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AMD Poised To Launch 6-Core Istanbul
AMD will take Opteron to the next level on June 1, when it formally unveils its 6-core Istanbul processor. The exciting angle for users of high-powered servers (and also viewed from a data-center consolidation perspective) is that Istanbul in 4-socket servers will deliver 24 physical cores. (And you can add virtualization on top of that.) When you add the AMD launch to Intel news last week about its 8-core Nehalem-EX, I'd say we have a have a processing-power revolution on our hands comparable to that which occurred when RISC displaced CISC.
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Video Conferencing: Your Slipups Are Showing
If you think how you look is the only issue to worry about during a video conference call, you haven't even scratched the surface. Here are seven common mistakes to avoid.
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Kraft's BPO Guru Says Global Mega Deals Do Not Work
A deep debate over outsourcing dogma could be in the works following a statement by Kraft's SVP of shared services that "there is very little truly global scale advantage" in BPO deals and that the best approach is regional best-of-breeds involving regional pairs, such as North America and Asia-Pacific. The interview with AMR's Phil Fersht is a must-read for anyone involved in outsourcing strategy.
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Verizon Makes BlackBerry Storm 4.7.0.148 Official
Today Verizon Wireless said that it will offer an official firmware update for the BlackBerry Storm. Storm users can look for it on Sunday, May 31.
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Sprint: The Palm Pre Is All Ours...For 2009
Sprint threw a cold bucket of reality on the pipe dreams of AT&T's Randall Stephenson and Verizon Wireless's Lowell McAdam. It verified that it will be the sole distributor of the Palm Pre "through 2009."
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Users Want Virtual Desktops That Match Their Physical PCs
Over the last two years, Intel commissioned a study on how companies were delivering virtualization to end users. It's one of the few indicators of where this confused segment is headed. Several approaches are still on the table, but the fastest growing one is where the virtual machine resides on the end user's PC.
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Motorola Switches Phone From Windows Mobile To Android
According to BetaNews Motorola is switching a phone that was supposed to ship with Windows Mobile to Google's Android platform. Is this a cost issue or a marketing decision?
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Palm's Pre Emerging As iPhone Threat
Palm's last, best gasp may be in fact a lifesaver. The Pre drew early rave reviews, and the news keeps getting better as the device nears launch date.
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Obama Administration's IT Security Review
Today the White House released its 60-day review on cybersecurity policy, and the report -- as well as the administration's plan -- consists of five primary prongs: top-down leadership, education, distributed responsibility, information sharing, and encouraging innovation.
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Are Open Source Developers Throwing Good Code After Bad?
Time and again I run into the belief that the open source community has an infinite amount of energy to spare for its galaxy of projects. It's not true, and we need to stop acting like it is.
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Oh No, Not Another Microsoft Branding Campaign!
There's been a lot of coverage exploring questions about the functionality of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine. Before the company blows $100 million trying to give consumers the answer, I thought I'd give it two branding ideas.
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RIM CEO: SurePress Ain't Going Nowhere
Most of the information we've seen about the BlackBerry Storm 2 clearly shows that the clicking SurePress screen of the original Storm is gone. Why, then, did Research In Motion's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis make a point of saying, "SurePress is here to stay"?
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Storage CAPEX VS. OPEX
Wrapping up our series on choosing storage projects, part of the conversation has to be what is more important, CAPEX or OPEX? Almost every storage project you decide to embark on will have to be brought to management as something that is going to either reduce your capital expenditures or lower your operational expenditures. Which part of these projects are more important?
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Microsoft Changes Tune On Intellectual Property
If the book Burning the Ships by Marshall Phelps and David Kline is any indication, the Microsoft we see today is in the midst of a radical change to the way they do business. Most of the book describes the changes to Microsoft's intellectual property policies that Phelps has championed and implemented during his time at the company; he's still at Microsoft as Corporate Vice President for IP Policy and Strategy.
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USAir Suffers Collosal Failure During Multiple CRM "Moments of Truth"
Jan Carlzon, former CEO of Scandanavian Airlines (SAS) and author of the bible on customer satisfaction (Moments of Truth) would be rolling his eyes right about now if he could have heard the telephone conversation I just had with a US Air. I've just learned that despite holding a US Air-issued Dividend Miles card (pictured below) in my hand (the one to which I've been applying my last 15+ years of US Air travel), I am a figment in US Air's imagination. Neither I nor any miles I've traveled with the air carrier exist.
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Microsoft Insists Bing Is A 'Decision Engine'
Microsoft's Bing is a welcome addition to the search landscape. Competition should help keep the search market healthy. But Bing's initial marketing leaves me rolling my eyes.
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Cool-er Kindle Competitor Stokes Ebook Mania
I'm not a big fan of David Pogue (this video is one reason, though mainly it's because he has a larger audience than I), but I took notice when he reviewed the latest Kindle alternative. What does it all mean? Ebooks are real, and they'll eventually replace print, but for now I'm ticked there are no good portable PDF readers for smartphones.
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Apple, Dell, And P&G Head AMR's Supply Chain Top 25 List
AMR Research released its list of the top 25 supply chains in the manufacturing and retail sectors and said a distinguishing characteristic of all 25 is that they place an intensely customer-centric focus on everything from operations to innovation.
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Verizon To AT&T: We Will Crush Your LTE Network
Not only did Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam talk about some upcoming devices for the network, he also took the opportunity to talk some serious smack about the quality of AT&T's network. Ouch!
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Do Executives Take Security Seriously? Survey Says Yes.
Our exclusive InformationWeek survey shows that IT and executives are on the same page when it comes to information security threats, policies and more.
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Verizon: Don't Leave Us Out! We're Going To Sell The Palm Pre, Too!
This must be executive let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag week. This time it was Verizon's Lowell McAdam who let flap that he expects the company to offer not only the Palm Pre, but also the BlackBerry Storm 2 within the next six months. Bam!
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AT&T CEO: Data Volumes Are Challenging
Walt Mossberg sat down with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to discuss primarily AT&T's wireless business. One of the most talked about subjects was the volume of data that was going over the 3G network, largely due to the popularity of the iPhone. Stephenson knows it is an issue and has plans to address it. Are the other carriers responding as well?
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Linux Kernel, Meet Windows Kernel. Behave.
Here's one for the "only in the Linux world" folder: an attempt to place the Windows NT kernel mechanisms directly in the Linux kernel. Am I the only one who thinks, outside of extremely specialized use cases, this isn't such a hot idea?
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AOL-Time Warner: Worst Merger Ever?
Time Warner's decision to spin AOL back out as an independent company is the closest thing we'll get to an admission that the marriage between old-world Time Warner and new world order AOL never worked out.
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Palm Pre Gets The Hands-On Treatment
Somehow The Boy Genius got his hands on a Palm Pre before any official review units were distributed and posted his first impressions. His first take? It's "plasticky" and the QWERTY keyboard is "really frustrating."
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Google And Mozilla Make Nice
It was a small gesture but it spoke volumes: At the Google IO developer conference, while expounding on the virtues and possibilities of HTML 5, Google engineering VP and head of developer evangelism Vic Gundotra thanked the Mozilla community for advancing the state of browser technology.
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Selecting Your Next Storage Project - Big Projects
In a prior entry we discussed how to select your next storage project and suggested that most IT professionals are going to focus on smaller projects. Basically filling in pot holes as opposed to paving a new road. There are times however, even when staffing is scarce and money is tight that you need to undertake a big storage project to fix the problem, essentially putting a new road in.
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From Layoffs To Ripoffs: Wicked New Threats From Ex-Employees
Most companies are "ill-prepared for an onslaught which could prove calamitous" and face "the greatest security threat of our times" from laid-off workers who are "extremely dangerous," say members of a global security-response team. In these dark days, stealing data's old hat; the new threats include tampering with billing systems, changing customer orders, and altering design documents.
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Smithsonian Online
With transparency the new government buzzword, the Smithsonian Institution is working hard to figure out how it should make itself and its collection more accessible online, and wants the public to give it an additional push.
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Microsoft Zunes Further Into Oblivion
It's hard to see where Microsoft thinks it's going with Zune, part of the Entertainment and Devices Division that continues to tread water as the also-ran of the company's five main divisions.
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AT&T Chief Foresees The Palm Pre In Its Future
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson may have let the cat out of the bag a little bit early on this one. In speaking at the All Things Digital conference, he noted that the company will sell the Palm Pre once Sprint's exclusivity runs out.
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Who Ever Said Assistants Were Intelligent?
A company called Siri decloaked within sensor range earlier today, promising test drives of its intelligent virtual assistant as an iPhone app this summer, and predicting that most every Internet user will have something like it within five years or so.
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Salesforce Says New-Business Signings Dropped In Q1
Salesforce.com's first-quarter new-business signings came in slightly below last year's as customers took longer to sign, opted for smaller deals, and pulled back on add-ons and upgrades. And while Salesforce is still growing nicely, CEO Marc Benioff was more restrained in the comments he made to analysts than he had been after the previous two quarters.
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Security Benchmarks For Apple iPhone Released
Today the Center for Internet Security released a set of benchmarks designed to help consumers and businesses alike communicate using their favorite toy. Whoops, I meant smartphone. The guidance is worth a look.
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Ramming The iPhone Into The Enterprise
Whatever side of the fence you're on about supporting the iPhone in the Enterprise, you're probably going to have to do it eventually. The question is, can you appease your users and keep your data safe simultaneously? There might be a middle ground to be found.
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Android Apps on ... Ubuntu?
Here's a curious open source crossover for you: a Canonical programmer who's authored an emulation system to allow Android mobile apps to run on Ubuntu. I guess it really all is about the programs (stupid).
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AT&T Says 7.2Mbps HSPA Network On Track For 2009 Roll-Out
Today AT&T announced that it will begin upgrading its HSDPA/HSUPA-based 3G network to HSPA. If those acronyms don't mean anything to you, don't worry. The bottom line is this: theoretical maximum mobile download speeds will increase from 3.6Mbps to 7.2Mbps.
