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- Glitch continues to plague Washington Mutual
- Glitch continues to plague Washington MutualHoly lack of ITIL batman ntWhy am I not surprised they are using WindowsThe Site is running Active Server Pages and Windows 2003 server. Why are we not surprised by this. There is a reason the biggest sites run Linux, Unix and BSD.For Zdnet bashers,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Banking, Scripting languages, UNIX, ASP Web Server, WAMU, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft ASP, Linux, online banking, bank, Washington Mutual Inc., server
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- System glitches hit two banks' online services
- System glitches hit two banks' online servicesSystem glitches hit two banks' online servicesThey must have been using linux on those systems. I hope they learn from their mistakes.Wamu Still downAs of 12:20 PST. They changed their page from "scheduled maintenance" to "temporarily unavailable".Not An Outage -- An AttackI...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Financial services, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, WaMu, Washington Mutual Inc., bank, Linux, Netcraft, WaMu.com
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
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- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....
- Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Updated: Yahoo's argument that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is a short-timer with no clear plan to run the company has won over a key investor: Legg Mason. In addition, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking the company's campaign to its home page. In a broadcast to employees...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Legg Mason Inc., Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- UPDATE: AT&T free WiFi access offer to iPhone owners is up again, NOT!
- We have seen the on and off saga of free WiFi at AT&T hotspots for a couple of months now and it looks like iPhone users may again have access to free WiFi at AT&T locations, such as Starbucks. There doesn't seem to be any time limit on access either,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs
- SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costsPlease be careful when you claim "paid support"Dennis, Unless you have a copy of the invoice from IDC, you shouldn't flatly state that she was paid or otherwise compensated for her quote in a press release. Bad form from an otherwise reliable...
- Tags: Firewalls, Dennis, SAP AG, support cost, financial relationship, trigger
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Adeona offers independent stolen laptop tracking
- Sorry: hit "post" instead of "save"; this backend system will be the death of me. I first came across Adeona last year when I was doing some external research, and it's only really just come to light. Adeona is an independent system which doesn't rely on any...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Device, Laptop Computer, Adeona, Apple Mac OS X, Biometrics, Linux, Desktops, Notebooks, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Intel's Centrino 2 + WiMAX could break the Luddite Telcos
- I was at Intel's Centrino 2 launch on Monday and I'm hoping that Centrino 2 can do the same thing Centrino 1 did for WiFi but this time for WiMAX -- make it a reality. The timing for Centrino 2 to be a change agent for WiMAX,...
- Tags: Intel Centrino, Telecommunications Company, Intel Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- The (un)Biased Parties Explain Online Ad Biz to Capitol Hill
- Just so we understand each other, the Internet is like a series of tubes, kind of like tunnels. And large amounts of data get moved through those tunnels, like in the back of a truck, you see. And inside those tunnels, there are advertisements - sort of like the billboards...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Online Advertising, Search, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Welcome Sam Diaz
- I'm pleased to announce that ZDNet has added another contributor to Between the Lines. Sam Diaz is our new senior editor based in San Francisco. Sam has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee...
- Tags: San Francisco, Sam Diaz, Sam, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open source
- Enterprises still not getting full benefits of open sourceQuestionYou say:"The real problem, it seems to me, is they don’t understand the nature of support in an open source world. It’s a mutual process, a matrix, combining your own efforts, those of vendors, and those of communities which may include competitors.The...
- Tags: Blogging, Self-Reliance, open source, communism, benefit
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Apple sells 1M iPhones; 10M apps downloaded
- Apple sells 1M iPhones; 10M apps downloadedDisposable incomes at work and homeSo why do I keep reading the same news over and over again in the headlines about the mortgage industry falling apart and fuel prices and health plans going up? I'm sure the Apple buyers aren't delaying payments...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?
- Awhile back my Irregular chums came up with MISO as the acronym to describe the main enterprise players of the time: Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. We also quipped that could change to include Google and so with a little creative thought we ended up with GISMO. Last week's Apple...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Steve Gillmor, Apple Inc., 3G, Operational Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds
- It just keeps looking like the Bush Administration is intentionally keeping shoddy records to avoid public accountability. After all of the missing White House and RNC emails, including a dearth of messages sent by and to Karl Rove, the Government Accountability Office reports that federal agencies and officials consistently fail...
- Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Standards, House, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- American 1900+ Universities Info reader (exe)
- It gathers 1900+American Universities Web site Information, content include New York Universities(159),Washington Universities(15),CA Universities(133),AK Universities(6),AL Universities(50),AR Universities(22),GA Universities(52),AZ Universities(18),CO Universities(28),FL Universities(51),IL Universities(72),IN Universities(57),MA Universities(85),MI Universities(50),NC Universities(52), and OH Universities(68). Version 3 includes unspecified updates.
- Tags: University, YiFei Software, Thin Clients, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
- DownloaderXL (exe)
- Stock quotes downloading software for Microsoft Excel. It downloads free historical end-of-day stocks, indexes and mutual funds data, 15-minutes delayed and real-time quotes for stocks, options, indexes, futures and other securities for more than 50 markets worldwide. DownloaderXL package allows monitoring of current market situation, performing real-time charting and tracking...
- Tags: Stock, Index, OLSOFT, Mutual Funds, Investment, Retirement Plans, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
- Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting
- A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular idea
- Energy Independence Day...not yet, but it's a popular ideaAnd, yet againWe see the asinine argument that the path to energy independence isn't to produce energy, but to restrict use.But this is no surprise. Like all environmental issues, it really isn't about what it says it's about. Energy independence isn't about...
- Tags: energy independence, Energy Independence Day, popular idea
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
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