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- HD-Telephony: Hip or Hype?
- HD-Telephony: Hip or Hype?Wideband ConferencingTony has done a great job summarizing key aspects of wideband technology.My company ZipDX (zipdx.com) has been delivering a wideband-capable audioconferencing service since last year. The number of wideband endpoints is relatively small, but it is growing quickly. Polycom just announced a couple of new speakerphones...
- Tags: endpoint, HD-Telephony, Hip, Tony
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Google Presentation application peeks around the corner
- Dirson, a spanish Google blogger, found an interesting link in his Gmail when he opened an email message with a PowerPoint attachment. The link reads "View as slideshow" which opens up a new window with the slideshow that works through your browser. The feature, unfortunately, isn't widely available...
- Tags: Gmail, Google Docs
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Reaching the world
- At breakfast yesterday, Mike Arrington made it clear that if I didn't show up at his party, he would take it personally. I made it clear I would but first I wanted him to kick somebody important down or off the list or everyone down the list and insert me...
- Tags: Tony
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- Open source lessons from the Sony scandal
- Open source lessons from the Sony scandalWhy just open source?I think your lessons should be widely heeded by proprietary closed source software companies as well. Selling crippled products, installing programs without consumer consent, damaging your customers' property are all things to be avoided, no matter the type of license...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, open source, digital-rights management, Sony Corp., Tony
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
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- Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Virtual Iron Chimes In
- As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is the first of several posts on what they had to say. My friends at Virtual Iron; Tony...
- Tags: Marketing, Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V
- Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality. Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualization...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, hypervisor, Microsoft, VMware, virtualization
- News items 2008-06-26
- Playing a video game? No, it's health therapy
- Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but now they're being used to help someone quit smoking or lose weight. Raleigh, North Carolina--Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight? Hot on the heels...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Health Care, Video Game, Video, Therapy, Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, video games, health, Nintendo, Wii
- News items 2008-06-26
- Cheat High Tech Cheaters
- So Omar Khan wanted to get into college, but he didn't want to do his homework to get there. The Orange County, CA, high school senior decided instead to use spyware, grab credentials off teachers' log-ins, and then change failing grades to top grades. ...
- Tags: Student, Teacher, Khan, Food & Beverage, Handhelds, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless, Manufacturing, Hardware, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Spike in enterprise 'events' spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society
- The recent growth -- and expected spike -- in business event data in enterprises has led a group of IT industry leaders to form the Event Processing Technical Society EPTS, designed to encourage adoption and effective use of event processing methods and technology in applications. Among the...
- Tags: Event, Podcasts, Utility Computing, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Polk Audio I-Sonic ES2
- When the Polk Audio I-Sonic was released in the fall of 2006, it offered a then-unbeatable combination of features for a product in the tony "executive stereo system" genre: AM/FM radio with HD Radio compatibility; CD and DVD playback; and XM satellite radio support. Yes, the I-Sonic suffered from less-than-intuitive...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, Digital media, Monitors & displays, Polk Audio I-Sonic ES2, Polk Audio I-Sonic, radio, Apple iPod, original I-Sonic
- Product reviews 2008-06-02
- How SOA and IT are faring in the 'unrecession'
- Rich Seeley, who has been tracking the relationship between the overall economy and IT/SOA in the recent turbulent months, just posted an update on how SOA has been faring through it all. SOA will sink or swim because of SOA, not the economy He...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Attacks on NFC mobile phones demonstrated
- Yesterday, Collin Mulliner of the trifinite.group, a group of computer experts researching insecurities in wireless communications, has released the slides as well as the research tools he came up with in order to demonstrate various attacks and vulnerabilities in Near Field Communication mobile phones, a technology that will change the...
- Tags: Phone, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Malware, Cell Phone, Attack, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Mobile 2.0 conference debuting in Europe on July 4th
- Rudy De Waele sent me a message a couple of days ago announcing that the is expanding to Europe and the Mobile 2.0 Europe Conference is coming to Barcelona, Spain on July 4th this year. This is a one day event focusing on the Mobile Web and Disruptive Mobile...
- Tags: Mobile, Conference, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps
- The promise of mashups -- that lightweight front-end apps that can be assembled by business users -- adds a new, more palatable dimension to SOA. Mashups make SOA real to business users - nothing wrong with that The mashup market appears to...
- Tags: SOA, Mashup, Tension, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Google hosting malware? Google says they were!
- Google isn't hosting malware anymore, but according to a tool they provide that lets you check up on any domain, their own google.com at one point was indeed hosting malware software that is installed on a users machine without their consent. After doing some digging, Tony Ruscoe found that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Domain, Malware, Hosting Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Can Nortel pull an AMD on Cisco?
- Can Nortel pull an AMD on Cisco?What's the First alternativeYou state "Customers are looking for a viable second alternative to Cisco."What is their viable first Alternative?RE: Can Nortel pull an AMD on Cisco?Yes not surprisingly.There are some real architectural reasons why Cisco switches are energy hogs, so they have a...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- Google holds firm against Lieberman's call to take down Islamist videos
- Sen. Joe Lieberman wants Google to take down terrorist videos from YouTube. In a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Lieberman wrote: Many of the videos produced by one of the production arms of al-Qaeda show attacks on U.S. forces in which American soldiers are injured and, in some...
- Tags: Google Inc., Lieberman Software Corp, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Comcast invests in P2P TV company GridNetworks
- Update: George Ou is not amused by this news. He writes: "Comcast is nothing but trouble for the entire industry. They sure seem to be going out of their way to help make sure that congress has the motive to add regulation to ban the sale of QoS to...
- Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Industry, Programming, GridNetworks, Peer To Peer (P2P), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL
- Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...
- Tags: GPL, Tool, Ingres, 4GL OpenROAD, OpenROAD Application, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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