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- Does Chrome OS mean anything for schools?
- Benefits of the ChromeOS approachOne of the features of HTML5, that commentors on other posts seem to forget, is that HTML5 web apps can be "installed" in app cache, for offline use (Google "HTML5 manifest").If web apps can be used offline AND made to perform like desktop apps, with web...
- Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Desktops, NOW IT, HTML5, operating system, Chrome OS, Does Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-28
- News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- Seven great (and free!) applications for Windows 7
- You added Windows 7 to the title for page hits...Any tech enthusiast worth their salt has long known about all these apps. Nah ... ... for page hits I'd have added XP ... bigger user base ... User base yes but Windows 7is what everyone is interested in reading...
- Tags: Operating systems, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux Distro, Paint.net, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, 7-zip
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Is Microsoft a dinosaur to Google's mammal?
- Random comments...How odd the mixed metaphors sound... "built from the ground up to work in the cloud"...The dinosaurs were around for tens of millions of years, and we mammals can barely say the same. The crown of creation can be wrested from the head of the wearer by something unforeseen--like...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Ideation, Google Inc., desktop, dinosaur, Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
- As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...
- Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle
- So Sweet.Thats all I got, that thing is frigg'in cool!I just can't see paying that much...For so little. I would honestly rather buy a mac, and that's saying a lot, as they're horribly overpriced.I travel 75% of the year, and everything that implies: planes, rental cars, subways, metro bus/rail, the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Dell Latitude Z 16, Dell Latitude Z, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Latitude
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X
- Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, ZBrush, performance, Upgrading Windows, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, clean install, CS4, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- Virtualization: a good idea but still some growing pains to consider
- It's a solution in search of a problemHow on earth is virtualization going to reduce complexity? The only way to reduce complexity is to use *one* platform of course.[Repeat]How on earth is virtualization going to increase security? The holes in windows will still be there, won't they?This shouldn't sell.Show me...
- Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Servers, virtualization, server, security, VMware Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Xen.org: Stop the forking. Forrester: About time
- Xen.org, the open source community behind the leading IaaS cloud computing hypervisor finally made a bold move today by stepping up to the plate of delivering a complete open source virtual infrastructure for cloud platforms. Prior to this release, Xen.org had been content to manage and maintain the core Xen...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Xen, About Time Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Xen.org, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Trend Micro launches enhanced security, tools for tracking Web usage
- It used to be that an IT administrator could warn employees about opening attachments from unknown sources or clicking on links from unknown e-mail senders as the first line of defense against spam, malware and other bad stuff on the Internet. Today, the seedy side of the...
- Tags: Security, Web, Network, Trend Micro Inc., Site, Tool, Social Networking, Internet, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Parallels Desktop?? Switch to Mac Edition??? - An alternative to Windows 7?
- In answer to your questions:"Is your organization thinking about or planning the migration from Windows XP to Windows 7?"No. We're planning a migration from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Not because there is anything wrong with our Windows Vista deployment (our Vista deployment went perfectly smooth, and support...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Wanova Desktop Virtualization
- A while ago, I had the opportunity to speak with several representatives of Wanova, a newcomer to the desktop virtualization market. On the line with me were Jack Norris, VP Marketing; Issy Ben-Shaul, Co-founder, CTO; and Ilan Kessler, CEO and Co-Founder. The company claims to have developed a new way...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Environment, Wanova Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Sony laptops can't use Windows 7 XP mode thanks to disabled hardware virtualization
- I'm surprised by this quote[i]In addition, our engineers and QA people were very concerned that enabling VT would expose our systems to malicious code that could go very deep in the Operating System structure of the PC and completely disable the latter.[/i]Yes, because Sony is very much against rootkits that...
- Tags: cloud computing, BIOS, Storage management, Utility computing, Microsoft Windows, Sony Corp., virtualization, hardware, Dependent, Windows 7 XP Mode, hardware virtualization, Sony Laptop, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Will Apple's rumored tablet be an 'iPod touch DX'? It's all about perception
- Will Apple's rumored tablet be an 'iPod touch DX'? It's all about perceptionOversized iPod or downsized computer?If the "Apple tablet" is an oversized iPod running the iPhone OS it will fail.Other computer manufacturers are hard at work with their own multi-touch portable computing devices.The difference is that the latter will...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Digital media, Digital music, tablet, Apple Inc., rumored tablet, iPod touch DX, Apple iPod, Apple Tablet, Apple iPod Touch
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux drivers
- Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux driversgpl2 forced them to free the source code In my opinion they need to kill virtualbox, vmware or kvm (redhat/ubuntu) so it's doesn't matter to throw some lines of code to the linux kernel via the novell proxy programmers Here is...
- Tags: Federal government, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., FCC, Linux Drivers, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?
- Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?Doesn't this prove that MS patent claims against Linux were a scam?If it really violated their patents, why would they release code for it?RE: Is Microsoft's GPL2 support really a big deal?Microsoft is simply acknowledging that which most "pundits" such as Ms Rooney...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., GPL 2, Linux, big deal, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Microsoft gets its edge back
- Is it just me or is Microsoft a little more competitive than it has been in recent years? Microsoft has gotten under Apple's skin---at least its lawyers---got Google's attention with Bing and is even doing the Web app thing. Microsoft almost seems to be enjoying itself as honchos like Kevin...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Bing, Linux, Retail, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Wind River: Tasty Embedded Linux Treat
- Intel just purchased embedded systems vendor Wind River for a cool $884M. But why? The answer may lie in Linux and device virtualization. For many, Intel's acquisition of Wind River may have gone over this week as just another asset grab by the...
- Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Embedded Linux, Operating System, Intel Corp., Smart Phones, Linux, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- EMC: Virtualization is ready to run the world's biggest applications
- Typically, when IT departments decide to use virtualization in the data center, the big question is which workloads to virtualize. The conventional wisdom has been to avoid virtualizing anything that was too I/O-intensive, such as databases and e-mail systems. However, EMC wants to put that idea to...
- Tags: EMC Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
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