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Blogging Simplified
Web Crossing, Inc., an enterprise collaboration software company, today introduced SiteCrossing, a hosted Web site service offering blogging and collaboration tools for individuals, as well as small- and medium-sized businesses.
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Someone Stole Your Identity. Now What?
The prevalence of identity theft has one perverse benefit: It’s easy to find information about what to do when someone else pretends to be you.
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Privacy v. Profit
In the wake of revelations that ChoicePoint had been conned by identity thieves, Nuala O'Connor Kelly, chief privacy officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sent out a note on Wednesday announcing the membership of the DHS's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Among those to be offering privacy advice is D. Reed Freeman, chief privacy officer of Claria Corporation, the online marketing company formerly know as Gator.
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Securing Government IT: Your Tax Dollars Not At Work
Securing our federal IT systems and networks is so important that spending tax dollars to educate some 125 federal chief information security officers about the latest in cybersecurity—and to get them to collaborate—seems like a sound investment. That's not the case, however.
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New Technology, New Approach To Design Apps
Arch Ventures Partners has made investments in companies producing radio frequency ID tag and grid computing products, but may next put its money in companies developing products that exploit the nascent dual-core and multicore chip.
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Google Movies
Anticipating Oscar. It sounds like the title of some dreadful film; it is in fact an explanation of the timing of Google’s latest search enhancement: cinema-centric search.
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Blogging for the Ears
In researching a story about Apple's new iPods and podcasting that should appear on InformationWeek.com shortly, I spoke with Royal Farros, CEO of MessageCast, Inc.
While discussing how podcasting and blogging are related activities, Farros made an interesting observation about bloggers.
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IBM Wannabe Is Back
Remember Amdahl? Unlike the Bunch [see below], Amdahl took Big Blue head on as a maker of IBM plug-compatible mainframes.
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Does the future of IT look more like General Motors or Wal-Mart?
General Motors' IT strategy ?which is, in a nutshell, that GM managers are responsible for IT strategy and performance but they outsource all its implementation ?is going to be thrust into the spotlight over the coming year, with this week's news about EDS an early indication.
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Just how many open-source licenses do we need?
It's a question to which there's no answer … at least not yet. One thing's for sure: there doesn't seem to be any shortage of applications for new licenses. Ironically, the proliferation new open-source licenses, each with different restrictions and guidelines, introduces incompatibilities that could actually put up walls between some really good programs.
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Ring Scents: Now this smells like 'true' telecom innovation
The reporting team at "The Onion" has broken big news about Sprint expanding its library of downloadable scents for your cell phone, adding "Hickory Smoked Bacon" so you can have a different smell for every person who calls.
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Ring Scents: Now this smells like the telecom innovation we
The Onion—my no. 2 source for breaking technology news, after InformationWeek.com, of course— has cracked open the news on Sprint adding "Hickory Smoked Bacon" to the list of different downloadable scents for your cell phone.
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Teaming Up Against Child Porn
InformationWeek’s Feb. 14 story Technology And The Fight Against Child Porn covers some of the ground in the worldwide effort to stem child pornography, but by no means all of it. Following are some related developments. What more can be done? Weigh in here.
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Linux is Linux, right?
This week's LinuxWorld conference has brought with it the obligatory storm of new announcements from the most prominent providers of the Linux operating system: Novell and Red Hat. Both companies are making a serious play to grab desktop operating-system market share from Microsoft. Both have identified security as a major concern among their customers. And both have become chummy with the tech industry's biggest players. If open-source is all about mitigating vendor influence on IT innovation, what's the difference between Red Hat Linux and Novell's SuSE Linux? Plenty, when you consider their approaches to the market.
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Linux' Maturing Message
At this week's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston, look for technology vendors striving to convince IT managers that the real value to running Linux isn't just cost cutting.
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How Many Telecom Companies Do We Need?
When you look across the landscape of technology vendors, history shows a pattern. New technologies create new markets, and a host of new and existing vendors flood that market in an effort to establish market share. Over time, markets consolidate for a variety of reasons and only a handful of large vendors survive. That’s been the pattern in most tech markets as they mature, whether PCs, servers, databases, or enterprise applications. But the pattern didn’t seem to apply to the telecom industry – until now.
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Oracle the Consolidator
So now that Oracle has the Peoplesoft acquisition in the bag, where will it turn its acquisitive sights next? Speaking at a Merrill Lynch investor conference in Santa Monica on Wednesday, CEO Larry Ellison said, “We want to be reasonably strong in a business before we make an acquisition. As we get better and better at CRM, there might be a CRM acquisition. As we get better and better at business intelligence, there might be a business intelligence acquisition.”
He added, “We have a highly fragmented enterprise software industry without a clear consolidator -- other than Oracle. We have an opportunity to roll up a lot of Silicon Valley enterprise software companies."
IBM and SCO Share Split Decision In Latest Linux Sparring
The wheels of justice continue to turn slowly in The SCO Group's $5-billion lawsuit against IBM, despite IBM's attempts to speed the process by requesting certain summary judgments that get to the heart of the case. The Utah U.S. District Court judge presiding over the case essentially rendered a split decision between the companies when he ruled Tuesday that he would allow IBM to maintain its claim that it hasn't infringed upon SCO's copyrighted Unix System V code but declined to make a decision on the claim without further information.
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Where Carly Fiorina's vision fell short
Long on vision, short on execution, and friction every step of the way. That's one way to sum up Carly Fiorina's six-year tenure at Hewlett-Packard. All three were evident back in the summer of 2001 when InformationWeek visited HP's Palo Alto campus to meet Fiorina and talk about her strategy for transforming the Silicon Valley icon into a modern-day technology powerhouse. At the time, I posed this question: "Are the 'HP Way' and Carly Fiorina's way headed in the same direction?" Today, with Fiorina's resignation as HP's chairwoman and CEO, the answer is finally obvious.
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Government IT Innovation To Go Commercial
Is automated case management the Tang of the 21st century?
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IT Health Reflects The Economy's Wellbeing
The bright light of the American economy, information technology, is dimming. True, IT continued to outperform other sectors of the economy in 2004, but not like it did in the last decade.
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Open Source is Not a Career Path
"If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career path, you're doing something wrong." It's not that Linux creator Linus Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts (he doesn't), but rather that they should be properly motivated. Call it software with a soul, if you like. Only the truly passionate need apply.
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Does The AT&T Brand Really Matter?
Some AT&T customers are very interested in a decision that SBC Communications has to make: What does the regional Bell telecommunications company do with the AT&T brand name now that it is buying the 130-year-old American icon for $16 billion. It could dump the name or could keep the brand and use it for specific products and markets, like the enterprise market where AT&T is a leader in providing business networks. A more dramatic move might be to change the name of SBC to AT&T, a name that does have a strong national and international reputation even though it has lost some of its luster in recent years.
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When Will IT Begin Acting Its Age?
Microsoft last December distributed $32 billion to shareholders. That move, as we learned on Tuesday, boosted personal income in the United States by 3.7% in December. It also suggests that IT vendors are becoming more like other types of companies.
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