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		<title><![CDATA[Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angst]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5852]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A few points to ponder ahead of the weekend...Why is my information always in the other database?When folks call customer service, some see incompetence. Others see red. I see data silos.This week I've called Verizon and Comcast about billing errors and been transferred repeatedly and also realized Yahoo thinks I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:45:17 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Podcast: AlwaysOn Summit, virtual worlds, green data centers and more...]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5851]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This week on the Dan & David Show I am on the Stanford University campus at the AlwaysOn Summit and David is in his headquarters outside of Boston. I give David some of the highlights from the conference, including the state of virtual worlds, social networking, green data centers and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:24:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Shakedown #4: Should Vista be able to force an unwanted reboot when it wants to?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=698]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many departments within many companies, today was a day when our department go together and did some online slide slidesharing.  We use Microsoft's NetMeeting but I don't use Internet Explorer and my one attempt at at getting the slides on my screen  (there's a way to view...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:18:29 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Firewall redux: Could a public, open software behavior registry squelch useless dialogs?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=697]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to yesterday's Tech Shakedown of McAfee's personal firewall product for issuing a useless dialog -- one that asks me to allow or block some behavior but that doesn't give me any idea, clues, or hints as to which of those two options to pick -- one ZDNet reader...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:44:10 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VMware Fusion for OS X ready to lift off]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5847]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[VMware is taking preorders for Fusion, its virtualization product for Mac OS X. With Fusion, you can run Windows, Solaris and Linux on a Mac without rebooting. VMware's pre-order price is $39.99, but goes up to $79.99 when Fusion launches. eWeek reports that Fusion launches Aug. 6, but the VMware...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:00:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dell acquires ASAP Software]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5840]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dell said Thursday that it has acquired ASAP Software, which provides applications to manage software licenses and renewals, for $340 million. ASAP is currently a subsidiary of Corporate Express, an office supplies vendor.Â  In a statement, Dell said the acquisition, which will close during the fiscal third quarter, will help...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:08:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tech Shakedown #3: McAfee's 'Block/Allow this change' dialog is a useless warning]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=693]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As far as security solutions go, personal firewalls are probably the most problematic category for vendors to get right, let alone users to get working.  Not only are there differing philosophies about what belongs in a personal firewall and what doesn't (eg: whereas many personal firewalls can and will...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:30:06 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Proof that there are two types of computer users: Dumb and Dumber]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=696]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the good news.Â  Our Technology Shakedown videos seem to be striking a nerve so expect more of them. The idea? We shouldn't have to accept mediocrity in our technology products. Period.Now, the bad news. Judging by the responses to these shakedowns (yesterday's in particular), there's a contingent of end-users...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:26:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Red Hat ramps up virtualization drive for RHEL 5]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2514]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The good news for virtualization just keeps on coming. Monday, we reported that start-up Desktone had gotten an infusion of venture capital and that Cisco was buying a chunk of VMWare.Now, Red Hat's Emerging Technologies Team has a blog posting that shows how customers are using virtualization for fun and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:31:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Open source systems management challenging incumbents]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5815]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The 451 Group has issued a research report maintaining that BMC, HP, IBM and CA  are "ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players. " Open source vendors covered in the 60-page report titled "Managing in the Open: The Next Wave of Systems Management" and written by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:30:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Technology Shakedown #2: 'Blocked program' warning in Vista leads to a dead end]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=692]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been less than 24 hours since I published ZDNet's first Technology Shakedown (regarding McAfee's antivirus software running amok on Vista's tray) and I was already itching to do another. So this time, I picked on a small problem that's driving me nuts in Windows Vista that has to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:25:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ozzie tries to justify Microsoft's consumer detours]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5809]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie states the obvious when he notes that consumer technology is leading the industry these days. Shame he's just trying to justify the red ink spent on Microsoft's various consumer forays. It's hard to argue with Ozzie's premise. These days technology hits the consumer first...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:07:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Signing e-mail to legally bind e-mail attachments: Easier said than done]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=690]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here on ZDNet, in the blogs, their comment areas, and in e-mails you have not seen, my fellow blogger George Ou and I have been debating the challenges to securing e-mail.Although many Internet users assume it to be otherwise, most e-mail traversing the Internet and even corporate networks is insecure....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:32:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Symantec CEO John Thompson on Microsoft, Google and Switzerland]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5800]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Symantec CEO John Thomspon drinks deeply from the Microsoft well. In fact, three-quarters of his company's $5.2 billion in revenue last year was derived from the Windows platform. But Symantec's relationship with Microsoft is complex and at times contentious. Thompson describes Microsoft as a partner, ally and competitor.On the competitor...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:10:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Desktop as a service' coming soon to a PC near you]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2512]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Desktop virtualization as a service has gotten a big boost with Desktone Inc.'s announcement today of $17 million in venture capital funds that will allow the company to finance global sales, marketing, and development. Desktone, a Chelmsford, Mass., startup offers what it says is the industry's first unified virtual desktop...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:57:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TIBCO boosts SOA-RIA market with donation of Ajax messaging bus to OpenAjax Alliance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2511]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[TIBCO Software is easing the way for Ajax component interoperability with the donation this week of its core Ajax message bus technology to the OpenAjax Alliance OAA Hub project. TIBCO announced the donation today, at the same time as it released its PageBus, a related open source product. What's in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:26:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Monkcast #10: One day, they'll grow fruit with bar codes on the skin & Yeah! Socialtext]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=673]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week's Monkcast, our 10th joint production between the research outfit Redmonk and ZDNet, we ponder worldly topics such as the idea of cows making skim milk. Apparently, this is already being done somewhere (eeek!) and we can only wonder when, if ever, fruit and veggies will be grown...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:57:51 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VMware lands Cisco as investor]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5788]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cisco Systems said Friday it will invest $150 million in VMware, joining Intel as a strategic investor.After the investment Cisco will own 1.6 percent of VMware's outstanding shares. VMware will also consider appointing a Cisco executive to its board in the future.Like Intel, Cisco is strengthening its ties to VMware,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:49:45 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When it comes to secure e-mail, beware of George Ou's reality distortion field]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=669]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted a blog about how secure e-mail simply doesn't exist.Â  It was an extension of another discussion regarding password recovery schemes that result in the transmission of your password back to you in clear text over insecure networks.In a post headlined E-Mail security has been around forever, you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:45:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Last Redshift redux (hopefully): Couldn't salesforce.com forget the hardware and use Amazon's EC2?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=667]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, when I interviewed Sun's Peder Ulander (there's text, video, and audio -- take your pick) about the idea of redshift computing (a Sun theory that all the world's servers will eventually give way to just five or so massively scalable systems), he talked about how Sun's formula for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:06:46 -0700</pubDate>
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