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Web 2.0: Putting webware on the webtop: David Thomas, executive director of the software division at the software industry lobby group the SIIA, pulled me to one side last night to confide a guilty secret: "I invented the term software as a service," he told me, "back in 2000." But since then, the term has taken...; Tags: Web 2.0, Architecture; Blog posts 2007-04-16
SaaS seeks definition with help from SIIA: SaaS seeks definition with help from SIIASaaSGood ideas and, yes, it's about time that the industry gets together in a body like this. It will be interesting to see how all this pans out because some of the ideas expressed in the blog really go to the heart of...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, Software Information Industry Association; Discussion threads 2006-07-27
SaaS seeks definition with help from SIIA: The US software industry's leading advocacy group has launched a much-needed initiative to define some key metrics around SaaS. Building on work begun at the SIIA as much as a year ago, the SaaS Executive Council launched yesterday PDF of release here and will be rolling out its programs over...; Tags: Saas; Blog posts 2006-07-26

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Novell produces lead pony for Silverlight: Something has always bothered me about Novell's Mono project. Those feelings came together this week with the release of Moonlight, Novell's implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux. It wasn't Miguel deIcaza's blog post on the software. This is not beta ware, he wrote. It's...; Tags: Novell Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Pony, Linux, Open Source, .Net, Development Tools, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-17
Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week: Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a fashionable Bluetooth headset, Bose on-ear headphones, and the BlackBerry Curve 8330 for Sprint.Here''s our weekly roundup of the new products CNET reviewers liked best. 1. Aliph Jawbone 2 black Editors'' rating: 8.7 The...; Tags: Headphone, Bose, RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Bottom Line, CNET', Price, It', FireWire, Bluetooth, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Wireless, Hardware, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-17

Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect: A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?: Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...; Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF: Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...; Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16
XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings: At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....; Tags: Education, Team, Microsoft Windows XP, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Nicholas Negroponte, Team Management, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-16
RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working: RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...; Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics; News items 2008-05-16
Microsoft, HP ready XP SP3 endless-reboot patches: Help is on its way for users affected by the Windows XP Service Pack SP 3 endless-reboot problem that has plagued some users for the past week-plus. Both Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are readying patches that should remedy the glitch, which seems to affect primarily users of AMD-based...; Tags: Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Photos: Video cameras eye Richmond Port: Northern California's busy Port of Richmond has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system.The Port of Richmond, located about 15 miles northeast of San Francisco, has completed installation of a wireless mesh digital video surveillance system with the help of security firm ADT and a $2.3 million...; Tags: Video Surveillance, Richmond, Video Camera, Video, Photograph, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-16
Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?: Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...; Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Window, ISV, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Engineer, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-16
XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?: Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some...; Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform: Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottowa at a day long event. Dubbed Web Alive, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel new research effort that imposes a VC-like model for funding research. Like other virtual worlds, Web...; Tags: Web, Collaboration, Nortel Networks Corp., Voice, World Platform, Web Alive, Channel Management, Telecommunications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email: Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?: For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...; Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Putting the XP into the OLPC: So, Microsoft has managed to get in on the OLPC bandwagon and put XP in front of millions of eyeballs in the developing world. But is this move about the children's education, or it is about recruiting more Windows users. What's important to note is that Microsoft...; Tags: Team, One Laptop Per Child Project, Team Management, Microsoft Windows XP, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200: The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most recently hybrid graphics have all muddied the picture. Meanwhile, Intel has improved its integrated graphics and has long-term plans in...; Tags: Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated): Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored his 2007 tour. Note to Cupertino: send him a 3G iPhone, like, today. Although RIM hasn't said...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Electronista, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-16