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- Webcasts 2008-10-01
- Live Webcast: Is Strong Authentication Strong Enough? Why Out of Band, Two-Factor Authentication is the Only Way to Truly Protect Your Corporate Network
- Every day we hear news reports of data breaches among America's leading corporations and the identity theft and fraud that results. Corporate networks are under attack, and the frequency of assaults and sophistication of the methods employed are increasing. Recent attacks even claim to defeat some two-factor methods, the industry...
- Webcasts 2008-09-22
- A conversation with Thomas Otter, Gartner analyst and blogger
- While away, I briefly saw some comment about Gartner's latest foray into the blogging world. Past efforts have been abysmal but this latest attempt looks much more promising. Carter Lusher at SageCircle interviewed Andrew Spender, Gartner's VP of Corporate Communications, via email. The answers were somewhat stilted in my opinion....
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
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- Live Webcast: How Google uses Google Sites (and other Google Apps) to launch its products
- Google Apps is a whole new way to work. It's about teamwork, it's about information-sharing, and it's about working smarter. Find out how high-performing Google teams use Google Apps, including Google Sites and Docs, to manage technical development, a marketing launch, and press relations for a new product....
- Webcasts 2008-09-16
- European Semantic Technology revisited
- I mentioned the European Semantic Technology Conference ESTC in my previous post, just before going off on holiday. Since then, I've been asked to moderate a panel at the event. The topic is clearly directly relevant to readers of this blog, hence the plug. The conference organisers...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- TechCrunch50: Day 3
- Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Save Time, Money and Manpower While Eliminating Redundancies from Your Data Backups
- You already know about exponential data growth, in fact you are probably experiencing it in your own environment. Digital information is doubling every 18 months. For some, that growth is even faster. Your information assets are invaluable to your company, so managing and protecting those assets is a critical priority....
- Webcasts 2008-09-09
- Live Webcast: Closing the Deal: Online Presentations That Result in Higher Sales
- Closing deals is an art form. You've got to know your prospects, understand their concerns and speak their language. How do you accomplish this in order to make the sale? View this on-demand BNET webcast, moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speakers Tom Bunzel and Kineon...
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- Webcast: Enterprise Search Architectures of the Future
- Businesses today increasingly recognize the benefits of universal search, the ability to search all corporate content sources from a single secure search box. Many enterprises have heavily invested in developing content management systems and their associated processes. These systems and portals hold valuable information; however, lack of quality search...
- Webcasts 2008-08-28
- Linux Foundation announces end user summit
- The target is businesses which are heavy users of Linux and open source in their enterprises. So no surprise its first keynote will be from Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, with a Q&A moderated by Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Growth in political content sharing and creation since fall 2006
- What do users do online Fall 2006 Spring 2008 Forward or post someone else’s political commentary or writing 5% 11% Sign up to receive email from the candidates or campaigns 3 9 Forward or post someone else’s political audio or video recordings 3 6...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- The government has an "iPatriot Act" ready for Internet control
- My video of Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University talking about an "iPatriot Act" has received a lot of views thanks to a post on the top blog site Boing Boing. Lawrence Lessig on the coming "i-Patriot Act" - Boing Boing I've taken out an...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Linuxworld/NGDC San Francisco
- As I walked the show floor at LinuxWorld/Next Generation Datacenter Conference in San Francisco, I saw evidence of a show in transistion. This reminds me of UNIX shows I attended in the early 1980s. As with UNIX, Linux has become a common part of organizational datacenters and IT staff members...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
- Video: Picking a Linux distributionSuSE 11 not ready for prime time.Check the forums. Lots of problems with multi-boot, hard drives, especially raid, others - check their forum.I tried it on brand new machine. Had trouble with Seagate Cheetah drive and adaptec raid. Tried 10.3, went smooth as silk.If you have...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Webcast: Mind the Gap: How Using Technology Can Bridge Multiple Generations in the Workplace
- What do Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen Xers and Millenials Gen Y have in common? They are all working side by side in the workplace and the need to balance the generational differences is at its greatest ever. This diversity brings many advantages, from life experience and polished expertise...
- Webcasts 2008-08-05
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 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
- Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?
- I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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