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- Scaling out like Technorati
- Scaling out like TechnoratiSounds pretty regressive to meSo in order to get fast performance for an application whose use seems, on the whole, somewhat unclear, we abandon the idea of non-application specific methods of representing data and revert to old-fashioned everyone invents their own data representation approaches.This strikes me as...
- Tags: Performance management, performance, Scaling-Out, Technorati
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
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- 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
- Intel announces parallel coding tools
- Intel announced a suite of parallel coding tools, designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. Parallelism isn't new - but, according to Intel, the time has come for parallelism to move forward. From an FAQ on Intel's Parallelism site: Until recently, parallelism wasn't commonplace. Parallelism is the ability to...
- Tags: Tool, Intel Corp., Parallelism, Mary-Jo Foley, Intel Software Development Product, Productivity, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
- Last week I wrote about how bloggers could better work with public relations folks. While I won't to get into the habit of writing about PR I think we'd all agree that, like it or not, there's a direct correlation between it and social media, especially when we're talking...
- Tags: Brand, Public Beta, Media, Social Media, PitchEngine, SMR, PitchEngine SMR, Newsroom, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...
- Tags: Application, Data Center, Enterprise, Data Centers, Storage, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos
- There are dozens of flavors of clever applications aimed at the office productivity market, often spawned as a result of the Web 2.0 explosion. Where the Web 2.0 application market is driven by eyeballs and their resulting advertising monetization, the enterprise 2.0...
- Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBase, Etelos, Developer Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Who owns the Internet?
- Who owns the Internet?The internet isn't free of costsIt's necessary to pay for building, maintaining, and operating the internet. Users pay part of the cost, but, appropriately, not all. Those providing content and often making money for what they supply also are responsible for some of the expenses.So...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), UK Government, Internet, market-force, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in beta* testing
- Citrix recently released a beta test version of its next generation XenServer, code named "Orlando," which is expected to ship in September. Th next version will offer a variety of new features including automated high availability, support for the Xen hypervisor 3.2 and Windows Server 2008 guests, performance statistics,...
- Tags: Performance, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- MPEG Streamclip (zip)
- This application can play and convert selectable parts of QuickTime and AVI movies, MPEG-1/2/4 files and transport streams with MPEG/AC3/PCM audio into DV streams or QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-4/iPod movies using any video codec, with optional 2D-FIR professional scaling, motion-adaptive de-interlacing, and other pro options; all in YUV, with audio in...
- Tags: Apple QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, Movies, Squared 5, Digital Video, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-08-12
- Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switch
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs says App Store users have downloaded more than 60 million software programs and confirmed that the iPhone has a kill switch so the company can nuke brand breaking software. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jobs noted that: ...
- Tags: apple iphone, job, steve jobs, apple inc., sales strategy, tools & techniques, sales force management, sales, management, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- SimpleGateway (exe)
- SimpleGateway allows you to run your own remote access server for a one-time purchase. You install the gateway service on any machine you wish to access, configure it to point at your SimpleGateway server and from then on you can browse to your SimpleGateway server or your own Web site...
- Tags: Web, Web Browser, SimpleHelp, SimpleGateway, Remote Access, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Servers, Internet, Marketing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-08-11
- Will the Olympics melt the Internet?
- Will the Olympics melt the Internet?Well...No one really watches the Olympics, so it won't be a test.ScalingThe Internet will be able to handle it... unless they use Twitter's servers.Umm...2006?The Internet didn't melt then.p2pusers already use p2p programs and they download a massive amount of GB/week of films, but the network...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- 'ESME': Social messaging within an enterprise SOA environment
- There are interesting community driven enterprise developments around SAP's 'Netweaver' SOA ('service-oriented application') and integration platform, with a sophisticated Twitter - style tool created by a diverse group of international users taking shape. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to...
- Tags: Environment, SOA, Messaging, Twitter, ESME, Company Usage, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Team Management, Productivity, Groupware, Middleware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- PDF Image Stamp COM Component (zip)
- PDF Image Stamp software automates the process of applying JPEG Images to different sized pdf's PDF Image stamp contains many special features like starting from any page, 1 in nth pages, x,y positioning on the page, image size scaling, image opacity, flip horizontal page, flip vertical page, alignment (centre, left,...
- Tags: Traction Software Inc., Adobe PDF, COM, PDF Image Stamp Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
- 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
- VMware and common performance myths
- Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I've just...
- Tags: Virtualization, Performance, VMware Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Save your eyes with DPI Scaling in Windows Vista
- High resolution LCD monitors are great for images, but can be less than ideal for reading text. However, with Windows Vista's DPI Scaling tool, you can use your LCD monitor at its native resolution and still make the text more easily readable and other graphical elements larger. In this edition...
- Tags: DPI, Monitor, LCD Monitor, Microsoft Windows Vista, LCD, Greg Shultz, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Software
- Download resources 2008-07-17
- Apple founder Steve Wozniak interview, answers your Tweeted questions
- At the San Francisco Social Networking Conference today, Steve Wozniak, Apple co founder and personal computer legend, shared some fascinating insights into the modern world of social networking and mobile phones. I was able to organize a one on one interview with Steve (thanks Marc Lesnick &...
- Tags: Phone, Steve Wozniak, Mobile, Network, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Steve, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Westinghouse VK-40F580D
- Anybody who's owned a combination TV/VCR, or its multiheaded offspring, the TV/DVD player/VCR, knows that the VCR eventually breaks, and fixing it is not easy. Happily, the DVD part seems a lot more robust, which should reassure prospective buyers of the Westinghouse VK-40F580D, which is one of the few larger-screen...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, standout, DVD, Westinghouse VK-40F580D, Westinghouse, DVD player, TV
- Product reviews 2008-07-07
- Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
- Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...
- Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
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