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Super-green minivans are possible today: According to the Mercury News, the Union of Concerned Scientists UCS has designed a super-green minivan. The Vanguard is a vehicle concept that could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent and exceed Californias 2016 global warming standards. This minivan, which only exists as a computer simulation, would use existing...; Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment; Blog posts 2007-03-03
Vanguard CIO: Paul Heller - Transcript: Dan Farber: Paul thanks for joining me. Paul Heller: You bet Dan, I'm looking forward to talking with you. Dan Farber: Now you've been at Vanguard for about 20 years, in a variety of positions, and how did you end up in the CIO...; Tags: CIO, Business, Client, Technology, Term, Vanguard, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Structures, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, ZDNet Editor; Blog posts 2007-02-13
Web Design and Hosting Service Company Benefits From XLink's ClusterReplica Software for Server High Availability and Continuous Data Protection: At the wake of hurricanes and other natural disasters, Vanguard has taken steps to provide disaster data recovery for its clients. Vanguard has lived up its promise to its clients in providing proactive solutions to their business challenges. Its new challenge is providing Disaster Recovery and Failover protection. Moving to...; Tags: Web, Benefit, Continuous Data Protection, Server, Web Design, Vanguard, Disaster Recovery, Tools & Techniques, Data Management, Management; Case studies

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Storm Worm says the U.S have invaded Iran: Storm Worm says the U.S have invaded IranA little more convincing....Maybe if the storm worm article didn't sound as such a blatantly obvious fabrication some idiot who didn't know how far a was from z on a keyboard would have fallen for it. With all the things the storm worm...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Storm Worm, U.S, storm worm; Discussion threads 2008-07-09
Live Webcast: Now is the Time for HD Video Communications - The Smart Business Tool: More and more organizations today are turning to HD video communications as an everyday business communication tool. Why? Because video communications today is High Definition - the same quality as you experience on your home HDTV. And Telepresence, the new buzz word in video...; Tags: Webcast, Communication, Video, Tool, GBH Communications, Video Communication, Corporate Communications, Marketing; Webcasts 2008-06-25

Standards, antitrust and Microsoft: No need to add to the Microsoft - Yahoo speculation frenzy, as plenty of others will do that for the remainder of this week (though if anything pops into mind, I'll certainly talk about it in these pages). Instead, I'll return to the topic I had planned to write about...; Tags: Software, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Standards Competition, Quality, Business Operations, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-02-06
More hints that IT systems analysis and on-demand models are coming together: The hot albeit not necessarily sexy segment of IT operations -- the analysis and intelligence-gathering from logs and performance management data -- is showing increasing signs of an on-demand future. First, Paglo came out last month in beta with a free and open source GPL crawler service...; Tags: Analytics, Information Technology, On-demand, Data, Analysis, Paglo, LogLogic, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-12-03
SAP SRM, another brick from the wall: The contrast could not be more stark between yesterday's launch of Coupa's Amazon-hosted SaaS e-procurement system and SAP's decision on Friday to cancel the upcoming release of its spend management product. Another beneficiary of SAP's misfortune is SaaS vendor Ketera, which earlier this month added a new supplier management application...; Tags: SAP AG, Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Coupa, Ketera, Amazon Web Services, Service Level Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-10-23
CIO Sessions: 1-800 Flowers blossoms with new technologies: In a CIO Vision Series interview, Steve Bozzo, CIO of 1-800 Flowers talks with me about what it takes to run the company's daily IT operations, across a network of more than 9,000 florists. Today, about 75 percent of 1-800 Flowers transactions are...; Tags: CIO, Environment, 1-800-FLOWERS, Web 2.0, Internet, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-04
