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Carrier IQ: Scandal or Not?

By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-06

As the Carrier IQ story unfolds, I'm kind of glad that I've had other things on my mind for the last couple of weeks; thankfully, my preoccupations have kept me from shooting off my mouth before I have a better sense
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Governance May Help IT Staff Maintain Overtime Status

By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-12-05

There's a proposal floating around the U.S. Senate's committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions that would seriously rework the standards for who in IT is eligible for overtime.
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Reliable, Secure, Not Seen Before: CloudBeat 2011

By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-02

While reliability and security topped the agenda at the Cloudbeat 2011 conference held this week in Redwood City, the big ideas on the first day were more about how cloud development is setting
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Glasses-free 3D on a Mobile 720p Screen, Cool

By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-12-02

Glasses-free, 3D, full-motion video on a 4.3-inch screen looks pretty stunning. I didn't get to watch the Captain America trailer long enough to see if the cell-matrix parallax barrier technology
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Google's Chromebooks Remain Offline-Challenged

By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-11-28

Yesterday, Google announced that the 2012 edition of its annual two-day developer conference, Google I/O, is now set to span three days. At this year's Google I/O, the company assigned its two
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Touch My Office

By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-11-28

If the rumors are correct, Microsoft will be showing off a beta of Office 2012 (or "Office 15" for those of use who keep count) at CES 2012 in Las Vegas this coming January, and - here's the real news - I actually give a whit.
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ODCA and DMTF: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together?

By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-11-28

A fledgling customer cloud standards advocacy group and a long-established vendor group "announced a collaboration that will hasten the development of industry standards for managing
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I Guess Android Really Is a Hive of Scum and Villainy

By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-11-22

We've had a running joke in the office about the Android platform being a hive of scum and villainy, but the latest quarterly threat report from McAfee would seem to confirm even the most
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In the Lab: Taming Tweets with Talend Open Studio 5

By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-11-22

It's been a couple of years since I reviewed Talend Open Studio, and with a major new point release from Talend in the works, now seemed like a good time to take another look at the open source data integration tool--and perhaps scratch a minor new data integration itch of

DataSift, Reading Tweets to Divine Sentiment

By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2011-11-17

I got a sneak peak demo of the DataSift social sentiment monitoring tool at eWEEK Labs San Francisco office earlier this week. On Nov. 16 the company launched in the US, making its Twitter stream
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Adobe's Retreat in Mobile Underscores Apple's Dominance

By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2011-11-15

Adobe's announcement last week that it was shifting its mobile development efforts to AIR and ending work on the Mobile Flash Player is an admission that Apple can and does dictate the
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oVirt at Last

By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2011-11-15

Quite a few years back, I wrote a column titled "At Long Last, Lindows" about much-hyped arrival of the consumer-targeted spin of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system on Walmart computers. This was in the early 2000's, when development of Microsoft's Windows was gummed up by a series of security snags,

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