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The Wine Cellar Book - Le Livre de Cave (exe)

A software to manage your private wine cellar and recipe collection. Record your purchases, consumption and other information about your wines, e.g. origin, vintage, price, tasting notes etc. It includes a guest book and event tracking feature which allows you to record details about an event including the menu and...

Tags: Wine, Werner F. Bruhin

Software downloads 2008-05-13

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Comcast invests in P2P TV company GridNetworks

Update: George Ou is not amused by this news. He writes: "Comcast is nothing but trouble for the entire industry. They sure seem to be going out of their way to help make sure that congress has the motive to add regulation to ban the sale of QoS to...

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Industry, Programming, GridNetworks, Peer To Peer (P2P), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Does the Kindle have iPod-ish potential?

Does the Kindle have iPod-ish potential?The Kindle isn't cool.These people just don't get it.Amazon have a few plays to come with KindleI interviewed Amazon CTO Werner Vogel in Amsterdam in April at The Next Web abiut one thing: The Kindle. Werner revealed some interesting information about The Kindle in...

Tags: iPod-ish

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Comcast won't be at Stanford hearing

The AP is reporting that Comcast won't be attending the FCC hearing at Stanford tomorrow, despite the FCC's interest in learning more about its cooperation with Pando Networks on improving P2P performance on its network. After the Pando collaboration was announced on Tuesday, the FCC...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Pando Networks, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Comcast promises protocol-agnostic throttling

News.com's Declan McCullagh has an interview with Joe Waz, Comcast's SVP for external affairs head PR honcho, about the surprising news that the cable company is talking to BitTorrent about ways to work together to fix the problem of P2P apps sucking up everyone's bandwidth. Photo by Declan The...

Tags: Bandwidth, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Internet, Productivity, Cable, Networking, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Comcast, BitTorrent kiss, make up in attempt to keep regulators away

Comcast and BitTorrent said Thursday that they will collaborate and figure out the best way to manage peer-to-peer traffic on the cable giant's network. Regulators began holding hearings after Comcast had used network shaping techniques to manage P2P traffic much to the chagrin of BitTorrent. But now...

Tags: Regulator, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Productivity, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-27

RightScale makes EC2 a better fit for SaaS

Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels' presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit see my previous posting was punctuated by a demonstration performed by Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, a start-up that provides a platform to manage cloud computing on EC2. Von Eicken has an impeccable SaaS pedigree, having been chief architect...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Service, RightScale, EC2, RightScale Software, Crystal Reports Implementation, Software As A Service (SaaS), Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS

ISVs that want to deliver software-as-a-service have to learn a lot of new skills, not least how to build and operate a high-availability, shared-services data center infrastructure. Anyone who heard this month's keynote presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit by Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels will have a keen appreciation of...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Service, IBM Corp., Amazon EC2, Dr Werner Vogels, Software As A Service (SaaS), Data Centers, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Inside Amazon

You're running one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites, handling up to 4 million checkouts per day. Response time is critical. Every page is customized on the fly using over 150 network services. And the system must manage failures of any component, including entire data centers. ...

Tags: Availability, QoS, Intelligence, Amazon.com Inc., Systems Management, Dynamo, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-03

Amazon sheds light on Dynamo

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, is outlining details of "Dynamo," an internal operating system that runs the e-commerce giant's storage system. In a post, Vogels said Dynamo will be detailed at the Operating Systems conference in a paper PDF. Here's his description: Dynamo...

Tags: SLA, Amazon.com Inc., Technology, Dynamo, Techmeme, Service Level Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Storage, Data Centers, It Operations, It service Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-03

X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon again

X Prize winner says NASA 'silly' to go to moon againI am not so sure returning to the moon ...... is a bad idea. If we had proceeded to build a moon base in the 1970s & 80s, we would have the capability to build and launch vehicles from...

Tags: Low Earth Orbit, Rutan, moon, NASA, X Prize winner, X Prize

Discussion threads 2007-09-24

Fellow ZDNet bloggers explore the hard road to SOA

Notice how nobody is disputing that something is holding back SOA? What is that something?Two ZDNet blogging colleagues recently provided their thoughts on this topic. Dana Gardner, for one, says its hard to light a fire under businesses to get SOA moving.TechTarget's Rich Seeley interviewed Dana about the inertia that...

Tags: General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-06-27

SOA done right: the Amazon strategy

I survived the Google Seattle scalability conferenceAnd Seattle's "summer" weather! The conference was titled "The Seattle Conference on Scalability". The Google hosts were wonderful. I met some fellow bloggers and a lot of smart folks from massive scale websites, and some that hope to become massive scale websites.What is the...

Tags: Software, Infrastructure, Clusters

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Dreaming up a new defence contractor

Dreaming up a new defence contractorPattern recognition fails when the pattern is changed.Streamers can confuse some tracking missiles.Suppose something similar here, a way to "blur" the surface signal. That could be a disguise, could be used to send the hunters in the wrong direction.A surface pattern isn't inherent in...

Tags: pattern recognition, satellite, submarine, Murph

Discussion threads 2007-05-22

ETech 2007 themes: Happy users and pulling resources

Im picking up a couple of themes at ETech this year--neither of which directly tie into the stated theme of advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic. The first theme Im hearing loud and clear is "user experience, games, and fun." Yesterday, Jane McGonigal,...

Tags: Instant messaging, Games, S3 Inc., Amazons, game

Blog posts 2007-03-28

Treasury needs more time for financial data tracking project

The Treasury Departments Cross-Border Electronic Funds Transfer Program - a data-collection program that is supposed to give analysts access to 500 million cross-border financial transactions - will not be ready until 2010, officials told Congress yesterday. The Washington Post reports: In a report to Congress to be...

Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, FINCEN

Blog posts 2007-01-17

Ten companies where SOA made a difference in 2006

The year 2006 was a busy one for SOA proponents; many service-oriented architectures moved from the pilot stages to live deployments. Many companies have been able to demonstrate value from their SOA efforts; here are some outstanding examples I reported on in this blogsite throughout the year. Abstracting enterprise information...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Blog posts 2006-12-17

Lockheed picked to build shuttle replacement

Lockheed picked to build shuttle replacementSounds like a step back to the 1970's to me...A capsule that flies into space on top of a staged rocket; then lands by parachute. Disappointing.Sure it's safer than the Shuttle; but I have an idea. Why don't they just make a new...

Tags: shuttle, NASA, Lockheed Martin Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-01

Leading German Cleaning Product Manufacturer Strengthens Server and Storage Infrastructure for Ef?cient Management and Business Continuity

With more and more people now turning to ecologically-friendly products, Werner & Mertz has expanded rapidly. It ensures systems support latest-version technology releases. But, when the time came to complete a recent upgrade of servers and storage capacity, Werner & Mertz decided to change strategy. The company supported its business...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Business Continuity, Storage, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2006-08-25

Amazon's SOA strategy: 'just do it'

At last week's Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit, Werner Vogels, vice president, worldwide architecture and CTO at Amazon.com, provided some sage advice for SOA and Web service implementers: Detailed advanced planning is nice, but your best bet is to just get out there and start doing it. And keep it...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Vogel

Blog posts 2006-06-26