Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibility Sometimes actually rather too often for comfort I read something and I just don't know what to make of it - so a "compare and contrast" on two opposing blogs by other people about the miracle, or otherwise, of adding a not-a-lock lock to Windows and the reality that...
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:15:52 -0800 A deep dive into Windows 7 (build 6801) Microsoft took the wraps off Windows 7 for the first time at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles three weeks ago. Since returning from PDC, I've been installing and using Windows 7 on a variety of hardware platforms eight distinct desktop and portable systems so far. My immediate goal...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:06:45 -0800 Linux on the iPhone? Of course, after Apple develops an elegant and perfectly understandable mobile UI, Linux hackers want to tear it down. Bring on the OpenMoko, Android or Ubuntu Mobile for the iPhone. by David Morgenstern
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:27:31 -0800 It's different, developing to the cloud Platform-as-a-service dramatically it changes the development process. But don't take it from me - Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure was itself developed in the cloud, and its developers learnt a lot of new tricks. by Phil Wainewright
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:25:21 -0800 Microsoft's cloud is more about Notes migration and less about a new IT architecture Monday morning I went to Microsoft's launch of new online services. Previously they were only available for large companies now they are available to any size business in the US with a rest of world roll out in March 2009. I listened to customer case studies, about...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:02:55 -0800 SaaS competition in PPM and GRC heats up More SaaS movement from a major software vendor CA yesterday announced the availability of two software as a service SaaS solutions. One is targeted for the IT management space while the other is oriented around governance. CA is taking its on-premise enterprise...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:11:36 -0800 MailShadowG syncs Outlook data to Google and thus your G1 After checking out my T-Mobile G1 review and reading how I was looking for a way to get my Exchange information on my device, Clay sent me an email with a link to the press release announcing MailShadow for Google Apps or MailShadowG. I have been using the free Google...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:34:23 -0800 Deep down inside, on a subconscious level, the business loves SOA, right? I recall the words of one observer a couple of years back: "How many businesspeople do you know have ever come begging to you for SOA?" Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder picked up on my latest post on SOA business issues behind SOA acceptance: by Joe...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:12:54 -0800 Review: Sprint Touch Pro and AT&T HTC Fuze Windows Mobile devices Last week I was quite excited about the BlackBerry Bold and think it is fantastic piece of hardware and the best BlackBerry device currently available. However, I could not get my Outlook Web Access to work with my work Exchange server and the BlackBerry security settings prevented the connection and...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:46:40 -0800 What does 'SharePoint in the cloud' really mean? Microsoft began shipping, starting November 17, the final version of its Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Microsoft-hosted services. Are these products full versions of Microsoft's enterprise software running in "in the cloud"? The short answer: No. by Mary Jo Foley
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:26:07 -0800 42% of organizations reported unauthorized access to their Active Directory Imanami commissioned a survey with Osterman Research to understand the issues related to managing groups in Active Directory, and found that 42% of organizations reported unauthorized access to information from active directory. 44% of the respondents have received an email sent to a distribution list that used to be relevant...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:30:35 -0800 Will Microsoft apply 'Vista-Capable' lessons to Win 7 netbooks? As the e-mail trail in the "Vista-capable" class-action suit continues to unfold, I can't help but wonder whether Microsoft will apply some of the lessons it hopefully learned about working with OEMs to Windows 7 -- especially in the netbook space. The original suit, filed in March...