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The pitch for 'Project Better Place'

The pitch for 'Project Better Place'Great newsWe can clearly see that even the auto industry is included in this project for a better place.

Tags: Project Better Place

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Shai Agassi trades SOA for electric cars

Former SAP executive, Shai Agassi has resurfaced as a potential 21st century day Henry Ford, but with a green intent. He is moving from ERP and SOA to electric cars with his for-profit Project Better Place. And, he has raised more that $200 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, Israel Corporation,...

Tags: Car, SOA, Shai Agassi, Project Better Place, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Additional Resources

Google Image Swirl: Looks neat, but useless

I agree - SomewhatAlthough I agree that Google's Image Swirl is basically useless, I would disagree with your prosition on Bing's Visual Search. Google's offering is mainly designed as an image discovery tool, by grouping pictures of similar content or features. While its presentation may be cool, I...

Tags: Google Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe

Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

So about this SIF thing

Difficulties in implementationLong before I retired from being a computer coordinator for our district, SIF was in the news.The reality for my district was changing Student Information Management software three times in 10 years (and a fourth since '06 when I retired). In each case, the transfer of data from...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, SIF

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

FCC unanimously approves next steps toward Net Neutrality

Gov't fix, oh joyUh yeah, the internet is undecidely broken. This has a strong possibility of leading to usage limits. Comcast already has walked that line because they are behind the curve on their backbone upgrades. Why would a company who is being paid not provide better...

Tags: INTERNET, FCC, Net Neutrality, socialist, Nazi, Godwin, leader, Microsoft Windows NT, government

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Advanced Time Reports Web Premier 8.18.200 (Windows)

Advanced Time Reports Web will help you increase your billable hours by better managing all your projects, clients and working hours. All of ATR functionality now available in pure 100% web-based application. Manage your projects, receive updates, create reports and view team schedules - all remotely from any place in...

Tags: Web, Team, Microsoft Windows, Xpress Software, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora Linux updates prepped as Win7 release nears

another nail in M$ coffinThe upcomming failure of windoze 7 and M$ going under will not leave the users exposed.Linux is here to save the day!Wrong Answerhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/DesperationGuess it shows how desperate Vista users are to get onto Win7Windows 7 a failure?Didn't it already surpass Linux's market share? BEFORE it's GA?Failure...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SuSE, Linux, Fedora Project, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels

wowOne would think with our new leader money wouldbe flowing with millions of new jobs all overthe place.Since millions have lost jobs since his automakertake overs and giving banks Billions if not trillionsof dollars that went no where.Now free healthcare for all, that is right free withno cost to anyone....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, evil, reason business, Microsoft Corp., information technology, IT budget

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Mono-mania: It's risky business

M$ must give away its patentsIf M$ want to have its technolgies adopted by FOSS it must give up all its patents and GPLed the code.Until then we must stay away from any code that resembles M$ technologies and support Stallman and FSF in their fight against software tirany.RE: Mono-mania:...

Tags: .NET, C#, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Development tools, Operating systems, Programming languages, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mono, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Mindjet takes on Cisco with Catalyst

Mindjet has released a new product called Catalyst that hopes to take the notion of the whiteboard into the digital realm but with a lot more bells and whistles. In doing so they are making a direct play against the like of Cisco's WebEx with aggressive...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration, Dennis Howlett, Enterprise Software, Groupware, Mindjet, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-06

That's one way to get Silverlight on a mobile device: Port it to Moblin Linux

Now I could at least accept that.I'm still a bit wary of an MS plugin becoming an internet standard. BUT at LEAST they are doing this as a first party and not some half baked, always behind the times attempt like Moonlight and Mono. If they had first class support...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, .NET, Development tools, mobile, mobile device, Microsoft Silverlight, Moblin, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Does it matter that "Linux is bloated"?

well compare to what compare too its former self ... ultra thin but lack finessecompare to win 2k compare to win xp compare to vista /win 7 will all there crapware compare to Mac and its hardware lock in Its easy to state Linux is bloated but...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, kernel, hardware, Haiku, BeOS, Linux IS

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Microsoft Zune HD: Going beyond the specs

Zune PlatformI think its quite easy to see where MS are going with this, establish a brand for Entertainment *Zune make some premium products *Zune HD and try to continue to raise its profile. The strength here is that if they can provide a more unified mediacentre/xbox/zune/mobile store accross all...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, TV & Home Theater, Zune 4.0, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

4 reasons NOT to upgrade to Snow Leopard today

AV software is not compatible.For companies and universities that use NAC, there are little to no AV products that are compatible. Prior to SnowLeopard, there were McAfee and Symantec/Norton. Right now about nothing works, screwing the NAC policies for folks.Oh wait, Mac's dont get viruses. LOL ...

Tags: Scanners, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, AV Software, Disk Utility, operating system, Robin, Snow Leopard, hardware, scanner, Time Machine, Apple Macintosh, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

DOJ requests more info on Microsoft-Yahoo search deal

DOJ?Why does DOJ put its nose everywhere. this deal will create a company that will have half the market share as its competitor, let the market and shareholders take the decision.becuase.....why should one company which has 90% of the desk market have the same control over the Internet?It is good...

Tags: INTERNET, Yahoo Search, Exchange 14, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech

Better that it is entirely unavailablethan to make it available to anyone who cares to search for it. I have seen nowhere that the Google project will prevent any other source from digitizing books, or from keeping them in print. This is quite possibly THE stupidest argument I have heard...

Tags: Google Inc., American Civil Liberties Union, privacy, Google Book, Vegas, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07