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- Advantages of the iPhone over the Storm
- You've probably heard enough about the Blackberry Storm, but humor me for a second. There are a number of ways that the Storm beats the iPhone because of what I call the second mover advantage. RIM deftly did what any wise competitor would do, they exploited the demand for features...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A guide to cutting IT costs
- Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...
- Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com
- News items 2008-11-21
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 4
- It's day 4 of a 5-day course on iPhone programming. As before I'll be sharing my observations from the classroom on how development on the iPhone compares to Android development. The class is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. [Read: Day 1, Day 2, Day...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Animation, Camera, View, View Transitions, Core Graphics, Android API, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Advantages of the Storm over the iPhone (updated)
- (Update: I took the number out of the headline, because it keeps changing.) I got to play with a Blackberry Storm earlier this week and a couple of features immediately jumped out at me that beat the iPhone hands down: Copy and Paste...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Blackberry Storm, Keyboards, Engineering, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm
- First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?
- I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...
- Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro' Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Office 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Changing business landscape makes identity and access management key to IT security
- To learn more about how enterprises can begin coordinated identity and access management strategies, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for security and risk management in HP's Consulting and Integration group; Archie Reed, distinguished technologist in HP's security office in the Enterprise Storage and Server Group,...
- Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Dana Gardner, Access Management, Identity, Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Tool, Regulations, Government
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Can free tech keep docs in practice?
- Half the nation's primary care doctors plan to quit within three years even though four-fifths of them realize we have a shortage. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Paperwork, Insurance, E-health, Financial Planning, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Emerging Technologies
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Greening the data center
- Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas – are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBM's Christopher O'Connor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Organization, Energy Consumption, IT Equipment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, data center, green, IBM, costs, Christopher O'Connor
- News items 2008-11-17
- Fast and cheap blood tests
- According to Technology Review, U.S. researchers have developed an integrated blood barcode chip which can identify what's in your blood in less than 10 minutes. Instead of going to a lab, having a shot, and waiting for results for a day or two, this new chip will allow physicians to...
- Tags: Blood, Physician, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille, Protein, Biotechnology
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Review: TeleNav Shotgun internet connected personal navigation device
- Last week TeleNav announced their new Shotgun personal navigation device PND. The Shotgun takes the tried and true TeleNav navigation software (found on many carrier phones as AT&T Navigator, Sprint Navigation, etc.) and places it on a very nice piece of hardware. I was sent an evaluation unit to check...
- Tags: Shotgun, TeleNav Shotgun, Internet, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Matthew Miller, Destination, Device, Display, ETA, GPS, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who's buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Industry, SOA, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- DSPs changing medical practice
- DSPs are letting TI help its customers create medical imaging devices that are mobile, less expensive and thanks to software more flexible than ever before by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: DSP, Medical Imaging, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn, Digital Signal Processor, Imaging, Texas Instruments Inc., Document Management, Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Will OpenID catch on?
- A survey of more than 300 people shows that few people have heard of OpenID, and even fewer are actually using it. Chris Messina, the guy with the guitar pictured here, has written up results of a survey conducted using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Messina, rightly, took...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Survey, OpenID, Marketing Research, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Adventures in CA support
- I received an Email notice this morning that my support agreement with CA for their Internet Security Suite was ending and that I should pay for an update. Since I'm well aware of how long a Windows XP system will survive on the network without a security breach, I dutifully...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., File Servers, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Beatmaker for iPhone
- Intua's BeatMaker (US$20, iTunes) bills itself as a "mobile music creation studio" for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's a revolutionary application that allows you to easily create and edit beats and loops in the palm of your hand. After using it a little it becomes so...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, Beat, Intua, BeatMaker, Tools & Techniques, Digital Music, Digital Media, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Aging equipment or none at all?
- While America's private hospitals practice this, it's likely many public hospitals do not. It's a choice between old equipment or none at all. And this need to replace equipment is going to dramatically increase the cost of any reform effort. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Equipment, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn, Hospital, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- ITIL V3: Making Business Services Serve the Business
- ITIL V3, the latest version of the IT Infrastructure Library ITIL, represents a significant advancement for the practice of Business Service Management BSM. Changes in ITIL V3 include the restructuring of the library into a service lifecycle framework with lifecycle stages that include Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition,...
- Tags: Business Service, ASG Software Solutions, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-11-12
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