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Another Way To Kill The Desk Phone
In her latest blog at No Jitter, Melanie Turek of Frost & Sullivan gives a synopsis of some recent research on IP endpoints that shows IP phones-hard and soft-both proliferating in the enterprise, with the obvious caveat that current economic conditions are taking something of a toll.
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Skyfire Mobile Browser Reaches 1.0 Release, Officially Kicks Other Browsers' Tails
If you are interested in watching video content on Hulu.com or YouTube directly from your mobile phone's browser, the latest version of Skyfire is for you. Today's update brings the mobile browser to a full 1.0 release for Windows Mobile and S60 smartphones, and it comes chock full of video-processing power.
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Intel Nehalem-EX Launch Raises Multicore Ante
Forget four cores -- even though it's the sweet spot of the market. I write that only half in jest, because with announcements from Intel (an 8-core Nehalem) and AMD (6-core Istanbul), the lid has been ripped off the supposed upper limit on cores and threads. Consider that a Nehalem-EX with 8 physical cores and 2 threads per core for 16 total logical threads. In a four-socket server configuration, this can deliver 64 logical cores. [Update: This number has been corrected to 64 logical cores; when I originally posted, in my haste I calculated incorrectly.] Click on to see slides from Intel and AMD.
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Palm Pre Business Launch Guide Leaked
The materials Palm is using to educate the Sprint sales force on on selling the Palm Pre was leaked and Engadget has published the full document. There are a number of interesting items in the document.
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New Amazon Cloud Service Says Forget Internet, Go Snail-Mail
If it's true that everyone likes newspapers and sausages but no one wants to see either one being made, then perhaps we'll have to add Amazon Web Services into that mix: for uploading very large data files, a new AWS service lets clients bypass the Internet and transfer the data to AWS the old-fashioned way: a physical package moving through the physical world. Who knew?
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U.S. Teens Sent 2,272 Text Messages Per Month In 4Q08
According to a new report by the Nielsen Company, teenagers in the U.S. sent an average of 2,272 text messages per month. That comes out to more than 80 messages per day, representing a more-than 100% increase compared to the year-ago quarter.
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Cybersecurity Czar Announcement Imminent
President Obama is set to announce, sometime this week, that the post of a cyber czar will be created. So far, the news creates more questions than answers.
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Sharing Apps From Windows Marketplace
Roughly two weeks ago, Microsoft announced you would be able to install apps you purchase from their as yet unreleased Windows Marketplace For Mobile store on up to five devices. They have now clarified that this is for up to five of your phones, not phones of friends and family members.
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Plethora Of Palm Pre Videos Pop Up For Your Perusal
If you're interested in seeing a really detailed look at how many of the forthcoming Palm Pre's features work, you have to check out this huge collection of video demonstrations.
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Invisible Linux: The Details
The other week I theorized about "Invisible Linux" -- what Linux would need to become to really make inroads on the desktop. Since making that post, I've been refining my ideas about what this would be and how it could be created. Read on for more.
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Online Advertisers Targeting Our Kids
The economic mess has come home to roost. I mean literally come home, as in vendors are trying to worm their way into every available keyhole and Internet connection to squeeze more dollars out of our kids.
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Nokia Ovi Store: Initial Impressions
Nokia's Ovi Store recently became available to users of Nokia mobile phones around the world. I took it for a spin this morning. Did the world's largest handset maker get it right?
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Meet 50 Of The Top CIOs In The World: The Global CIO 50
Who are the very best at this daunting profession? What are their priorities, and their achievements? What companies are they from, and which industries? Come check out our list – the Global CIO 50 – featuring profiles of some of the world's top CIOs, including 10 from India, eight from China, five from Brazil, and top IT execs from many other countries.
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Apple Working On Movie Downloads Directly To iPhone: Report
Some screen shots seen recently for an iPhone application offer hints at a new feature that could be headed to the iPhone: Direct downloads of movies and television shows.
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Two Apps To Get Your Food Fix On The iPhone
I don't know about you but many times I walk into the supermarket and have no idea what I want to buy so I wind up eating way too many hamburgers. I've recently found two iPhone applications that can help with creating a wide range of tasty recipes.
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Interop Raises CIO-Level Interest In Cloud, Virtualization: Video
While last week's Interop event in Las Vegas showcased a wide range of innovative enterprise technologies including mobility, WAN optimization, security, storage, smartphones, data center infrastructure, servers, and more, the biggest CIO-level activity was centered around cloud computing, whose acceptance and potential are growing rapidly, and virtualization, which has already become a cornerstone in 21st-century enterprise IT strategy.
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Google I/O Developer Conference: Where's The Security Love?
At the Google I/O developer conference this week, Google Inc. will host more than 80 technical sessions on all of the Google apps and platforms we've come to know -- Android, Chrome, App Engine, Web Toolkit, AJAX and others. When reviewing the Google I/O Schedule this morning, I was disappointed by what could not be easily found.
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Microsoft Plays Hardball With Windows 7 Versions
When Windows Vista proved too big to fit early netbooks, Microsoft resurrected XP at a lower price to satisfy that market. Microsoft would only sell XP to an OEM if the system was sufficiently underpowered that it couldn't run Vista. Microsoft has already said that all versions of the slimmer Windows 7 should run on netbooks, so what will happen with Windows 7?
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RightNow, Salesforce Offer Services To Track Customer Complaints On Twitter, YouTube
So you buy a new smartphone, and the touch pad stinks. You post on your Twitter or Facebook account, “Should’ve known better than to buy a phone from XYZ Corp. Their stuff is junk.” You expect a few sympathetic replies from friends. Instead, you get this surprising, and maybe a bit creepy, message from XYZ Corp.: “Are you having a problem with your new phone? Please contact us--we’d like to help!” Welcome to the world of cloud monitoring services, brought to you by RightNow and Salesforce.com.
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A Third Front For Computer Hardware Sales
Following AT&T's April announcement, Verizon debuted this week its own plans to sell deeply subsidized netbooks, thereby confirming that cell services will follow retail stores and the Internet as outlets for selling computers.
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Air Force Calls In Twitter Air Strike
When the Air Force wanted to refute reports that GPS technology is failing, the service turned to Twitter to get the word out. Government Q&As on Twitter have been going on for a few months; it looks like they've gone beyond the gimmicky roots and are emerging as useful communications tools.
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Remembering And Honoring Our Heroes On Memorial Day
As we prepare to celebrate Memorial Day in honor of America's warriors who have sacrificed so much to keep the rest of us safe, I wanted to share a story about a small American city building a small but lovely memorial to three of its sons who gave their lives in military service to America and in so doing won this country's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.
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Still No Chrome For Linux?
With Chrome 2.0 out this week for Windows only, the hue and cry arises once more: why is there still no Chrome for Linux -- or for that matter, anything other than Windows?
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BlackBerry Storm Firmware 4.7.0.148 Is The Best Yet
I finally had the chance to update my Storm to firmware 4.7.0.148. It is, without doubt, the firmware version to have. It fixes some of the most annoying bugs and makes the Storm much more usable.
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Apple: World's First Victorian Tech Company
Either Apple has completely lost hold of its senses or it's trying to turn back the clock to Victorian-era America, a time when we led the world in official prudishness.
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Sony Ericsson: Yeah, We're Going To Wait For Android 2.0
Sony Ericsson may have joined the Open Handset Alliance, but it appears as though the company -- known for its music- and camera-centric mobile phones -- doesn't quite have faith in Android 1.0 or 1.5. It is going to wait for Android 2.0 before it brings any Android handsets to market.
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The Transparency Shuffle: Don't Let Your Mouth Write A Check Your Actions Can't Cash
The White House for months has made grandiose promises of complete transparency into how it's spending taxpayer money, but the reality is proving to be much more murky and unclear. Before making such sweeping commitments, perhaps President Obama should have spoken with some CIOs who know full well the importance of underpromising and overdelivering.
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Inbox Preview Latest Gmail Lab From Google
The pace of new Labs for Gmail continues to flow unabated. The newest test feature for Gmail users to check out will show you a preview of the unread emails in your inbox while Gmail loads. This inbox preview will be most useful when you have a shaky Web connection.
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1GHz Windows Mobile Device On The Way - In Japan
According to WindowsForDevices, NTT DoCoMo will be shipping a Windows Mobile phone that uses the Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The rest of the specs for the phone, called the T-01A, are equally impressive, even though its name isn't too sexy.
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Craigslist Should Drop South Carolina Suit
Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster must be embarrassed by his stunning imitation of a sand castle at the water's edge last week -- I can't think of another reason for Craigslist to sue South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster.
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Will 11n Ever Supplant Ethernet To The Desktop?
That's just one of the questions InformationWeek Analytics is looking to answer with our first-ever "Wireless Nation" report. Security and compliance are also high on our coverage list.
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Will 11n Ever Supplant Ethernet To The Desktop?
That's just one of the questions InformationWeek Analytics is looking to answer with our first-ever "Wireless Nation" report. Security and compliance are also high on our coverage list.
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BlackBerry Storm 2 Caught On Video
Well, lookee what we've got here. Someone managed to capture the unannounced, unofficial BlackBerry Storm 2 for Verizon Wireless on video. Feast your eyes on this.
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Open Source On Wall Street: Crunching The Numbers
Open source on Wall Street isn't exactly news, but the "where" and "how" are crucial. It's looking more and more like the big-money men are turning to open source not just to build their networks and backends, but to actually crunch and count the money. I hope it's not just a strategy only for hard times.
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Does Red Hat Need Hardware White Knight After Oracle-Sun?
With its acquisition of Sun giving Oracle contol of the Solaris operating system, Red Hat and its Enterprise Linux might well become the less-favored stepchild in the expanded – and extended – Oracle family. And with the old hardware/software distinctions in the industry being erased, Red Hat is a likely takeover target, perhaps by a hardware company, predicts one financial analyst.
