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Spyder Active Sports and OneNeck IT Services: Pushing the Limits of High Performance

Spyder Active Sports is the largest ski-specialty brand in the world. When a company offers to pay its IT outsourcing provider more money in return for more services, and the provider not only refuses the offer but its service levels continue to go downhill, it's time to look for a...

Tags: Provider, IT Outsourcing, High-performance, Spyder Active Sports, Outsourcing, It Services, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Web Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Internet

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Facebook Connect: The masses and the fishbowl

Facebook Connect, a service that allows someone to log on to Facebook from third party sites, is set to expand from its May launch. Reading the conversation this morning on Techmeme familiar storyline emerges. Facebook's Connect vs. the Open Social alliance between Google, MySpace and a bunch...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Microsoft's Live launches malware detection service for webmasters

Playing catch-up with Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google's warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo's SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft's Live Search has updated their Webmaster tools to offer detection for embedded malware. Moreover, as a late entrant they simply had to differentiate, and they did it...

Tags: Webmaster, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: GPS personal navigation devices

As a person who travels for work quite often and as a father to daughters who play sports all over the place, a GPS navigation device is an essential piece of equipment for me. Most of my mobile phones have GPS receivers and they work well in a pinch, but...

Tags: Device, TomTom, Garmin Ltd., Navigation Device, Traffic Update, Bluetooth Radio, Lane Assistant Pro Feature, TomTom GO 930T, GPS, Handhelds, Keyboards, Bluetooth, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals, Wireless, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management

I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...

Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds

A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Photos: Tesla 1.5

Tesla launched its much ballyhooed electric sports car earlier this year with a two speed gearbox. The company has since refined its transmission to eliminate that complexity, dubbing its new Tesla's powertrain as version 1.5. We got to check out the showroom, assembly plant, and take the car for a...

Tags: Car, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-25

What mobile video users watch

Type of Video Subscribers, 000 % of mobile audience Music Videos 639 32.8% Full TV/film 622 31.9% Movie Trailers 617 31.7% Comedy Videos 596 30.6% Weather Information 581 29.9% Local/National/World news 563 28.9% Sports action or...

Tags: Mobile, Video, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-25

TiVo control comes to iPhone

I used to be a huge fan of TiVo until the cable companies made me a deal that I couldn't refuse. While I still like the TiVo interface much better than the abysmal Comcast DVR, it comes down to simple economics. The cable companies are willing to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, TiVo Mobile Site, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kit

"Committing cybercrime around the Christmas tree" has always been a tradition for malicious attackers introducing new ways to scam the millions of online shoppers during the holidays. This Christmas isn't going to be an exception, but what has changed compared last couple of years is the tone of the Xmas...

Tags: Web, Infection, Malware, Exploit, Christmas, Web Malware Exploitation Kit, Exploitation Kit, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-24

TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home

The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...

Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Android netbooks? Wouldn't it be loverly?

Once again, fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has hit on a concept entirely useful to business users, but perhaps even more useful in education. The idea of an Android-based netbook isn't entirely new, Jason hits the nail on the head in his post: What we really should...

Tags: Education, Developer, Google Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Android, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?

This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year. Even back in January some GM execs...

Tags: General Motors Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-22

Ulteo offers server based computing solution for Linux desktops, apps

Ulteo is now offering what Microsoft and Citrix will not: a server based computing solution for the Linux desktop and Linux applications. The company, which late last year launched the first OpenOffice open source desktop online, has announced the availability of the Open Virtual Desktop...

Tags: Linux Desktop, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, Ulteo, Open Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Terminal Server, Linux, Desktops, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-11-21

On-Demand Video Consumption, three-Month Average Ending August 2008

Type of Video Subscribers, 000 Share of audience Amateur Video Clips 1,346 37.9% Music Videos 1,224 34.5% Comedy Videos 1,179 33.2% Movie Trailers 1,074 30.2% Full TV/film 727 20.5% Local/National/World News 645 18.1% Entertainment/Celebrity News 629...

Tags: On-demand, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-19

IBM portal technologies help drive more value from dashboards.

Many dashboards have limitations that can make it difficult for businesses to provide value beyond the executive level. But with IBM portals, you can create a foundation to build more effective active dashboards. This executive brief shows how next-generation dashboards can provide a competitive advantage by helping improve flexibility and...

Tags: Dashboard, IBM Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Internet

White papers 2008-11-19

Commercial vendor of spyware under legal fire

Just like every decent marketer out there, vendors of commercial malware tools are very good at positioning their tools. However, their pitches often contradict with themselves in a way that what's promoted as a Remote Administration Tool, has in fact built-in antivirus software evading capabilities, rootkit functionality and tutorials on...

Tags: Malware, FTC, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-18

CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!

Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least.  So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...

Tags: Social Media, Business, Tool, CRM, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributions

It looks like we've gone from speculating whether we're headed into recession depression, to speculating just what that depression is going to look like. Yihong Ding, over on the Thinking Space blog,predicts that we'll have a "Golden Age" of the Web thanks to millions sitting at home with little else...

Tags: Web, F/OSS, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-17

42% of organizations reported unauthorized access to their Active Directory

Imanami commissioned a survey with Osterman Research to understand the issues related to managing groups in Active Directory, and found that 42% of organizations reported unauthorized access to information from active directory. 44% of the respondents have received an email sent to a distribution list that used to be relevant...

Tags: Unauthorized Access, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Hacking, Directory Services, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, AM

Blog posts 2008-11-17