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- Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A
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- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management
- The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, projects and services -- all need to be brought into a contextual whole. Not by a common product set, but...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- SAP: first to hit the buffers
- SAP pre-announced its Q3 results at what could not have come at a worse time for the beleaguered stock market. Although executives were bragging about 4% growth in software sales as though BusinessObjects doesn't exist the reality is that year over year growth was off 9%. Management...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- ‘The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000
- EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Yahoo: What happens if Google deal doesn't go through?
- Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google, which is expected to increase the company's ability to monetize its Web pages, has been delayed to give the Department of Justice more time to evaluate it. This Google-Yahoo partnership has raised hackles from Microsoft as well as others, but the larger question is...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT -- because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come -- the move is another symbolic nail in Vista's coffin....
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Why bother with desktop virtualization?
- The proponents of making proper use of desktop virtualization technology including access virtualization, application virtualization and VDI the combination of access virtualization and processing virtualization do their best to make it sound like the best things since pockets. Aren't today's laptops, desktops and handheld devices good enough to get the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Dropping the iPhone NDA is good for security
- Last week Apple lifted their NDA on iPhone developers, freeing them to discuss amongst themselves how to properly build applications. This decision is a "good thing" for not just applications but also application security on the iPhone. The iPhone NDA was antithetical to how developers work....
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?This is not new ....... I worked on the project that was supposed to repair the Hubble, which was adapted from another "robotic satellite repair" project.In the end of the day, the cost of development and execution turned out to be more than double...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Wind: A sound investment in unsound times?
- The first intra-state public offering associated with the development of community-backed wind farms in Dodge, Olmsted and Mower counties in Minnesota has been completed in just four months. The project managers, National Wind and High Country Energy, reported this week that the offering pulled in 60 Minnesota...
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- To ESped or not to ESped
- To ESped or not to ESpedBlended SolutionOur SIS eSchooData allows a link to be created from student rosters directly to a copy of the IEP created by the Special Ed techers in their fully functional IEP tool IEP Direct. It seems to be a good fit. Special Ed teachers...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Stop brain-dead software testing!
- Stop brain-dead software testing!re: Stop brain-dead software testingin reality, its not usually software testing that's the problem. it's the project stakeholders who don't plan enough time to do adequate testing. it's the programmers who go way over their time estimates. it's the program managers or similar role...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2
- Apple releases iTunes 8.0.1; Apple TV 2.2I've lost count how many updates and how much bandwidth this yearI am getting really sick of having to update iTunes every other week.Am I just the only one? And it's not like I have a convenient alternative either.I have a Zune as well...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Android has power of a clean sheet
- Android has power of a clean sheetMaybe Android is a big deal?When I first started seeing stories about Android, I figured it was an iPhone wannabe. But, more and more it sounds like my kind of device (os?).This could be the killer app (os?) for phones/PDAs/mp3 players/image viewers.Wow.The key...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop
- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopMicrosoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopThis is a great plan brought to you by Microsoft. This laptop will run the Microsoft Windows XP operating system allowing these school children to be compatible with the rest of the world. They can share...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop
- Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education. LISBON--Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the...
- News items 2008-10-03
- Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'
- Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'Sounds cool! NT.Let me dust off my TerminalSounds like we're going back to the Stone Age. Back in my terminal days, there was a screen and keyboard. The server was in the basement of the building and tons of serial cable connections. This type...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
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