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UC Market Looks Wide Open
Our newest feature on No Jitter summarizes Synergy Research's findings about the size and shape of the Unified Communications market. The authors, Jeremy Duke and Ken Landoline, spend the first portion of the article laying out their taxonomy of the market and explaining why this particular classification makes sense. They include a helpful "organizational chart" showing how they consider the pieces to be put together.
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YouTube To Uploaders: C'Mon, You Can Do Better Than That!
YouTube recently revealed that its users are uploading 20 hours of content to the site every minute. But that's not good enough. YouTube is pushing users to increase the rate of uploading to 24 hours every minute. YouTube also announced a new social tool for YouTubers to take advantage of.
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NetApp Buys Data Domain - User Impact
With yesterdays announcement of NetApp’s intention to buy Data Domain, a question that needs to be answered by IT professionals is how does this affect them? In our blog on Information Week's sister publication Byte and Switch we looked at the industry impact, but what about the users? There are current customers, companies that were thinking about buying Data Domain and of course companies that were using an alternative solution. How should each of these parties take this news?
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Google Uses More Tools To Speed Up 'Suggest' Feature
Google recently revealed that it is making improvements to Google Suggest, the feature that begins to offer search suggestions as you type in a query. Among the new features are personalized suggestions, navigational suggestions and sponsored link suggestions. My suggestion? Check it out.
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Is Cisco Looking To Acquire Citrix For Virtualization Play?
With cloud computing going mainstream and virtualization a core element in IT strategy, Cisco could be interested in acquiring virtualization stalwart Citrix, say the folks at Motley Fool. And in a time when Cisco is warming to the "unified" approach, a Citrix buy would give Cisco the ability "to build an entire data center on its own platforms."
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More Phones Upgradable To Windows Mobile 6.5
Nearly two months ago, HTC confirmed that the Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2 would be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5 and HTC would provide that upgrade. It now seems that some phones by LG and Acer will be upgradable as well.
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HP's Networking Takeover Plan
It took them long enough, but HP is finally really gunning for Cisco as a networking vendor. That ambitious tack is on full display here at Interop, from copious keynotes to a huge exhibitor booth.
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Touchy Feely IT Departments Use More Hardcore Automation Tools
Yes, I'm still sifting through data for our upcoming InformationWeek Analytics Service Assurance report, and here's tonight's bit of data magic for your consideration: IT organizations that collect customer feedback on a regular basis are also more likely to use automation tools to ensure consistent quality deployments for their organizations. My question for the studio audience is, "why?"
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Adobe (Finally) Getting Security Religion
In the past number of years Adobe Systems hasn't seemed to have its act together when it comes to mitigating security risks in its PDF. Hopefully, that's about to change.
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Smart Grid Opposed By AARP
If you could pay less for a something simply by timing your purchase, you'd want to know about it, wouldn't you?
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Information Malpractice: Coming Soon To A Cloud Near You?
Who says selling insurance is dull work? Riveting an Interop audience with his prediction of "information malpractice" and declaring that "data is the new oil" because it offers both tremendous value and tremendous liability, The Hartford's VP of cyber risk and new media markets said that cloud computing has the potential to increase enterprises' exposure on governance, security, and control.
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Best Buy: No Mail-In Rebate For Palm Pre Here!
Best Buy announced that it will be selling the Palm Pre on launch day June 6, too. It made sure to point out that the $100 mail-in rebate won't be required at Best Buy, where the Pre really will cost $200 out-of-pocket. Also, if you want the Pre sans contract, be prepared to shell out some big bucks.
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White House Strives To Reduce Noise In Social Media Initiatives
The White House is learning that asking for public comment on a social media site isn't enough. The people running the site also have to separate the useful comments from noise. The White House is demanding results, not just openness, from its transparency efforts, said Beth Noveck, deputy director for open government in the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy. Noveck is "point person" for Obama's open government initiative, says Federal Computer Week.
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How Fast Will Google Index Twitter?
It seems that even Google has fallen sway to the Twitterocalypse that is shattering preconceptions about social activity on the Web. I mean, who knew that people would not only broadcast their every move, but that other people would want to read about it?
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Interop: Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Riverbed Agree: Consolidate
I just finished a panel discussion on the future of the data center with leaders from all four companies, and while they disagree on some practices, there was unanimous agreement that now is a good time to be consolidating servers, networking, storage, and even data centers.
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Moblin Moves Into The Public Eye
The first truly significant public beta of Intel's Moblin distribution went public the other day. It's also the first peek we've had at Moblin's native interface, which straddles a curiously wavering line between netbook, notebook, and phone interface.
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EMC World? More like VMware's World
The user conference is labeled "EMC," but its VMware that has the potential for world domination.
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BlackBerry Round Up: More Storm Firmware, Storm 2 Hitting Shelves Next Month?
For the BlackBerry Storm faithful who are updating their devices outside of Verizon's official channels, there's good news: Version 4.7.0.148 is now available. Also, reports suggest that the Storm 2 may be available as soon as next month.
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Microsoft's Beginner's Guide To Cloud Computing
Microsoft VP and its former CIO Ron Markezich is participating in a panel discussion on cloud computing today at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's CIO Symposium. Markezich will share five tips on how to get started in the cloud, based on the experiences of Microsoft's early cloud customers.
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Interop CIO Boot Camp: CIO Jiu Jitsu And Centers Of Excellence
Every organization's got at least one: the defiant, abrasive, contentious, and inflexible colleague who fights your every initiative loudly and publicly. At Interop's CIO Boot Camp this week, former health-care and public-sector CIO Louis Gutierrez offered advice on how to defang these obstinate outliers and turn them into centers of excellence that can benefit the entire enterprise.
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Google Adds Automatic Translation Powers To Gmail
The newest addition to GMail Labs is a neat little feature that will automatically translate messages from the one it was written in to one you can understand. Now you can respond to all that spam you get from Russia and China.
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Multiple Ways To Update Your Netflix Account From Your Phone
If you are like me and love movies, chances are you have a Netflix account. I am always seeing ads or posters for movies that I know I won't get around to seeing in the theater. I used to just create a task on my phone to update my queue from my PC when I got home, but now I just update my queue right from my phone. The Netflix Blog points out at least nine different ways to interact with your Netflix account, many right from your phone.
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Performance Testing And Integration At Interop
If networking is cool at Interop, then testing, the red-headed stepchild of networking, is going to make itself known. Factors like data center consolidation and virtualization are changing the demands made of the network for more resilient, low latency and high speed capacity.
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Interop CIO Boot Camp: How CIOs Can Drive Innovation
Interop Las Vegas this week featured a 2-day workshop for aspiring CIOs and one presenter described how CIOs can actively and effectively promote innovation within their organizations. Nationwide Financial Services CIO Emeritus Bruce Barnes says a big part of the formula is quite simple: people do what you pay them to do.
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Wolfram|Alpha Claims Authorship Rights For Machines
While many observers have noted that Wolfram|Alpha is not like Google, the distinction between the two services is perhaps most apparent in their Terms of Service.
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Interop: Vendors Still Confuse With Cloud Computing Definitions
The afternoon keynotes at Interop saw IBM, HP and SAP giving their visions of cloud computing. While the companies had a number of real deliverables to talk about, the keynotes also showed that vendors continue to confound and confuse with their various conflicting definitions.
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Sprint CEO: Expect The Pre To Be In Short Supply At Launch
Speaking to investors today, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse let it slip that there may not be enough Palm Pres to go around come launch on June 6.
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Interop: HP Entering IP Desk Phone Market, Kind Of
This morning, HP announced that it would soon begin selling IP desk phones, a potentially lucrative way to inch up competition with Cisco in networking and communication. However, it's already uncertain just how much HP really cares about phones.
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Big Fat Interop Photo Show: HP Mainstreams Unified Comm, Show Floor Shots
OK, so I only actually have four photos so far. But they're fresh from the morning keynotes, where HP announced its unified communications alliance with Microsoft, and VMware discussed how virtualization has become a serious enabling technology for cloud computer. I'll be tweeting (@awolfe58) and posting more photos throughout Interop. Click ahead to see the first batch.
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Is Napster The Blade For Best Buy's Razors?
Yesterday, online music provider Napster slashed its streaming service from $12.95 to $5 a month. Now is the time for owner Best Buy to do something to support it...and help itself.
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Facebook Punks Google With OpenID Adoption
Facebook's decision to adopt OpenID has been greeted with a lot of fanfare because of the notion that this is somehow a boon to users of social networks.
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T-Mobile Delays Android 1.5 Update, Android 2.0 Spotted
On Monday, T-Mobile delivered the bad news that it is delaying the roll-out of Android 1.5 by about a week. While that stinks, a first look at Android 2.0 will make you want to skip 1.5 altogether.
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Microsoft and Linux Foundation Agree To ... Agree!
Is that flapping sound I hear the wings of pigs? Microsoft and the Linux Foundation both agree on something? Yes. In this case, it's proposed guidelines for software licensing that would make both open source and proprietary software authors that much more liable.
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Selecting Your Next Storage Project - Edge Projects
Unfortunately the reality is often that the storage project you are going to work on next is based on the one that users are screaming the loudest for that you can also afford and it usually contains "add capacity". Is there a better way to go about selecting your next storage project?
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Palm Pre Goes On Sale June 6 For $200
This morning Sprint announced that the much-anticipated Palm Pre will go on sale on Saturday, June 6, and will cost $200 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Sprint will require a voice/data plan with the Pre.
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Too Many Mobile OS's Limiting Development For Companies
Yesterday Yahoo! terminated the beta program for its Yahoo! Mobile for smartphones product. It will instead turn its attentions to the iPhone platform. All other mobile operating systems will have to settle with a web based app rather than a native client for Yahoo! Mobile.
