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GMIS Epilogue: DHS, DC, and The Merits of In-Person
Like every conference attendee, I was way too busy dealing with logistics to deal with most anything else. But now that I'm all unpacked, here are a few things of note that I left out of my conference blog, including advice from the Department of Homeland Security, cloudy goodness from Dmitry Kachaev of the District of Columbia, and why we might all want to be teleconference luddites.
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Northrop Wrist-Slap: Yes, Virginia, There's A Santa Claus
Dear Boss: I know my project's 9 months late but you shouldn't fire me because Northrop Grumman is nine months late on its Virginia project but will still continue to get paid $190 million per year thru 2014, which you must admit is a tad more than I make for delivering similar results. With Virginia showering clemency on Northrop, how can you not do the same for me??
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Will Kennedy's Death End Or Renew Push For Reform?
During his 47 industrious years in the U.S. Senate, Ted Kennedy championed more than 2,000 bills. Hundreds of them became law, including landmark healthcare legislation ranging from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 to the $20 billion health IT provisions of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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iPhone The Most Popular Internet Device At Wireless Cafes
According to a new report from JiWire, more people use iPhones to connect to public Wi-Fi hotspots than any other device. Those users stay connected for over an hour, and mostly visit social networking sites.
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Fickle Carriers Now Want Stimulus Funds
The unqualified success of the first part of the government's broadband stimulus effort is forcing broadband carriers to change their tune.
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USAirways And Barclays Send Creepy Credit-Card Message
A couple of friends and I recently met for beers at Slattery's and I paid the bill with a USAirways MasterCard from Barclays Bank. So imagine my surprise a couple days later when I got an email message from USAirways bearing the subject line, "How was Slattery's Midtown Pub?"
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Verizon Said To Be A No-Show At Motorola's Android Event
On September 10, during a keynote address at the GigaOm conference in San Francisco, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is expected to announce the company's first Android device(s). A Verizon representative has said that Verizon won't be attending and doesn't know what's being announced. This begs the question, which carrier is going to sell the to-be-announced device(s)?
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The Foundation Of The Data Asset
In my last entry we discussed Making Data an Asset. This entry will focus on where that data asset should be stored. What is needed is a strong storage foundation, one that is designed to last for years, if not decades, but also one that will store that data efficiently and of course be complimentary to the enterprise class indexing that we described in our last entry.
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Ad Copy For The Faithful
Last week's talk about FSF's "7 Sins" campaign made me think about the nature of such pro/con publicity efforts -- like Apple's PC/Mac ads, the "I'm a PC" ad. Are they designed to draw people into the fold, or keep people from leaving it?
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Verizon Holding BlackBerry Storm Firesale, Storm 2 Release Date Leaked?
Verizon Wireless has dropped the price of the BlackBerry Storm to the low price of just $50. Sounds like Verizon wants to move some inventory. On top of that, a recently captured screenshot of Verizon's inventory system suggests that the BlackBerry Storm 2 will be available via Verizon WIreless's business channels as soon as September 29.
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BP Outsourcing Cutbacks Set Trend For Multinationals
After seeing BP save an estimated $500 million by consolidating 40 outsourcers down to five, many other global corporations are looking into similar reductions to cut costs and reduce risk. "The next 12 months will see a fair number of deals triggered by vendor consolidation," says Gartner's research chief in India.
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AT&T Rejects Two Motorola Android Phones
Android and AT&T just cannot seem to get together. Motorola was working on two phones for the carrier but AT&T just rejected the devices claiming they were out of date.
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Building On The Government 2.0 Platform
Tim O'Reilly is enthusiastic, and rightly so, about the promise of innovation in "Government 2.0," the concept of government serving as a platform from which new services and applications are made available to the public. So, if the government is a platform, how do businesses and other developers build on it?
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Hacking Oil Rigs
When it comes to cyberwar, real cyberwar, perhaps the most damaging attacks won't come in the form of denial-of-service attacks, but be aimed directly at our energy supply.
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Ford Swaps New Cars For Twitter Chatter
Ford is seeding the U.S. market for the imminent introduction of its Fiesta model by giving Fiestas to 100 bloggers with a requirement that they upload Fiesta-related videos each month to YouTube and discuss their impressions of the car on Twitter, Facebook, and their blogs.
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Office Upgrades Are Not Summer Fun
A friend of mine returned from vacation last week to find that her work PC had been upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007. Perhaps I should say that the IT department had attempted to upgrade it, because things weren't working right. All it took was a day of wasted time for her to get things limping along again.
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Health Care Reform: Let's Fix The Technology First
It seems these days you can't put on the TV without every channel discussing health care reform in the U.S. The more I think about it, I believe we are doing it wrong. We should begin by fixing the technology then layering the new plans otherwise we will be in the same situation we are in now in just a few years.
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Snow Leopard's Anti-Malware Lacks Roar
A security firm's assessment of the malware protection capabilities that was leaked prior to Friday's release shows that Apple's Snow Leopard won't be chasing down much malware.
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Is The Future Of Music Making It?
Leading names in the entertainment and technology worlds met earlier this week to map out an immersive, intelligent, multimedia future for music. I'm not sure their visions are going to make it.
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Amazon's Private Cloud: Virtually Private Or Maybe Private?
Amazon, purveyor of the EC2 public cloud, suddenly announced Aug. 26 it’s a private cloud supplier. Isn't there something wrong with a multi-tenant, shared resource provider transforming itself into a private cloud service? I'm not sure Amazon can offer a private cloud --yet. Then again, I see no reason why it couldn't sometime in the future.
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Microsoft's 'Secret' Google Bashing
Microsoft is conducting secret meetings to discuss ways to hobble Google, DailyFinance reports. Phrased in a less incendiary way, such as "Microsoft lobbyists are working to advance Microsoft's interests and blunt revenue threats from competitors," this hardly qualifies as news.
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The Mobile Roundup
It's been a surprisingly busy week for the end of summer, as Apple inked a deal to get the iPhone in China, Nokia turned to Linux for the powerful N900, and Research In Motion made moves to get a good browser on future BlackBerry devices. But there were also some other interesting mobile stories that may have slipped under your radar, and I'll go over them after the jump.
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ReviewCam: Greenview Data's SaaS-based E-mail Archive
Used to be you'd send a snappy little e-mail, carbon copy your boss to cover your ass, and life was grand. I grew up on PROFS and then cc:Mail when we went to "store and forward" systems (whatever that meant). It was cute, a novelty, like Twitter but without all the vitriol. Now it's subpoena material, proof of your negligence, or maybe just your nonchalance. You write it and it lives forever, by law. From thus emerges companies like Greenview Data keeping everything in its cloud-based e-mail archiving system.
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RIM's BIS 2.8 Details Leak
A multitude of BlackBerry users rely on Research In Motion's BlackBerry Internet Services rather than the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to get their fix of push email and data services. BIS version 2.8 is on the horizon, and with it, a number of new features.
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Speech to Text Coming To iPhone?
According to a patent filing, Apple is working on speech-to-text technology for its iPhone and iPod product lines. Speech recognition could be the holy grail for data entry and retrieval on mobile devices, especially as they continue to shrink in size.
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Minimally Invasive, Incremental Approach To EMRs
With the stimulus incentive deadline for adoption of e-healthcare records quickly approaching, rising healthcare costs, and the increasing need to access patient data at multiple locations, there's no doubt that most healthcare IT professionals and physicians are planning to quickly and cost effectively embrace EHR technology in their organizations.
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GPS Can Save Drivers 4 Days Per Year, Cut CO2 By 21%
A new study coming from Navteq says that U.S. drivers who use GPS devices with real-time traffic updates enabled can save themselves from spending four days in the car per year. On top of that, it cuts down on CO2 omissions by a whopping 21%. Sounds like a slam dunk for any business that has vehicles.
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The Free Software Foundation's Deadly Sins
After giving Vista a pummeling, the Free Software Foundation has turned to Windows 7's "sins" against computer users. And like their previous anti-Windows campaign, it misses the point. You can't improve your own lot by lowering everyone else's.
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Apple: Exploding iPhones Not Our Fault
Apple has been investigating reports of exploding iPhones over in France. According to Apple, the phones in question broke as a result of "external pressure," not because they overheated and exploded.
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Palm's Last Best Hope?
Palm, who arguably created the PDA market, had nearly vanished from existence compared to the onslaught of products from competitors, products which were running shiny new operating systems. The Pre launched to much fanfare in June on the Sprint network in the US. Now, nearly three months after it arrived, how is it performing as the platform and device to save Palm?
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Massachusetts Data Privacy Law Delayed, Again
We predicted this eventuality here, in this blog, 6 months ago. The MA Data Privacy law, touted by some as the most far reaching in the nation, is too unwieldy for small businesses to follow. However, the law is getting watered down a bit, making it more palatable for small businesses.
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Accenture Extends 20-Year Relationship With BP: Update
In an extension of their 20-year relationship, Accenture "will be BP’s strategic service provider for its SAP development work" and will "provide BP with information technology application-development services," an Accenture press release says. A report yesterday in Global CIO, based on unclear information from an IBM spokesman, misstated Accenture's role as a BP partner.
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Google Grants Docs Translation Powers
If your enterprise is spread across more than one country or region, chances are your employees don't all necessarily speak the same language. In order to help facilitate communication, Google Docs can now translate documents to 42 different languages.
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FCC To Put Wireless Corps On The Hot Seat
Today the Federal Communications Commission announced its decision to investigate the wireless industry. Under the gun will be the power held by the larger providers, truth-in-billing issues, and whether or not consumers have as much choice as they should.
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Making Data An Asset
Data is often looked at as a liability; something that has to be stored, protected and preserved. Data storage has led to massively expanding storage environments and such initiatives as archive. Protection has led to incredibly elaborate backup and recovery schemes and preservation has led to eDiscovery and compliance. All of these processes are reactive, how can the view of data be changed to proactive, to using data as an asset?
