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Eric Zeman
Stereo Bluetooth Would Be Awesome If It Didn't Stink
The idea of stereo Bluetooth -- streaming your tunes from your phone to a headset sans wires -- is highly appealing. But it still needs a lot of work.
It Pays to Read Blogs
The Enterprise 2.0 community is very fortunate to have some excellent bloggers, many of whom were at our conference last year. As a small “thank you” to the bloggers for the information, insight and analysis they provide, we have offered a free conference pass for bloggers to give away to one of their readers.
Serdar Yegulalp
The XO Gets XP
It's official: The One Laptop Per Child's XO notebook is going to ship with both Windows XP and its own custom Linux distribution. Mixed feelings abound, mine included.
Paul McDougall
Yahoo's Letter To Carl Icahn: Full Text
In response to Carl Icahn's pointed letter Thursday calling Yahoo's board "irresponsible" for not accepting Microsoft's merger offer, Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock fired off a missive of his own to Icahn. Bostock says Icahn holds a "significant misunderstanding" of the merger talks. Here's the full text of Bostock's letter.
Mitch Wagner
One-On-One With The Founders Of FriendFeed
The four co-founders of FriendFeed have the best resumés on the Internet. They were the original engineers who developed Gmail and Google Maps, the applications that launched the whole Web 2.0 craze (yes, it's all their fault). Now they're starting over with a Web application called FriendFeed, designed to let users aggregate all their social networking activity -- their blogs, Flickr accounts, del.icio.us bookmarks, Twitter chitchat, the whole enchilada -- onto a single, at-a-glance page.
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Rob Preston
Down To Business: HP-EDS A Strong Move, Even If It's Uninspiring
Is the merger another Compaq economies-of-scale play? HP should be so lucky.
John Soat
CIOs Uncesnored: Homeland Security's First CIO Reflects On The Challenges
Steve Cooper was also the CIO of the American Red Cross, which he says was actually more stressful.
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How Open Is Microsoft?
Our survey shows that business technology pros aren't convinced that Microsoft is doing enough to shed its old proprietary habits.
Can Storage Resource Management Save Us From Ourselves? We Quiz 9 SRM Vendors To Find Out.
Companies have an expensive storage hangover. Blame the way storage gear is sold, its proprietary nature, or IT's lackadaisical attitudes. Time to fix the problem--or go broke.
SaaS To The Rescue
On-demand software changed the Humane Society's IT strategy for the better. Can it do the same for your organization?
SaaS CIO Checklist
Some things to consider when choosing between an on-demand software-as-a-service application and conventional software.
SaaS Market Heats Up
Large companies move beyond the early-adopter stage, signing licenses for tens of thousands of employees.
With EDS, HP Buys Its Way Into Outsourcing Big Leagues
The $13.9 billion deal creates the second-largest IT and business services company.
- Down To Business: HP-EDS A Strong Move, Even If It's Uninspiring
- CIOs Uncesnored: Homeland Security's First CIO Reflects On The Challenges
- Rolling Review: Layer 7 SecureSpan XML Networking Gateway
- Startup Of The Week: FastSoft Accelerates Video Streaming
- Key Functions That Define SRM
- Tips For Making The Most Of SaaS
- CIO Values: Steven McIntosh, Senior VP And CIO, Jackson Family Enterprises
- Cable Sees Opportunities In Digital Television
- Charter's Web Tracking Plan Scrutinized
- Windows XP SP3 Causes 'Blue Screen Of Death' On AMD-Based PCs
- Apple Signs More Nonexclusive iPhone Deals
- Microsoft Open Source, Standards Chiefs Tout 'Openness'
- Pool Your Resources With File Virtualization
- Virtualization Has A Security Blind Spot
- Virtualization's Promise And Problems
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