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- Does IT really need to fear multicore?
- While multicore chips hold great promise for applications and computing power they could wreak havoc on technology departments. That's the message from Gartner analyst Carl Claunch, who argued Thursday that IT types should fear--yes fear--multicore technology. Multicore chips carry multiple brains on them and companies like Intel...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Facebook and its ilk are for the enterprise too
- Companies are blocking Facebook, frowning on social networking and pretending that employees don't peruse information from Wikipedia and Delicious, but they should embrace those sites. In fact, it may make sense to bring them into the enterprise instead of buying some corporate social networking application. Gartner analyst...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Eclipse has tools for today's mobile phones
- One key improvement is a Java preprocessor for use by traditional Java ME developers. There are also import wizards so Netbeans and Eclipse ME developers can port their code to MTJ. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Conversation with Richard Muirhead of Tideway Systems
- Richard Muirwood, CEO of Tideway Systems, and I had our semi-annual chat the other day. Tideway's Tideway Foundation™is a management tool making it possible for organizations to get a clear understanding of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure supporting their business applications. They call what they do "dependency mapping." ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The Future looks very Cloudy
- I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
- A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.) offering comprehensive education to school children that, among other things, would have taught them to identify and...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits
- In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?
- Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Avanade software helps you get a grip on more than 100 green IT variables
- For those of you seeking a green IT / power management calculator that isn't necessarily tied to one vendor's view of the world, you might want to consider a tool being used by services company Avanade to evaluate more than 100 different variables related to the data center. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement
- Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementEclipseRyan - I guess the point with the Eclipse stuff is to appeal to Java developers who don't want to step out of Eclipse to do RIA development, much the same approach Adobe took with Flex.RE: Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcementHey Ryan,I totally agree...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?
- Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Education: Driver for a lower-cost MacBook?
- Education: Driver for a lower-cost MacBook?The e-Mac had a short lifeI'm not buying the education argument although it is credible.Marketshare has never been an Apple driver. Technological innovation and leadership.I think we are going to see something that none of us are expecting, something radically new that makes the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?
- SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?Great Session Great ArticleI appreciated seeing this article so quickly after the talk. Mark Gilbert makes some interesting commentary. Nothing too new here, but a good regurgitation of what's been said by Matt Cain and others about the need for governance and the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Mobile software Monday: Handy Tools Pack for S60 devices
- Mobile software Monday: Handy Tools Pack for S60 devicesNokia key lockHaving been primarily a Windows Mobile user for the past couple of years, I too was going crazy having to lock my E71 from the power button menu until I remembered from my old Nokia phone days that the quick...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
- Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow
- Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Mobile software Monday: Handy Tools Pack for S60 devices
- I am working on getting Mobile software Monday reviews up and running here again on my ZDNet blog, but there are so many devices coming in that it is tough to find the time to write about all the great software titles. The Nokia E71 see my full review is...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- SharePoint: What are the risks, rewards?
- What does it say about SharePoint when a presentation focused on whether you can survive it packs the house? Mark Gilbert's presentation--"Can the CIO survive Microsoft SharePoint?"--at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo filled up an auditorium. There are two ways to read this: There is...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Value, value and values in an open source world
- Value, value and values in an open source worldWhy is it that many feel that companies should/mustshare software code, yet they draw the line at sharing anything which maintaines their own income?I do not see Boeing sharing design or manufacturing techniues with Airbus, KFC and Coca-Cola keep their recipies under...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-13
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