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Should Google's Outage Scare CIOs From Cloud Computing?
How much – or how little – should CIOs be concerned about whether Google's recent outage reveals fundamental weaknesses with the cloud computing model? Jeff Kaplan of ThinkStrategies offers a couple of sharp perspectives on why the sky's not falling (nor the clouds), and promises to keep the discussion going this week at Interop in Las Vegas.
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Why Facebook Wants A Virtual Currency
Facebook is clearly going to test some form of virtual currency in the next few weeks, in the hopes of finding new ways to monetize its more than 200 million active users.
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On Prison And Corporate Data Escapes
In its broadest sense, social engineering is deception to manipulate or exploit people. That's exactly how more than 50 Mexican inmates were freed this weekend. How much proprietary corporate data is "liberated" in much the same way?
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Cisco: Smart Grid's A $100 Billion Baby
What's as big as 100 Internets -- maybe 1,000 Internets -- and so hungry for routers, switches, and secure IP-based backhaul communications that it could gobble up $100 billion worth of networking technology?
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IBM And Games? Can't Be, Unless We're Talking Innov8
If you didn't know IBM was in the "game" business, don't feel bad -- I didn't know either. But I wanted to find out everything I could about IBM's BPM Simulator -- Innov8 from Phaedra Boinodiris, the Serious Games Program Manager in IBM's Software Group.
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Ubuntu One: Canonical's Cloud
Canonical calls it "Ubuntu One". The goal is, according to Stefano Forenza, to build a full-blown online platform -- Canonical's version of Windows Live, or MobileMe / .Mac / iTools. But can they do it without having their intended userbase siphoned away?
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EMC Chases Amazon Into The Cloud
EMC launches a new online storage service based on Atmos, its cloud storage platform. AT&T also announces it will sell online storage using Atmos.
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Palm Pre To Launch First Week Of June: Report
Speculation had pointed to an announcement in the Wall Street Journal from Palm tomorrow (May 19) about when the Pre would become available. Looks like the New York Times beat the WSJ to the punch. It says the "first week of June" is when the Pre will hit the market.
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Google's Real Outage Failure: Gmail's 'Offline Mode' Didn't Work
As has been widely publicized, a number of Google services -- including Google Search, News and Gmail -- were down for several hours late last week. While the failure of these services was important, I was more disappointed by the fact that Google's fallback system -- the Gears powered "offline mode" for Gmail -- failed to work, too.
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Nokia's N97 To Drop June 2: Report
Anyone out there remember this device? It was first announced in December 2008, and will be Nokia's second touch-based phone with S60 5th Edition to hit the market. According to reports, it should be available in mere weeks.
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Microsoft: Windows Mobile 6.5 Is Done
Microsoft's Windows Mobile developer team announced to the world late last week that Windows Mobile 6.5 is done on Twitter. Now we just have to wait for the carriers and OEM's to release devices running the new platform.
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Cloud Computing And More With IBM's Dr. Angel Luis Diaz
What exactly is IBM's BPM BlueWorks? At IBM's IMPACT 2009, Dr. Angel Luis Diaz and I talked about BPM working in the cloud and how he sees Business Event Processing (BEP) differ from traditional Complex Event Processing (CEP).
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Talking Rational with Scott Hebner at IBM's IMPACT 2009 Conference
Scott Hebner, Marketing and Strategy Vice President for IBM's Rational Software talks about Rational's transformation during the last six years and its role in SOA and Cloud Computing.
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Rumors of Vista's Demise Should Be Greatly Accelerated
Windows 7 is looking better and better as it gets closer to release. Analysts like Gartner are stating the obvious, telling businesses to avoid Vista and go directly to Windows 7. Microsoft should go even further, though, and take measures to ensure that Vista disappears as quickly as possible.
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Wolfram Alpha Out Of Beta (Too) Early
I saw something Friday night I had never witnessed in person before: an inside the park home run at a major league game. Brett Gardner of the New York Yankees sped around the bases in what seemed like blinding speed. How long did it take him? Thankfully, the Wolfram Alpha computational search engine went live yesterday, two days earlier than planned, which meant my curiosity could be assuaged.
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CIOs Seek Answers To Top Technology Questions At Interop
Top of mind for CIOs these days are some technologies with the potential to not only attack the dreaded 80/20 ratio and lower the cost of infrastructure (LTCOI) but also trigger some transformative capabilities across the customer-driven enterprise: cloud computing, data-center strategies, SaaS, mobility, IT automation, videoconferencing, unified communications, and much more. And it's all at Interop, starting today.
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Podcast: Sybase Sees Mobile Enterprise Tornado
We're in the midst of a mobile enterprise tornado, Terry Stepien, president of Sybase iAnywhere, told me when we did our podcast the other day. (Actually, it's a perfect storm.) Used to be, companies would dole out smartphones to anointed employees. Now, workers are storming the IT gates, demanding corporate e-mail connectivity for their iPhones. And software vendors are partnering up with mobility shops to roll out smartphone clients for their apps. Click on to hear our podcast.
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Wordpress 2.8 Beta Hits The Internet
At the end of 2008 I wrote about the launch of Wordpress 2.7. The 2.7 version provided a brand new administration interface plus a variety of other changes.
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Microsoft's Hyper-V To Get Live Migration By Year's End
The migration of a running virtual machine from one physical server to another was referred to by one VMware user as "a god-like power" that he gained by using VMware's VMotion product. At the end of this year, Microsoft will catch up by offering live migration on Hyper-V.
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Google Glitch A Warning To Uncle Sam
This week started with news that the U.S. government is ramping up plans to adopt cloud computing services. It ended with a post mortem on why Google's cloud went kaput for more than an hour on Thursday. Government IT managers should pay close attention to what went wrong at Google as they plot their cloud strategy.
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SAP's McDermott Has Crafty Plan To Beat Oracle On Deals
Conversation heard between two SAP sales guys dishing up garbanzo bean salad on the lunch line at Sapphire. Salesman #1: "What's with this maintenance cost controversy? I don't hear customers talk much about it." Salesman #2: "Really? I hear about it all the time. I see deals getting smaller because of it." Well, they might want to talk to big boss Bill McDermott, who is plotting how to leverage the software maintenance-costs drama in a way that only a sales mastermind could.
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The President E-Mailed Me This Week And You Could Be Next
I got an e-mail from the President this week and, frankly, I think that's pretty cool.
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Check Out The BlackBerry Storm 2
We've been hearing rumblings about the sequel to the first touch-screen BlackBerry, but haven't seen much until now. The good folks over at CrackBerry got a few spy shots of the elusive Storm 2, which have since been removed. But don't worry, you can still check it out after the jump.
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Spreading Panic On Social Media
Do social media sites like Twitter fuel panic during public emergencies like the swine flu outbreak? I don't see it myself; quite the contrary, I find Twitter to be a good source of pointers to information about breaking news of any kind. However, not everybody agrees with me, and it's a question we need to think about.
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AT&T: Yeah, We're The Network For Smartphones
Even without the iPhone, AT&T boasts more smartphone subscribers than anyone else. It doubles the numbers of its closest competitor, Verizon Wireless. AT&T isn't afraid to talk about it, either.
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Microsoft Not Worried About Android
Microsoft recently said they are not worried about the recent success of Android on the G1 handset and that Windows Mobile has felt little impact from its release. Is Microsoft just talking smack, or are they really not worried about it?
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Open Source You Can Use, May 2009 Edition
Sound, video, distros and programming all figure into this month's roundup of open source goodies. Read on for more.
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Steal This E-Book
Sick of reading about MP3 and movie piracy, and how it's killed the music business and is destroying Hollywood, too? Then let's take a break and talk about e-book piracy. The usual suspect -- Cory Doctorow -- posits that the author's real enemy is obscurity, not piracy. Wrong. It's a different "p" word: Poverty.
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Here's Why Your G1 Android Phone Hasn't Updated To Cupcake 1.5 Yet
If you're like me, you've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Android 1.5, otherwise known as Cupcake. Despite T-Mobile's statement that the firmware would be rolled out "late this week," it looks like the update really doesn't start until next week.
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Microsoft Fights Back Against WinMo 6.5 'Unfinished' Claims
Some Microsoft folks recently posted a video about Windows Mobile 6.5. The main message that appeared to leak out was that the user interface was rushed and incomplete. In response to the negative headlines, Microsoft posted another video in an attempt to do some damage control.
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano Tells Investors, 'We Got It All'
In a candid and often flinty presentation to investors, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano says there's a simple reason why IBM is able to predict continued strong earnings growth while other companies hedge on forecasts: "We are not like the other companies in the IT industry. We're not. We've completely transformed the IBM company." Not clear enough? Try this: "Now look: We got it all."
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As Google Goes, So Goes My Internets
For more than two hours today, the Internet was dead to me. All my reference manuals were gone. Email was dead. Shared documents were nowhere to be found. Searching didn't work. All of that was broken because Google essentially went offline for me in the middle of the day. If Google can't work, I can't work.
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Steve Jobs' Amazon Account Hacked? I Doubt It.
Leander Kahney on the Cult of Mac blog reports that that a hacker claims to have phished Steve Jobs, obtained his Amazon.com account login information, and snooped through his purchases.
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CIOs Have Stopped Gutting IT Budgets For 2009, WSJ Says
That huge sigh of relief you're hearing today could be coming from big IT vendors upon reading in The Wall Street Journal that many U.S. businesses have stopped gutting IT budgets and might even be considering spending a bit more next year. As Sunoco CIO Peter Whatnell was quoted as saying, "I think that most people have made their cuts."
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So, You Want To Build an Effective Application Security Program? How Good Are You At Politics?
Being that the tagline of the Secure360 Conference was Evolving Threats, Practical Solutions I figured a session on How To Build an Effective Application Security Program would be appropriate. Fewer areas of information security have more evolving threats, or are in more need of practical, applied, solutions.
