Applying a systematic technique, method or approach to solve a problem. Much of today's technology implies the use of computers. See high tech.
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- Ksplice Uptrack eliminates Linux server reboots, Sunday hours
- Researchers at MIT have turned an innovative open source security technology known as Ksplice into a commercial product. Ksplice Uptrack, whose general availability was announced today, eliminates the need to reboot Linux servers to perform monthly updates and security patches, the Cambridge, Mass. company said. ...
- Blog posts 2010-02-09
- Maze 2.0: Differentiating Business Value from Fashions
- There's always a bewildering maze of terms and trends in the technology world: like the entertainment industry, the million dollar question is which ones will wind up meaning anything, which will be one hit wonders and which ones will stick and sustain. For many people of...
- Blog posts 2010-02-07
- If Google Books deal is anticompetitive then DOJ is anti-knowledge
- Anyone care to tell me when the Department of Justice will butt out of the Google Books deal? Their latest claim that a revised settlement is anticompetitive further distances us from a rich, open knowledge store and the preservation of works that would otherwise sit, molding and collecting dust...
- Blog posts 2010-02-05
- Improving customer service
- No matter what budget constraints we hit (and we will hit them; this is ed tech we're talking about), the one thing we can give our users for free is good customer service. You want a SMART Board in your room? Mmmm...too bad, the governor just cut local aid....
- Blog posts 2010-02-04
- Is Amazon's Kindle about to get a touch screen?
- Yesterday news broke of Amazon buying Touchco. Touchco is a small company that was birthed out of a project at New York University's Media Research Lab. The company itself had yet to ship a product but was working with display technology, called interpolating force-sensitive resistance, that can detect an unlimited...
- Blog posts 2010-02-04
- Unlock the Power of Web Conferencing Technology
- Download our free white paper, Ten Tips for Better Web Meetings, and discover how to harness the full power of web conferencing technology. It's a fast, easy and free way to learn how to stay focused on your meeting instead of the technology. Topics include: The...
- White papers 2010-02-03
- Adobe's creative legacy & the proprietary aspirations of Apple & Google
- I've spent a lot of time working with Adobe's Creative Suite 4 recently, and it's really made me think about web standards, the future of web vector graphics and video. For all the hoopla around Apple as innovators right now, their foundations were...
- Blog posts 2010-02-02
- Showcasing enhanced mobile audio: "Yes, I can hear you now."
- I can already hear the next version of those "Can you hear me now?" TV commercials. German company Fraunhofer IIS, which developed the mp3 technology that revolutionized the digital music industry, is showcasing this week an audio technology that allows mobile phone calls to be heard in...
- Blog posts 2010-02-02
- Computacenter, an Embotics customer profile
- Recently, I had a chance to exchange messages with Ian Scanlan, Computacenter's IS Operations Manager. His organization has been using Embotic's V-Commander. I thought you’d like to hear from someone actually using the technology. Please introduce your organization and the role you play there. Ian Scanlan, IS Operations...
- Blog posts 2010-02-02
- No matter what Apple says, you can't get a rich web experience without Flash
- RE: No matter what Apple says, you can't get a rich web experience without FlashI think Apple doesn't allow Adobe Flash because they want to have total control over any application development for their devices. Flash and Silverlight have advanced to the point where you can build applications (albeit,...
- Discussion threads 2010-02-01
- Microsoft's Azure cloud is officially open for business
- Live Mesh is not running on AzureHi MJ,Live Mesh is NOT running on Azure. I'm puzzled as to why you think that it is.Wonderful day to be alive...We deployed our first official Azure application last night. My rep came over and put out a full spread of pizza and Retro...
- Discussion threads 2010-02-01
- Dumping my laptop for...a server?
- RE: Dumping my laptop for...a server?This is exactly what I said in my comment to Kindle v. iPad. It is all about the cloud. Laptops are going away. Simple pads/tablets are the future. This is why the iPad is going to succeed. It just needs a camera, proj and phone...
- Discussion threads 2010-02-01
- Dumping my laptop for...a server?
- I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but Apple released a new product last week. The i-something-or-other. The meager media coverage, despite it's generally low-key nature, did give me pause, though. While the iPad (yes, my tongue is now dislodged from my cheek) doesn't hold a lot of...
- Blog posts 2010-02-01
- Apple taking iPad hyperbole to new heights
- All the companies do itI see no problem with writing outrageous ad copy. The big difference that I've witnessed is that the Apple faithful truly believe that Apple products are magical, revolutionary, and innovative. The RDF prevents them from sorting out what the rest of us know is marketing speak...
- Discussion threads 2010-01-28
- Apple's iPad will come into the enterprise through the consumer door. Again.
- Apple just announced its media tablet (we coined these things mobile media tablets in 2005 in private client conversations and in print in 2007) amidst much excitement and surprisingly little secrecy. There wasn't much if anything in the announcement that the bloggers hadn't anticipated. This product will appear in...
- Blog posts 2010-01-27
- Surgient Cloud Express 30 days to internal cloud
- Surgient has see that many organizations are interested in trying out an internal, on premise cloud computing environment, but have found the prospect rather daunting. Surgient, however, is not alone in this discovery. What's interesting is the combination of tools, professional services and the goal of having an implementation up...
- Blog posts 2010-01-26
- Sony Reader Daily Edition PRS-900BC
- One thing has always been clear about Sony's line of e-readers: they're arguably the sleekest and most elegant dedicated-electronic-reading devices out there today (in a pre-Apple Tablet world, at least). The same holds true for the Reader Daily Edition PRS-900, Sony's first e-reader to include built-in 3G wireless service for...
- Product reviews 2010-01-26
- Apple tablet: The consumer wants one
- I recently wrote about how I'm excited to see what Apple will unveil this week. At the time I thought it was merely the technologists and early adopters who were eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Apple tablet. However, I have since learned that the average...
- Blog posts 2010-01-25
- AOL buys video platform via StudioNow; Looks for new CTO
- AOL said Monday that it has acquired StudioNow for $36.5 million. The move will give AOL a video platform to add to its content management system, dubbed Seed.com. According to a statement, AOL closed the deal Jan. 22. StudioNow will power the video creation system for Seed.com...
- Blog posts 2010-01-25
- A 70 TB tape cartridge: too much, too late?
- Sounds good.Tape dead, you must be kidding, right?If you're not using tape you don't really understand backup or point-in-time recovery.70TB tape library, heck, I could even back up ALL of our data then. I only use disk-to-disk w/rsync and the secondary array is backed-up to tape. Millions of small...
- Discussion threads 2010-01-24
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