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"Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin Hack

"Papa Bear"'s take on the Palin HackDon't go calling him a "Republican"...The true Republican Party was shot between the eyes in the aftermath of FDR's New Deal; the carcass staggered on for another three-plus decades, when it was put out of its misery by Nixon's "Southern Strategy" that whipped up...

Tags: MSM, O'Reilly, Taft, Bill O'Reilly, Bush Administration

Discussion threads 2008-09-20

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Microsoft Oslo shifting to the data side

Last year, I heard Brian Loesgen compared Oslo, Microsoft's modeling strategy, to an onion, with many layers of features. Lately, it appears there is another layer to Oslo forming, which ties the platform closer to Microsoft's data programmability stack. Darryl Taft reveals that Microsoft has been shifting...

Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Darryl Taft, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Apple patches Black Hat SMS attack flaw

On the heels of a Black Hat conference demo of an iPhone hijack via text messages, Apple has shipped an iPhone update with patches for the security flaw. The iPhone OS 3.0.1 update, available only via iTunes, addresses a memory corruption issue in the way the device...

Tags: Phone, Flaw, Apple Inc., SMS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Online marketing's future in a web-based world

Online marketing's future in a web-based worldGreat postI truly believe that we are headed for what you call the "conceptual marketing" age. Tools are becoming more intelligent, easier to use, and more widely available AND ALL FOR FREE. With more and more people forced out of work, out of their...

Tags: Channel management, Online Marketing, Web

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

Analyst: 'you'll all be doing SOA in 18 months whether you plan to or not'

eWeek's Darryl Taft is on a tear with all the good stories he's generating out of Microsoft's SOA confab taking place this week. He quotes Gartner analyst Nick Gall, who stated bluntly that "the frequency and amplitude of business change is increasing, 'and you're all going to...

Tags: BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-01-30

Microsoft: 'we're bringing SOA to the masses'

"Microsoft is bringing SOA to the masses," said Steven Martin, senior director of product management in Microsoft's Developer Division, at the vendor's latest SOA and Business Process confab. (Covered here by eWeek's Darryl Taft.) That's been the secret sauce all along. In recent years, there...

Tags: SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...

Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?

Microsoft has been orchestrating carefully for the past few years the transition of Bill Gates from Chief Software Architect CSA and regular participant in product planning meetings, to "mere" Chairman. (Gates' actual "last day" is June 30.) But it turns out Microsoft may have been planning this...

Tags: Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Hillary nomination would unleash Obama's Net-driven third-party run

Hillary nomination would unleash Obama's Net-driven third-party runNon-issueThis church stuff is a politics of racial fear-mongering. I don't see it as more than a one-day story. Any impact was diluted by Ferraro's racist statements. And note -- (via News for Real -- In 1988, she said: "If Jesse Jackson were...

Tags: Ferraro, Obama, third-party run, Net-driven, nomination, Hillary nomination

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Visual Studio 2008 coming next week

The MSDN Subscriptions Weblog is telling us that Visual Studio 2008 will be available to subscribers early next week. Darryl Taft of eWeek has some additional information about the VS 2008 release with a supposed date of November 19th. Visual Studio 2008 has a number of features...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008, MSDN Subscriptions Weblog, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-17

Will Web 2.0 displace the WS-* protocols?

eWeek's Darryl Taft finally brought the worlds of SOA and Web 2.0 together in an article loaded with practical examples and insights.For example, H&R Block -- which uses a lot of seasonal workers, especially in the weeks leading up to April 15th -- deployed SOA-connected AJAX portlets to more than...

Tags: Web Services, Case Studies, General

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patentsFreakin' Lyin' Bast***s!Wow, after all the months of BS now about how open and closed source can work together - POW!!! RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES. Gates & Co. are lucky Bush & Co. believe in monopoly, otherwise the comments of that federal...

Tags: Now Microsoft, Gates & Co., Pandora, Microsoft Corp., patent, open source

Discussion threads 2007-05-13

Andy Oliver: New JBoss model not the same as Fedora

In 2003 Red Hat discontinued its popular Red Hat Linux distribution, replacing it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL for commercial users and Fedora for more casual users. Now the company is planning a change for JBoss, the highly successful application server it acquired for $420 million last year. While...

Tags: Commercial, Community, Ed Burnette, Fedora Project, General, JBoss, Licenses, Linux, Red Hat Inc.

Blog posts 2007-04-25

OSGi gains momentum as .NET alternative at EclipseCon

Excellent story by Darryl K. Taft at eWeek on the Open Services Gateway Initiative OSGi framework. Its worth a read.Ill be digging into this more this week at the conference, for sure.

Tags: .NET, Agile Development, Apache, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, Open Source, SOA, Software Development, Windows

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Analyst: Wall Street likes Microsoft's SOA message

Wall Street may call the shots for which technologies run Main Street, but who runs Wall Streets own technologies? Wall Street firms have mainly the crown jewels of IBM and Sun Microsystems, but at least one analyst said Microsoft is also becoming a force to be reckoned with. As Darryl...

Tags: Vendor Watch, Web Services, General

Blog posts 2007-02-17

IBM: Net's future is mobile middleware

Maybe all you need to connect millions of mobile devices to the Internet is some snazzy middleware from IBM.Darryl Taft at eWeek reports:IBM Research is working on delivering a middleware system that will enable users to tap into the data on mobile devices to create a virtually unlimited pool of...

Tags: IBM Corp., middleware, Mobile, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2006-12-07

Travel Yosemite National Park - illustrated travel guide and maps (Mobile)

Travel Yosemite National Park is a comprehensive travel guide illustrated with maps and photographs. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE General Information chapter and a map in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Geology, Flora, Fauna and more. What to see and where to stay. Interesting...

Tags: Mobile, PC, Desktop Computer, MobileReference, Handhelds, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-12-07

Microsoft's Desktop Windows staff: We love Javascript. Microsoft's Mobile Windows staff: What's Javascript?

When AJAX, otherwise known as Asynchronous Javascript and XML, first became all the rage mostly thanks to Google, Microsoft didn't waste anytime reminding AJAX-watchers that it pioneered the idea of mass-distributed AJAX-based applications with its browser-based version of Outlook (aka: Outlook Web Access or OWA for short). See Will the...

Tags: ASP.NET AJAX, AJAX

Blog posts 2006-10-24

Speaking of the heavy lifting that Apex does, what about Flapjax?

If Amazons Jeff Bezos had something to say about Apex, he might say "it handles muck so developers dont have to." I refer to muck as heavy lifting. Anybody remember the days when, in DOS, what was being shown on screen had to be painted one pixel at a time?...

Tags: AJAX, Scripting languages, Flapjax, developer, Apex

Blog posts 2006-10-16

HP's big-time SOA entree

The big fish keep eating the smaller fish who already ate even smaller fish. And sometimes a little "mercury" in the fish isn't such a bad thing. The two percent that Systinet Registry represents may have clinched...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury Interactive Corp.

Blog posts 2006-07-27