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Google Grinds To A Halt For Many
I haven't been able to access Gmail and other Google services for several hours now. I am not alone. Users all over the U.S. are reporting service interruptions. Updated - Google offers an explanation!
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Microsoft Ran Out Of Time On Windows Mobile 6.5 UI
During TechED, Microsoft admitted that the Windows Mobile 6.5 was rushed a bit and will ship without all of the intended features according to a report by Gizmodo. This is not too surprising since 6.5 seemed to come out of nowhere as a stop-gap measure since WinMo 7 was too far out.
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Andy Rooney On Why $200-Million-A-Day CIO Needs More $$
While I'd rather chew off a couple of fingers than listen to Andy Rooney, I have to channel the daffy curmudgeon on this one: 'Didja ever wonder why the federal government needs $200 million every single day just to run its computers? And while the rest of us regular shmoes cut back, dontcha think it's a bit much for the feds to tell us that $200 million a day isn't enough, and instead they'll need $215 million a day??'
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The Day, Or Year, The Linux Desktop Died
It was back in 2002, according to Sam Trenholme, the creator of the secure DNS server software MaraDNS. That was the year that forces conspired to make sure Linux on the desktop would never become a reality. Linux as a server was another matter entirely, but to him the "Linux desktop" is as dead as the Amiga.
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Apple Offers iPhones For Sale On Web Site, But Why Would Anyone Buy?
Apple is once again offering iPhones for sale via the online Apple store. It's a nice option for those who don't have an AT&T or Apple retail store nearby, but why would anyone buy a new iPhone with WWDC so close?
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Craigslist Lessons For Twitter
Craigslist caved to pressure from blue-nose attorneys general hoping to score political points by standing up to the most defenseless members of our population, and will shutter its erotic services section. Wonderful.
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Sybase Says: Smartphone Is Your Mobile Wallet
Here I've been on a kick the past year saying that the Smartphone Is Your Next Computer. Turns out, while that's true -- more people are leaving lapbricks at home in favor of Blackberrys and iPhones -- there's another trend brewing. Namely, your mobile device is about to become an unwired wallet.
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AT&T, Meet Jack, Samsung's Latest Windows Mobile Phone
Today, Samsung bowed the Jack, another sequel to its popular BlackJack line of Windows Mobile smartphones on the AT&T network. Samsung changes up the keyboard, but keeps many other specs on par with previous BlackJacks. The new Jack's best feature? It can be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.5.
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Return On Efficiency
What if "do more with less" was more than a marketing phrase? What if you really could do more with less? There are storage solutions available now that really let you improve efficiency but one of the key components of deciding if a do more with less project is successful, is to measure the return on efficiency. For the dollars invested are you X more effective at your job?
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Do Kids Really Need Their Own Computer OS?
When should a baby get his or her own first computer? According to some marketers, it could be the perfect 1st birthday gift.
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Q & A: Tom Rosamilia At IBM's IMPACT 2009 Conference
Talking about cloud computing and real-time BI via complex event processing (CEP) with Tom Rosamilia, General Manager of the Application & Integration Middleware Division in the IBM Software Group at IBM's IMPACT 2009 conference.
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No New iPhone At WWDC: Analyst
The predictions of what Apple may announce during the upcoming World Wide Developers Conference are mounting quickly. The latest, coming from analyst Gene Munster, is that there will be no new hardware announcements.
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Gmail Can Now Import Contacts Directly From Other Email Systems
I started my emailing life on AOL. Eventually, I switched to Hotmail and Yahoo. I've been using Gmail since it was first released. Over time, I've had to take my contacts with me by exporting and importing them again and again. Now, a new tool in Gmail has dropped the exporting part of the equation.
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Accenture Said To Be Opening Lower-Priced India Subsidiary
Long known as a high-end provider of business and technology consulting and services, Accenture is reportedly about to open a new subsidiary in India under a separate name with rates well below the premium-level pricing Accenture has traditionally charged, according to the Economic Times of India.
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IT's All About Service: ITIL Book Pours Good Governance Kool-Aide
Brady Orand's new book, Foundations of IT Service Management is a self-described unofficial guide to the ITIL v3 foundations course. It's definitely written as an exam prep guide -- it's peppered with reminders about what will or won't be on The Big Exam -- but it also got me to musing about what type of technical preparation guides you want your staff using: one with, or without an extra-vitaminy-dose of the right service attitude?
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Interview with Sandy Carter at IBM's IMPACT 2009 Conference
Talking Web 2.0, how IBM's WebSphere Cloudburst appliance came about and mobile computing with Sandy Carter, IBM's Vice President of SOA, BPM and WebSphere Marketing at IBM's IMPACT 2009 conference.
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Colgan Air Crew Was Crash Waiting To Happen
If an engineering education teaches one anything, it's that proper process begets beneficial results. The reverse case is scarily evident in the transcripts of the Colgan Air disaster, where a discombobulated crew was a disaster, waiting to happen, which did.
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Plan B: Affordable Tech Alternatives
Every IT person has dreams about the technologies they really want for their business. In current economic conditions, however, you may need to downsize your expectations.
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Whose Fault Is The IP Phone?
One of the best recent additions to our family of contributors over at No Jitter is Dave Michels. Dave has a background in the end user and reseller world, and he also has his own blog, Pin Drop Soup; he's just written a feature for No Jitter on the idea of the "Dumb PBX" (you can find the feature here.
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CIO Title Evolution: CIO And Chief Of Warfighting Integration
In the wake of many CIOs taking on additional operational roles across the enterprise, the general heading the Air Force's Cyber Command has been promoted to the new position of CIO and chief of warfighting integration. It's another sign of how information flow – and the CIO position – are moving to the center of all strategic facets of large organizations.
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The New Linux.com, Not The Same As The Old Linux.com
Linux.com was nobody's idea of a portal to the world of Linux, and now thanks to the Linux Foundation -- the best gang for the job, I'd think -- it's now online with a snappy new look and feel. All right in time with Linux's recent uptick (however minor) in popularity: the last thing people new to this whole Linux thing is a site that looks like a bad fan page.
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The Most Dangerous Spam. Or Maybe Ham.
The offices of an AT&T call center in San Jose were evacuated Tuesday when refrigerator odors mixed with cleaning fluid smells created a hostile-to-the-nostrils work environment.
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Massachusetts To Transit Employees: No More Cell Phones
In a knee-jerk response to last week's trolley accident, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority has banned transit employees from even carrying cell phones on their person when driving the public.
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Oregon County Puts Social Media Position On Hold After Backlash
In a down economy, when 200 county employees are losing their jobs, did it make sense for the government of Multnomah County, Oregon, to pay $70,000 to someone to post to Twitter and Facebook?
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AT&T Blocks iPhone's SlingPlayer Over 3G
AT&T has officially blocked SlingPlayer on the iPhone from working over their 3G network. You can still use the player, but only if you have a WiFi connection. AT&T is showing that its network is having difficulty keeping up with the increasing bandwidth demands of smartphones.
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Twitter, Facebook, Fixing What Ain't Broke
It must be a product of the times -- Mark Zuckerberg, Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, all watching giants crumble under the weight of their own complacency, and saying to themselves, "that's never gonna be me." But really guys, change for change sake isn't any more of a successful business strategy than resting on your laurels.
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How To Fix The BlackBerry Storm's Keyboard
At Research In Motion's recent Wireless Enterprise Symposium, I noticed a conspicuous absence of BlackBerry Storm devices. Why? Most people I spoke to about it admitted that they tried the Storm, but had to revert a real, physical QWERTY keyboard. That got me thinking...
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Mandate For CIOs: Leverage Crises To Bring About Real Change
"Only a crisis--actual or perceived--produces real change." Consider that observation, from the late, great University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman, a rallying cry for business technology execs who need to pull some positive outcomes from what could otherwise be a paralyzing recession. It is for Eastern Mountain Sports CIO Jeffrey Neville, who sees the current economic mess as an opportunity for everyone at the company to think differently about almost everything: supplier and customer relationships, technology platforms and services, and just the way they do business.
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Windows 7 Installation: Dream Or Dud?
During the past week, I've been experimenting with Windows 7 on a newly built desktop system. The installation and initial configuration process alone is quite a contrast compared to my experiences with XP and Vista. Most of it is for the better.
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MIT Announces Clean Energy Grand Prize Winner
An idea based on new uses for farm byproducts pushed Husk Insulation into the winner's circle Tuesday, where it was awarded MIT's $200,000 Clean Energy Prize.
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SIEM Case Study: Israeli e-government ISP
Want a case study on the slings and arrows of outrageous SIEM implementation? Sure you do. (Really. You do. Trust me on this one.) Assaf Keren, information security manager at the Israeli e-government recently briefed me on the challenges and lessons he is learning whilst implementing a SIEM center in the Israeli e-government ISP Project (called “Tehila”)--a topic he first told us about during the SIEM Summit at the CSI Annual 2008 conference in November.
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Greece Puts The Kibosh On Google Street Views
Privacy groups in Greece have prevailed in a battle with Google's Street Views product. Google has been banned from collecting images of Greek streets.
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Comcast Announces "Always On" Brand Promise
OK, not really. But after living through a customer service experience that closely resembled a staging of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, I think it's a killer idea for the company's branding.
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Obama Reboots Web Site
President Obama is trying, once again, to make use of Internet technology to engage the American people in a dialog about important issues. Once again, though, he's failed -- although I'm not sure whether the failure is his or ours.
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Secure360: The Triumph Of Politics (Over Security)
While listening to former special adviser for cyberspace security for the White House this morning, Howard Schmidt, talk candidly about information security at the Secure360 conference here in Saint Paul, MN – I began wondering: why didn't we implement the original National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace?
