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- Some ringing endorsements for REST
- Is REST the future of SOA?Some analysts think so.The battle between SOAP/WS-* and REST proponents has been going on for some time now. In fact, a little over a year ago, Gartner's Darryl Plummer pointed out in an oft-discussed article that the Web services world had actually split into two...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- SOA-Web 2.0: a lot in common, but two centers of gravity
- "We're continuing to see more clearly that Web 2.0 and SOA really are largely (but not 100%) the same concepts that merely lay on different — if fairly different — parts of the software continuum." -Dion HinchliffeZDNet colleague Dion Hinchliffe has been watching the mashup developing between SOA and Web...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Seven areas of opportunity around SOA, circa 2007
- SOA is a challenge, but abounds with opportunities -- not only to streamline a process, but to change the way a business is managed. Technology -- along with SOA evangelization --may be the catalyst that could bring an organization out of its creaky, hidebound corporate culture and begin to seize...
- Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, Business ROI, General, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- SOA: business first. Web 2.0: business later
- Service oriented architecture and Web 2.0 share a lot of common ground. Both invoke reusable code, both enable the rapid development of mashed-upped (read: composite) applications, and both rely on industry wide standards. But theres an important difference between the two, according to at least one analyst. The mantra you...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Standards Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
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- Students and the browser war
- Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband won't be set up for a while, so had to resort to dial-up which is proving troublesome. I'll do my best, considering this is essentially my income,...
- Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Firefox Library, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Texas Instruments pulls power management efforts under new division
- Quick update on Texas Instruments TI, which looks at power management from the guts of the chip level. Here's the blog I wrote last week describing some of those efforts. I wasn't all that surprised to hear that the company has pulled all its power management and...
- Tags: Power Management, Texas Instruments Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- What could Open Office do with a business model?
- You can say Microsoft has found a way to crush open source. Or you can say open source has been shown a business model it can use to crack the mass market and gain a sustainable revenue base. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Business Model, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-05
- MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search
- The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. So far, Powerset has only demonstrated its technology against Wikipedia. It's a neat exhibit but it is...
- Tags: Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Contextual Advertising, MSFT, Search, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- TechForward advocates the cause of temporary ownership
- I have been MEANING to write about the Los Angeles-based start-up TechForward for weeks now, but felt like I didn't have enough time to write the truly thoughtful post that it deserved. Now, I'm forcing myself to get off my butt, strangely enough, because I'm having a moral dilemma over...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Electronics, TechForward, Lebovitz, Retail, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- WorldMate Live (Windows Mobile) (cab)
- Keep a personal travel assistant in your pocket. WorldMate Live will manage your full itinerary, including travel arrangements and business meetings, making all details immediately accessible on your mobile device, and ensure a smooth trip by pushing alerts regarding imminent events like flight delays. WorldMate Live is a free application...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, MobiMate, WorldMate Live, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-04
- Stolen: Google employees' personal data
- Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...
- Tags: Google Inc., Social Security, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Sales, Finance, ZDNet Australia, Privacy & data protection
- News items 2008-07-03
- Phillips DC912
- When it comes to iPod speaker systems, there are at least three criteria for most shoppers: compatibility it needs to work with your particular iPod model; form factor (it needs to fit into a given space, be it a spacious shelf or tiny nightstand); and value (good sound for the...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Phillips DC912, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-07-03
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?AVG Freeware Ain't So Free After All...Man, am I shocked that AVG is doing this. Of course I don't use the product but have made recommendations in the past to folks who could not afford to purchase good...
- Tags: Scanners, Web browsers, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Badware, server log, AVG, AVG LinkScanner
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travelNot for Vista Home Premium!Why not tell people that this does NOT WORK encryption radio button grayed out in Vista Home Premium - only suckers who paid for M$ for the Ultimate or business/enterprise editions!RE: Getaway day: How to secure your...
- Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), laptop computer, holiday travel, TrueCrypt, Getaway day, Getaway
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- I have to stop using Gmail :(
- I have to stop using Gmail :(You can enable POP3 support in Gmail...If you switch on POP3 support in Gmail, then you can still comply with archiving procedures: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273That way, you can both send and receive e-mails with an e-mail client like Thunderbird or Evolution or even Outlook Express. I...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Using Gmail, Google Gmail, archiving, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone security
- If you're waiting on iPhone 2 to standardize your business on the awesome new device (yeah, I'll be on line to buy one), you might want to pay attention to the conspicuous absence of iPhone security patches over the last four months. As WaPo's Brian Krebs reports,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Krebs, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!Airport SecurityI'm fairly sure if anyone was to see me naked... their eyeballs would no longer function anyway. I say go ahead, it's more a punishment for them than me. But I can certainly understand why many people would find...
- Tags: airport security, body scanners!, scannerS!, Nate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?
- Q'n'A: Are Youtube users are royally screwed?.....“[B]Had this not happened, Viacom would have made a huge amount of profit, but have now obviously lost out.[/B]”Subjective speculation that is unsubstantiated.“[B]YouTube could get shut down, Google could get fined to the nth degree, or maybe Google will get sued and it have...
- Tags: Pandora, YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Whither Blu-ray?
- Whither Blu-ray?It's the lack of HDTV ownersand the ignorance of those who do own that I think is the biggest issue. People who don't have HDTV would see no benefit to spending extra money on BluRay, and those who do own will never believe there is a difference unless you...
- Tags: HD DVD, Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
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