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A License War - Or At Least A Debate
Amidst the laundry list of links I get sent every day to paw through, FOSS Licences Wars was a standout. Despite the word "wars" in the title, it's actually less vitriolic than such a name would suggest. It's one guy's take on the whats, whys and should-Is of the different open source licenses.
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Nokia Officially Bows Maemo 5 And N900 Tablet
Nokia confirmed speculation today that a new Internet Tablet is in the works. The new N900 carries forward the basic concept of the N800 and N810, but takes it a huge step forward by adding cellular radios (making it a phone) and giving it the powers of Maemo 5, the newest verison of Nokia's mobile Linux platform.
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VMware CTO On Virtualizing Smartphones, And More
I recently spoke with VMware CTO Stephen Herrod, and what he had to say about virtualized desktops, “employee-owned” IT, and why it may make sense to put virtual desktops on an iPhone will make some CIOs uneasy--and some ecstatic.
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Online Privacy, Anonymity On Internet Collision Course
Privacy and anonymity are very close relatives, but their fates seem to be headed in very different directions, as recent examples from the worlds of Google and Facebook illustrate.
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Possible Windows Mobile 6.5 Second Edition Screen Shots
Last week I told you about Windows Mobile's dual strategy and indicated there may be a refresh of WinMo 6.5 in the early spring. The rumor is getting stronger because there have been some screen shots of a device clearly running WinMo 6.5, but with some tweaks that differ from what we've seen.
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Motorola To Show Off Android Phones
By now you're probably aware that Motorola will be introducing some Android handsets in early September. Moto has a lot riding on these devices, so let's take a look at what they could be showing off.
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Accenture Out, IBM In At BP; Wipro Also Makes BP List
BP has picked IBM to replace Accenture in managing all of BP's global enterprise applications, marking the end of a decade-long deal during which Accenture managed BP's SAP applications worldwide. BP also said that Wipro has made its new and shorter short-list of vendors building and maintaining applications for the huge global energy company.
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Infosys, Tata Sign Big Deals With BP; Advantage To Tata?
Oil and gas giant BP has picked both Infosys and Tata to develop and maintain applications across BP's sprawling global operations on six continents in more than 100 countries. While carefully worded press releases from each company featured prominent and mostly consistent comments from BP CIO Dana Deasy, the fine print suggests that Tata won the larger opportunity.
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Trend Micro Rips Lid Off Estonian Cybercrime Hub
An important Trend Micro paper, spotlighting a cybercriminal hub operating out of Estonia, has surfaced on Slashdot. The racket here is that a seemingly legitimate Internet Service Provider is in reality the headquarters for a rogue network, which extends into Europe and the United States. The breadth of the deception outlined in the paper is scary; doubly so because cybercrime is emerging as the single biggest security threat of the next decade.
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Are Schools Preparing Kids To Hit The Facebooks?
How are schools preparing our kids for the world of social networking? Not so well from my experience.
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The SCO That Wouldn't Die!
After The Incredible Shrinking SCO, it's now time for The SCO That Wouldn't Die. Maybe SCO should sell its story rights to Hollywood for more fast cash and make a follow-up to Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
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Simple Internet Tools For Improving Healthcare
When we think about using IT for improving healthcare, we think about big, expensive projects like electronic medical records and physician order entry systems. But, in fact, e-healthcare doesn't have to be a massive undertaking. I had fascinating conversation with Dr. Danny Sands of Cisco Systems, who talked about some of the ways that doctors and other healthcare providers can stay in touch with patients.
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Halfway Through A Bad Year
Allan Sulkin is out with his mid-year numbers for enterprise communications shipments, and as he previewed in a No Jitter blog a week or so back, the second quarter was a pleasant surprise, as revenues rose from 1Q09. However, the full report shows that we're a long way from done with these bad times.
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Great Moments In IT Analysis: Computerworld Blogger Called HP 'Fools' For Buying EDS
Heck, we all say dumb things—even some really dumb things—from time to time. But imagine my surprise when, researching the hugely positive impact HP's acquisition of EDS has had, I came across this headline from Computerworld's "Cyber Cynic" in his I-hate-everybody analysis of the deal 15 months ago: "HP buys EDS: You fools! You fools!"
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No Surprise In Bing's Coming Rise
Microsoft has to be encouraged by the modest gains that their new Bing search engine has made over the past couple of months. I would not be surprised to see Bing make gains against Google during the fall. The key to those gains will be the Windows 7 launch and other search deals.
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Could Amazon Give Apple App Store A Run For Its Money?
I read an interesting article today on how the recently launched Amazon Wireless store could be effective competition for Apple's App Store. Could Amazon enter the mobile app fray and succeed in similar ways Amazon has with other markets?
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BlackBerry Bold Gets Software Update
Good news everyone, AT&T is rolling out an over-the-air software update for the BlackBerry Bold today. The latest firmware will add a few nifty features to Ari Gold's favorite phone, including the much-needed visual voicemail.
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Is Snow Leopard Coming With Antivirus?
Apple security firm Intego posted a hint that Snow Leopard, the new Macintosh operating system that is due for release this Friday, may contain some level of anti-malware detection.
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ReviewCam: I Heart Math
I first wrote about emwave HeartMath earlier this year after trying it out at the Consumer Electronics Show. Now it's available on the Mac and I've had a chance to use it over the course of a few days. This is such a nifty little program: inexpensive, easy to use and good for the heart and soul. It may not be what you'd call enterprise-class software, but any HR department would do well to get its high-stressed employees a copy of this (which is to say, these days, everyone).
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IBM Adding 1,300 Iowa Jobs, But At What Cost?
IBM has hired hundreds of workers at its new IT services center in Dubuque, Iowa, to provide "advanced information processing" services to global corporations with IBM outsourcing contracts. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, IBM said it expects the facility to employ 600 workers by the end of this year and about 1,300 by the end of 2010.
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Paging AIM: Why Does Software Always Get Worse?
Two unpleasant bouts with updated software have led me to formulate Wolfe's First Law of Programming: An upgraded, enhanced, or otherwise supposedly improved software release will always perform more poorly than the rev which it replaces. My two cases in point are AIM 6.9.15.1 -- you gotta love their configuration control -- and Time Warner Cable's latest electronic programming guide.
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Sell 'Good,' Not 'Open'
The folks at the 451 Group talked recently about "the right and best way" to make money from open source. The short version: don't sell "open source", sell good software.
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Twitter's 'Inglorious' Summer
Stonie, you're doing a heck of a job. Today is the anniversary of the first day of the 2008 Democratic Convention, which is arguably the first day of the rest of Twitter's life; Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey have to be shaking their heads in disbelief at the sensation that their creation has created over the past twelve months.
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An Effective, If Odd, E-Health Tool
I admit to having a twisted sense of humor, so I got a lot of laughs out of the CDC's page of e-cards for all occasions--so long as the occasions are celebrated by hypochondriacs.
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Will Nokia's Next Chapter Be Kitchen Blenders?
Nokia Corp. announced yesterday that it plans to retail a netbook, claiming that it would be "satisfying a need" among wireless carriers. I think the only need it'll satisfy is its desire to sell more stuff.
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GMIS 2009 Report
I'm here in Rhode Island at the GMIS International 2009 conference, and it's apparent that even though budgets are tight, local governments are still investing in training conferences that make sense and that ultimately benefit citizens. There's good attendance and sessions ranging from the coupling of 311 and local government metrics program to cloud computing (moderated tomorrow by yours truly).
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How Google Can Stop Being Beaten With Privacy
When it comes to privacy, Google can't seem to get a break. The Swiss data protection commissioner recently blindsided Google by calling for the suspension of the company's Street View service.
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Government Finalizing Medical Data Breach Notification Rules
Medical data breaches are on the rise. Much in the same way that credit card breach notifications skyrocketed following California's enactment of SB 1386, California's medical breach laws are doing the same now with patient data. Unlike financial breaches, however, federal rules are now coming into play.
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RIM Acquires A Better Browser For Blackberry
RIM has just acquired Torch Mobile, which is the maker of the Iris browser. It is based on the WebKit rendering engine and RIM plans to integrate this into the Blackberry platform. It should substantially improve the browsing experience for the mobile handset maker.
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GM eBay Site Spurs 960,000 Searches But Only 45 Sales
Innovative sales channels don't always pan out as planned: through the first nine days of the much-ballyhooed initiative to peddle GM cars on eBay, only 45 cars were sold. On the bright side, the GM eBay Web site wracked up 960,000 searches of GM vehicles—does it have a future as a lead-machine?
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Getting To The Last Copy Of Data
One of the storage management challenges we see every day in customer data centers is there are too many copies of data in circulation. Ironically its this fact that built much of the value and motivation behind data deduplication. It should not be this way. Why should you get to a last copy of data?
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Open Source You Can Use, August 2009
In this installment: three birds (one of them a singer), a tiger, and a scribe. Read on for details.
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Blogger Clashes Make Us Better
Blog fights are fan favorites that tend to be treated like fluff, but they actually serve an important purpose, and the angrier the fights, the better.
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SAP Exec Sees Banks, Energy Leading 2010 Recovery
Companies in banking, energy, and manufacturing are starting to open up spending a bit as they begin to prepare for an economic turnaround, SAP executive John Schwarz said in a recent interview. As for acquisitions, many software companies are looking to be bought but have inflated views of their value.
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DIY Usability For Startups
Earlier this week I attended a meetup about customer development for startups. A presentation was provided about upgrading customer usability without breaking the bank. I'd like to provide a recap and share my thoughts on the event
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Oracle CEO Ellison Cuts Salary To $1 Per Year
In a move that's wise as well as partly symbolic, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is cutting his annual salary from $1,000,000 to $1. It's wise because while the company certainly had a good year, the global economic downturn has been very difficult for many Oracle customers and shareholders. And it's partly symbolic because Ellison's total 2008 Oracle compensation was $557 million.
