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- Weak US dollar starts to drive up mobile software prices
- I am working on a full review of the excellent SoftMaker Office 2008 for Pocket PC and just received a note from the company that has an effect on pricing for U.S. buyers. Due to the fact that SoftMaker is a German company dealing in Euros, the significant loss in...
- Tags: U.S., Mobile, Reduction, Pricing Strategy, SoftMaker Office 2008, Pocket PC, Pricing, Marketing Research, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Virtualization 2.0 panel recording from NGDC is available
- Back in August, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Next Generation Data Center Conference, entitled "Virtualization 2.0".The panel included Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director of xkoto, Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, Jonah Paransky, Marketing VP of StackSafe and Lawrence Stein, Engineering VP of...
- Tags: Panel, StackSafe, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Nobel Laureate is the father of Kevin Mitnick investigator
- We tend to say that information security is a small world. Conferences quickly become real-life demonstrations of the principle of six-degrees-of-separation. After a few years working in this industry, you either meet all or are within one hop of all the major players in the space; there just...
- Tags: Information Security, Kevin Mitnick, Nobel Laureate, Osamu Shimomura, Productivity, Security, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical
- It will be a very busy Patch Tuesday for administrators managing Microsoft Windows computer systems. According to Microsoft's advance notice mechanism, 11 security bulletins will drop next Tuesday (October 14, 2008), covering a wide range of serious vulnerabilities. Four of the 11 bulletins are...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Bulletin, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed
- Apple has shipped another whopper of a patch to cover a total of 40 documented vulnerabilities affecting the Mac OS X ecosystem. The Security Update 2008-007, available for Tiger and Leopard, covers a range of third-party components and Mac OS X flaws that could users at risk...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Vulnerability, Arbitrary Code Execution, Application Termination, Apple Mac OS X, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- China overtakes US in broadband
- Both the USA and China had about 78 mln broadband lines at the end of August, but China grew twice as fast. In the USA, new broadband lines added fell from 3.4 mln in the last quarter of 2007 to barely 1.1 mln in Q2 2008. In China they rose...
- Tags: China, Broadband, Broadband Line, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
- The credit crisis and overall economic downturn is starting to hit the semiconductor industry, which saw 5.5 percent sales growth in August. Research firm iSuppli has cut its 2008 sales growth forecast for the semiconductor industry from 4 percent to 3.5 percent and potentially even more if economic conditions continue...
- Tags: iSuppli Corp., Semiconductor Industry, Lidlow, Semiconductors, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- What's a Little Money Between Friends?
- Gaming Incentive Systems Joel Spolsky (www.inc.com/keyword/spolsky) wrote a nice piece in the October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine. The article, Sins of Commissions, provides a cautionary tale to executives who are contemplating the addition of or changes to sales incentives in their workforce. ...
- Tags: Incentive, Commission, Joe, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Google PPOB? What is it?
- When you are looking for things that Google is about to do, the best place to keep your eye on is Google's robots.txt file -- a document they keep updated with a list of websites they don't want search engines to index. A week ago, they added "/search2001" which...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet, Web Site Development, Search, Web Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Entellium executives arrested by FBI for making up revenue figures
- Software as a service company Entellium's future is uncertain after its CEO and CFO were arrested by the FBI for inflating sales to land venture capital. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release that CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and Parrish Jones, 39, were...
- Tags: Revenue, Entellium, FBI, Revenue Figure, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Corporate Governance, Government, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Asus ships Eee Box PCs with malware
- Asus has confirmed and apologized to customers (press release in Japanese; translated version) for shipping malware on the recently introduced Eee Box desktop computer : "According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in...
- Tags: ASUS, PC, Malware, UPC, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Start-up looks to extend battery life
- Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop...
- Tags: Battery, Intel-backed ZPower, Mercury, Battery Life, Engineering, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, batteries, laptops, ZPower, silver-zinc battery
- News items 2008-10-09
- Desktone "Desktops as a Service"
- I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Where are all the programmers?
- I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...
- Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Feds try to tackle data sprawl
- With the federal government holding data in over 3,000 different programs and databases, how can they get a grip on sprawling duplication and out-of-date data? At a conference hosted by the Information Technology Association of America, the Office of Science and Technology Policy outlined a vision to tackle the problem,...
- Tags: Data, Executive Branch, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- Teaching telecommutingtelecommuting skills?I'm a fulltime telecommuter, though I do venture out to teach an IRL composition class a couple of days a week. I think the kids already have the skills they need to telecommute, and they value having the connection between the classroom and that new work environment made...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
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