HP bolsters digital video library: HP is building out its digital library for its turnkey on-demand video services. Back in February HP announced an effort called Video Merchant Services and signed Wal-Mart up as its first customer. The general idea was to offer on demand video downloads. Simply put, HP was angling to...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., On-demand, Digital Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-04
Municipal wi-fi on the ropes: I'm constantly amazed at the places Glenn Fleishman's excellent articles turn up. That latest, on the problems municipal wi-fi networks are facing is in The Economist the only newsweekly worth reading anymore. I originally met Glenn when he interviewed me years ago for a article on Warchalking, of...; Tags: Network, Municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Phil Windley; Blog posts 2007-09-02
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes: Prima Official eGuide (exe): Maps: Maps pinpointing the locations of all towns, vendors, trainers, and crafting station locations. Crafting: Detailed crafting tables. Skill trees: Tutorials explore all class skill trees and help you tailor your character to your own playing style. Diplomacy: This system is designed to avoid conflict while continuing to progress through...; Tags: Tree, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management; Software downloads 2007-08-07
Fair Use: According to an article over on Ars Technica, today is the 3rd annual Fair Use Day. On the project website for the event, advocates celebrated EMI's dropping of DRM from its digital music sales and the cracking of AACS, though they also for some reason threw net neutrality into the...; Tags: Digital Media, DRM, Media Center, Television; Blog posts 2007-07-11
CIO Sessions: Alcatel-Lucent's Ray Gilbert: In a CIO Sessions interview, Ray Gilbert, assistant vice president for IT Enterprise Collaboration at Alcatel Lucent discusses how the telecom services provider is addressing mobility needs and convergence challenges for the next generation of devices. Watch the video More CIO Sessions videos Boeing CTO: Vaho Rebassoo...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, VOIP, Telecommunications, Mobile, IP Telephony, General, CIO Sessions; Blog posts 2007-04-30
Survey: ESBs lag overall SOA adoption: Evans Data just released details of its Corporate Developers Survey, which measured the pace of SOA adoption among companies with more than 1,000 employees. I authored the final survey report for Evans. Surprisingly, adoption of ESBs is trailing that of full SOAs -- I had expected ESBs to be more...; Tags: General; Blog posts 2007-04-09
FCC to decide fate of valuable wireless spectrum: The FCC will soon decide how much radio spectrum to reserve for a state-of-the-art emergency response system for police, firefighters and ambulance crews, The Wall Street Journal reports With broadcasters freeing up analog spectrum as they convert to digital, a battle is brewing between commercial interests and those that...; Tags: FCC, Mobile/wireless, Government technology; Blog posts 2007-04-06
CIO Sessions: Tim Stanley, Harrah's Entertainment: In this CIO Sessions video, Harrahs Entertainment CIO Tim Stanley talks about his high-tech vision for attracting customers to the world’s most popular casino destinations, from implementing business intelligence software to deploying wireless gadgets and RFID. Stanley is also Harrahs chief innovation officer. As part of his innovation mission, he...; Tags: Business Intelligence, CIO Sessions, Datacenter, General, IT Management, RFID, Software Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Wired & Wireless; Blog posts 2007-03-07
Why can't I order PayPal's security key?: Why can't I order PayPal's security key?Good and cheap security measureOTP devices COMBINED with login personalization (*) is one of the best solutions for anti-phishing, anti-keyloggers, anti-ALL.One Time Passwords devices like these ones ALONE are not enough, as demonstrated with the Citibank Man-in-The-Middle attack of mid-2006 (RSA SecurId devices were...; Tags: Web site development, security, PayPal, security key, Web site; Discussion threads 2007-02-21
CIO Sessions: Vanguard's Paul Heller: According to Paul Heller, CIO of The Vanguard Group, over 80 percent of client contact is done via the Web. In our CIO Sessions interview Heller explains how Vanguard applies technology to lower the cost for Vanguards financial investors."We’re just very well situated in a sense right now, because there’s...; Tags: General, IT Management, CIO Sessions; Blog posts 2007-02-20
Short Clip: Keeping IT in-house: Vanguard CIO Paul Heller talks about how his company outsources very little and builds most of its own applications. by ZDNet Editor; Tags: Information Technology, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management, ZDNet Editor; Blog posts 2007-02-13