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Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure Cloud OS
The effort is an early salvo in Microsoft's campaign to lessen its dependence on desktop software.
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InformationWeek Reports: Get Control Of Your Data
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Entrepreneurial Insights From Expert Jeff Cornwall
In the face of financial turmoil, business owners are scouring their budgets for places to reduce spending, but Jeff Cornwall, the author, academic, and leading blogger, says there are places where you shouldn't cut back, especially during a recession.
Microsoft's Cloud OS Compelling, But Questions Remain
On top of Windows Azure, Microsoft will additionally build a series of its own applications and services developers and customers will be able to take advantage of.
E-Voting Complaints Heat Up With Early Voting
Some people have also complained that the touch-screens are overly sensitive and do not separate the choices enough for voters to be sure they are activating the right selection.
Terrorists Could Use Twitter For Mayhem, Army Report Muses
An intelligence paper outlines technologies that terrorist organizations could use to inflict harm, including cell phone GPS data, voice-changing technology, and Twitter updates.
Google's Android OS Has Security Flaw, Researcher Claims
The vulnerability is in the browsers, and could potentially enable a hacker to have access to information the browser may use such as cookies, saved passwords, and other info.
IBM Introduces 'Information On Demand' Products
The products are part of a three-year, $10 billion investment by IBM to build out a broad data management product portfolio.
Netflix Rolls Out Media Player For Macs
The online movie house is using Microsoft's Silverlight technology to extend its reach.
Google Earth Lands On Apple's iPhone
Similar to Google Earth for desktop computers, the free software's animated world rotates and zooms in on a map of one's location.
Dell Unveils 12-Inch Mini-Notebook
While similar in size to the MacBook Air, the Inspiron Mini 12 is aimed at people who want basic Web-browsing and document creation capabilities at less than one-third the price.
BlackBerry Gets Live Video Streaming
The mobile broadcasting service Qik announced support for the BlackBerry Bold and Pearl, with more handsets to come.
CenturyTel To Acquire Embarq In $5.8 Billion Deal
The combined Embarq-CenturyTel would operate in 33 states and have about 8 million telephone access lines, 2 million high-speed Internet customers.
'White Space' Opponents File Last-Ditch Opposition With FCC
Some in Congress ask to postpone the FCC's scheduled Nov. 4 vote, while supporters argue that the fringes of the spectrum have been tested and debated long enough.
Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure 'Cloud' OS
The effort is an early salvo in Microsoft's campaign to lessen its dependence on desktop software.
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Virtualization At The Desktop?
Examine how more than 250 companies plan to adopt server virtualization technology in this recent InformationWeek Research report, Server Virtualization.
The BI Explosion
Examine the business intelligence strategies of 500 companies, including deployment drivers and challenges, spending plans, and vendor selection, in this recent InformationWeek Research report.
Spooky Predictions For Wall Street
It's anybody's guess what U.S. stocks will do this week. Investors have acted with all the reliability of a ball on a roulette wheel since the end of September.
Why Windows 7 Doesn't Compute
I know this is nit-picky, especially when there are so many other important things to focus on -- like faster boot times and files searches that take less than a leap year. But here's what I want to know: Isn't "Windows 7" a gross misnomer as the name of Vista's successor? If we're not gonna use a year as the numerical designation in the new operating system's name, then aren't we at least up to nine or 10? (Or maybe 12?)
The PCI Protection Racket
A hotel operator says his point-of-sale vendor is using PCI as an excuse to force expensive upgrades to POS equipment.
Android's Mobile Email An Epic Fail?
Uh oh. Reports are pouring in from users of the HTC G1 Android phone and the news is not good. Users are saying that the mobile email client fails to retrieve email and reports mysterious "connection errors." Many complain that mobile email doesn't work at all on the G1. Google, T-Mobile and HTC, you'd better fix this one fast...
Go-oo: OpenOffice.org, Reloaded
For those of you who've been downloading the OpenOffice.org 3.0 betas and release candidates, there's an alternate build of OO.o that's well worth your attention: Go-oo.
Are 'Green' Drives Really Green?
The storage industry is often guilty of jumping on the bandwagon without giving the architecture much thought. We see this in solid state disk, data deduplication, and green drives. Are users really going to see decreased power consumption by deploying green drives? If so, is it going to be worth the effort of replacing your current systems?
Green Computing? Offset This
Is there anything positive to be said about "carbon neutral" computing? The premise of carbon neutrality is to achieve net zero carbon emissions by balancing a measured amount of carbon released with an equivalent amount sequestered or offset.
iPhone Gets Google Earth, Street Views On The Way
Good news for iPhone users this morning. First, Google announced a free version of its Google Earth application for the iPhone. Second, it appears that firmware 2.2 for the iPhone will support Street Views in the Google Maps application. Together, these make the iPhone's mapping capabilities a lot more interactive.
T-Mobile G1 Android Smartphone Has Serious Security Flaw
As if headlines haven't been bad enough lately, reading the New York Times' story on Saturday about the security flaw in Google's Android software didn't help cheer me up very much.
Sprint: Android Ain't For Us. Not Yet, Anyway
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said that Android, as it is today, is not "good enough to put the Sprint brand on it." I suppose that will make the next gathering of the Open Handset Alliance, of which Sprint is a part, a little awkward.
Windows Vista SP2: Mid-Life Crisis Management
Poor Vista. Interest in Windows 7 and the new Windows Strata "cloud OS" has left the current version of Windows getting little attention. Microsoft VP Mike Nash pulled customers back into the present with the announcement that Vista Service Pack 2 will be released to a select group for testing just two days before Halloween.
Real-World SOA: Definition, Implementation and Use of SOA with CentraSite
Web services are having a dramatic impact on improving enterprise architecture and application development practices. This paper highlights three sample case studies illustrating how Fujitsu's CentraSite delivers SOA solutions.
Forrester Consulting: Unified Communications Delivers Global Benefits
This Forrester Consulting study shows how Unified Communications (UC) makes it simpler to contact others over any device in any location, enhancing business agility, cutting costs, and boosting employee productivity. Forrester finds that UC is already delivering major savings for organizations around the world in retail banking, manufacturing and education. Download the full report for free.
Software as a Service Research Report
No longer a niche software delivery model, software as a service (SaaS) can help small and midsize companies get access to enteprise-class software functionality without having to commit enterprise-level capital resources. Download the full report for free.
The Internet & The Developing World
The evolution of the Internet has been full of surprises - surprises that have sometimes resulted in radical changes in the commercial landscape, such as the arrival of Amazon, eBay, Google, YouTube, and Skype. Could one of the next big surprises turn out to be linked to developing countries? Read the full report for free from InternetEvolution.com
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Every few years, Microsoft hosts a big conference, the Professional Developers Conference, to announce the next versions of Windows and .Net, among other things. This year should be called the cloud PDC, and I blogged about it live today.
