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- Ray Noorda and open source
- Ray Noorda has died. He was 82.Noorda occupied an important niche in computer history. He is remembered as "the father of networked computing."Thats because, under Noorda, Novell became the leader in a new business called networked PCs during the 1980s, before PC operating systems grew to cover networks. He made...
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- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Noorda, network computing pioneer, dies at 82
- Noorda, network computing pioneer, dies at 82Thanks for everything RayNTExcellent, now go haunt Bill GatesSome one needs to and Ellison and Jobs are too young.You won't be forgotten!As one of the premier PC companies in the ninties, Novell was instrumental in shaping and propelling the personal computer industry to the...
- Tags: Thin clients, NETWORKING, Directory services, Operating systems, Ray Noorda, network, network computing
- Discussion threads 2006-10-10
- As the Canopy Turns
- As someone who'd been involved in Utah's high tech industry for a dozen years, I watched the founding and growth of Ray Noorda's Canopy Group with some interest and excitement. Before there were many VCs in Utah, Canopy was there, funding start-ups. I never spoke to Ray about it directly,...
- Tags: Canopy Group
- Blog posts 2005-02-10
- As the Canopy Turns
- As someone who'd been involved in Utah's high tech industry for a dozen years, I watched the founding and growth of Ray Noorda's Canopy Group with some interest and excitement. Before there were many VCs in Utah, Canopy was there, funding start-ups. I never spoke to Ray about it directly,...
- Tags: Canopy Group
- Blog posts 2005-02-10
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- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting FAM on July 24. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Zurich, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie, SQL Server Data Services, Data Centers, Retail, Financial Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?
- World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?pricesLooks like prices are dropping on the hardware, now we just need them to drop on the media. Still too expensive for long-term backup solutions.
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blu-ray Recorder, media, recorder
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?
- Buffalo just announced the world's fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x assuming you can find one. That's a funny bit of math, no? Available in Japan...
- Tags: Recorder, Media, Blu-ray, BDA-approved Media, Advertising & Promotion, Serial ATA, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Polk PSW111 Compact Powered Subwoofer - Black
- The Polk Audio PSW111 isn't just a very good compact subwoofer, it's a excellent match with the brand's RM and SurroundBar speaker systems. Not that the PSW111 wouldn't jell with other Polk speakers, or those of any other manufacturer, for that matter, but its prime directive is to fill in...
- Tags: Polk Audio PSW111, sub, SurroundBar 50
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- Free the XBOX 360!!!
- Free the XBOX 360!!!"Microsoft-approved"Why shouldn't Microsoft be concerned with the performance of software on XBox?Quoting:Microsoft makes both the hardware and software, and the environment is tightly controlled - only Microsoft-approved software need apply. [End quote]Vista shows that a product's reputation can be affected by the uninterest or mistakes of third...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., game, console
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Toshiba Regza 42RV530U
- During the last year flat-panel HDTV prices seemed to hit a plateau, where the standard bricklike downward trend leveled off somewhat. Now, however, prices are on the decline again, opening up bigger screen sizes to lower price ranges. For example, Toshiba's lowest-priced 1080p 42-inch LCD, the 42RV530U, can be purchased...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, 1080p, Toshiba Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-07-22
- Disc Creator (exe)
- Disc Creator 4's sleek and easy to use interface gives you the power to burn your data, music, movies, and photos to any disc media including Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs. Includes tools for ripping your music and creating stylish disc labels. Now compatible with Windows Vista. Full upgrades for...
- Tags: Disc, CloneMedia, Disc Creator 4
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week wait
- iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitAT&T?Thanks for the link. Does AT&T still has inventory? On a store by store basis?RE: iPhone 3G sold out nationwide; 4 week waitI placed a special order last week. I wonder if this is going to delay that. I was really...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Apple marketing, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, phone, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone 3G
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- A super-resolution x-ray microscope
- Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging CDI and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy STXM. As a result, the new system offers both the high penetration power of x-rays and high spatial resolution. This method will allow other scientists to...
- Tags: Method, Microscope, Researcher, Imaging, Image, Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy, X-ray, EPFL, Document Management, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges
- Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of the...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup
- Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony introduced four new VAIO lines ranging from the 3-pound Z-series ultraportable with a 13.1-inch display to the...
- Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Intel Centrino, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., SP1, SR Series, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Vizio VP422
- Vizio has taken aggressive pricing to a new level of low. The company's VP422, a 42-inch flat-panel plasma HDTV, can be had for the extremely low price of $799. While this set doesn't have the picture quality to qualify as the centerpiece of a home theater, it certainly could be...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, color temperature, Vizio, Vizio VP422
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- Sony unveils 'world's first 16.4-inch notebook'
- Sony unveiled what they're calling "the world's first 16.4-inch wide multimedia notebook" yesterday, a laptop packed with the promise to allow users to view HD movies "the way they were meant to be seen" -- which is a subtle hint that yes, this notebook comes with Blu-ray tech: Part...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Sony VAIO VGN-FW140
- Sony's new VAIO FW140 covers a few firsts for us. It's the first 16-inch laptop we've gotten our hands on--and the display's movie-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio will become more popular in the next year or two (we've already seen it in the excellent 18-inch Acer Aspire 8920). It's also the...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Sony Vaio Laptop, keyboard tray, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp., laptop computer, Intel Core 2 Duo, keyboard
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
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