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I Just Won Another Game Of Hacker Chess
True security geeks love to one-up each other. In much the same way that Chloe O'Brian one-upped Janeane Garofalo's character, Janis Gold, on 24 last night, I just out-dueled a fellow security pro. Have you ever played a game of hacker chess? If you can find someone you trust to play with, you could be saving your job by engaging in this high-stakes exercise, because it's not a game at all, it's a simple penetration-testing exercise that should be a routine part of your monthly to-do list. Read on to find out how I checkmated my enemy.
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Evernote For Blackberry Released
There are few applications that are just must-haves for me, but one that has become critical for me is Evernote. Its availability would impact what platform, mobile or PC, I would purchase. For those of you with a Blackberry that have been waiting for this app, the wait might be over.
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Papermaster Redux? IBM Hits Unisys Exec With $500,000 Fraud Suit
IBM executives mulling a move to the competition better think twice. I've learned that for the second time in recent months, Big Blue has filed suit against a senior employee who jumped ship. This puts a whole new spin on "retention strategy."
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Major Health Players Pledge To Rein In Costs
The estimates are high--key reforms to U.S. health care system could translate to trillions of dollars in cost savings over the next decade. And many of the reforms hinge on wider and effective use of information technology in an industry that's been lagging most other sectors for decades.
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Palm Pre Round Up: Release Date Imminent, Packaging Revealed
Today's Palm Pre news pegs the Pre's release date to be announced through the Wall Street Journal next week. The actual release date? Well, that's been guessed at, too.
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You Say Open, I Say Free ... Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
Apparently I'm not the only one fed up with the vocabulary wars that seem to be part for the course in the open source world. To wit: is free software the same as open source in all but the terminology? The problem is, the terminology does seem to make all the difference -- because we allow it to.
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DAS VS. SAN - High Capacity
Continuing our examination of the resurgence of direct attached storage (DAS), in this entry we look at the ever-increasing internal capacity of DAS in servers. One of the key reasons users begin looking at a SAN or NAS is when the capacity demands of a single server outpace its internal storage capabilities. This may no longer be justification enough to make the move to networked storage or to continue to expand the network storage you have.
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SAP's Apotheker Holds Forth
The leadership mantle at SAP is officially changing hands this month, as Léo Apotheker, co-CEO for a year, officially takes over from Henning Kagermann. The 55-year-old Apotheker, who's delivering the keynote address this morning at the enterprise software company's Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., stopped off in New York City yesterday to talk with a dozen local journalists. Among the highlights:
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Latest iPhone Reports Suggest Faster Processor And More Memory
The unconfirmed flow of information from the Internet continues. This time around, tech forums in China are pointing to processor upgrades, RAM upgrades and other new goodies in the next-generation iPhone.
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NetSuite Claims Wins Over SAP, Cites Anti-SAP Research
As SAP's annual Sapphire customer event begins, SaaS competitor NetSuite says it has landed three new customers who spurned SAP's products, with the CEO of one of those customers calling a previous experience with SAP "a nightmare." NetSuite also touted a new research study that it says shows a high degree of risk and complexity in most SAP upgrades.
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Carbon Footprint Smackdown: One Cheeseburger Equals 15K Google Searches
Ever keen to be seen as green, Google on Monday invited the public to compare the environmental damage caused by searching the Internet with the planetary peril of cheeseburgers, among other things.
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MIT Poised To Announce Clean Energy, Entrepreneurship Prizes
Springtime means two things in Cambridge, MA. Outdoors, public works crews are getting busy filling the city's overpopulation of potholes. Indoors, MIT judges are making their final decisions and writing jumbo-size checks to the winners of MIT's $100K Competition and its cousin, the MIT Clean Energy Prize.
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Craigslist Makes World's Oldest Profession Safer
Craigslist has been under assault from state attorneys general with political agendas, the most recent being from South Carolina, for carrying ads for erotic services.
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Android To See Massive Growth (900%?!?) In 2009: Report
The Android platform has been off to a slow start. Sure, the HTC G1 has sold over one million units, but it has taken nearly six months to reach that milestone. According to Strategy Analytics, Android will see 10 million handsets shipped by the end of 2009. That's a long way to go.
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Group Urges Government To Increase Broadband Regulation
The Federal Communications Commission has ignored guidelines in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that call for broadband competition, openness, and access, according to a recent report from an advocacy group.
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Encase Yourself In a WiFi Bubble
Verizon has announced the MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot and it will be coming to a Verizon store near you on May 17th. You put this little device in your pocket and it creates a small WiFi network linked to Verizon's 3G network around your body.
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Garmin-Asus Delay G60 Nuvifone For The Millionth Time
Garmin first announced the G60 Nuvifone in January of 2008. The device was supposed to hit store shelves by summer 2008. It didn't happen. Now, it doesn't look the device will even hit shelves by summer 2009. At this point, is there still a point to releasing this device?
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Fed's Recovery.gov Site Faces Huge Hurdles
President Obama has made Internet-enabled government transparency a cornerstone of his administration, and the biggest test of that vision will be Recovery.gov, a Website designed to let citizens track most of $787 billion in economic stimulus spending. Early in the execution, however, we're seeing signs of problems.
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Ahnuld to California: Open Our Textbooks
I haven't been all that impressed with Arnold Schwarzenegger's record as governator -- er, governor -- of California. But he's eyeing a plan that could have major implications for education and open content if it takes off: a state-supported repository of digital textbooks.
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IBM Opens China Healthcare Unit To Pursue $124B Market
As the Chinese government pledges to spend $124 billion on healthcare services in the next two years, IBM has opened a Healthcare Industry Solution Lab in Beijing to tap into China's absolutely enormous healthcare market: IBM says that in 2008 alone, China experienced more than 5 billion requests for emergency medical care. Even with a population of 1.3 billion, that's a lot of records to track.
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Verizon Wireless Reportedly Ditches 4.7.0.141 Firmware For BlackBerry Storm
I guess it wasn't meant to be. According to Verizon Wireless insiders, firmware 4.7.0.141 for the BlackBerry Storm has failed to meet the carrier's standards. So, what now? Is there an end in sight?
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Obama's Cloud Computing Strategy Takes Shape
When President Obama nominated Vivek Kundra to the position of Federal CIO, it was seen as a signal that the U.S. government would begin to incorporate cloud computing into its IT policies and strategy. The pieces are falling into place quickly.
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In Europe, Can Microsoft Call Google A Monopoly And Win?
They say it takes one to know one. Who better to point out a monopoly than a monopolist? Microsoft may call Google a dangerous monopoly during its next antitrust defense in Europe.
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You've Got to Keep Score to Even THINK You're Winning
I just had an interesting data moment. I'm at work on a research report about service assurance. Isn't that what everybody does on Mother's day?
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Video: SAP's McDermott On Mobility, SaaS, & Business Intelligence
When I sat down with Bill McDermott, president of SAP's Global Field Operations, all I wanted to talk about was whether software-as-a-service is upending traditional self-hosted software. So it almost went by me when he mentioned that SAP would soon have some Business Intelligence news. We also discussed mobile apps, plus Bill had some tough words for competitor Oracle. Click on to access the video and podcast.
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Purported T-Mobile 'G1 v2' Revealed
The latest spy shots coughed up by the Internet are what could be images of the next Google phone for T-Mobile. Dubbed the G1 v2, the biggest change-up compared to the G1 are a sexier design and much more appealing slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
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Maybe Government Should Give Up On Computers, Revert To Paper
Governments and their agencies are clearly over their head when it comes to IT security and governance. In fact, a number of recent reports highlight just how poor a job governments perform when it comes to securing our data.
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Sobees bDule Desktop Combines Facebook, Twitter And Twitter Search
The social media/networking desktop wars continue to heat up with more applications popping up that offer the ability to interact with popular networks from outside the network itself. The newest entrant is bDule from Sobees.
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Mozilla Prism Beta Released
Mozilla's Prism entered public beta testing on Friday, a milestone marking the software's readiness for general use and the convergence of local computing with the cloud.
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Give Twitter, Google Credit for Swine Flu Flop... But
It's pretty clear that the swine flu had a limited run in the United States in large part thanks to the swift and accurate dissemination of information.
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Moblin + Novell = ... Novlin?
Okay, so I'm bad at portmanteaus. But here we have a buddying-up between two corporate outfits with more than a tentative involvement in open source, even if the exact terms of the deal are still rather vague.
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U.S. Armed Forces Look To Second Life For Training
The Second Life role-playing and gaming communities are home to dozens of make-believe armies and navies. But you can find the real thing in virtual worlds too. The Air Force, National Guard, and Navy are using Second Life and other virtual world technology for collaboration and training. The armed forces are looking to virtual worlds to reduce the time and costs associated with travel, and create more realistic experiences for users than those provided by flat-Internet applications.
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TetherBerry Brings BlackBerry Tethering To Macs
TetherBerry recently announced an open beta of its new BlackBerry-to-Mac tethering application. It worked flawlessly.
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McKinsey Cloud Report's Popularity Disproves Its Own Analysis
The sudden spike of interest in McKinsey's cloud computing report, ironically, demonstrates why the consulting company got its cost analysis wrong. Since the report focused on Amazon EC2, I thought I'd use Amazon's own Alexa web monitoring service to provide data that proves why that's so.
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Apple To iPhone Developers: It's 3.0 Or FAIL
Apple recently informed developers for the iPhone platform that from here forward, all new applications submitted to Apple must support iPhone OS 3.0. If they don't, the apps will be rejected.
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Microsoft Releases Facebook Application For Windows Mobile
For those of you that use Windows Mobile 6.0 or higher and have a Facebook account, you'll want to head over to Microsoft's site and download their new Facebook application.
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Windows 7 Breaks The Slower-Performance Mold
Like thousands of other people, I've been spending quality time with the Windows 7 release candidate this past week. Up until this point I've been testing Windows 7 betas on older notebooks, or in virtual machines. This time around, Windows 7 is taking root in a brand new PC with modern components.
