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Windows Home Server 'vail' to get more entertainment hooks

While Microsoft has shared some details and code for its upcoming minor update to Windows Home Server, it has said next to nothing about the next major version. (Like the rest of the Windows client and server teams, the Home Server team is alternating between "major" and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Home Server, Server, Vail, Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Fall vail Volume 1 (exe)

Vail, Colorado is beautiful year-round, but fall is the most colorful. This screensaver features the sights of Vail during autumn when days are still warm and the nights are cool. The trees in the mountains are beginning to turn golden and drifts of snow have already fallen on its high...

Tags: Vail

Software downloads 2005-09-04

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News to know: Google Health; Yahoo; XP's early days; Your IT budget

Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: Google Health makes its pitch BidShift uses Saas to right nursing shortage Comdex days for healthcare IT Garett Rogers: Chatback: Let people comment using Google Talk Google fires up this year's Summer of...

Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., IT Budget, Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Industry, Health Care, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Linux, Vertical Industries, Federal Government, Benefits, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Operating Systems, Government, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Windows Home Server 'vail' to get more entertainment hooks

Windows Home Server 'Vail' to get more entertainment hooksReliability has to be the first priorityI attended an evening session on WHS and as one of my friends who attended put it: it's not Windows Home Server, it's Windows Home Backup. Then he amended that to Windows Small Business Backup, because...

Tags: Backups, server, entertainment, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, WHS Server, backup

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Serena fills cracks between SOA, ALM and SaaS with process-centric mashup-as-a-service platform

ALM vendor Serena Software is taking a walk on the wild services side in September when it announces the beta release of a platform for mashing up business process applications. Unlike on-demand tools for content- and data-centric mashups, Serena with "Project Vail" has its sights on the...

Tags: Serena Software Inc., Notion, Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, SOA, Mashup, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-09-04

Why should anyone believe the Bells?

Why should anyone believe the Bells?Now that we've agreed on the problem...... at last, we're ready to discuss the solution.Anyone who believes that solution to be wireless from any organization but the Bells may leave quietly, as if we were discussing evolution.The problem is, who owns the last mile owns...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Cable, broadband

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

R.I.P: The Telegram, The First Internet

With little fanfare and with even less concern, Western Union delivered its last-ever telegram on Friday, January 27.Although I usually use this space to write about converging and emerging broadband communications technologies, this is a good place and time for a eulogy.Long before there was an Internet, email, or...

Tags: telegram

Blog posts 2006-02-04

Death by deregulation

In David Berlind's latest Alice in Wonderland trip through the American telecommunications universe -- "Are Baby Bells abusing gov't granted right-of-way?" -- he credits Bob Frankston, the co-inventor of the VisiCalc electronic spreadsheet, for inspiring this tour-de-force of imaginative fact development. Mr. Frankston's VisiCalc allowed the computer owner to invent...

Tags: natural gas, telecommunications

Blog posts 2005-08-23

A high school without textbooks

The AP reports that Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., has shunned textbooks altogether, instead supplying each student with an Apple iBook laptop computer. ''We've always been pretty aggressive in use of technology and we have a history of taking risks,'' said Calvin Baker, superintendent of the Vail Unified School...

Tags: textbook

Blog posts 2005-08-19

How to save the FCC

How to save the FCCPoor technical decisions ---The FRC, later renamed the FCC, was established to license stations and prevent stations from interfering with each other. In other words, every frequency would have one, and only one signal on it in a given locality. Contrast that with the...

Tags: Federal government, minority ownership, FCC

Discussion threads 2004-06-22

International Network Services Case Study: CoBiz Inc.

CoBiz is a financial services company that operates a full-service commercial banking institution with locations throughout the Denver metropolitan area, Boulder, and the Vail Valley in Colorado and the Phoenix metropolitan area in Arizona. CoBiz first sought an assessment of its network, systems, and security in order to baseline its...

Tags: Security, Commercial Banking, CIO, Assessment, CoBiz, Banking, Financial Services

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Avaya Case Study: vail Resorts, Inc.

As one of the leading resort operators in North America, Vail Resorts, Inc. wanted to offer its customers superior service and a variety of contact methods to facilitate communication with customers - regardless of where the customer called from or when they wanted to call. As a solution Vail Resorts...

Tags: Avaya Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

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