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2008-11-05
Merit says data democratization is about reaching the asses to allow information workers to organize, analyze and manipulate data on their own. He says there are three key trends to freeing up data. First, is cloud computing, where businesses host software services and deliver them to end users via the Web. But cloud computing is only useful if companies provide open APIs to allow access to that data, which is the second trend. Finally, Merit says usability is necessary to attractive a non-technical audience.
2008-11-05
Fulkerson spoke on two panels one for enterprise collaboration, and one for connecting disparate systems. MindTouch aims to go beyond just being what Fulkerson calls "Facebook for the enterprise" to let businesses create enterprise mashups on all of their disparate systems and act on the data for specific business needs.
MindTouch employs an open source development model, but customers purchase a commercial license. Fulkerson is also, of course, looking to make new business connections at Defrag.
2008-11-03
Mac users who are also Netflix subscribers, can now watch videos and TV shows online. The company just rolled out its second generation media player, which uses Microsoft's Silverlight player to stream video online. Unlike Apple iTunes Store, which enables users to download videos and transfer them to an iPhone or iPod or view them on a television using Apple TV, Netflix’s service streams content to a Mac only — there’s no way to transfer the video to another device.
IBM is suing former CEO, Mark Papermaster, to prevent him from accepting a position at Apple. Papermaster is the former vice president of IBM's Blade Development unit and has been with the company for 26 years. IBM says Papermaster's move goes against a noncompete agreement. In the suit filed at the United States District Court in Manhattan, IBM said Papermaster was one of its top 300 managers and had access to a wide range of the company's intellectual property and trade secrets.
IBM and Sun Microsystems have made good on a promise to make open source code from the OpenSolaris operating system- available on IBM System z mainframes.
Last week, NASA awarded a $206.5 million dollar contract to longtime contractor, United Space Alliance. The contract will provide mission and flight crew logistics, training, and flight support for the International Space Station and subsequent space exploration activities after the space shuttle program is ended in 2010.
2008-10-31
The increasing need for high-performance computing, and the growing popularity of cloud computing and related Web 2.0 and SaaS initiatives, are pushing companies to build out their data center infrastructures. But space and power issues not to mention the costs of expansion are primary obstacles. Major hardware manufacturers are offering innovative solutions to address these needs and concerns, packing quad-core compute nodes into blade servers, and packing high-density blade server and storage arrays into mobile containers for quick deployment.
2008-10-30
Organizations go to great lengths to align IT strategy with business strategy. In most cases, the effort is short-term, focusing on the current needs of a particular business initiative. Unfortunately with this approach the application of IT is often haphazard. New technologies are frequently bolted onto legacy systems. And IT finds itself playing catch up and never preparing to meet future business needs. To address this situation, there is growing interest in elevating Enterprise Architecture to more of a strategy role when trying to meet long-term business objectives.
2008-10-29
On Oct. 27, Microsoft debuted Windows 7 during Professional Developer Conference 2008. Microsoft Watch editor Joe Wilcox sat down with Debby Fry Wilson, senior director for Windows Product Management about the forthcoming operating system. Wilson discusses elements of the new user interface and what services integration means to end users and developers.
2008-10-28
On Oct. 27, Microsoft debuted the Azure Services Platform at Professional Developer Conference 2008 in Los Angeles. Microsoft Watch editor gives a live report, offering overview of Azure and what it could mean to software developers.
2008-10-27
Silicon Valley's mystery meeting of CEOs is finally being
revealed. DLA Piper law firm recently held a Global Technology Leaders
Summit, which drew a crowd of IT CEOs and CFOs together to discuss the
global financial crisis. McAfee is taking another crack at network access
control, as it recently announced a new NAC software module and plans for an
NAC appliance. Although you may know Amazon.com for its online stores, the
company is saying that its future lies in the web services subscription and
storage business. During the last three years, Amazon has come out with its
S3 (Simple Storage Service) online storage and the EC2 online platform for
software developers. When it comes to accessing the Internet these days,
more users are turning to their smart phones and other mobile devices rather
than traditional PCs. This information comes as a new IBM-sponsored survey
was released Oct. 23. The Washington Nationals may have been the MLB's last
place team this season, but the franchise is placing first off the field, as
they are the first to install WiFi in their ballpark.
