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- Cisco's accelerating smart grid momentum
- Cisco has been at the center of several developments related to the smart grid this week, including a request for federal funds related to a project being spearheaded by the city of San Jose and local utility company PG&E. Like IBM, which earlier this week announced a...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?
- A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...
- Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Getting smarter about the smart grid. Standards group to tackle interoperability.
- OASIS aka the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is forming a new committee that will focus on creating Web services models for things such as exchanging dynamic pricing, reliability and emergency signal alerts across the smart grid. The group is called the OASIS Energy...
- Tags: The Group Inc., Interoperability, Grid, OASIS, Standards, NIST, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Colbert heats up global warming
- Too funnySo, 350ppm means certain environmental disaster? And we're already above that? Hmmm...Back to the drawing board...I really REALLY resent the Chicken Littles running around screaming their heads off, and I'm gradually getting the feeling that, even if originally well-intentioned, they can't see the forest for the trees.What...
- Tags: disclamer, Colbert, global warming, scientific community, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest
- Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Will the 'real' Windows 7 testers please stand up?
- Will the 'real' Windows 7 testers please stand up?Can you tell me how long I'll have to wait for the pudding? :-) I agree with you on waiting for the finial version to arrive. I tried both the 32 & 64 bit RC versions on a 3 yr AMD...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Windows 7 RC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win 7, beta tester, RTM, Windows 7 tester, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- What should SAP do with its $5bn war chest?
- A number of recent conversations with the financial analyst community about the ongoing tussle between Oracle and SAP have proved extremely interesting. There is speculation whether SAP will hit the numbers it has internally set itself for Q2 although nothing I hear or see suggests the company has been blown...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, SoftwareAG, OpenText, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Grid and Cloud Computing Technology: Interoperability and Standardization for the Telecommunications Industry
- The European Telecommunications Standards Institute formed the Grid Technical Committee TC GRID in 2006 with participation from over 20 organizations spanning private sector, government, and academia. It had a specific mandate to address the convergence of the IT and Telecommunications industries in particular in the domain of interoperability. Grid computing,...
- Tags: Interoperability, Industry, Grid Computing, Telecommunications, Standardization, ETSI, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2009-05-25
- Now, if only your spouse came certified
- Promises.  We all make them, break them, and sometimes actually keep them. Except me. I never promise. Just deliver. Coz I am the DOC. So when I drive down to my local Best Buy to pick up advertised gadgetry and marriage-saving appliances--like a dishwasher--I’d like to think...
- Tags: Certification, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Doc
- Sponsored content 2009-05-22
- In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability
- In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperabilityYup.File under 'pointless exercise'.What if you created a document format and no one cared?No I think it would be called OOXML. And yes Sleeper Service no one cared about OOXML.Why did you bother to comment then?You fool no one. ODF is a...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, astroturfing, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Office SP2, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- Attackers pounce on Microsoft PowerPoint zero-day
- Attackers pounce on Microsoft PowerPoint zero-dayVulnerability patch cycle unacceptableMS would be better spending the $600M advertising (See Mary's blog) waste of money on strengthening the threat response team as several months for an already exploited hole is insane and does not do their reputation any favours.Eg: For Excel 2000...
- Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, MOICE, Microsoft PowerPoint, user right
- Discussion threads 2009-04-03
- SOA adoption trends -- what the data tells us
- In response to a recent post that talked about corporate success rates with SOA, a reader issued a challenge to show the numbers behind SOA adoption. So, here is a summary of significant surveys -- a recap from previous posts -- on SOA adoption that have been conducted over the...
- Tags: SOA, Survey, Loraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave Cutler
- Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave CutlerExcellent questions MJ.They've addressed some doubts about outages and reliability.Looking forward to the next RD instalment.:)RE: Red Dog: Five questions with Microsoft mystery man Dave CutlerTechies need to understand the difference between techies and "execs." Cutler is a techie. MFJ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, opposite, MFJ, Dave Cutler, Red Dog, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-25
- Is CAD still relevant? Yes and no
- Talking with a school committee member tonight, I was reminded quite rightfully, how important it is to consider the community in which we live as we design courses. She was very concerned that I had eliminated CAD from our course offerings in favor of programming and advanced web design...
- Tags: AutoCAD, Student, CAD, Productivity, Manufacturing, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Creating a Safe Learning Environment
- Educators continue to grapple with the best way to help kids use the internet in school while protecting them from online dangers. The technical committee came up with access and use policies around which a solution could be evaluated. Now that Untangle is being used to manage and monitor network...
- Tags: Security, Monitor, Environment, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition team
- Transitioning NASA: Tensions high between Griffin, transition teamHe has always voted against anything NASAHis original plans were to cancel every mayor project at NASA.Then he changed his stand the same day he visited Florida to give a speech near Kennedy Space Center. Then and only then he was pro-NASA.His...
- Tags: O'Keefe, NASA, Griffin, Transitioning, transition team, Space-X
- Discussion threads 2008-12-12
- The case for Scala
- Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....
- Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture*Standing Ovation*I finally understand your "Centralization of processing and de-centralization of control" shpeel. I think we are in alignment with the latter, but not the former. I believe in an Autonomic Distributed Architecture - where every *NIX machine client and server share the same...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, hardware, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?
- Did McCain invent the BlackBerry?Obama's childish attack????Kinda like the one where McCain says Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergartners, when in fact, what he wanted was to teach them how to recognize inappropriate touching to protect them from child predators? Ridiculous, childish attack INDEED!Um ridiculous and childishlike...
- Tags: INTERNET, RIM BlackBerry, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
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