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:37:56 -0800 Tech czar job: CTO or CIO? Is the national "chief technology officer" job promised by Obama going to be more of CTO or CIO job? The consensus seems to be leading towards the latter. The Washington Post quotes Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications: It seems to be much...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:01:42 -0800 Can Microsoft Surface scare patients to health? So what if your own condition, all your current medical readings, and your current food intake, were placed in front of you, on Microsoft Surface, by your doctor? With family and friends and your boss by your side? by Dana Blankenhorn
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:22:30 -0800 Microsoft vs. Google Web-based office battle heats up again After a few months of relative quiet, the war of words and customer wins is on again, with Microsoft and Google battling over which company will be more successful in providing office applications over the Web. by Mary Jo Foley
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:55:55 -0800 Review: TeleNav Shotgun internet connected personal navigation device Last week TeleNav announced their new Shotgun personal navigation device PND. The Shotgun takes the tried and true TeleNav navigation software (found on many carrier phones as AT&T Navigator, Sprint Navigation, etc.) and places it on a very nice piece of hardware. I was sent an evaluation unit to check...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:48:24 -0800 Higher education key to healthy choices There is a correlation between an advanced degree and your willingness to respond to health information. This is a link that needs to be broken if America is to become healthier. by Dana Blankenhorn
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:22:02 -0800 From Windows Capable to the Linux laptop Personally I find something touchy and silly in some of HP's efforts in this direction. Women want the same things from their laptops as men, for instance. But the key point is they are serious here, not just about the engineering but the marketing. by Dana Blankenhorn
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:54:21 -0800 Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software. Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:13:05 -0800 Mobile software Monday: Spb Traveler 2.0 for Windows Mobile I am quite impressed with the excellent applications developed by Spb Software House and I just wish that they were able to develop them for S60 and/or BlackBerry devices too. One of their latest titles that is a perfect fit for me and my regular travels is Spb Traveler 2.0....
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:45:56 -0800 Top Web sites in China in September 2008 Rank Web Site Name Audience, 000 1 Baidu 171 2 Tencent QQ 117 3 Sina 108 4 Google China 81 5 Sohu 74 6 NetEase (163) 58 7 Soso 49 8 Hao123 48 ...
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:16:35 -0800 Top US business Web sites in September 2008 August 2008 September 2008 % Change Total Audience 188,937 189,468 0 Business/Finance - News/Research 58,766 64,277 9 RBC.RU 466 1,190 155 FOXBUSINESS.COM 531 1,205 127 Google Finance 822 1,372 67 CNN Money 4,458 6,952 56 ...
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:58:32 -0800 Airline ticket sales by airline Web site Supplier Sites Q2 2007 Q2 2008 Point Change American Airlines 12.8% 10.7% -2.1 AirTran 4.9% 4.9% 0.0 Continental Airlines 11.5% 12.3% 0.8 Delta Airlines 14.2% 13.3% -0.9 JetBlue 5.9% 7.1% 1.2 Northwest Airlines 6.8% 4.3% -2.5 ...
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:13:59 -0800 Top sports Web sites for August 2008 Site Aug 2007 audience Aug 2008 audience Growth, % Sports Category 33,405 42,252 26% Yahoo! Sports 8,820 18,727 112% ESPN 10,314 11,936 16% FOX Sports on MSN 6,824 7,714 13% SI Digital Sites 3,913 6,490 66% CBS Sports...
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:24:10 -0800 Fastest-growing financial Web sites in September 2008 Aug-08 Sep-08 % Change Total Internet 188,937 189,468 0 Business/Finance 58,766 64,277 9 RBC.RU 466 1,190 155 FOXBUSINESS.COM 531 1,205 127 Google Finance 822 1,372 67 CNN Money 4,458 6,952 56 BLOOMBERG.COM 1,871 2,800 50...
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:56:20 -0800 Top Web sites in France in August 2008 Property Jul-08 Aug-08 Pt Change Total Internet 100.0 100.0 0.0 Google Sites 81.3 82.0 0.7 Microsoft Sites 3.0 2.7 -0.3 Groupe Pages Jaunes 3.2 2.7 -0.6 Yahoo! Sites 2.0 2.3 0.2 Groupe Spir Communication 1.8 2.0 0.2 ...