2008-10-20
Despite the shaky economy, we reveal four tech companies that finished Q3 on top, with profits well into the billions. Find out what they're attributing to their success. Obama is making US Political History by buying advertising in video games. Ever thought your company could benefit from their own TelePresence systems, but just cant or didnąt want to invest in one? Cisco and Tata Communications are expanding their network of high end public Telepresence meeting centers to the US and UK. And finally, Forbes recently released their list of the richest people in Business Technology. We run down the top 10 -- you’re never going to guess where Apple's Steve Jobs ends up.
2008-10-01
Web 2.0 is starting to get the respect it deserves. Increasingly, organizations are using Web 2.0 applications and technology to help aggregate corporate knowledge, simplify the building of repositories of best practices, and enable new levels of collaboration. What’s more, managers and workers alike can use Web 2.0 technology to quickly create dashboard-like mashups to assimilate decision-making data from different sources. Ashley Daley explores a few of these technologies and how they can work for your company.
2008-09-11
The footage follows the introduction on stage of youth entertainment companies such as Shryk, Hangout, BlahGirls (presented by TV and film star Ashton Kutcher), TweeGee, and news-oriented sites such as Angstro and DotSpots (a favorite of Google Search guru Marissa Mayer). Also earlier: a riveting panel with angel investors Ron Conway, Yossi Vardi, Dave Kidder, Matt Coffin and Chris Sacca.
2008-09-08
Google Chrome is the Web giant’s take on Web browser software. It is designed to work "invisibly" and will run any application that runs on Apple’s Safari Web browser. Google rolled out a beta last week and testing is on. Chrome is Google’s long-anticipated head-on attack on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. But many industry insiders say it is actually an attack on Microsoft’s Windows OS; Fresh off their online Olympics success, NBC, is headed into football season with Web viewers in mind. NBC’s primetime Sunday Night Football will stream live on the web over Adobe Flash. The first game was actually Thursday night, for NBC’s coverage of the NFL season opener. The New York Giants beat the Redskins, 16-7. Dubbed Sunday Night Football Extra, the streaming video will be coupled with interactive extras such as alternative camera angles, picture-in-picture, in-game highlights, live statistics, and interactivity with John madden and the broadcasters in the booth. Flash is a departure for NBC which used Microsoft Silverlight to stream video coverage of the 2008 summer Olympics on NBCOlympics.com.
2008-08-29
Options abound for enterprise companies planning to implement SAAS, but most point to collaboration tools in the cloud. Of course price points vary and there are subtle licensing models that must be studied before signing on with vendors such as Google Apps, SugarCRM, Salesforce.com., Microsoft's Sharepoint Server and others. Reliability and downtime factors also play a huge role in determining the best SAAS solution for your company.
2008-08-28
Many argue that Social Networks are a dangerous model for sharing
confidential or proprietary information and that their employees are
distracted enough at work without something like Facebook competing for
their time. Others such as IBM claim that its Blue Pages social intranet is
an invaluable tool to help people stationed all over the world connect.
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer successfully uses a Wikipedia-like
service called Pfizerpedia. Ultimately, all companies need to set rules that
determine acceptable use for social networking.
2008-08-27
Google’s being good to the Earth through its Google.org philanthropic arm.
The organization pledged $10.25 million in recently to support Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), a breakthrough technology doesn’t look for geothermal energy, but makes it. The traditional geothermal approach relies on finding naturally occurring pockets of steam and hot water. The EGS process replicates these conditions by fracturing hot rock, circulating water through the system, and using the resulting steam to produce electricity in a conventional turbine; Palm released the Palm Treo Pro last week, a new handset which Palm hopes can save the brand as it faces challenges from RIM’s Blackberry line and the Apple iPhone, not to mention the Google Android phones due in November and Linux based LiMo phones. Early reviews claim the device competes on functionality, but not price. It will be sold in the U.S. in September for $549 and in Europe free or up to $589, based on the carrier. The Palm Treo Pro boasts a tactile QWERTY keyboard, a hardware Wi-Fi switch, turn-by-turn navigation and Bluetooth support for stereo music headsets; and Ericsson and STMicroelectronics have agreed to join their wireless chip and software businesses to create a joint venture that will supply four of the world's top five mobile phone and smart phone makers. The new company, announced last week, will bring together the Mobile Platforms unit of Ericsson and STMicro’s ST-NXP wireless division. Ericsson is the world's biggest mobile telecoms equipment maker and ST-NXP is the third-largest maker of wireless chips globally. The new company should present a new challenge for wireless market leaders Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.
