Monthly Archives: July 2008
Open-Source Tools Fuel Web, Desktop Development
Open-source community developers have been awash in news this summer, particularly the past few weeks surrounding the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 21-25 in...
GAO: Billions Wasted on Federal IT Projects
WASHINGTON-Government agencies are spending billions of dollars on IT investments that are redundant, lack clear goals and are managed by unqualified individuals, U.S. Sen....
Google Says Video Ads Not in the Cards for Omnisio
Google has no current plans to leverage its new Omnisio video annotation assets for online video ads, the company claimed.As I noted July 30,...
Adobe Riding High on the Flash Wave
NEW YORK-Adobe's Flash is the dominant rich Internet application platform and the company is counting on its lead there to keep competitors like Microsoft...
Facebook Taps Intel’s Xeon Processors
Facebook is turning to Intel for the processing power needed to expand its data center infrastructure.In a joint agreement announced July 31, Facebook will...
NASA Hacker to Touch Down in U.S. Court Soon
Gary McKinnon, one of the most notorious and curious hackers brought out of the shadows over the last several years, has lost his appeal...
Google to Dis Microsoft at a University Near You
Call it the Google Apps for EDU road-show.Starting in Mountain View on Google's campus September 8, members of Google's Apps for EDU team are...
Google Buys Omnisio to Boost YouTube Ad Sales
Have you ever grabbed a YouTube clip and wanted to tweak it for your Web site or blog?Google said on its YouTube blog today...
Vulnerability Adds to Trend’s Tough Week
Just days after AV vendor Trend Micro was forced to issue a warning that Chinese hackers were distributing an attack disguised as, and packaged...
Report: IT Salary Increases Holding Steady, Staffing Down
The good ol' IT research-events-consulting-analyst folks at Gartner released the 2008 IT Market Compensation report today, and it shows a slight decline in hiring...