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Next Wave of Social Networking
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-25
For a while now most people felt like they had their social networks pretty well figured out. There was MySpace, wild and crazy home of teens and bands. Then there was the more collegiate Facebook, which can have
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Getting Open Source Ready for Business
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-21
Click here to download the podcast or Click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player.What is the next step for open source in the enterprise. Open source products have individually
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Linux Is Free to Sidestep a Stubborn FSF
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-06-21
One of the features of free software licensing that pleases me most is the flexibility it grants software stakeholders to deal with the inability or unwillingness of vendors or projects to suit user needs by
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What's Your Web 2.0 IQ?
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-20
Click the image to take the Web 2.0 QuizI'm spending the day at the Enterprise 2.0 conference here in Boston where I've had the opportunity to meet with a wide variety of vendors purporting to show how Web 2.0 technology
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Microsoft Serves One Up for the Home
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-20
Click the image to see the slide showI have to admit that when I first heard about the Windows Home Server I didn't really think that much of the concept. After all, it's pretty simple to take an existing
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This Week In Emerging Technology - June 20th
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-20
Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of June 18th.
A Healthy Dose of RFID - MIT's AUTO-ID Labs and SAP work together on next generation networking technology for RFID.
How Big is
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Dell Ubuntu Machines Start Hitting the Streets, Answering Q's
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-06-18
Dell's customer feedback-driven initiative for preloading Linux on some of the machines it sells is moving forward with a full head of steam. It's been only a handful of months since the OEM began fielding Web-borne requests to add the open-source operating system to its preloaded platform mix, and Dell
Who Is Still Using RSS Feeds?
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-18
Take the pollFree Poll by Blog FluxOne could make a very good argument that the driving force behind the whole Web 2.0 wave is RSS. The format has made possible blogs, podcasts, "fill-in-the-blank"casts, and, of
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Doing Business with Google Apps
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-15
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Chances are you've used or at least heard of Google Apps, the web-based suite of productivity applications that supposedly have Microsoft up all night.
I know we here at
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Curbing My Enthusiasm for QuickBooks on Linux
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-06-13
As my colleague Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols is reporting, Intuit is opting to get a bit cozier with Linux. It's an eye-catching announcement, considering that lukewarm Linux support from
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Adobe Apps Take to the AIR
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-13
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In the PC era, application development has followed a certain cycle. First there were desktop applications. Then, there were client-server applications. But then came the Web,
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This Week In Emerging Technology - June 13th
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-13
Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of June 4th.
Nokia's Low-Power Link to Be New Bluetooth Standard - The Bluetooth SIG has agreed to use Nokia's Wibree technology for short range
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Raising the IQ of Office Buildings
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-11
Can something that is really stupid be converted into something intelligent?
With people, I'm not so sure that can be done. The only example I can think of is in the television cartoon "Futurama," where the
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The Ten Most Wanted Future Technologies
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-06-11
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Every day here at eWEEK's Emerging Technology site we look at the newest and most disruptive technologies effecting the technology market today. And we've also taken
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Will Palm's Foleo Fulfill its Promises?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-06-11
I've been burned more than once by lighter-than-laptop computing devices that have failed to fulfill their promise. Still, I can't help but be excited about Palm's Foleo mobile companion. The 2.5-pound
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