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Apple Clock-Blocks Google Voice
Politicians learned long ago to release unfavorable information on Friday afternoon. Apple decided to do the same with its response to the FCC regarding the company's policies on the App Store approval process. It's a self-promotional tldr of a document, but it provide an interesting perspective about Apple's treatment of Google Voice.
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Small Business Is Different In China
When I went to China for a couple weeks earlier this month, I wasn't thinking about business. But even though it was primarly an educational and pleasure trip, I couldn't help be struck by some of the dramatic differences in how small and midsize businesses operate on the other side of the world.
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Apple Responds To FCC
Apple has also now filed its response to the FCC questions over the Google Voice application. In essence, it says that it acted alone, and AT&T played no role. It also says that it didn't "remove" the application. Instead, it reverted it to "pre-approved" status so it con undergo further evaluation.
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Android Coming To Desktop Phones
Google said its Android operating system wasn't just going to be for mobile phones, and Cloud Telecomputers is bringing it to a desktop phone near you. The enterprise-focused device has some very interesting features that show the vast potential of the Linux-based OS.
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AT&T Responds To The FCC: We're Innocent
AT&T filed its answers with the FCC over the Google Voice Debacle earlier this afternoon. In essence, AT&T reaffirms what it already said: Apple is in charge of apps, and AT&T had nothing to do with it.
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A Bureaucracy Of The Clouds
The CIO for the City of Los Angeles wants to migrate city workers to Google Apps, thereby sending many of the government's day-to-day functions into the cloud.
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AT&T's First Android Phone In Danger Of Being Canceled
AT&T was to have the HTC Lancaster, a phone that was developed for AT&T by the cell phone maker, launch sometime in the third quarter of this year. With just five weeks to go in the quarter, it appears that a delay is inevitable and a cancellation is possible.
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Flat World: Freemium Made Workable
After Thursday's column about open textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge, I got in touch with Flat World co-founder Eric Frank and talked about many of the things I'd worried about. How do you make things that are free and open, but also useful and profitable?
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HP CEO Mark Hurd On R&D: 'Show Me The Money'
I wanted to share with you an insider comment I received in response to my Wednesday column, Recession Or Bust, R&D Spend HP Must. According to my correspondent, Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd is a "show me the money" kind of guy. Which is not a criticism -- it simply means that company's research engineers have to earn their stripes every day.
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Tech's Glass Ceiling Barely Scratched
If ten years ago someone had told you that nine women, or almost ten percent of Forbes' list of 100 most powerful women, represented the technology industry, it would have seemed like an improvement over the status quo. But today it feels like a bit of a step backward, especially when you consider that two of the nine names could easily be slotted into other categories.
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ConSentry Goes Belly Up
After $80M invested by its VC partners, over $9M of which was received earlier this year in order to fund future growth, an innovator in the Network Access Control space, ConSentry Networks, closed its doors for good today. What does this say about the viability of the NAC space?
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AT&T: Data Plans Now Required For All Smartphones
Starting September 6, any customer purchasing a smartphone or upgrading to a smartphone with AT&T will be required to subscribe to a $30 monthly data plan (in addition to a voice plan). The change doesn't affect existing customers until they need to upgrade their phone or plan.
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DOD Moving To Adopt Limited Social Networking
The Pentagon's on-again, off-again relationship with social networking looks like it's on again ... maybe ... as Navy CIO Robert Carey says that social networking tools will be deployed solely on the military domain and cut off from the public Internet.
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Boomi CEO: EDI Lives On In SaaS World
I just talked with Bob Moul, CEO of the software-as-a-service integration company Boomi, and he’s seeing more requests for companies to connect legacy, enterprise EDI infrastructure with SaaS applications.
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Day Of Reckoning For Apple, AT&T And Google
Remember the Google Voice Debacle? Apple pulled the Google Voice application from the iPhone Apps Store and an uproar ensued. Eventually, the FCC decided to stick its nose into the matter. Well, Apple, AT&T and Google all owe the FCC some answers today.
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Verizon Debuts Mobile Video On BlackBerry Storm
Verizon Wireless is bringing its V CAST Video service to the BlackBerry Storm, the first smartphone in Verizon's line-up to support the service. For $10 per month, users can watch full-length TV shows and live sporting events such as NHL hockey and college football games.
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Steve Jobs' Blind Spot: CEO-Pals On Apple Board
Steve Jobs' spectacular performance as Apple's CEO, along with the cult following the company has built over the years, make it very difficult to doubt his methods. But a fascinating analysis of the composition and mindset of Apple's board reveals what could be an Achilles heel for Jobs: too many board-level CEOs with too much empathy for their peer's position.
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Phoenix Children's Bridges IT-Clinical Gap
Here in the Southwest, population growth outpaces that of other regions and is most pronounced among children. By 2030 the number of children in metropolitan Phoenix alone is projected to reach 1.5 million. This explosive growth has placed increasing demands on pediatric care.
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SAS Institute: There Is No For Sale Sign In Our Yard
Forrester Research predicts that growing interest in predictive analytics will spur a new wave of consolidation in the business intelligence software market. So I asked the king of predictive analytics, SAS Institute, if the company is up for sale. Here's the answer: "We don’t have a sign in the front yard by any means."
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Like It Or Not, Mobile Advertising Is Coming
We are inundated daily with advertising. It is on the morning news, there are billboards on the morning commute and ads on the radio. Then you really get hit when you open your mailbox. Soon, we can expect to get hit on our phones in a big way.
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UC for Free
You have to wonder if Unified Communications is ever going to be a moneymaker. Before the economic crisis hit, the technology was a bit too immature, with too uncertain a value proposition even in flush times. Then when the money was gone, UC applications and interfaces mostly started to look like a luxury that enterprises weren't in a mood to splurge on.
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Google Adds Group Collaboration Tools To Picasa
Google recently added better collaboration tools to its Docs product and decided that Picasa deserved similar treatment. Now, Picasa Web Albums will support multiple contributors, making it easy to create a group album.
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Digital Texts From A Flat World
Flat World Knowledge gives its textbooks away for free -- sort of. They're one of the first companies overturning the overpriced-textbook apple cart through a "freemium" strategy. Is it feasible?
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FCC Approves CDMA Version Of HTC Hero
Good news for lovers of the HTC Hero. Today the FCC granted approval for the device with support for CDMA EVDO technology on board. This approval pretty much confirms that either Sprint or Verizon Wireless will be launching the Android-based handset in the near future.
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JetBlue's Revolutionary Promo Sells Out Early
Not to say I told you so, but JetBlue's $599 unlimited-travel promotion sold out well ahead of its deadline as customers, in spite of the rotten economy, jumped all over the innovative plan. When it came out last week, we wrote a column about it called JetBlue Genius And Hollywood Lunacy and predicted other companies would start turning over more decision-making power to their customers.
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AMD Revs Quad Core With Phenom II X4 965
The quad-core processor battle between Intel and AMD remains the most exciting arena in PC technology, where consumers can get the latest stuff at what amounts to cut-rate prices. The newest entry is AMD's Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition. The 3.4-GHz quad-core chip, which modders are already overclocking to 3.9-GHz, goes for $245.
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YouTube Scores Content Deal With CNN And TNT
Today YouTube said that is has signed a deal with Time Warner that will allow it to post content from a number of Time Warner properties, including CNN, the Cartoon Network and TNT. Professional content has a much better chance of bringing in advertising dollars for YouTube, which is owned by Google.
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Cloud Storage As An On Demand Data Archive
The challenge that most archive systems have is they are too big for the job. Some organizations, especially in the small to medium sized business market, may not want or need to move all their inactive data to a secondary storage tier, yet they know they have specific electronic documents that from time to time need to be retained and locked down.
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Mercedes, Honda Open Virtual Showrooms; VIDEO
Dassault Systemes has begun marketing virtual showroom simulators to car makers and Honda and Mercedes-Benz have signed "large deals" for the systems in Australia and China. Car shoppers can get 360-degree views of the vehicles, open doors to view interiors, change features, and change colors via the 10-feet-wide screen. Click ahead to see a video demo.
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To Tweet Or Not To Tweet
Just think about this: the National Football League may be more enlightened than New York Times sports writer Judy Batista, who ragged on Donte' Stallworth for posting what she considered a flippant Tweet.
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Politics Trumps Programming Every Time
This week, a Reddit post pointed out an interesting Sharepoint feature that demonstrates what happens when politics and programming collide: the SPUtility.HideTaiwan method is born.
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Google Ordered To Reveal Defamatory Blogger's Identity
Bloggers who hide behind screen names to insult people may find that online pseudonyms don't really conceal one's identity.
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Fighting Crime With Text Messages
Looks like San Francisco is stepping into the 21st century, and it will be unveiling a way for concerned citizens to text crime tips to police. It's a good sign that San Francisco's finest are beginning to use technology to help them fight crime.
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BlackBerry Browser To Support Both Flash And Silverlight?
Well, this would be a pretty big coup for Research In Motion, if true. According to a report, future versions of the BlackBerry browser would support not only full Adobe Flash, but Microsoft's Silverlight, as well. That would make it a pretty powerful browser, indeed.
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Nokia's Maemo-Based Tablet Makes An Appearance
Nokia World, the number one mobile phone company's annual conference, is but several weeks away. As anticipation builds for the keynote and news, one possibility has leaked early. The N900/Rover tablet has been spotted, and it runs Maemo 5.
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Following Big 2008 Slump, E-Health Systems Will Boom
Fewer new clinical information systems were sold in 2008 than during the previous seven years, according to a new report. But that trend will change in a big way soon.
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A New View Of Government 2.0
Government 2.0 has been identified in a couple of ways: one could be really called Politics 2.0, and is best personified by the digital grassroots organizing of the Obama campaign.