2008-08-26
Cloud computing - the latest handle attached to the idea of hosted Web services used by consumers and businesses - is beginning to get considerable traction now that there are more companies offering services online. Consumers have always bought books and music, auctioned off unneeded items, or found jobs and home using services running on the Internet. But now they're storing personal files, meeting future mates and running entire businesses using services to which they can subscribe. This all means that people and enterprises don't have to set up their own IT systems anymore to get work done.
2008-08-18
Intel will crown the Ultimate Geek at its IDF (Intel Developer Forum). This year’s Intel Ultimate Geek challengers will battle through three rounds of Geek contests at IDF to claim the title Ultimate Geek. Intel’s IDF Ultimate Geek Challenge begins with a Geek trivia challenge, followed by a mad gaming skills challenge against Team Evil Genius on the latest Alienware gaming systems. Rumors abound that Alienware might offer a sneak peek at an upcoming release. The top five geeks will duke it out in the Geek Build – a race to complete a tech build faster than the competition to claim the title Ultimate Geek. Also expect news on Intel’s Nehalem processor and Mobile Internet Devices; Olympic gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps shattered more than a half dozen world records last week. World Records verified by Omega, the official time keeper of the 2008 Summer games in Beijing. Omega first began timing the Olympic Games at the Los Angeles event in 1932, when hand-held stop-watches were used; and Google took full advantage of the games to show off how cool it is. Google Earth, Google’s satellite mapping application allows users a 3D birdseye view sporting venues and the Olympic Village. And try following the 204 countries participating and track medal counts on Google Maps with up-to-date tables, maps and results by region and team.
2008-08-11
IBM is building a $360 million data center full of green technology out of an old warehouse in Raleigh, N.C., to serve the cloud computing demands of its customers. IBM’s data center in Raleigh, N.C. and a sister data center in Tokyo will linked with IBM’s seven other cloud centers around the world to sell cloud services, also called utility computing and Software-as-a-Service or SaaS. As part of its Big Green initiative, IBM will recycle material from the existing facility to create the new cloud center and will use virtualization technology to run more applications on each server and reduce the amount of electricity needed; Delta Air Lines announced last week it will rollout broadband Wi-Fi access across its entire domestic fleet by Summer 2009.
Delta plans to outfit more than 330 aircraft with WiFi access beginning with the 133 MD88s and MD90s in its fleet. All of its Boeing 737s, 757s and 767-300s should have the service by mid-2009; Federal law enforcement agencies are calling the largest hacking and identity theft caper to date. The U.S. Attorneys Office in Boston last week charged 11 people with who allegedly hacked the network at TJX, which owns the TJ Maxx and Marshalls department store chains, and stole millions of customer credit and debit card numbers from the TJX database; and PNC Bank says the Gen Y crowd can’t manage their own money. The bank rolled out “Virtual Wallet” a personal finance application tied into it’s own accounts for account holder born between 1980 and 1994, the Gen Y set.
2008-08-04
President Bush signed the so-called “VOIP-911 Bill” into law last week, a step toward ensuring VOIP users have the same protections and access to 911 systems as landlines. The new law ensures 911 service is available during an emergency whether the call comes from a VOIP or traditional phone company; SAP CEO Henning Kagermann told analysts and investors last week, that SAP could actually benefit from a rough economy. SAP reported a solid second quarter and global economic turmoil could be helping, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann. Business software makers like SAP are less likely to suffer from a weakening economy, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said, because their products are designed to help companies become more efficient and save costs; Intel will sell 500,000 Classmate PCs to Portugal for elementary school students nationwide. Intel’s Classmate customer win nearly matches the total number of XO Notebooks sold by rival OLPC (One Laptop per Child); and the next Silicon valley startup could be built on Google cash. Google is considering setting up its own venture capital investment arm. Sources told the Wall Street Journal Google has hired several VC mavens, but no firms plans have been made.
2008-07-23
eWEEK executive editor Michael Hickins talks to Barry Briggs, Microsoft's chief technology officer, about making IT a strategic partner for the business. Briggs talks about implementing master data management, enterprise data warehousing and other technology initiatives Microsoft's IT department has adopted with a view to becoming a more valuable strategic asset for the business.
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g may well be the best collection of tools for monitoring the overall health and well-being
of the enterprise software giant's various services and systems, but the cost of the product's many add-ons quickly adds up.
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e-mail-oriented Chandler.
Review: While Microsoft's productivity suite for OS X is faster and more usable, the puzzling absence of full Exchange support detracts from Office 2008's basic mandate for providing Windows-world compatibility for the Mac.
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