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OpenText Acquisition Puzzles Analysts
Analysts didn't have many good things to say about the recent announcement that ECM vendor OpenText will acquire Vignette, a maker of Web content management software, for $310 million.
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Leaked Memo Suggests Early June Launch For Palm Pre
Information about the Palm Pre's launch is popping up faster and faster. The latest tidbit comes from a leaked internal memo that includes details about a "launch lunch" to be held June 5.
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Can Startups Survive Recession Without VC Money?
Little known fact: Apple and Microsoft were both started without venture capital and both started in a recession. So what's your fledgling company need to do to navigate the current economic climate?
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SourceForge Says: Pick Your Favorites!
Most of us don't get to vote on the Oscars. But most anyone can get into the action with SourceForge's Community Choice Awards, where your votes choose which open source projects stand out in their respective fields.
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DAS VS. SAN - Capacity And Performance Management
Capacity presents two challenges to the Storage Area Network (SAN) vs. Direct Attached Storage (DAS) debate. A traditional knock against DAS and a reason that many data centers get a SAN is because of these two capacity challenges. The first is can you get enough capacity and the second is can you use that capacity efficiently in a performance sensitive environment? DAS however now has the ability to address both of these issues.
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Watch Out Microsoft: Seattle A Nest Of Content Thieves!
Much has been made lately about news organizations' efforts to crack down on so-called aggregators who exist to repackage content that was generated on someone else's dime. The Daily Beast? Guilty. Newser? Guilty. Huffington Post? Guilty. The city of Seattle? Yup, Microsoft's hometown is guilty, guilty guilty!
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While Your Workers Twitter, Does Your Legal Stance Fritter?
Twitter usage is exploding, and some companies have included tweets in their e-Discovery policies and processes. But a lot of other companies – maybe yours? – haven't done so because Twitter posts are so, well, "different," aren't they? Not in the eyes of the law, they're not, and your exposure is growing as fast as your company's Twitter usage.
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AT&T May Be Primed To Slash iPhone Plan Rates
According to an analyst, AT&T may drop the price of iPhone contracts from $69 per month to $59. Why? To help make the device "more affordable."
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Rumors Of Second Life's Failure Are Just Lousy Journalism
As a journalist and Second Life enthusiast, I'm annoyed by irresponsible articles that take it for granted that the virtual world is dying, or already dead, or a failure. In fact, Second Life is healthy and growing -- I say this based on personal experience, and statements made by officials of Linden Lab, the company that created, develops and operates Second Life.
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Quickoffice Not Ready For Prime Time
Walt Mossberg has reviewed the recently released Quickoffice product for the Apple iPhone and recommended you hold off until this summer when some of the major issues are to be fixed.
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Oracle's Grand Collaboration Ambitions
Oracle hopes its Beehive collaboration platform will lead to sales of other Oracle products. And if it happens to shove Microsoft Exchange out the door, that's a bonus.
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Intel's New Branding Chooses Not To Sell
Intel plans to launch a new, 3-year branding campaign next Monday, and I think the inadvertent message is that there's no reason to buy a gizmo powered by one of its products. The inanity of the campaign belies some serious decision-making dysfunction.
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iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 Rears Its Head
It has been barely more than a week since Apple distributed beta four for the iPhone, and now beta five has arrived. At first glance, it offers bug fixes and not a whole lot else.
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Autonomy Bay Area Clients More Optimistic Than NY's: Why?
High-flying software vendor Autonomy recently held two big customer events in New York and two in the Bay Area. At each of the four events, Autonomy surveyed its clients with a consistent set of five questions. The results reveal a striking difference in attitudes about whether this is the time to hunker down and slash costs, or get aggressive and reach for more market share.
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Blackberry Leads Enterprise Market Share Numbers
Trading Markets reported that the Blackberry is dominating the enterprise market, coming in at 37% among US businesses. Windows Mobile is in at 26% share. As for carriers, AT&T was first in large enterprises and Verizon was first in smaller companies.
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Project Portfolio Management Sales Calls Are Up, But Do You Really Need It?
In an economic downturn, it makes more sense than ever to carefully guard your organization's resources. The value proposition of PPM (Project Portfolio Management), which is the project management equivalent of ERP, has never been more compelling. And, if my own experience and that of my peers is any indication, IT managers are getting more sales calls than ever from PPM tool vendors.
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Google Profiles Push Privacy
Google is becoming more and more like Facebook. Last month, Google introduced Google Profiles, a collection of personal information associated with a given name that appears at the bottom of U.S.-based name searches. One might even go so far as to compare Google Profiles to Facebook Profiles.
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Salesforce CEO Benioff Gets Big Raise After 10 Years At $10
After 10 years of receiving an annual salary of $10, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has a new pay package of $7.7 million options and a $750,000 salary. For the good of future entrepreneurs everywhere, I hope the news doesn’t spark Washington-style nattering about "excessive" executive compensation. Benioff deserves every cent.
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New Thinking, Not Kindle, Will Save Newspapers
The Kindle won't save newspapers, nor will any other technology save them, as long as they're run by the same people who are now running them (into the ground).
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T-Mobile USA: G1 Users Will Get Android 1.5 'Cupcake' Next Week
Cupcake is finally here. Today, T-Mobile announced that it will begin distributing the 1.5 firmware update for Android by the end of next week.
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Native YouTube Uploader Now Part Of Android
Among the improvements in Android version 1.5 is new-found powers that will let Android users upload video directly to their YouTube Account.
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Intel Ads Don't Clarify Core Brand (But New Stickers Do)
The big branding news from Intel is not its upcoming megabucks "Sponsors of Tomorrow" ad campaign -- another sure-to-fail attempt to paint geeks as cool. (I'm referring to the "TV spot portraying the Intel scientist who helped invent the USB drive as a rock star." David Byrne, maybe?) What is welcome news, though, is the quieter "rebadging" effort, which seeks to clarify those hapless stickers identifying the processor inside your PC or laptop.
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WES 2009: RIM Co-CEO Bids For Phoenix Coyotes
This news isn't officially part of RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium, but the timing sure is interesting. RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie has offered $212.5 million for the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team.
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You Spoke Up About Maintenance Fees, And They Listened
The world's two largest enterprise software vendors finally got the message: CIOs do not view software maintenance fees like death and taxes. In a surprising move, Oracle has loosened its "we don't negotiate" stance and is giving some breaks on fees, while SAP is backpedaling from a staunchly unapologetic decision to raise its fee structure.
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WES 2009: Vlingo 3.0 For BlackBerries Frees Up Your Hands
Today Vlingo launched version 3.0 of its application for BlackBerries. The new software brings with it a bevy of new features, including text-to-speech read-back. For those who like to dictate text messages and email, Vlingo offers a faster way to get it done.
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No GPL For Me, Thanks
A programmer friend of mine has done something that looks paradoxical at first: he's a free-software user, creator and advocate, but he doesn't use the GPL anymore. Is he out on a limb, or just wising up?
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Sprint Employees Get Chatty Over Palm Pre, Get Fired
Even though the Palm Pre has been publicly announced, Palm and Sprint are guarding certain details about the device closely. In response, one Sprint employee launched a blog spilling some information about the device. Does he share anything noteworthy?
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HP Looking To Buy Fidelity India IT Unit Over IBM, Infosys
Hewlett-Packard's recently acquired EDS services unit is close to buying Fidelity's India-based IT operations for $150 million plus a long-term outsourcing deal from Fidelity, the world's biggest mutual-fund company. IBM had the inside track earlier this year, and Infosys, which has 3,000 people on the Fidelity account, could lose one of its largest clients.
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How To Make Money Selling iPhone Apps
Developers hoping to cash in on the enormous popularity of the iPhone have to hold their collective breaths every time they submit an app to Apple, hoping it will not get rejected for some unknown reason.
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When It Comes To Getting Hacked, Organizations Fatalistic
According to a British Telecom survey, to be released later this week, 94 percent of the 200 IT professionals surveyed from around the globe expect to suffer a breach.
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Microsoft Gives App Store Guidelines
With Microsoft coming closer to launching its own mobile application store, you may be wondering how strict it will be vetting apps. The company released a few guidelines for what will be allowed in its store, and some of them may surprise you.
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WES 2009: QuickPlay Media Brings Prime Time To BlackBerries
If you've been hankering for a hunk of prime time television on your BlackBerry device, QuickPlay Media's PrimeTime2Go is the app for you.
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WES 2009: Not Everyone Has A BlackBerry. Yet
I am attending RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium this week in Orlando. Today, I was quite shocked to see dozens of people lining up to use public desktop computers to...check their email. RIM, the irony is killing me.
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AT&T Bows iPhone Account Manager App
If you're an iPhone user longing for a better way to manage your AT&T account directly from your phone, this new application is for you.
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WES 2009: BlackBerry Storm Can Be Used To Access, Control PCs Remotely
This week at RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium, LogMeIn announced a new software product for the BlackBerry Storm that will let it log into both Windows and Apple computers remotely.
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Video Game Study Tells Us Nothing New
This month's issue of Psychological Science claims to reveal proof that almost 1 out of every 10 kids who play video games could be classified as an addict, to which I have two reactions: 1) yeah, sure, and 2) so what?
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A Data Loss Lesson Learned The Hard Way
I experienced what felt like a death in the family recently when my own laptop was stolen right from my office, along with all of my work, personal financial data, and most importantly to me, family photos. Being a security analyst, I felt a sense of complicity for not being better prepared for this eventuality. Don't let what happened to me happen to you. You can fight back, and on the cheap...read on.
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White House Social Media Initiatives: Are They Doing It Wrong?
The White House recently launched membership in three of the most popular social media sites: Facebook.com/Whitehouse, MySpace.com/whitehouse and Twitter.com/whitehouse. The White House initiatives highlight ongoing questions about government use of social media: Is citizens' privacy protected? Is it appropriate? Is it effective?