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Valley View TV: Watch Our Live Videocast Aug. 20
Because Silicon Valley is still THE hotbed of innovation, it's high time we created a talk-show platform to get inside the companies, demonstrate the new technology and rip apart the most compelling topics in the valley. So we've created "Valley View," a live Web TV experience from TechWeb and InformationWeek. In the pilot show this Thursday at 4 p.m. PST we'll feature live demonstrations of SAP's fledgling software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering and Sybase's enterprise mobile solutions; we'll talk with both VMWare and its latest pending acquisition, SpringSource; and we'll get some analysis and insights from our senior editors on the latest news.
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Linux Kernel Development Keeps On Picking Up
The Linux Foundation's latest report about Linux kernel development is a case of good news busting out all over. There's more work than ever being done with the kernel, by more people than ever. Why? People reap the benefits.
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Anticipation Building For Facebook 3.0 On iPhone
A new in-depth look at the forthcoming Facebook 3.0 application for the iPhone has social networking fans chomping at the bit for the updated software. New features include a completely re-worked homescreen and the ability to post videos directly from the iPhone 3GS.
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U.S. Government Goes Startup
Blogger Anil Dash takes a look at this year's crop of tech startups, and concludes that the most interesting one around is a little outfit based out of Washington D.C. Maybe you've heard of it? It's the executive branch of the U.S. government. Government technologists embrace the hard-working, open, innovative culture of the best of Silicon Valley, says Dash.
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Microsoft's Dual Strategy With Windows Mobile
Microsoft's long awaited Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system is due in just a few months, perhaps by October 1. After that, we were expecting Windows Mobile 7 to ship sometime in 2010, but now there is an indication that in early 2010, there will be a refresh to 6.5. On top of that, 6.5 will remain a viable platform even after 7 starts to ship for lower end hardware.
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HP Slashes R&D Spending By $228 Million
Hewlett-Packard cut Q3 R&D spending by 25.5%, or $228 million, on a year-on-year basis, and by 6.9% when compared to the previous quarter. While pulling back on R&D, which many companies have done over the past year, is not necessarily a bad thing, HP is betting big that a new open-innovation approach will compensate for the big cuts in traditional R&D.
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Hacker Indictments Highlight Application Security
As you probably know, A federal grand jury has indicted Albert Gonzales, 28, of Miami, Fla., for allegedly hacking into computers belonging to retail and financial companies and stealing more than 130 million credit and debit cards. And the hacking didn't involve anything more than standard SQL injection attacks.
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Healthcare Reform Must Include Connected Health
There's great excitement and much debate over President Obama’s ambitious healthcare reform agenda. Unfortunately, its three major thrusts--adoption of health information technology (HIT), universal access, and payment reform--focus only on improved access. Policy makers are realizing that these initiatives will only lead to cost increases and magnify healthcare labor shortages.
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Workgroup Co-Chair Says HIT Certification Process Is 'Going Well'
Last week, the HIT Policy Committee, which is advising the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services on the details of the $20 billion health IT stimulus programs, made several recommendations related to the certification of e-health products. Marc Probst, a co-chair of the HIT Policy Committee's certification and adoption workgroup, provides some insight.
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Cloud Computing Takes Away Business From IT Outsourcers
Something that often gets lost in the discussion about cloud computing is what it means for traditional IT outsourcing. Many of the benefits are the same: Reduced costs, less internal development of software, reduced management of applications and hardware. So as cloud computing matures, it seems the IT outsourcing industry will have to evolve to adapt.
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IBM R&D Head Driving Open Innovation
While IBM, year after year, is awarded more patents than any other company, it has also become a huge proponent of the red-hot concept of open innovation that allows R&D to scale up and out across organizational boundaries. The concept has also caught on in big ways at GE, HP, Eli Lilly, USC, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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HTC G1 Update: Cloudy With Little Chance Of Donut
Some bickering has sprung up recently about what software updates will be made available to the HTC G1 and myTouch 3G, the two Android phones available from T-Mobile. Developers are saying one thing, HTC is saying another, and T-Mobile is sticking to a third version of reality. Who's saying what to whom and why does it matter: The HTC G1 may be incompatible with future versions of Android.
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Media Helps Carriers Spread Broadband Stimulus FUD
Where's the so-called liberal media when you need it? Large carriers like Verizon, Qwest and AT&T say they are refusing to apply for broadband stimulus funds because they don't want to accept government "strings" and because they can't "compete" with government, and the national media repeats their charges verbatim.
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BlackBerry App World Now Available From The Desktop
Today Research In Motion revealed a new, online version of the BlackBerry App World. The Web-based storefront makes shopping faster and easier. Too bad you can't buy applications directly from the store, though.
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Linux's Desktop Growing Pains
It's long past time to stop talking about Linux as the hotshot new upstart, and to demand the same things from it as any other environment. That means no more excuses about what's to come, but results right now -- especially on the desktop.
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The Man Who Stole 130M Credit Cards
After his first arrest he bought his freedom from the Secret Service by becoming a confidential informant. Later he was charged with stealing 40 million credit-card records, and his latest caper pushed that number up to 130 million. He's 28, has a high-school education, and his motto is "operation get rich or die tryin' ". And he's your worst nightmare.
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Palm to Devs: Show Us Your Paid Apps
Palm took another big step toward offering a wider swath of mobile applications for the Pre and webOS. Starting today, it has officially thrown open the doors to developers of paid applications. Consumers, break out the plastic!
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Cybersecurity Guidelines Point Way To Network Protection
Recent criticism of NIST's cybersecurity guidelines for federal agencies raises the logical question: If government networks are at risk, how do I ensure that my operation is protected? One place to start is US-CERT's IT Security Essential Body of Knowledge.
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Changing The Conversation With Marketers
If you've run a corporate network of any sort, your relationship with your marketing department has been one of repeat battles over possibilities and priorities, right?
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One Storage Solution For Everyone?
There is a dizzying array of storage solutions available to storage managers today. Whether its backup, archive or primary storage there are multiple options available. Many times manufacturers try to position themselves as a single source of storage solutions for a data center. Be careful of this approach, seldom is one manufacturer able to provide best of breed solutions in every product category.
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Deleted Emails On iPhone Can Come Back
For the time being, be careful what type of emails you send and receive when using an iPhone or iPod Touch with the 3.x operating system. When you delete an email on an iPhone 3.0, that email may not really be gone. By using the iPhone's built in search tool, you may be able to resurrect the deleted email.
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Oracle's Ellison #2 Best-Paid CEO At $557 Million
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison received total compensation of $556.9 million in 2008, making him the second best-paid CEO in the U.S. behind the CEO of private-equity firm Blackstone. A year ago Ellison topped the list, and he's expected to stay near or at the top next year as well.
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GeniusRocket: Brilliant
It started as a coincidence, turned into a real possibility and resulted in a bona fide solution to my problem. At the risk of translating my giddiness into hyperbole, the idea behind GeniusRocket (and CrowdSPRING, the company that led me there -- see a ReviewCam of CrowdSPRING here) is well on its way to becoming THE new model for custom service exchange on the web. I'm sold, if for no other reason than because it delivered.
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Google Insights Forecasts the Future
Google has enhanced Google Insights for Search, its search term data analysis tool, to help users see into the future.
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CCHIT Is Ready For The Uncertainty Ahead
My experience as a rookie volunteer on the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology's new Clinical Research Workgroup has been surprisingly positive. I applied for this position because I wanted to get more involved in the national IT scene at an exciting time for clinical informatics. So far, I haven't been disappointed.
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Should E-Health Records Be A Job Perk?
Vanguard Health is the latest company that's signed up with the Dossia Consortium to offer its employees electronic health records as a work benefit. But when will it become mainstream for any and all patients to access their health records electronically, rather than it being a rare job perk for some?
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Hewlett-Packard To Hit Upper End Of Forecasts, Analysts Say
As Hewlett-Packard prepares to release its quarterly financials tomorrow, three prominent financial analysts have raised their expectations for HP's quarterly revenue and also raised their target prices for HP shares. Since HP is now the world's largest IT company, the tenor of its results will resonate across the industry.
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HTC Applies For Patent - Stylus For Capacitive Screens
PDA's from yesteryear had a screen that was resistive. It works great with a stylus, or any pointed object that was hard enough to press down on the screen but not so hard as to scratch it. Windows Mobile devices currently use this type of screen. For finger touch though, capacitive screens work much better, such as the screen on the iPhone. These screens track the electrical current from your finger. The problem is, a stylus doesn't work on that type of screen, which can present problems of its own.
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BlackBerry Storm 2 Detailed In 7-Minute Video
If you've been hankering for more information about the unannounced BlackBerry Storm 2, consider this your daily fix. The Storm 2 is found in this seven-minute video, which provides quite a lot of detail about the new device.
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Join The Discussion On Open Source Licensing
If the essence of open source is collaboration, it makes sense that the discussions about it have some collaborative flavor. Such is the case with an upcoming event about open source licensing, where the discussion's being shaped ahead of time by third-party contributors.
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Tibco/SAP Redux: Does Tibco Code Meet SAP Standards?
Five years ago, Tibco touted its SAP chops thusly: "SAP customers are continuing to derive significant business value from their SAP deployments by leveraging Tibco to orchestrate business functions across their extended enterprise." Now, as merger rumors swirl, bear in mind that SAP CEO Leo Apotheker prefers internal development over acquisitions.
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Dell Sets Record Straight About Its Smartphone 'Concept'
A multitude of reports popped up in the past 12 hours that appear to confirm an official release of the Dell smartphone for China Mobile. That just isn't the case, says Dell.
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Push Gmail Finally Arrives On iPhone
One annoying aspect about the iPhone is that the native email application doesn't support push email for Gmail accounts. Now, via a third-party application called GPush, it does. Email addicts rejoice!
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Banks, Credit Card Companies Take Swipe At New Encryption Method
Visa Inc. and Fifth Third Bancorp are testing a novel technique at authenticating in-person credit and debit card transactions by using a fingerprint created by the individual magstripe on each card.
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Gates Foundation Dumps Most Pharma, Healthcare Stocks
In a "striking" sell-off that will "drastically reduce its exposure to health-related stocks," the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation unloaded 30 million shares of stock last quarter in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and health-care companies. It's an odd move for a massive philanthropy that's made health care in developing countries one of its top priorities.
