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- INTERVIEW: Don Dodge (Microsoft) on Avoiding Project Failure
- Don Dodge has been around the software industry for a long time. Currently Director of Business Development, Emerging Business Team, at Microsoft, Don works closely with startups and venture capitalists. I'm an avid reader of Don's blog called the Next Big Thing, so it was with pleasure that I ran...
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Interview
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- RED HERRING EAST 2007: Plated Palms
- Paper plates are decidedly not sexy, or so I thought until I met Michael Dwork at the Red Herring East 2007 conference. Michael is CEO of VerTerra, a company that uses dried, organically-grown palm tree leaves from India to produce amazing disposable dishes. He graduated in 2007 from the Columbia...
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Interview
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- RED HERRING EAST 2007: Virtual Worlds in Business
- Recently, the Enterprise Irregulars, a group of analysts and bloggers covering enterprise software of which I am a member, have been discussing so-called virtual worlds, such as Second Life. An important aspect of this discussion has been the applicability of virtual worlds to business. It was against this backdrop that...
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- RED HERRING EAST 2007: Dixon Doll on Entrepreneurial Leadership Traits
- Dixon Doll is a highly-respected and successful venture capital investor. At the Red Herring East 2007 conference, Dixon gave a talk and answered questions regarding his views on venture capital investing, global markets, and other sundry and related topics. Given his background and track record, you can be sure that...
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Project management
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- RED HERRING EAST 2007: Overview
- During the last two days, I attended the Red Herring East 2007 conference in Boston. Although not directly related to my usual project failures focus, its an important event that should be of interest to readers of this blog.The conference brings together investors and entrepreneurs in an environment where deep...
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Attending Red Herring East in Boston
- I will be attending the Red Herring East conference in Boston on June 26-28. If any blog readers want to get together, please get in touch.Im excited, since there should be a variety of new ideas and companies being presented. -----
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Annoucements
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
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- Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bonfire
- VDI, somewhat ironically, may also work well for market mover Microsoft as it seeks to slow the momentum to outright web-based and OSS/LAMP-supported applications and services for large businesses. Microsoft must realize that enterprises have had it with the high cost of maintaining and managing the traditional Windows OS in...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, SolidICE VDI, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?Read the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh BernoffRead the book Groundswell if you want great insight into how to do this properly and there are also lots of case studies and stats in the book.In respect of the product ratings...
- Tags: Groundswell, Dell Computer Corp., Direct2Dell
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA
- Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F on the year's report card. Things didn't get much better in 2007, either, as a server failure and other outages...
- Tags: Report, Activation, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Product Key, Microsoft Corp., Forum, Product ID Number, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list
- Microsoft today announced plans to ship four security bulletins next Tuesday (September 9, 2008) to cover worm holes affecting Windows users. All four bulletins in September's Patch Tuesday will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. A "critical" rating is used to rate a vulnerability that can...
- Tags: Windows Media, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Google's incomplete EULA climbdown
- While the world and his dog seem satisfied with the way Google's lawyers hastily red-lined the hated Clause 11.1 of the Chrome EULA, others may not be so pleased. This from the Spanish version: 11. Su licencia del Contenido 11.1 Conservará los derechos de...
- Tags: Google Inc., EULA, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Red Hat acquires Qumranet
- I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- BREAKING: Sony recalls 440,000 Vaio laptops
- Sony said today that it is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to faulty parts that could trigger overheating. The recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008. The laptops are being recalled because improperly placed wires near...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Recall, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Ten key differences between Linux and Windows
- Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them. Here are the key differences distilled into one list....
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Jack Wallen. TechRepublic, Jack Wallen. ZDNet.co.uk, Windows, Microsoft, GNU Public License
- News items 2008-09-04
- Access Virtualization for Mac OS X - Aqua Connect ACTS 3.0
- Aqua Connect is an exception. It focuses on providing access virtualization for users of Mac OS-based servers. (For those keeping track, the post, Aqua Connect Access Virtualization for Mac OS X, introduced the company back in December 2007.) This time, the good folks at Aqua Connect are in the process...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Access, Operating System, Environment, Unix, Aqua Connect, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Remove Excel Write Password (exe)
- Remove Excel Write Password removes any MS Excel shared workbook password, password to modify, workbook protection and sheet protection passwords. If you have forgotten any internal Excel password this is the solution for you. Passwords of any length and character set are supported and removed in a few minutes each....
- Tags: Password, Dombaj Soft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- S-Record File Compare (exe)
- S-Record File Compare is a utility that loads two separate files sector by sector into memory and then compares the two sectors. A sector being a 64k-byte block. It will then either display the differences as a memory view highlighting the differences in red or find the lines from the...
- Tags: Sector, Eolis Software, S-Record File Compare, Flash Memory
- Software downloads 2008-09-04
- Internet traffic up 53% in the last 12 months
- According to TeleGeography, international Internet traffic grew 53% between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61% the preceding year. Traffic growth between the US and Latin America was especially fast, surging 112%. Traffic on internet backbones between major cities in the relatively more mature US market rose a modest 47%. For...
- Tags: Internet-backbone, Traffic, Internet, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
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