The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability.
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- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden
- More important...than net neutrality? You are out of your mind. You probably think you are a journalist as well. What a joke. Do you even proof read your own dribble? It's obvious you don't. What kind of journalist would send out content with grammar and spelling errors? it has...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- VA now loves its VistA software
- In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs
- One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- The Apple-Palm cat-and-mouse game: How long can it last? [poll]
- Reflects badly on both companiesI think this whole ordeal reflects badly on both Apple on Palm.It makes Apple out to be hypocrites. I mean, wasn't the whole reason for the lack of interoperability with other players a DRM issue? Didn't Steve Jobs say this himself the last time Apple was...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability
- IBM is going after Google Apps Premier hard and has the pricing to show it's serious. Big Blue is announcing the general availability of LotusLive iNotes, a cloud email, calendar and contact management service, for $36 a year per user. Google Apps Premier runs $50 per user a year. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Cisco doubles down on video conferencing; Acquires Tandberg for $3 billion
- Cisco is beefing up its video conferencing arsenal, picking up Tandberg, a Norwegian video conferencing outfit, for $3 billion. In a statement, Cisco said it is acquiring Tandberg to expand its collaboration platform. With the deal, Cisco will bring in Tandberg's network infrastructure and video conferencing equipment...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Android as mobile SOA: consider the possibilities
- Are the applications that run or will run on Android are interoperable in a service-oriented way? by Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Light Peak fiber optic connector to replace Firewire, USB, monitor cables
- A new interconnect technology called Light Peak is being developed by Apple as a potential replacement for FireWire, USB and traditional monitor cables. Engadget reports that Apple brought the technology to Intel and asked them to create it. According to documents we've seen and conversations we've had, Apple had...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Skype aims for small business via Cisco interoperability
- Skype continues its march to be an enterprise telephony player. The company said its Skype for SIP service is now interoperable with Cisco Unified Communications 500 Series designed for small businesses. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]
- Great in theory, not so great in the real worldThe problem allways comes down to the simple fact that even though something can be done with hardware and software, the user is the component not fully addressed.an XBox or Playstation hooked to a 32 inch television in the den or...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- ShoreTel gives Skype's enterprise plans a lift
- ShoreTel, a big enterprise telephony player, has just given Skype's business plans a boost. ShoreTel said Wednesday (statement, Skype blog, Techmeme) that it is interoperable with the beta version of Skype for SIP, which launched in March. SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol, which is a standard...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Joe Biden and the dawn of the MediNet
- what a waste, just model VA Hospitalsthey have one of the most efficient medical records on the planet. HIEThese funds are not to develop electronic medical records (your right, the VA's VISTA system is very good - and I am a strong advocate of open source solutions) This is...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- What a smart grid can do for you
- very idealistic, but...like all sunshine information projects...it depends on the accuracy of the data!electric companies make their money...their real money selling "ON PEAK" hours, in fact, in Northern MD/Pennsylvania there is a power plant that ONLY goes on to service ON PEAK hours! what most americans fail to realize...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
- Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest
- Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Can velocity revolutionize the data center business?
- Digital Realty Trust is trying to do to the data center business what Dell did to computer manufacturing and Wal-Mart continues to do to the retail market â€" make delivery efficiency the killer app. It claims it can build out a complete enterprise-class, energy-efficient data center in as little as...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants it
- A look at On2 Technologies and why Google wants itWasn't an earlier version of an On2 codec released as open source which morphed into Theora?Unless you are talking 2X reduction or better at the same "quality" we need fewer codecs, not more.It could still be copmtetition for AdobeReplace Flash on...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-05
- Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computing
- Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computingVapor lock between Business Process and Social ComputingSimilar to the vapor lock between IT and Business, there's also a big gap in understanding and focus on how Social Computing accelerates process performance. The obsession around new metrics for adoption and new ROI standards...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Google, Yahoo agreed to IM deal a year ago; Apparently, it quietly died with ad deal
- It all started when I was reorganizing my iGoogle pages over the weekend and added a GoogleTalk widget. Some time back, I added AIM messaging into Google Talk so I could chat with the different friends I have on those services in the same window. So, naturally,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
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