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Boost Mobile: We'll Fix The SMS Issues By Thursday, We Promise!
Last week, we learned that Boost Mobile was facing difficulties delivering SMS and MMS messages in a timely fashion. They were arriving hours after being sent. Now, Boost claims it has discovered the cause of the problem and will have it fixed by May 7.
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The Best Linux Distribution Will Be 'Invisible Linux'
No, I'm not talking about the fact that Linux is effectively invisible on the desktop right now (with a whopping 1% market share, if even that). Rather, this is about how the best Linux on the desktop won't need to even call itself that.
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The Many Costs Of Cloud Computing
McKinsey & Co. has come under fire for suggesting that cloud computing may be more expensive than running servers inside your own data center. I have more bad news for would-be cloud users--the costs may be even higher than McKinsey suggests.
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Amazon Awarded Kindle Patent
In an unusual coincidence, one day before Amazon.com is scheduled to unveil a new, widescreen Kindle aimed at newspaper readers, the e-commerce giant has been awarded what appears to be its first United States patent related to the device. The new patent, D591,741, is a design patent which protects the look and feel of the Kindle shell, not for fundamental technologies.
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IT Departments Unprepared For Pandemics
I'm attending Service-now.com's user conference in San Diego this week, and was asking Rhett Glauser, the company's spokesman, whether fear of the swine flu had kept anyone away. What I learned was surprising -- the swine flu did keep a few people away, but not for the reason you'd think.
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Microsoft Outlines Banned Apps For Windows Mobile Marketplace
Just as Apple as done for its App Store, Microsoft has outlined some criteria that will prevent an app from being listed at the Windows Mobile Marketplace. Unlike the iPhone though, I don't think these apps can be banned from the platform, they just won't be at Microsoft's application store.
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IBM IMPACT 2009 officially kicks off at the Venetian in Las Vegas
With a packed house of over 5,400 attendees, IBM's IMPACT 2009 conference officially kicked off this morning.
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Desktop Deliveries
Is Windows 7 with XP on its back going to be your next corporate desktop? How about XP-in-a-can, delivered, somehow, to the device of your choice?
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Google Widens Latitude
In what might be mistaken as an effort to ensure the continued employment of privacy advocates, Google on Monday expanded the ways its Latitude location data can be used.
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The Partial Victory in Microsoft Vs. TomTom
I had the chance to corner Andrew Updegrove to talk about Microsoft's settlement with TomTom, the Dutch GPS navigation device maker that embeds Linux in its product. Microsoft claimed TomTom had violated three of its patents governing file system management. Updegrove painted the settlement as a partial victory.
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First Look & Podcast: Google Apps To Support BlackBerry Enterprise Server
It's the week of May 4th and if you're down at RIM's annual user conference in Orlando, you might be wondering what some Google-folk are doing there circulating amongst all those BlackBerry-lovers. Answer: They're giving enterprises yet another reason to swap Google Apps' cloud-based email, calendaring, and contact management for their on-premises installations of Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes. I've been testing the new technology and have a podcast interview with Google's Raju Gulabani.
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Jive's Temporary Cloud Offering
Jive Software taps Amazon EC2 for collaboration in the cloud, but the real goal is to get customers to upgrade to premises software.
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WES 2009: RIM CEO Confirms Storm 2 Is On Deck
Speaking to analysts during RIM's Wireless Enterprise Symposium event in Orlando, Research In Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie noted that the Storm was a great success, and that the company has already planned a touch-based follow up for consumers.
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WES 2009: BlackBerry Curve Outsells The iPhone In Q1
Woe is Apple. During the first quarter of 2009, RIM's Curve 8300 series devices out-sold the iPhone. Analysts suggest Verizon Wireless's BOGO offer played a role.
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AT&T Nabs Curve 8900
There's good news if you're on AT&T and are looking for an update to your BlackBerry Curve, as the carrier said it would have the Curve 8900 available this summer. This is the slimmest full-keyboard BlackBerry yet, and it's quite a fine device with only a few negatives.
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The 1% Solution
Word's been flying around all weekend about Linux finally breaking 1% consumer market share, up from 0.8% as of June last year. Red herring or milestone?
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DAS VS. SAN
Remember the Storage Area Network vs. Network Attached Storage debate? There were books written about it, articles and forum debates (this is before we had blogs). Eventually NAS vendors like NetApp become SAN vendors and SAN vendors either created their own gateway NAS front ends as did EMC or partnered with someone that offered a NAS Gateway like ONStor or BlueArc. Now there is a new debate; Direct Attached Storage vs. Shared Storage.
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Will Your Computer Run "XP Mode" In Windows 7?
With a release candidate of Windows 7 poised at the threshold, Microsoft revealed a last-minute surprise last week: Business versions of Windows 7 will have a downloadable add-on that offers a high-performance virtualized copy of Windows XP. If compatibility issues with Windows 7 (or Vista) are holding back upgraders, many analysts and bloggers reason that this feature should eliminate one more barrier to upgrading. If only it were that simple!
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Why We Tweet
I found myself explaining Twitter to my best friend, an architect in New York City, who despite being worldly, erudite and smart, was completely at a loss as to why he should even care about Twitter, much less incorporate it into his crazily busy life.
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Two Options To Find An Open Desk For Rent
Back in November I wrote about coworking and wondered if the economic downturn would help to push coworking further or if the trend would slow. Let's take a look at two services that help match renters with available space.
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A Little Windows Change Makes A Big Difference
This week, a Microsoft blog post revealed that Windows 7 will disable AutoRun on all removable media except for optical drives such as CD and DVD. The motivation for this change is the growing category of malware that can spread via AutoRun, including the notorious Conficker virus.
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How Many Virtual Machines Is Too Many? Yesterday's Gains Will Be Trumped
Greg Scherer, CTO of the I/O device maker Neterion, explains a weakness buried in virtualization's hypervisor. When it comes to virtual machine I/O, the hypervisor has to deal with it through a software switch, and lots of I/O means frequent interruption of the hypervisor's main job, processing guest application needs.
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Data Center Infrastructure - What Would You Ask?
So let’s say you could get senior representatives from Cisco, Brocade, Juniper and Riverbed in a room, and could ask them anything you want to. What would you ask?
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Check Out The BlackBerry Gemini
Buckle your seatbelts, BlackBerry fans, as some photos have leaked of a brand new smartphone from Research In Motion. Naturally, the good folks at CrackBerry got their hands on it, and this stylish new handset may solve a major problem that's plaguing BlackBerrys.
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IRS Recognized For Innovation In Public Service
The Internal Revenue Service will receive an award for its free online service.
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Google, OHA Members Sued Over Android Trademark
Google first announced the Android mobile operating system in 2007. Too bad for Google and the Open Handset Alliance that the name had already been trademarked. Now, comes the lawsuit.
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KPMG Asks If You'll Be Ready When IT Auditors Knock
How often do you review your IT systems in preparation for internal audits – quarterly? Twice a year? Once a year? If you're not doing it at least quarterly, you might find yourself and your team at risk when the internal auditors do come calling, particularly in these times of increasing regulatory requirements, a new KPMG report says.
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Palm Eos Coming To Sprint?
Palm fans were in a tizzy yesterday, as news leaked out that the Eos would be the follow-up to the Pre. The device had a very slim design, nice specs, and would reportedly be available for AT&T. Now, reports are coming out that Sprint fans will be able to get an Eos later this year.
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Workday, Oracle Move Forward With SaaS
In two positive signs for SaaS this week, Workday got another round of venture funding for an impressive $75 million, and Oracle is reportedly planning seven SaaS products. I have a hunch we might hear something on the latter during President Charles Phillips' keynote at the Oracle user conference next week.
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Best Buy Boosts Vinyl LPs
Here's a story that'll warm the hearts of aging audiophiles (me) and anyone nostalgic for the heyday of electromechanical storage: Best Buy is considering dedicating space to selling vinyl records, after a sales test proved there's life in the old platters yet. Can vacuum tubes be far behind?
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Google's Got Goats!
When not organizing all the world's information and making it universally accessible, Google can often be found not doing evil, in keeping with its unofficial motto.
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Saving OpenOffice From Itself (And Oracle)
For my last shot at what's going wrong with Oracle and Sun, I've singled out one of Sun's most important projects -- and also one of its most contentious: OpenOffice.
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Obsolete Regulations Block Government Adoption Of Social Media
The U.S. government's CIO told Congress this week that obsolete regulations are blocking agencies from serving the people by participating in top Web sites and social media. Regulations governing the use of cookies and -- ironically -- disclosure laws are keeping government stuck in the 20th Century.
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Next iPhone Going To Be Video Powerhouse?
In an opinion piece, BusinessWeek conjures images of a video recording and editing powerhouse in the next version of the iPhone. We're talking much more than shooting 30-second snippets here, we're talking about on-device video editing. Will it happen?
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Security's Cost Of Living Adjustment
Let me sum up the state of information security for you, save you a little time: the problems are more complex, the threats more ominous, the vulnerabilities more numerous, the attacks are more sophisticated, the intruders nearly invisible.
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You're Pre-Approved For (Some) Health Care
Financial services companies have discovered a new angle, which is that it's up to us to straighten out the economic crisis they created.
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Latest Gmail Lab: Perform Google Searches Without Leaving Gmail
Gmail has a search bar built right into its user interface. When using Gmail, type what you want in the search field at the top, hit "search the Web," and a new tab or window will open with the results. That's simultaneously great and annoying. Gmail Labs has improved this. Now, results appear within Gmail. No extra tab, no extra window.
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Death By Architecture: Eight Steps For Surviving Instead
"Perhaps nothing is more drawn out and aggravating for an IT organization that what I call 'death by architecture.' " Sound familiar? Getting visions of standing on a very narrow ledge very high above the ground? Fear not – here's an 8-step plan for surviving the ordeal from Cutter Consortium.
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