Pronounced "pah-ruh-dime." A model, example or pattern. See paradigm shift.
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- 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
- Microsoft bad cop is up against the wall
- Microsoft bad cop is up against the wallEnough open-source propagandaIf this was about a technical violation of a license, focus on that and leave out the bias. I think we've all seen enough crappy and inept open source code that your comment about "being in retreat" against it is laughable.As...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-05
- Nintendo takes a shot at Apple and Sony with the DSi
- Nintendo takes a shot at Apple and Sony with the DSiSomething to think about.Had gaming by some strange chance always been performed by touch screen and games had always been developed in this paradigm, would the same things be said about the interface if suddenly buttons were added to the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solutionMissing Facts...You're missing several key facts about our current mess...1) The banks were forced into making high risk loans by our delightful government. Based on a study later determined to be flawed showing bias in lending, the Clinton administration passed laws requiring banks...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- India's outsourcing bubble is burstingIndia's outsourcing bubble is burstingProbably because outsourcing doesn't work.Long overdueIt's about time. It never should have gained traction in the first place. It makes me cringe everytime I hear out political leaders saying how "education" is how we must compete in the global economy....
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
- CIOs not taking a shine to ChromeHalf of Google is in betaIncluding Gmail, which has been beta for 5 years now. I think it's their way of avoiding having to support the products in any real and meaningful way.Which is whyyou are down here, and they are up there making...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- AT&T, Verizon dare Google to adopt opt-in tracking policy
- Privacy is now officially the front lines in the battle between the telco ISPs and Google and to a lesser extent other Internet companies, as AT&T and Verizon stood up at a Senate hearing and committed to opt-in-only tracking. AT&T made it very clear the move was...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl
- McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Could Android finally be the mobile education platform?
- It's no secret that I'm a big ol' Google lover. I am, however, utterly attached to my BlackBerry. I've installed the Google Mobile Apps for the BlackBerry platform, but no matter how cool Android is, you'll have to pry my BlackBerry from my cold, dead hands. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Economic crisis as a technology change agent
- Sometimes, to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs. However if this week's bloodbath on Wall Street is any indication, then I would say we've made ourselves a full-blown deep dish quiche the size of Yankee Stadium with tens of billions of cartons...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Windows 7 hits Milestone 3
- Windows 7 hits Milestone 3Careful with the generalizations there, kid, you'll put your eye out - NTNTNowHe is starting to sound like Mike Cox :) More euforic and less incorrect facts.God save us allstability, scalability, reliability, security, and robustness? How can you use any of those words in the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- Call off the dogs--authentication solution already in enterprise-class PCs
- The answer to many of our security problems could be found in chips that are used to store credentials and user certificates says Wave Systems CEO Steven Sprague. Commentary--While static passwords are still the most widely employed type of user authentication credential today, they are fast losing...
- News items 2008-09-15
- The enterprise startup conundrum
- The enterprise startup conundrumnot all negativeDennis, given that these were almost amateur teams doing stuff part time things, shame on me if I do not acknowledge what they showcased was innovative - like the Canadian Pacific use of GPS to guide workers to specific points on their thousands of miles....
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- A Myriad of Microblogging Options...
- The Microblogging world just got more complicated with Yammer winning the Pop Idol/American Idol style knock out ‘TechCrunch 50" competition, in which "52 of the best startups launched their products in front of the industry's most influential venture capitalists, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs, and press", along with a substantial...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Netbooks, Chrome and the future of computing
- Netbooks, Chrome and the future of computingIs that a Compaq 'Hernia' Luggable?I am afraid to admit I had one of those.I don't buy it.Maybe it's the future for some people but not me.Correction"It's a search bar, a direct link into the Google search engine. It is, in fact, a Web...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Cloud computing as a term: More meaningless by the minute
- The term cloud computing may have outrun its usefulness--it's beginning to conjure up images of "Web 2.0" and "paradigm shift." For the record, cloud computing refers to an all-encompassing hosting of applications, services and even hardware. You'll just put your stuff up there in some cloud and...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?
- Do you have what it takes to be a 'Windows guru'?@voyager529Since Mike Cox already works for MS, it would a simple transfer!This sounds like the perfect job for Mike Cox!...and Loverock Davidson. If Microsoft hires those two, then their $300 Million just might make a dent in public mindshare!! =)JoeySo.....What...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policy
- FAA outage due to 'fix-on-fail' policyThis is a surprise???Is anyone surprised that the government holds itself to a lower standard than anyone it regulates? Congress routinely exempts itself from laws that everyone else has to follow. Can you imagine the airlines being allowed to use such a policy on aircraft?...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' future
- Debate rages over SOA's 'cloudy' futureMaybe the best way to put it is that with WOA, we just pick the low hangingfruit first, and do not need to get into religious wars, or get company wide buy-in, you just do it. Not sure which name will win out, but getting...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! MashSocial networking is the problemThe whole "social networking" paradigm has a fundamental problem, and that is that keeping in touch with other people shouldn't be an objective in and of itself.Yet a lot of these "concepts" are just that: get people into a herd mentality so...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
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