Monthly Archives: March 2008
Nervous Time for New IT Companies
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-It was a nervous time on March 20 for 32 CEOs and their fledgling companies at Under the Radar, an annual new-company...
IBM Makes Big UCC Bet
IBM plans to spend $1 billion during the next three years on unified communications and collaboration, with its Sametime instant messaging and video- and...
FCC to Investigate D-Block Auction
The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that a contractor tried to extort potential bidders for a block of the spectrum set aside for...
NComputing Spreads I/O Wealth
NComputing has sold more than 600,000 virtual desktops in the last three years, offering an innovative way to harness what it calls "the untapped...
How to Deal with Unstructured Data – Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
/images/stories/70x50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_(2).jpgUnstructured data has been around for a long time - certainly longer than the computer. Consider the Bible, the Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the Kama...
The Virtual Desktop
With the dramatic cost savings and management benefits that server virtualization delivers for enterprises, just about every IT problem area is starting to be...
A Compute Marketplace in the Cloud
On the tailwinds of Sun Microsystems' Network.com and Amazon.com's EC2, grass-roots startup DigitalRibbon is looking to start a revolution in trading computational resources in...
LinkedIn Adds Corporate Profiles
LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, expanded its service to include company profiles March 21, relying on the work histories of its individual...
Microsoft’s Komoku Buy Could Hit Patent Hiccup
I'm hearing some murmurs that Microsoft's acquisition of anti-rootkit startup Komoku could hit a patent hurdle.My sources point to Patent #7,181,560, which was granted...
VON.x Wrapup
I just wrapped up a two-day visit to the VON.x telephony show in San Jose. Below are some of the highs and lows from...