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Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization features

Microsoft postpones 'Viridian' virtualization featuresDOAntAgileAgile programming supports the move Microsoft just made. For old timers who haven't been exposed to this notion, software development no longer involves prototypes which may or may not be utilized in an actual product but rather involves functional code that may not be fully featured....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Utility computing, Storage management, Agile Programming, Running Process, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, Viridian, Agile, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-05-10

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Google-Yahoo to Washington: We're moving forward.

I've been watching this battle for a couple of years now - this arm-wrestling match between the Washington suits and the Silicon Valley geeks to see which has more power. Tally one up for the geeks this week, who basically told Washington, "Yeah, you really don't matter." ...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Washington, Yahoo! Inc., Government, Corporate Law, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy

No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Speed up Vista installation via thumb drive

It's Labor Day weekend. Have you given your computer a fresh Windows install for the holiday? (If you're the kind of guy or gal who's into periodically wiping your hard drive, this tip's for you.) The How-To Geek over at Lifehacker recently posted a...

Tags: Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows Vista, USB Flash Drive, Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-08-29

iPhone tethering rumored

When I travel I carry a second phone alongside my iPhone – for one reason. Tethering. I need to be able to get online wherever I am and Wi-Fi isn't exactly ubiquitous and free Wi-Fi seems to be getting scarcer with each passing day. To make matters...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Apple Inc., 3G, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-29

IBM claims 'Quicksilver' flash sets data-speed record

A project under development from IBM is setting new records for data-transfer speeds using solid-state technology with one million input/outputs per second. IBM has said its 'Project Quicksilver' is setting new records for data-transfer speeds on solid-state technology, with its tests showing a disk-storage solution hitting one million input/outputs...

Tags: IBM Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Performance Management, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, IBM, Project Quicksilver, SSD, solid-state drive

News items 2008-08-29

Netbooks just want to be free

At a trade show in Berlin, T-Mobile confirmed that it will sell an Asus Eee PC 901 netbook with built-in 3G. If the prices on these bundles come close to what's been rumored, they could start to catch on. In the UK, Asus already offers a free...

Tags: ASUS, Bundle, T-Mobile, 3G, Modems, Microsoft Windows, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Microsoft Windows XP, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Video: Can Psystar take a bite out of Apple?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the brewing suit-countersuit situation between Apple and Psystar. In an effort to quash the sale of Psystar's cheap Mac OS-running computers and preserve its carefully crafted image and reputation, Apple sued the Miami-based company. Now Psystar has lobbed back...

Tags: Apple Inc., Video, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Can Psystar take a bite out of Apple?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the brewing suit-countersuit situation between Apple and Psystar. In an effort to quash the sale of Psystar's cheap Mac OS-running computers and preserve its carefully crafted image and reputation, Apple sued the Miami-based company. Now Psystar has lobbed back...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Apple, Psystar, Mac, clone, lawsuit, countersuit, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz

Videos 2008-08-28

The depressing future of the Internet

A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...

Tags: Security, IPv6, Computer, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch

With the launch of its long-hyped WiMax service XOHM scheduled to debut in September in Baltimore, on Thursday Sprint announced a set of location-based personalization features that will enhance the user experience of WiMax subscribers by allowing them to, for example, quickly look up restaurants, check traffic and weather, and...

Tags: Sprint Xohm, Privacy, Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-08-28

The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Customer Choice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Why does Safari stink?

I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn't access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education administrators could access it, but several teachers and counselors were discovering (since this was the first student day back...

Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browsers, Portals, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...

Tags: Government, Attention Craig Newmark

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Perot: Making Sure "Everybody Has Access To The Truth"

Perot: Making Sure "Everybody Has Access To The Truth"that's anti American FUD!I wodn't lose any sleep over over these issues.Perot did not see the 3 easiest solutions.1.Just don't pay the debt and settle it for a few penies on the dollar.2.Print enough dollars to make the deficit smaller relative to...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Perot

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Smart grid player Trilliant closes $40 million in funding round

Trilliant, a green tech company that's working with about 100 utilities on various smart grid deployments, has just closed a $40 million round of equity funding from a group of investors including affiliates of MissionPoint Capital Partners and zouk ventures. Trilliant CEO Bill Vogel characterizes the investment...

Tags: Green Technology, Ontario, Trilliant, Vogel, Government, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Hero of the week: Mike McDerment

It's rare for me to pick out individuals but Mike McDerment CEO of FreshBooks deserves attention by anyone in the startup game and especially those trying to develop business applications. I first came across Mike some two years ago when FreshBooks had about 70,000 registrants. That number is now over...

Tags: Start-up, Hero, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Resurrecting E-voting

Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...

Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Codename of the day: Nitrogen

Codename of the day: NitrogenCodeword - "Infection"Can't think why ZDnet aren't trumpeting Microsoft's latest embarassing achievement -Wonder if the US army's robots will be running 'Hasta La Vista'?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stmNasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a Windows virus known as Gammima.AG.The worm was...

Tags: Games, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Nitrogen

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

ScopeBox (dmg)

Across the industry, there is a wave of change from single-use hardware solutions to software-based solutions running on standard personal computers. ScopeBox capitalizes on this trend by allowing users to replace expensive hardware devices with a single, low-cost, flexible software application. ScopeBox recreates every major video quality assurance tool in...

Tags: Software, QA, Hardware, Divergent Media, ScopeBox, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-28