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- News to know: Comcast-NBCU; Chrome netbooks; Google Public DNS; Psystar; Accenture
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alertand RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage: Larry Dignan: Meet the new Comcast-NBCU: Content meets conduit everywhere; Will it work? John Morris: Will Chrome netbooks really be...
- Tags: Google Inc., DNS, Accenture Ltd., Microsoft Office, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Sam Diaz, Global Warming, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Security, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- Google Backup is what I want for Christmas
- Google's Lenoir, North Carolina Data Center, seen during construction, could be one of several sites that could provide business continuity and peace of mind for netizens everywhere. I've heard this story too many times. "I got back from vacation and...
- Tags: Google Inc., Carbonite, Storage, Google Backup, Backups, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- Admin fired for incompetence, not alien search
- Did you say failed to protest...students' and staffs' personal information? I think a similar case could be brought against those using Google. Not much protection there.Reason given is more than enoughInstalling unapproved software that will peg machines at 100% utilization when they have spare cycles is a terminable offense...
- Tags: Public relations, PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, Processors, SETI
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Remote access and virtualization: Not one and the same
- Some of you may have seen me tweeting recently about a little experiment that I have going on where I'm using a small PC (perhaps we can call it a netbook, but that's a semantics issue) â€" the Nokia Booklet 3G â€" as my primary computing device outside of the...
- Tags: Remote Access, Cloud Computing, Telecommunications, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Chris Silva
- Blog posts 2009-12-02
- 11 open source business models
- You are looking at it sideways.It's never as simple as you make it seem. Things usually can't be broken into neat little lists which are really just stereo types.From Wikipedia: Business Model: "A business model describes the rationale of how an [b]organization[/b] creates, delivers, and captures value[1] -...
- Tags: Strategy, business model, open source, EULA Ware, software
- Discussion threads 2009-12-02
- HP Mini 110-1131dx Tord Boontje Edition (white)
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. The HP Mini 110 originally offered a decent combo of cool design, typical Netbook components, and a reasonable price. In the months since...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Mini, Mini 110, netbook, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2009-12-01
- Amazon CTO Vogels: Cloud computing an option for disaster recovery
- Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says that enterprises are increasingly using Amazon Web Services for disaster recovery. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: CTO, Amazon.com Inc., Disaster Recovery, Cloud Computing, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- XP's usage share down, Win 7, Firefox & IE8 up
- Now, if only ....the original Amazon.com $50 price comes back CRITICAL MASS will be achieved (IE: more than 4%).Way to goCongrats Win 7, and Firefox!Hopefully we can put XP to rest for good now and move on with our lives.DOWN WITH XP DOWN WITH XPHopefully XP will see its death...
- Tags: Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Vista STILL, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Windows 8, Microsoft Corp., Win 7
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Can Chrome OS save us from racket ware?
- Open Source / Repositories vs. Windows Closed SourceThe idea of having GPG-protected repositories which contain open source apps is central to the notion that these apps' source code is viewed by 'many eyes' and as such, vetted.Get your app outside of your designated O/S approved repos and you 'tempt fate'.In...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system, software, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- Sony Vaio FW560F/T (brown)
- Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. Several months ago, one of our favorite retail laptops was the Sony Vaio FW480J/T. Besides offering no-hassle Blu-ray playback and a large...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Sony Vaio, laptop computer, game, Intel Core 2 Duo, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-11-25
- The cloud computing battleground takes shape. Will it be winner-take-all?
- You can't be a good consultant if you can't even mention MSIf you really think MS is irrelevant in cloud computing then you have some serious bias issues to work out.The fact that throughout your entire blog you can't even get yourself to mention MS or Azure even once is...
- Tags: Virtualization, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, cloud computing battleground, Microsoft Corp., cloud computing, Azure, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Chrome OS will rise or fall on the safety dance
- Scare tactics against Chrome OSI can see Microsoft really did the 'safety dance' with Windows it has been so successful...Chrome_OS is an entirely different modular approach plus they are using Open_Source with NO limitation of how high they can reach. I find it amazing anyone with a straight face say...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome, Chrome OS, ChromeOS, security, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Best Buy adds $197 HP laptop to Black Friday lineup
- I hate agreeing with linuxbut alas I must do it this time :( He's right, this is some cheap hardware. Intel celeron? Who uses that anymore? I guess its good for kids, but any power user will not want this laptop. I'm holding out for a...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Black Friday lineup, laptop computer, Intel Celeron, Best Buy Co. Inc., Black Friday, HP Laptop, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Live Webcast: Turbo-charge your SOA
- While the value proposition of SOA is no longer the question, achieving maximum returns on SOA investments remains an art. In the new release of the SOA Suite (11g), Oracle has delivered the next generation SOA platform that greatly simplifies the development, deployment, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Webcast, SOA, Dave, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2009-11-24
- Social computing and the enterprise, part one
- Searching Social MediaI liked the discussion I watched, and while the discussion on the implementation of the social media in the work place seemed light, a point I thought that really needs to be addressed and can easily be addressed / researched and developed is the searching of Social Media,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, social computing, social media
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog. Â Let's see how that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Hosting Provider Uses Scalable Computing to Create Hybrid Backup Solution
- Mamut provides smaller businesses with a simple, cost-effective way to meet their IT services needs by offering a range of applications, services, and support through single sign-on access to the Mamut Business Platform. The company also offers Mamut One, a "Software-plus-services" solution that provides Mamut and Microsoft products and technologies...
- Tags: Backup, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Mamut, Microsoft Windows, Authentication/Encryption, It Services, Security Administration, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-11-23
- Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?
- Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, Google Inc., bad cloud, Desktop Application
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Panel: do cloud computing economic advantages break down in enterprises?
- Cost of computingCompanies will utilize this to get rid of expensive license models of Microsoft flavors.Hardware costs are...not the biggest problem. Bandwidth is what is ridiculously high. To get into anything with high enough upload speeds will set you back plenty. Some cable companies are offering decent speeds in the...
- Tags: Intellectual property, cloud provider, Hardware Costs, Desktop computing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
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