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- The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA
- Over the summer the enterprise IT blogosphere was swept up in a conversation around the concepts that many are calling Web-Oriented Architecture, or WOA. A different way to think about service-oriented architecture, WOA extolls a different but related set of technologies, in particular how to apply them in specific ways...
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox
- The plug-ins, the add-ons, the "download and use with" programs. So many people have been on about the "porn mode" InPrivate feature, the coloured tabs and the accelerator features, but what seems to be missing from the blogosphere is the entire gallery of additional software for the product. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
- Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...
- News items 2008-09-03
- Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
- Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the...
- News items 2008-09-03
- The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?
- Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage foolhardy and its excess hyperbolically so. According to Harry, the SaaS market will collapse in two years time, due to...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- It must be a rough day in Cupertino
- They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light. The widespread problems with...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- 1 Click Homepage Toolbar (xpi)
- With one click of the mouse you will receive access to your personal home page, where a number of useful gadgets are assembled for your personal use on a daily basis. Some of the available gadgets include radio, notes, maps, weather, video, clock, calculator, and more. Each gadget is configurable...
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- Amazon eyeing up the textbook market? About time
- Recent reports suggest that Amazon may be readying new versions of its Kindle ebook reader for use in the textbook market. While Amazon won't confirm any of the rumblings in the blogosphere, Ars Technica reports that The new model will supposedly be considerably larger than the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- CNN beats Obama to the punch on Twitter
- Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised to announce his vice president through personal text messages and emails. I still haven't gotten mine. I first heart about it yesterday evening via CNN's Breaking News feed on Twitter: I could have played a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- MobileMe: Still Not Up (To Anyone's Standard)
- MobileMe: Still Not Up (To Anyone's Standard)Especially the double standardIf this were a Microsoft service continuing to flounder like this I can't imagine what the outcry would be like. Not that Apple hasn't been rightfully raked over the coals either, but given the history of the techie blogosphere I...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
- A new proposal out of MIT (original home of the so-called $100 laptop from the OLPC) has gotten quite a bit of traction in the blogosphere and around the Web. A group of students, recalling their own early computing experiences in Apple II labs, is attempting to resurrect these...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Copying pasting blogging = trouble
- Copying pasting blogging = troubleAgreeI agree... Too many people talking about the same thing.RE: Copying pasting blogging = troubleIt drives me nuts. The amounts of comments pinged back to my blog are purely regurgitated, as if it's been automatically picked. It's just...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new level
- Something doesn't smell quite right here. Techcrunch reports earlier today that Jonathan Miller, former AOL chief executive and one of the names that popped up as part of Team Icahn on the newly expanded Yahoo board, has been blocked from serving on that board by a non-compete...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Why there's no Mac tablet this quarter
- The Mac blogosphere wants a tablet Mac for this quarter's "product transition." Here's why they won't get it. Good news: the Internet isn't making us stupid Apple's CFO mentioned a product transition driving gross margins down. Most commentators don't seem know what gross margin means, and...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- T-Mobile Sidekick
- It's so hard to keep a good secret these days. Just ask T-Mobile. Word of its new Sidekick model, codenamed Gekko, got out months ago and was all but confirmed when the ruthless blogosphere got hold of some internal T-Mobile documents about the upcoming model. Well, today, the wraps were...
- Product reviews 2008-07-30
- Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another
- When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search -- and I'm still sure that's what was actually happening. Google doesn't normally pre-announce applications months in advance. After a long wait, Google finally...
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Microsoft hints about new profile-centric Win Live wares
- The blogosphere was atwitter pun intended over the past day or two about Facebook's recent revamp designed to make user pages more profile-centric. But Facebook isn't the only one going this route. It sounds like Microsoft is going more profile-centric in a couple of different ways with its upcoming Windows...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- iPhone has a year to make its open source play
- iPhone has a year to make its open source playWhat crapWindows Mobile grew 90% YoY 2007 to 2008. If they repeat that they would sell around 40 million 2008-2009. Would that be enough for your so-called 'wide distribution'?Also, unlike your pathetic theory, in practice open source advocates are targeting...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Hardcore math at the speed of the Net
- From its inception, the Internet has been about connecting researchers and research institutions to each other (and, of course, about national defense). As the Web continues to explode, though, it's interesting to see how new generations of researchers work, collaborate, and criticize online. A particular example...
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
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