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Microsoft Word Ban Spotlights Software Patent Insanity
I'm in the unenviable position of defending Microsoft, but dive into the United States Patent and Trademark Office's database, and see if you don't agree with me that last week's court decision banning Microsoft from selling Word is nuts. The i4i patent Microsoft supposedly infringes seems loosely applicable to Word at best, and obvious enough software-wise to make you wonder why there are software patents at all. Plus, Microsoft holds some seemingly applicable XML patents of its own.
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Twitter Forty Percent 'Pointless Babble'
Two reports surfaced in the past couple of days that, put side by side, offer an amusing look at Twitter usage, painting it as a playground of the hyperactive and the self-obsessed, doling out wit and foolishness in almost equal measure.
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Introducing Cash For Clunkers: The Website Edition
By now we've all heard about the U.S. government's "cash for clunkers" program for automobiles. Today I'd like to propose a similar program for small business websites.
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Windows 7: What A Lovely Hidden Interface
Each time a new version of Windows comes out, Microsoft takes an opportunity to change user interface items that seemed to be working fine already. I call it "rearranging the furniture" because it often results in metaphorical stubbed toes. One example of this was renaming a Control Panel item from "Add/Remove Programs" in XP to "Programs and Features" in Vista. Well, they're at it again with Windows 7.
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Has Government Set EHR Goals Too High?
Despite the pending $36.3 billion that the U.S. government plans to spend over the next several years to drive physician adoption of electronic health record software, the market is at a standstill.
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Sony, An Open Book
Looking to get the jump on Amazon, Sony's announced it's changing the format of the e-books it sells to an open standard. So does this constitute irony or progress?
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Verizon Wireless: Yeah, We Smoked That LTE 4G Test, Baby!
Verizon Wireless is crowing about a big technology achievement today, and it has good reason to. It successfully made its first data calls using Long Term Evolution technology. This means our stairway to mobile heaven just got its first step.
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Apple, AT&T Sued Over Missing iPhone MMS Feature
This is rich. Some 10,000 iPhone owners in the state of Louisiana have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T. Their complaint? Apple and AT&T advertised that the iPhone would support MMS but they haven't provided the service.
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field Video Simulates New Galaxies
If anyone's got a more beautiful and humbling video than this one, please share it. This narrated 4-minute clip shows what the Hubble Telescope revealed when pointed at a part of the sky that seemed utterly empty. But instead of blackness, astronomers found thousands of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars – and a new simulation shows what those newly discovered galaxies look like.
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Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Gets Boost From Windows 7
Interest in Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format is heating up as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 move out into the marketplace. So here's some VHD news you can use in the form of pointers to two free online user guides.
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WSJ Hiring For New Paid Site
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) honcho Rupert Murdoch wasn't kidding when he said that his properties would start charging for all online content.
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Verizon Wireless Resurrects Buy-One-Get-One Free BlackBerry Deal
Looks like Verizon Wireless is attempting to clear out some inventory. Today, it resumed a buy-one-get-one free sales promotion. If you buy a BlackBerry, you can get any other phone or device for free.
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Patni Going Deeper, Not Broader For Outsourcing Growth
How does a mid-sized player not get squashed as Indian IT outsourcers scrap for business in a battered market? Patni CEO Jeya Kumar is betting Indian IT companies need to specialize on even deeper industry expertise--a strategy he describes as "less about bodies, more about people."
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Apple Applies For Patent On Miniaturizing Phone
We could be seeing an iPhone Nano in the future if the new patent application by Apple is anything to go by. Much of the appeal of the current iPhone is the rich functionality that the large screen allows. Could Apple repeat that success with a phone with a much smaller screen?
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Data Center Revolution Or Evolution
I recently read a claim by one major supplier of Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology that it would be the dominant infrastructure in use in data centers in two to three years! Are you kidding me? Other than impossible that is just not the speed at which the data center moves. The data center evolves, it does not revolt.
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Accenture Named Top Growth Stock In Wake Of Restructuring
Motley Fool's pool of 135,000 investors has named Accenture its top growth stock just two days after the company reorganized around three new growth categories: management consulting, technology, and business process outsourcing. While the poll's conducted each week, the timing relative to the new org plan is a big endorsement for Accenture.
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VMware Got What It Paid For: A Vision Of The Future
VMware's acquisition of SpringSource is not a match made in heaven. It's going to take an effort by both parties to make this marriage work. Still, it looks like one of the few responses VMware could make to counter Microsoft's dangerous invasion of its turf.
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E-Voting Takes Another Hit
A group of computer scientists have shown how voting results, held in electronic voting machines, can be changed using a novel hacking technique. It's yet another reason why we need to have a verifiable, auditable, paper-trail for electronic voting machines.
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Thoughts On The Sony Ericsson C905a
I've been meaning to talk about Sony Ericsson's C905a cameraphone for a while now, as the handset is one of the few 8-megapixel cameras to come out in the United States. But with the proliferation of smartphones, I don't see this garnering much interest beyond die-hard shutterbugs.
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Broadband Applications Crash Federal Systems
Federal agencies handling applications for broadband stimulus grants have been forced to extend the deadline for applications because their online systems have buckled under the strain.
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Mobile Phone Pipeline For A Carrier Near You
There are a number of smartphones coming to various carriers in the next few months. See if anything of interest is coming to your carrier, or if there is anything desirable enough to get you to switch carriers.
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Privacy: Palm's Explanation Not Good Enough
Yesterday, Palm responded to a report detailing how the Palm Pre sends end-user location information to Palm (and its affiliates) every single day. In essence, Palm explains, "End users agree to this part of our terms and conditions during device set up." That doesn't cut it. Not by a long shot.
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Privacy Regulations Bedevil Medical Social Media Efforts
User-generated content is an essential component of social media. To truly participate in social media, healthcare organizations need to allow other people to leave comments on the organizations' content. But that's difficult to reconcile with HIPAA and other government privacy regulations, leaving healthcare providers juggling hand grenades in their online participation.
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IBM Running Late On $863M Data Center Project For Texas
The state of Texas says an $863 million data-center consolidation project with IBM has fallen short of promised savings by $14 million and that only 75 servers had been moved into the new facilities by July 31 instead of the 619 specified in the contract.
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Government As A Platform, Not A Vending Machine
Tim O'Reilly has a knack for summing up trends in a catchphrase and a few hundred words of pithy prose. He's the guy who coined the phrase "Web 2.0," and got many of us thinking about the Web in a whole new way. Tim didn't coin the phrase "Government 2.0," but he's written a nice explanation of the implications and how the Internet fits. He sees Government 2.0 as a means of transforming the government from a vending machine to return to the Founders' vision of what it should be.
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Bing Delivering Cha-Ching For Marketing, Study Says
Microsoft's new Bing search engine outperformed predecessor Microsoft Live Search by 23% in a study comparing ROI for marketing campaigns, according to an online agency. Question for CIOs looking to drive greater business value: are you and your teams out in front of this Bing thing?
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Ready For Windows 7 RTM
The way I read it, Windows 7 is launching not with a bang, but a whimper. Which is a good thing. Unlike Vista, whose January 2007 debut was accompanied by Microsoft protests that it really, truly was great (even if the WDM display drivers clearly weren't), Windows 7 simply works. Anyone who has test-driven the beta gets that. Now that I'm about to install the final, release-to-manufacturing version, it's time for a quick OS recap. Click ahead for a video and some MS PowerPoints.
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Dell's Android Phone Spotted, Spec List Included
Ah, the Dell smartphone. This device has been talked about -- though rarely seen -- for a full 30 months. First it was to run Windows Mobile, then Android. Now, we have some pictures of it, and a pretty solid list of features.
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Down With Unimplemented Software Patents!
After the fallout over Microsoft's XML patent suit, the usual cries to ban software patents are in the air. I have another idea: Ban unimplemented software patents.
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Google Provides Tools To Drop Maps Into Web Sites
Google recently posted some tutorials that teach Web developers how to insert Google Maps into company Web sites. The tutorials cover the basics and more advanced features, such as using Google Earth APIs, to improve mapping interaction.
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Does Apple Need To Chat More Often?
There's been a growing chorus of voices complaining that Apple doesn't communicate with developers and users either 1) openly, 2) collaboratively, and/or 3) often enough. A few hints suggest that the company might be listening.
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Broadband Deadline Looms, Sausage-Making In Full View
If nothing else, the broadband stimulus package has given the public an insight into how government procurement works -- and the result is educational to say the least.
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Bernie Madoff Used IBM AS/400 To Run Ponzi Scheme
World-renowned thief and fraudster Bernie Madoff used an IBM AS/400 to run his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, according to a new book. And while gutter-scum like Madoff are not exactly the sort of marquee clients IBM prefers to have publicized, it gets even worse for IBM: the book's author calls the venerable AS/400 "an old clunker." The nerve!
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Federal CIO Kundra Emerges Unscathed From Dvorak Bashing
On the Internet, stories get reported, and sometimes debunked, with blinding speed. It’s transparency in real time, and Federal CIO Vivek Kundra now knows what it feels like.
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Thoughts On The HTC Touch Pro 2
I've spent a good amount of time with HTC's Touch Pro 2 for T-Mobile, and this beast has a long feature set that will make smartphone fans drool. But is the Windows Mobile-powered gadget just a good device on paper?
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Palm Pre Sending User Data To Palm On The Sly [UPDATE]
According to a coder, webOS and the Palm Pre are reporting data about his usage of the device back to Palm. The information includes location, applications that have been downloaded, and how long those applications were used. PALM RESPONDS!
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Deletion And Reclamation - The Ultimate Deduplication Strategy
With all the products that are available today for optimizing storage through deduplication and/or compression, one of the best methods available is deletion and reclamation.