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:32:02 -0800 TeleNav is riding Shotgun with their new personal navigation device Sometimes the lid gets blown off news about devices and software earlier than planned and it seems that today the TeleNav website developers may have been a little trigger happy as they posted the details on the upcoming TeleNav Shotgun personal navigation device. There is one back in Seattle for...
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:44:06 -0800 MI6 searching for the next generation Whilst walking the streets of London, with half a baguette in one hand and a coffee in the other, I am no more than 10 feet away from someone who tells people you're no more than 10 feet away from a rat. I call them civil servants personally, wandering around...
Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:12:54 -0800 Yahoo confirms exec departure Yahoo on Monday confirmed that Scott Moore, a senior vice president at the company, is leaving "to pursue other opportunities." Yahoo confirmed Moore's departure in a statement. Last week, Moore was at PaidContent.org's Future of Business Media conference talking up Yahoo Finance--not that he said much--and the...
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:07:01 -0800 At last, this is how websites should be built Salesforce.com's new website publishing capability doesn't so much eliminate the difficulty of integrating data-driven functionality into a website so much as move it to a different place, taking it away from the API level and moving it into the realms of CSS and HTML. by Phil Wainewright
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:05:52 -0800 Google supports OpenID, kind of Google has just started supporting kind of the OpenID standard for authentication. The problem is that Google has mangled the protocol -- the most noticeable change is how the username is an email address rather than a URL. As NeoSmart points out though, it's a shame that Google...
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:28:20 -0700 Top US domains by traffic in September 2008 Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 6% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.7% 3. www.myspace.com 4.01% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.88% 5. mail.live.com 2.14% 6. www.ebay.com 1.61% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.48% 8. www.facebook.com 1.2% 9. www.msn.com 1.08% ...
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:09:03 -0700 Well, now we know two flavors of Windows 7 Well, thanks to a privacy document that Microsoft has posted to its website, we now know at least two flavors that Windows 7 will come in. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:41:54 -0700 Newspaper Web sites generated 3.5 bln page views monthly in Q3 2008 Newspapers averaged more than 68 mln monthly unique visitors in Q3 2008, compared with 59 mln in Q3 2007, the Newspaper Association of America said. Visitors generated more than 3.5 bln page views each month, up 25% from the 2.8 bln in Q3 2007. by AM
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:18:27 -0700 E-commerce's looming question: Will consumers show up? The fourth quarter for e-commerce will be very telling. Will online sales continue to grow even if the consumer is strapped? Or will e-commerce increasingly look like the rest of the retail sector? To wit: Amazon's fourth quarter outlook, which had a range so...
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:42:08 -0700 CMIS: Boom Or Bust? Some of you may have heard about the joint announcement from EMC, IBM, and Microsoft about the creation of Content Management Interoperability Services CMIS. The purpose of this proposed new standard? To create a vendor-agnostic way of accessing the data in content management systems from multiple vendors. In other words:...
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:29:12 -0700 Google Chrome gets Greasemonkey support It appears that a recent build of Chromium has support for Greasemonkey -- a very popular, and previously Firefox-only, browser plugin. Greasemonkey can be used by developers to do a bunch of useful things like creating mashups, creating themes, and fixing annoying problems on websites without needing to wait...
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:09:20 -0700 Google will appeal German copyright decision In a decision that directly conflicts with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' interpretation (Perfect10 v. Google, PDF), a German court has ruled that Google's display of a thumbnail image of a photographer's work violates his copyright. "It doesn't matter that thumbnails are much smaller...
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:47:59 -0700 Anonymity and the Internet A case winding its way through a court in Pennsylvania attempts to pierce the veil of anonymity that protects web forum participants' ability to say whatever they want about public figures. Though I don't agree with the conclusions of the judge, I am not fan of anonymity of the...
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:57:06 -0700 Google PPOB? What is it? When you are looking for things that Google is about to do, the best place to keep your eye on is Google's robots.txt file -- a document they keep updated with a list of websites they don't want search engines to index. A week ago, they added "/search2001" which...
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