering with the Pickering Institute to sell canonical domain names using the valid pi.edu domain, lending the credibility of a .edu domain to...
- Tags: Domain, LinkAdage, Pickering Institute, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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- The ROI of Data Governance - A Revenue Generation Perspective
- "Concentrating on increasing revenue necessarily means paying attention to metrics such as return on investment ROI. This white paper from Gwen Thomas of the Data Governance Institute provides a practical guide for determining ROI for data governance, data quality, metadata, master data, or other data-related programs, projects or ongoing processes....
- Tags: Revenue, DataFlux Corp., ROI, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2008-10-10
- Inside an early star-forming galaxy
- U.S. astronomers from the California Institute of Technology Caltech have used adaptive optics AO on the 10-meter Keck Telescope in Hawaii in conjunction with other images provided by the Hubble Space Telescope to look inside a young star-forming galaxy as it appeared only two billion years after the Big Bang....
- Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Image, Adaptive Optic, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- SEC investigating false rumor on Jobs' health
- The Securities and Exchange Commission will investigate Friday's false report that Steve Jobs was whisked to the emergency room, AppleInsider reports. The inquiry: Was the posting on CNN's iReport an attempt to manipulate the market? CNN pulled the page after Apple denied the rumor. AP just reported...
- Tags: Job, SEC, Health Care, CNN, Branding, Digital Media, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicine
- President Obama will take away kids cold medicineWhy regulate something that is only a problem due to irresponsible parentsALL over-the-counter OTC medications have information about who can use it and how much medicine it should get. Every bottle of OTC medication has very visible warning and most specify that...
- Tags: blog author, gov, cold medicine, Obama, prescription, medication
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Roundup: Enterprise software announcements
- A roundup of enterprise software-related announcements released today: IBM unveiled new automated security software for midsize companies to help them test for Web application security vulnerabilities and find advice on how to fix their security issues. The software, called IBM Rational AppScan Express Edition, also helps smaller...
- Tags: Software, Mobile, Enterprise Software, Credit Card, IBM Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Liquid camera lenses controlled by sound
- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI have created an adaptive liquid lens that captures 250 pictures per second. Because these lenses are simply powered by water and sound, they need less energy to operate than competing technologies. According to the project leader, 'The lens is easy to manipulate, with very...
- Tags: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Droplet, Lens, Camera, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- The collapse of top US financial firms is causing a dramatic slowdown in lucrative contracts among outsourcing companies in India--turning cities like Bangladore inside out. Bangalore, India--Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake of the credit crisis. It looks like...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Indian Institute Of Management, Outsourcing Company, Wage Increase, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, outsourcing, jobs, skills, Saritha Rai, silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-30
- Web Science: The next academic hot spot
- Web Science: The next academic hot spotThe previous issue of SciAm was very good.For anyone who doesn't know, the prior issue of Scientific American was almost entirely about privacy and security, with an appropriate focus on the Internet.I thought the web science article in the current issue was very interesting...
- Tags: Channel management, Web, web science, academic hot spot, Web Science, hot spot
- Discussion threads 2008-09-27
- Web Science: The next academic hot spot
- Will your computer science degree be replaced by a Web sciences one? It might as academics are increasingly dabbling with the study of the Web, but first a workable definition is needed. In a treatise in Scientific American's October issue, Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee make the...
- Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Using tree power to prevent forest fires?
- Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT think it's possible to use the energy generated by trees to power a network of wireless sensors to prevent spreading forest fires. These sensors are equipped with off-the-shelf batteries that can be slowly recharged using electricity generated by the trees themselves. 'The...
- Tags: Researcher, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Sensor, Tree, Mershin, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- The New Adventures of Christine's Old PC
- Windows XP virtualized within Vista SP1 using VMWare Player. Some of you may be aware that I have another identity besides professional technologist and tech/computer industry blogger -- I'm also passionate about restaurants, cooking, and eating (albeit with a healthier focus these...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, VMware Inc., Computer, Christine Nunn, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- VMware enlists Cisco to help supercharge virtualization
- Now that virtualization has evolved into a proven data center solution, attention is turning to how to optimize it to improve performance and make it scalable to thousands of systems. In partnership with VMware, Cisco wants to play a major role in taking virtualization to the next level, and on...
- Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science class
- Prof. Michael Reiss has been forced to resign his position as education director of the Royal Society, after making controversial remarks that creationism should be taught in science classes, the Times of London reports. The Society originally stood by Reiss but eventually came to feel his...
- Tags: Education, Professor, Director, Society Educator, Michael Reiss, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'
- 'John McCain invented the Blackberry'Dang. He and Al Gore must have the same speech writer...:D :D :D :D :DI don't think so....RIM is a Canadian company, and all Canadians know that it was, in fact, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who coincidently was also Conservative who helped invent the...
- Tags: Handhelds, John McCain, RIM BlackBerry, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Google steals Microsoft code and you should cheer
- Google steals Microsoft code and you should cheerWHAT??You created a misleading headline just to get us to read your article? Classy.A few thoughts"Chrome has introduced some key concepts to the Web. The idea of separating tabs as tasks. The idea of an address bar as an application.These are concepts Microsoft...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Are telecommuters inherently greener than the rest of us?
- Ah, yes, I'm enjoying another day here in front of my office window, which is flung wide open to the crisp autumn-esque New Jersey air. Because I'm a consultant and a freelance writer, it's natural that I live the life of a telecommuter, which is just the type of network...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Telecommuting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Nanotechnology coming soon to IMAX
- This winter, nanotechnology will be coming to an IMAX theater near you. A 40-minute movie, 'Molecules to the MAX,' will start its career on giant screens. This movie has very peculiar characteristics. First, it has been produced at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI by the director of the university's nanotechnology...
- Tags: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Movie, Nanotechnology, Molecule, IMAX, MAX, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible
- So the LHC is turned on! And it works great. And we're still alive. I'm not gonna beat that horse today. See Ars for snark But a good IT angle here. LHC is really only possible because of the growth of grid computing....
- Tags: Data, Distributed Computing, Grid, LHC, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
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