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What Microsoft And Nokia Should Have Announced
On Wednesday tech industry giants Microsoft and Nokia announced a new partnership whereby Nokia will begin pre-loading Microsoft's Office Mobile products on its smartphones. That's nice, but it isn't the type of leadership that these companies are capable of displaying.
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Air Force Used Twitter To Monitor Outrage
After Air Force One scared the bejeepers out of New Yorkers by flying low over the city to stage a photo opp, the Air Force used Twitter and other social media to monitor the public backlash. The Air Force's work is an example of how government agencies can use Twitter and other social media as a barometer for public opinion.
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Panasonic And NEC Announce Nine Phones Based On Linux
Panasonic and NEC have announced nine new cell phones that will be running the LiMo platform which is based on Linux. Does it make sense to continue to use LiMo when a powerful and feature rich platform like Android is available?
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Is Recession Making Customer Service Worse?
You'd think that with the economy being what it is, companies would be trying just a little harder to hold onto their customers. And the little things, like making it up to customers when you inconvenience them, or adopting opt-in policies for marketing gimmicks, is much less expensive than any new marketing programs or feature sets you can think of.
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Will Social Security Project Set Off New Scares?
The Social Security Administration is launching a project to electronically collect health data pertinent to people applying for disability benefits. From a political standpoint, isn't this bad timing considering Obama's contentious healthcare reform push? My gut tells me conspiracy-mongers will spin this Social Security plan as another alleged example of Big Brother attempting to ration healthcare and dig into people's personal medical information.
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The SaaS Industry Should Eat Its Own Dog Food
SuccessFactors, provider of an employee-performance management software service, announced today that it's using NetSuite's ERP software service. Well, good for them. And shouldn't we see more of that--the software-as-a-service industry eating its own dog food?
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HTC Sells 1 Million Magic Android Phones
Speaking recently at an event in Taiwan, HTC CEO Peter Chou noted that the company's Magic/myTouch 3G has surpassed the million-units-sold mark since its launch in April. Chou also noted that the company plans to focus on mid-range smartphones moving forward.
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Why The GPL Matters A Little Bit Less
The title of an InfoWorld/Yahoo! Tech piece about the GPL tells it: "Does the GPL still matter?" The answer seems to be "Yes, but ... "
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Apple's New Public Enemy #1 Is Google As MS Threat Fades
Apple's rapidly evolving model as a services business and its escalating battle with Google are analyzed brilliantly by former Apple exec and current venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gassee', who says Apple views Google like this: "A new Microsoft attacking both iPhones and Macs. And, unlike Microsoft, with free software."
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HP's "Digital Music Ecosystem" Ruse
HP is working with hip-hop artist Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, his record label chairman, on a program intended to "fix the entire chain” and thereby save digital music. The problem is that it isn't broken.
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Microsoft Is A Web Apps N00b
For most of this decade, web developers have been suffering the shortcomings of Internet Explorer. That hasn't bothered Microsoft too much, because the company has historically focused on developing "real" applications that run only on Windows and don't use the browser as a platform. With the new Office web apps, Microsoft might actually have to experience the living nightmare that web app development can be. Yet the company has figured out a way to make things easier: cheat.
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VMware's Cunning Acquisition: SpringSource
Cloud computing and virtualization function hand in glove. We knew that. What we didn't know was that there are likely to be efficiencies if the application is built from the ground up for the cloud. The Spring Framework is one of those new development platforms that make it easier to develop Java applications--for the cloud.
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The Empires Strike Back *Update*
Looks like Microsoft and Nokia will make an announcement tomorrow morning, and it could be a major deal considering the heft of the two companies. While Apple, Android, and Palm have been gaining the most attention in the mobile space, an alliance between these two companies could change the game dramatically.
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Sprint Announces Major WiMax Expansion
Today Sprint Nextel announced the addition of 17 more markets to its growing list of U.S. cities covered by WiMax 4G. Some of the new cities include Austin, Maui and San Antonio. Look for WiMax service to light up by the end of 2009.
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HP To Offer Prepaid Netbooks
Hewlett-Packard is throwing an interesting new twist to the netbook market, as the company will offer Japanese customers computers that can use prepaid mobile data via a SIM card slot. This is a pretty stark contrast to what most carriers are trying to do, and I think it's the best model for increasing mobile data usage.
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Where Is MMS For The iPhone?
It was two months ago that AT&T said it would enable the iPhone's MMS capability by the end of the summer. Labor Day, the unofficial end of the summer season, is just a few short weeks away. Where's MMS?
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Cash For Clunkers Part 2: 'Moolah For Mainframes'
The White House is secretly planning to follow "Cash For Clunkers" with a new scam called "Moolah For Mainframes" that will reward CIOs for replacing mainframes with smartphones and turning data centers into wetlands. The top-secret plans also say the Administration will launch a government-run IT company in 2010 "to keep those greedy private IT companies honest."
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GM Volt's Whack EPA Mileage Estimates
The answer to the Web's most annoying question has been revealed. GM's viral "what is 230?" marketing campaign littered Twitter and Flickr, YouTube, blogs, Facebook, and cable for days, and now we finally know what it means.
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Skyfire Resumes Alpha Testing Of BlackBerry Browser
Skyfire offers a capable mobile browser for both the S60 and Windows Mobile platforms. It had been working on a version for BlackBerries, but hit a few speed bumps. Now, things appear to be back on track, and Skyfire Alpha 3.5 is available for its BlackBerry testers.
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e-Discovery Policy Could Have Stopped Steroid Leaks
From Alex Rodriguez to David Ortiz, the same question is asked every time the name of a big-time baseball player on "the list" is leaked to the press: how come the records weren't destroyed to begin with?
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Parents Twittering During Childbirth
Expectant Dads and even one Mom are Twittering during childbirth, sending out progress reports to family, friends, and the entire world. One of the Twittering soon-to-be-parents is Sara Morishige Williams, wife of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.
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Pricing For T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2
One of the long awaited devices to come out this year is the HTC Touch Pro2. T-Mobile will be the first carrier to get it in the US and they seem to be proud of the device, pricing it at $350 with a two year contract.
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A Gripe About Fossfor.us
The Sourceforge-run site Fossfor.us lets people read about, download and grade popular open source apps like OpenOffice.org or Firefox. But there's one thing about Fossfor.us that bothers me deeply: the voting system.
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BlackBerry Round-Up: Storm 2 Snags Wi-Fi, 9700 Deets Leak
The unannounced BlackBerry Storm 2 has been caught in the wild again, and this time it spills some juicy secrets. Also, more details emerge about the 3G-packing BlackBerry 9700, headed to T-Mobile later this year.
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IBM Launches Business Analytics For Public Sector
Moving rapidly to position itself as a global leader in the white-hot market for business analytics and optimization, IBM's new public-sector practice will pursue projects in electronic medical records, intelligent utility grids, transportation systems, public safety, regulatory systems, customs and border management, cybersecurity, education, and other fields.
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Where Are The Groundbreaking Security Technologies?
Every day I speak with numerous security product companies. The reasons for these discussions vary. Some are pitches for InformationWeek product reviews, others are for my security consulting day job at Alvarez and Marsal (yes, shameless plug), and some are for companies I advise. Here is my dilemma. I am pitched so many products each day but I rarely hear of anything that is really new and ground breaking.
PR reps, keep reading and don’t bombard me with hate emails. Yet.
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Tech Companies Turn To India For Growth
Casting off the tired and misguided stereotype of a country full of inexpensive programmers, India and its resilient and broad-based economy are attracting scores of small and mid-sized IT firms eager to join global tech firms in penetrating one of the world's few growth markets.
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Making Dollars And Sense Of Growing Clinical Data
The rollout of e-prescription, digital medical record and other clinical systems by healthcare providers is undoubtedly creating gigantic new mountains of data. The next big challenges for healthcare is in using that data to make better clinical decisions and save costs, and becoming more proactive in helping patients avoid imminent medical problems.
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Rumors Of Windows Mobile's Death Greatly Exaggerated
There certainly is a lot of doom and gloom being prophesied about Microsoft's mobile phone platform. Is it time for Microsoft to give up on Windows Mobile and move to greener pastures?
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SAP CEO Apotheker Says No Hardware In SAP's Future
SAP CEO Leo Apotheker has no plans to buy a hardware company and is sticking with software, which he says makes SAP "more neutral" than Oracle and IBM. While that might be true, such status won't really amount to a hill of beans in CIOs' purchase decisions, which are focused on lowering internal IT costs and boosting revenue.
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Slacker Giving Away Free BlackBerries
Sure, you might be able to get the BlackBerry 8520 Curve for a penny over at Amazon.com, but Slacker is giving away BlackBerry 8300-series Curves for free. All you need to do is sign up for a new contract with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon Wireless.
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The Future Is (Selective) Open
Some would say proprietary / commercial software has a lifespan you could measure with a stopwatch. I don't think the sun has set on the Proprietary Empire yet, but it's getting dusky out -- and there are candles you can light up right now instead of cursing the dark.
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Scoble, Twitter Isn't At Your Beck And Call
There's a growing sentiment that Twitter is failing us – not because its service was shut down last week, or because it's failing to articulate a coherent business plan (not that it's any of our business, by the way) – but because it's causing a URL-shortening service to shut down.
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Sprint CEO: 'Would I Like To Have The iPhone? Sure'
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse recently weighed in on the Federal Communication Commission's investigation into the competitiveness of the wireless industry. One interesting revelation is that Mr. Hesse wouldn't mind selling the iPhone on Sprint's network -- but he's not willing to give up certain freedoms to do so.
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Maximizing IOPS With SSD
In a recent series of entries I covered several storage technologies that can help a data center maximize their CAPEX. Most of that series focused on cutting costs by using less primary storage either through archiving or efficiency. Another way to maximize your CAPEX investment is to maximize IOPS with SSD (Solid State Disk) technology.
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Specs For Motorola's Morrison Android Phone Leak Out
Over the weekend, specifications for the unannounced Motorola Android handset were passed about the Internet. The Motorola Morrison looks like it will be shooting for the middle of the market, though it does have some surprise features.
