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- Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit
- FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers, it is important Comcast respond to the many still-unanswered questions about its new management techniques," Martin...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Networking, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?
- The long-awaited $300 million ad campaign that Microsoft launched to counter Apple's successful "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign aired during the Thursday night kickoff to the NFL season. Did you see it? I missed it on TV but caught it on YouTube. I don't get...
- Tags: Advertisement, Mall, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jerry Seinfeld, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi
- Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum WiFi that will eventually cover the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tri-state area. The company says that its wireless networking equipment now...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Handicapping the Fall Enterprise Software Race: SAP vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
- It's leapfrog time in enterprise software land, and the next frog to jump will be Oracle, which is hosting industry analysts next week in Redwood Shores and then hosting the entire world at its much-too-massive Open World Conference in San Francisco the following week. Oracle is...
- Tags: Strategy, Small And Medium Enterprise, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Smb/Sme, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 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
- SocialCast: enterprise Twitter/FriendFeed mashup
- SocialCast has revamped its group comms service, given it a facelift, aligned itself more closely to consumery apps like Twitter and FriendFeed and then given it an enterprise twist. As far as I am aware, this is the first enterprise facing application that has gotten close...
- Tags: Enterprise, Mashup, SocialCast, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Branding, Wiki, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
- There was an interesting discussion at Office 2.0 that dealt with the topic of online communities. There's a lot of noise on the Web today and it's easy for that to noise to get – for lack of a better phrase – out of control. So should a company try...
- Tags: Community, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Comcast challenges FCC authority
- I don't have time to review this right now, but I wanted to get it up ASAP. Comcast is appealing the FCC decision on network management, even though it plans to comply. Here's the message I received: In connection with its filing today in the...
- Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, Sales Force Management, Federal Government, Internet, Networking, Sales, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- 81.2 mln smart meters in Europe by 2013
- According to Berg Insight, the installed base of smart electricity meters in Europe will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15.6% between 2008 and 2013 to reach 81.2 mln at the end of the period. After massive rollouts in Italy and the Nordic countries, the turn has now...
- Tags: Europe, Berg Insight, Investment, Finance, AM
- 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 Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Qik streaming service comes to HTC Windows Mobile devices
- I started using Qik on Nokia Nseries devices, then tried it on the Blackjack II, and finally on my original Apple iPhone. I just received a note that Qik's live video streaming service is now available on several more Windows Mobile devices from HTC. The particular devices listed include the...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Qik, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Personal Technology, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- The power of standard protocols
- I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...
- Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Wireless Access: What Price Speed
- Is Verizon missing a trick in its trench warfare with Cablevision? Or has the maverick cable operator found an Achilles heel in the telephone operator's methods of providing TV, phone and particularly Internet access to customers in the New York area – and possibly nationwide? One...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, Wireless Access, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Super Tuesday: Nike Pro, iTunes unlimited, Sirius, NFL?
- With Tuesday's iPod event beginning to take shape, a couple of Super Tuesday rumors slipped through the cracks in my fortune teller piece yesterday. 1. TUAW thinks that we may see an updated Nike+ rig (Nike Pro?) for the runners out there. Since the original Nike+ kit...
- Tags: Nike Inc., NFL, Sirius, Apple iTunes, TUAW, Digital Music, Satellite Radio, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), GPS, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Jason D. O\'Grady
- 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
- Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'
- There's been plenty of excellent commentary about Google's new Chrome browser provided by my colleagues here in the ZDNet community, so I'm not going to go into any nitty-gritty here. But to look at it from an enterprise perspective, Chrome may help lay the groundwork for a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Client-server, SOA, Web Browser, Computing, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Web Browsers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Leaked in iTunes 8.0: Genius
- It may have gotten lost in the end of yesterday's particularly long-winded fortune teller piece, but the Oracle of Cupertino, ahem Kevin Rose, posted a pretty convincing-looking snippit of a document proclaiming to be "What's new in iTunes 8." It goes like this: iTunes 8 includes...
- Tags: TV, Apple iTunes, Music, Genius, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- 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
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