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Prepare To Patch
If you are a Microsoft Windows user, chances are there's a patch waiting for you tomorrow.
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Cisco's Chambers & Dot-Bomb Blodget: Mismatch Of Century
The down-the-rabbit-hole image of disgraced and banned-for-life stock-promoter Henry Blodget trying to school hugely successful Cisco CEO John Chambers is shocking. Then again, when someone of Blodget's ilk and credentials asks if Chambers has "lost his mind," smart money will no doubt flood in Chambers' direction. Read on to see Mad Hatter Henry's mumblings.
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First Photo Of Microsoft Retail Store Surfaces
Here's the first image of one of Microsoft's planned retail stores, as tweeted by the corporate communications team at Redmond. Actually, it's a shot of the drywall in front of the store, which is presumably still under construction.
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August, 1997: Microsoft Rescues Apple?
Last week, the Wired web site noted Microsoft's "rescue" of Apple back in 1997. At the time, Apple was on life support and barely viable despite the return of Steve Jobs, so Microsoft's $150 million investment was definitely a welcome gift. But what was the story behind that money?
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Windows Mobile To Out-Browse The iPhone
According to Microsoft, Windows Mobile will be able to out browse the iPhone. WinMo 6.5, due "real soon now" has a new browser largely based on Internet Explorer 6 from the desktop and is designed to make the browsing experience on WinMo phones not only tolerable, but downright fantastic.
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DDoS: Why Attackers Do the Things They Do
As news of the Facebook and Twitter DDoS trickles in, I ponder why attackers launch attacks in the way they do. I don’t even really consider why they do it, just why they take a certain approach.
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Time For An iPhone Strategy
Let’s not overcomplicate this: Do you have an iPhone strategy to reach your customers?
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Healthcare Reform Battle Takes To Social Media
President Obama is bringing out the tools that got him elected--YouTube and other social media--in an effort to win support for his proposed healthcare reforms. The White House is using grass-roots Internet activism in an effort to gain control over the healthcare debate, as public skepticism of the plan mounts.
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Microsoft's API Rule Turns Developers Off Bing
Microsoft is making it tough for developers new to the Microsoft universe to link up with Bing. Not the kind of thing Microsoft wants to repeat as it tries to build share for its brand spanking old search tool.
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Ten Tech Tidbits
Here's a smattering of smaller stories that may not have made a lot of waves this week, but are still worth noting. Topics include Acer, Android, Garmin-Asus, Nokia, Opera, T-Mobile and more.
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HP And IBM Snatch Hundreds Of Sun Customers
Hewlett-Packard and IBM are aggressively picking off huge numbers of Sun customers as Oracle remains tied up in discussions with antitrust regulators over its pending acquisition of Sun. HP has been brazenly exploiting Oracle's status in legal limbo with messages saying, "HP To Sun Customers: We've Got Your Back."
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Samsung To Sell Sub-$100 Android Phones
As the world waits for more Android handsets, Samsung leaked a bit of information about its own plans for Android phones. The good news is, they won't cost all that much.
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Microsoft's Open Source 'Threat': An Opportunity
That's how it seemed to me, anyway, when Microsoft declared in its 10-K filing that it faces "intense competition" from open source. No one should be shocked, but it would be more striking if they saw open source as more of an opportunity and not a danger. And in more than the usual, obvious ways.
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Microsoft's Drag-And-Drop Windows Azure Cloud
Citing an unfavorable change in tax laws, Microsoft is moving its Windows Azure cloud from a data center in Washington state to one in Texas. It's an interesting new twist in the cloud computing market—moving a cloud across state lines in response to the regulatory climate.
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Senate Takes First Step To Blocking Cell Services At Prisons
A Senate panel has given preliminary approval to legislation that would allow individual states to jam or block cellular signals at prisons. Prisoners aren't allowed to use cell phones, but manage to get their hands on them anyway -- sometimes leading to deadly outcomes.
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CIO Resigns, IT Mgr. Indicted In $8M Embezzlement Scheme
An $8 million embezzlement scheme involving bid rigging, forgery, and money laundering has led to the indictment of an IT manager, the resignation of his uncharged CIO, and the firing of two other IT workers. The IT manager and three other suspects are accused of falsifying bids and creating shell companies within the IT department of a county government in Virginia.
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Google Voice Apps For Windows Mobile
Anyone with a cell phone can get a Google Voice number allowing you to pass that number out so people use it to call you on. It can be your phone number for life. The problem is, when you call someone with your phone, your actual number shows up on their caller ID. Now there are some solutions if your phone runs Windows Mobile.
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Cisco At The Tipping Point?
Cisco CEO John Chambers took a glass-half-full approach to Wednesday's earnings report, which saw fourth-quarter profits at the networking behemoth slide 46% compared to the year-earlier period. Undaunted, Chambers issued a statement saying he saw a number of positive signs this quarter and thinks the business might be at the "tipping point," which precedes a rebound.
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Billshrink Runs The Numbers: myTouch Bests iPhone And Pre
Consumer Web site BillShrink.com has published the results generated by its cost-comparison tool. Putting the T-Mobile myTouch 3G head-to-head against the Apple iPhone and Palm Pre, HTC's Android device emerged as the least expensive to own.
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Iowa County First In U.S. To Get 911 Texting
Waterloo, Iowa, in Black Hawk County, is the first municipality in the U.S. to accept text messages for emergencies. Residents can send texts to 911 and get the help that they need. On the horizon, picture messages and video messages will be accepted, too.
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Washington Chooses Data Center Over The Cloud
The state of Washington is investing $180 million to build a new data center, and not everyone is thrilled about it. Opponents wonder if cloud computing wouldn't be a cheaper alternative. Ironically, Washington is home to two of the biggest cloud service providers, Amazon.com and Microsoft.
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Seniors Using Online Tools For Healthcare
Think that seniors are Internet-phobic? Think again. Kaiser Permanente reports great benefits from its Internet tools to help seniors manage their own healthcare. A recent survey by Kaiser Permanente showed a little bit about how and why the health provider succeeded.
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Twitter Downed By Cyber-Thugs?
Twitter has been down most of this morning all over the world because, it says, of a denial of service (DOS) attack. Is it payback for Twitter's attempts at fighting malware?
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Ribbonizing OpenOffice.org
A next-iteration design for OpenOffice.org's interface is being floated, and it looks like ... get this ... Microsoft Office 2007.
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RadioShack's Function Follows Form?
RadioShack wants consumers to call it "The Shack" and, starting today, will spend many millions on branding to associate its 4,450 stores with the idea of a cool and hip lean-to hovel. It makes no sense.
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HP CIO Randy Mott Recruits Wal-Mart Ex-CIO Linda Dillman
HP CIO Randy Mott has leveraged his extensive network of former Wal-Mart colleagues in hiring highly regarded former Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman as SVP of global IT. Dillman adds another very big brain to the world-class IT team at HP, which under Mott has completed an extraordinary three-year transformation.
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Microsoft Encouraging iPhone App Ports To Windows Mobile
Microsoft knows it has serious competition with the iPhone, and as the launch of Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile nears, WinMo project team members are helping developers port their iPhone applications to Windows Mobile with a few tips.
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No More Laptops: End Of Road For Enterprise Notebooks?
Here's a radical -- but eminently business-sensible -- idea for enterprises wondering why they've got to eat thousands of dollars each year per employee for PC support costs: No more laptops. Hey, if cloud and SaaS mean anything, it should be big savings by bagging the self-hosted software paradigm. How about you give your workers $500 each to buy a netbook instead, and they can support themselves? Workers tethered to an office can use a thin client, or -- perish the thought -- a desktop computer.
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Big Tech's Branding Problem
They flipped the "on" switch at the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva earlier this week, and the lights didn't even flicker. After 15 years and $9 billion, the thing might not work for years, if at all.
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Panaya's SaaS Helps On-Premise SAP
More and more we're seeing examples of how on-premise software and SaaS can work hand-in-hand, and not necessarily in opposition. Consider Panaya, the provider of a software service for automating on-premise SAP upgrades, which just got $5 million in a second round of venture capital funding.
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Get The New BlackBerry Curve For A Penny
When I saw Wal-Mart was selling the brand new BlackBerry Curve 8520 for about $50 with a new contract, I was shocked at how inexpensive it was. But Amazon is taking it one step further, and users can get the smartphone for a penny with a service plan. This is a shockingly good phone for that price.
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Google's Chrome Gets Another Shiny New Beta
Today Google made another beta version of its Chrome browser available to those brave enough to forgo the 1.0 version. The beta includes HTML5 goodness baked in and a 30% increase in speed.
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Game On For Net Neutrality
The FCC's abrupt intervention last Friday into the quarrel between Apple and Google may have won more than a stay of execution for Google Voice; it may have heralded the beginning of a wide-ranging net neutrality movement in Washington of which Google has long been a proponent.
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Microsoft Vs. Google Shows 'Alternative' Gone Mainstream
Three weeks ago, Microsoft said it will offer an online version of Office free to consumers, gambling one of the most successful software products in history on an emerging business model. Google this week calls that monster bet with … the price of four big-city billboards?
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Apple Possibly Lining Up 8GB Version Of iPhone 3GS
According to shipping documents from Rogers Wireless up in Canada, it appears as though Apple may be fading out the iPhone 3G in favor of a simplified iPhone 3GS line-up, containing the 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models.
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Are You A Phisherman? Take My $10 Paypal Challenge!
Shortly after posting something for sale on my local Craigslist site, I was bombarded with 5 responses within minutes. Cool I thought, one of these nice folks was sure to get rid of this nagging item from my garage, but I was wrong. I was the victim of a piranha like PHISHING ATTACK. Are you a phisherman? I will paypal you 10 dollars if I select your series of answers to my questions, read on.
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Tech Jobs And The Mentality Of Entitlement
Taking the mentality of entitlement to a new low, a 27-year-old tech graduate of a New York City college is suing her alma mater because it has "not tried hard enough” to help her find a job, according to court papers filed in Bronx Supreme Court.
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Promoting Healthcare Reform Through IT
One could say that when it comes to IT and healthcare, President Obama is taking some of his own medicine. Obama isn't only pushing healthcare providers to adopt IT; Obama is skillfully using technology to promote his healthcare reform plans.
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Canonical's Closed Landscape
Something interesting is happening with Canonical's software portfolio. They're offering a new system-management server, but it's not an open source offering. If memory serves, it'll be Canonical's first venture into offering a closed-source product with open-source connectivity. Aberration or evolution?
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Oracle, Protectionism, And The Myth Of 'Our Jobs'
In the context of the Obama administration's intent to punish companies for sending "our jobs" overseas, we recently noted that 70% of IBM's workforce and 40% of Microsoft's are based outside the U.S. Now, Oracle's latest financial results show that 61.3% of its employees are based outside of "the Americas," which means the percentage outside the U.S. is even higher.
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Want WinMo Apps? HandMark Launches WinMo Apps Store
If you're interested in loading your Windows Mobile phone up with applications and don't want to wait until Redmond rolls out the Windows Mobile Marketplace, HandMark has your back. Its new HandMarket Apps for Windows Mobile boasts over 50,000 pieces of content.
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Will 2010 Be The Year Of The Tablet?
Wired.com is predicting that 2010 will be the year of the tablet PC based on news of industry heavyweights jumping in the market. I see a lot of potential for tablet style devices, just not at the sizes people are talking about.
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Satyam Founder's Latest Scam: 2,000 Jobs And $75M
It started off with so much promise: a depressed manufacturing region connects with a global IT powerhouse that commits to reinvigorating the stagnant community with a $75 million high-tech operation that will employ 2,000 people. The fly in the ointment, however, is that the promises were made – and, of course, broken -- by disgraced Satyam founder and chief fraudster B. Ramalinga Raju.
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Themes Come To Chrome
If you like to play dress-up with your browser, Google's got some good news for you. It recently made 30 themes available for its Chrome browser. There's a good reason to skip the themes, though.
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Military Gets Google Voice, Apple Gets Played
In the wake of Apple's refusal to allow the Google Voice app to be distributed through Apple's iTunes App Store and the FCC inquiry that followed, one way that Google could get back at Apple would be to highlight the benefits of the Google Voice service.
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What Were The Top 10 Smartphones For The Second Quarter?
Research firm IDC has offered its take on what the top 10 best-selling smartphones were in the U.S. during the second quarter. There's one major flaw, however, that dramatically changes the results for the top spots. Is one company being treated unfairly?
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Can At-Home Patient Monitoring Boost Health, Cut Costs?
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that widespread adoption of e-medical record systems will save the U.S. about $12 billion over 10 years. But other health related IT tools--especially web-enabled devices used to monitor chronically ill patients at home--could eventually boost those cost savings higher.
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A Peek Inside SUSE Studio
While I was doing my writeup of SUSE Studio the other day -- Novell's new "Linux vending machine" -- I was in the process of building a couple of different distributions with it, too. The system is still closed to the public -- it's invite-only -- but I thought I'd share some basic impressions here.
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Google Muscling In On Microsoft Enterprise
Google's new offline ads encouraging IT administrators to switch to Google Apps show just how serious it is about going after Microsoft for enterprise business.
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U.K. Public-Sector CIO Has $600K Salary: QuangoGate??
A mild-mannered public-sector CIO in the U.K. has found himself at the center of a national controversy over excessive pay for civil servants because he makes almost twice as much as Prime Minister Gordon Brown and flies back and forth weekly between his office in London and his home in Aberdeen, Scotland, with the taxpayers footing his travel costs and London accommodations. Welcome to QuangoGate!
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Marines Ban Social Networking Sites
Citing security concerns, the U.S. Marine Corps banned Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites from its networks, effective immediately, for a year. And other branches of the military are considering doing the same.
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Cloud Storage Needs A Hybrid
Cloud storage is ideal for small businesses to perform backups, archive important data and to share files when collaborating on a project. Small businesses are typically built on desktops and laptops making the cloud the ideal connection point. As the business grows and servers are added, applications become more critical and the cloud becomes the bottleneck. At this point to handle the needs of a growing business cloud storage needs a hybrid.
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BlackBerry 8520: $130 At T-Mo, $49 At Wal-Mart
The BlackBerry 8520 goes on sale tomorrow via T-Mobile wireless stores and its retail partner Wal-Mart. If you're a budget shopper, I'd plan to buy at Wal-Mart, instead, as it'll save you about $80. Also, first impressions of the 8520.
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Windows 7 A Work Of Art
Boticellis, Da Vincis, Rembrandts, and, uh, Windows 7? Yup, among the works at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art you'll eventually find Microsoft's next operating system. Also on view is Vista—in the dumpster out back.
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Cisco Seeks Big China Growth By Partnering With Universities
Cisco's creation of a supply-chain institute in China, in partnership with two universities, underscores its desire to become a major, broad-based player in the massive export-driven Chinese economy. Cisco hopes to leverage its presence with this new effort beyond supply-chain education and into entrepreneurship, funding, and business leadership.
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Security Is No Excuse For iPhone Antics
This week, the Federal Communications Commission is asking Apple and AT&T to explain the rhyme-or-reason to the Apple Store approval process, and specifically why the Google Voice application was rejected. I wonder if they can afford to give an honest answer.
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I Don't Like Inline Text Ads
The big news last week was regarding the partnership that Yahoo and Microsoft entered into. Paul McDougall noted, "Microsoft's search tools will appear on Yahoo's sites while Yahoo takes on sales role." I've seen some inline text ads that have me a bit worried about the new partnership.
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Verizon Slashes Smartphone Prices
Looks like it's dealing days for Verizon Wireless, as the nation's largest carrier has dropped the price of most of their smartphones to a cool $99 with a new contract. This is obviously in response to Apple dropping the iPhone 3G to $99, but it also paves the way for a new portfolio of Verizon smartphones.
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Obama's Healthcare Reform Vision And Where IT Fits In
Although President Obama won't get his wish of signing a comprehensive healthcare reform bill before Congress begins its August break later this week, an important part of Obama's reform plan--digitizing patient records--is already in motion.
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Could Google Docs Land You In Jail?
Using Google Docs could put you in legal hot water if you're unable to comply with a subpoena to produce documents during a trial.
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The iPhone's Extraordinary Impact, And Why It Matters
We all know the iPhone's been a huge success, right? Well, a Kleiner Perkins presentation about its $100,000,000 iFund offers some jaw-dropping statistics that will force you to re-evaluate – upward – all of your perspectives about the iPhone's impact on mobile technology, mobile business, and the interplay between people and the tools they use to experience the world around them.
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New SSL Attacks Don’t Change Your Web Risk
There’s been a a lot of talk about SSL security since last week’s Black Hat conference. While these attacks are significant, I don’t see them as changing the security posture of the Web.
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Microsoft Office Communicator Improves Ease Of Use For Windows Mobile
Microsoft has released an update to its Office Communicator service that will make it easer for users of Windows Mobile, as well as potentially lowering costs for your company.
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BlackBerry Round-Up: Apps World 1.1, Storm 2, User-Facing Camera
Here is a collection of BlackBerry-related news bits, including information about the new version of BlackBerry Apps World, a possible release date for the Storm 2, and some reports that future BlackBerries will have user-facing cameras. Check it out.
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Twitter Gets Dragged Into U.K. Government Slap-Fight
Once again, we look to Great Britain for a lesson on the proper use of social media in government. In this case, two city council members in Swansea, Wales, are coming under fire for Twittering during council meetings, when they should have been paying attention to the people's business. The whole thing looks like a big name-calling slap-fight involving accusations of advocating forced sterilization, eugenics, and Nazi philosophy.
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Bank Of America Branch Cuts Offset By Mobile, Online Clout
Bank of America, which recently told key investors it was planning to close about 600 branches nationwide, is ideally positioned to kick off such a move among retail banks because it has more than 25 million online customers and about 2 million mobile-banking users, says an industry expert.
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Amazon Outpaces Google In Part Of The Cloud
New analysis of infrastructure-as-a-service providers shows that Amazon Web Services is used for Web hosting by 20 times more sites than Google App Engine. AWS usage for site hosting grew 9% in just one month this summer, the equivalent of a 181% annual growth rate.
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AT&T: It's All Apple's Fault
Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission sent letters to Apple, AT&T and Google seeking answers on the Google Voice application's removal from the iPhone Apps Store. AT&T has responded by saying that Apple is the one in control, not AT&T.
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SUSE's Amazing Software Vending Machine
SUSE Studio may well be the neatest thing in Linux so far this year. It's a web service where you can build a custom Linux distro or "appliance" in minutes. I think of it as a software vending machine, a way to get exactly the product you want the first time.
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Google's Eric Schmidt To Leave Apple's Board Of Directors
Today, Apple announced that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will resign from his position on Apple's board of directors. The move should quell the growing discontent among shareholders who believed that Schmidt no longer belonged with both Google and Apple.
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JPMorgan Chase CIO Chiarello On Innovation
JPMorgan Chase CIO Guy Chiarello is, simply put, one of the world’s top business-IT leaders. When he shares insight into IT strategy, it’s time to put down the BlackBerry and listen. His advice on innovating through a downturn: Focus on IT infrastructure.
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AmEx Latest To Sell Captive India BPO Unit?
American Express is reportedly looking to sell the travel-related services portion of its India-based BPO unit in a move that could ultimately see AmEx sell off its entire India-based BPO operation. Such moves would be consistent with a trend that began about 18 months ago with similar sales by Aviva, GE, and British Airways.
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Is AES On The Way Out?
Cryptographic researchers have uncovered a new attack against the ubiquitous AES encryption algorithm. While there have been a number of complex attack aimed at AES recently, this one, experts warn, may be practical enough for run-of-the-mill attackers to exploit.
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