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Sun CEO Schwartz Plans To Cut Up To 5,000 Jobs
Sun sets a six-month cost-cutting plan to cut jobs and increase efficiency.
China Fights For Its Wireless Standard Against Intel-Backed 802.11i
Chinese officials say the approval process for a wireless security standard was unfairly stacked against its WAPI. It could be the start of more such disputes.
AMD Live! Home Entertainment Platform Expanded With Services
The collection of services and applications is designed to make it easier to view, record, manage, secure, and store TV programs, photos, music, and movies on Web-connected devices.
Getting Ready To Eat My Words About 2007 Office And Windows Vista
I'm not prepared to eat my words just yet. But I'm setting the table in case I have to chow down.
A couple of months ago, I predicted Microsoft would have big trouble getting users to upgrade to Vista and the next version of Office.
Well, Microsoft dropped Beta 2 of 2007 Office, and it's looking pretty ta
VoIP Difficulties Don't Seem To Improve
Back in October 1998, I co-wrote a cover story for Network Computing on VoIP in the enterprise, introducing the technology to our readers and describing some of the deployment challenges that admins should watch for. What's interesting is that every time I've gone back and reread that article, I've expected to find it completely outdated, with most of the early problems resolved and newer challenges in place. But instead I keep
Two Events Show Effort To Fix Mobile Web Browsing
Nokia releases its browser tools to open source community, and .mobi registration begins.
Verizon's New Service Promises To Boost Application Performance Up To 600%
The company's outsourced services suite consists of three offerings. The core service, Application Acceleration, introduces an express lane across the Internet that will accelerate Web-based applications without adding equipment to a company's data center.
IONA's MTOSI Toolkit Enables Integration of OSS & BSS for Environments Using Artix
Toolkit available for free download over the Web.
MapInfo Launches New Web Services Connectivity in Location Intelligence Application
Users can access dynamic location data via the Internet.
Is Wikipedia Dead, Or Just Pining For The Fjords?
Nick Carr says it's dead, as the community encyclopedia has put in place a tightening series of controls on who can contribute content.
He notes that one of the kinds of restrictions is named "in good Orwellian fashion, 'semi-protection,'" which blocks unregistered editors and editors with very new accounts from editing a page.
"The end came last Friday," Carr writes. "That's when Wikipedia's founder, J
Microsoft MapPoint Web Service Access for Startup Applications
Maps4MyApps.com provides developers direct access to the Microsoft platform.
Do You Want To Be Part Of Microsoft's Revolution?
There's been a lot of hoopla about the simultaneous announcements of Microsoft Vista Beta 2, 2007 Microsoft Office Beta 2, and Longhorn Vista Server Beta 2. In fact, there's been so much coverage from all the various online and print media that I've been tempted to find myself a beta blocker. (Sorry--a little health care humor there.)
Windows Vista Collaboration: A Big Step Forward, But Still An Island
Windows Collaboration, a new tool in Vista, will bring collaboration to the masses--but it's an island unto itself, rather than a bridge.
Apple Wants iPods To Keep Pace With Listeners
A patent application published today suggests that Apple is planning iPod software that plays songs to suit the pace of listeners' activities.
"[T]he invention pertains to a computing device that is capable of controlling the speed of the music so as to affect the mood and behavior of
StreamCast Sues eBay For $12.3 Billion Over Copyright
The sale of Skype to eBay was made possible through a scheme to "misappropriate the FastTrack peer-to-peer technology that rightfully belongs to StreamCast," a StreamCast lawyer says.
People Use Word Because They Use Word
I've been puzzled as to why people would choose to write in Microsoft Word--or any word processor--if the text they're producing has little or no formatting. Well, I got my answer, and I fear that, alas, it's less interesting than I had hoped:
People use what they're used to using.
Now you're thinking: Well, duh.
Mission Intelligence: Hide Complexity, Expose the Rules
Discovering existing business rules independently of applications and databases is often the first big step toward sustaining behavioral change across the enterprise.
Dashboard: Geek Fun: Event Stream Processing Entertains the Inner Nerd
An expressive command language won't win over the GUI-bound or those who study Fortune 500 market share. But those of us "braniacs on nerd patrol" will get the message.
Dashboard: Sizing Up the Survivors in a Competitive Portal Hothouse
The independent portal market, so promising in the mid-90s, appears to be dead. With a few exceptions, infrastructure vendors like BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Sun dominate today's portal market. What happened?
Office 2007 'Shiny,' Says Scalzi
Scalzi has been playing with the Office 2007 beta and loves it. He writes:
I can say at this point that a) I really like the new organizational structure of the features up at the top (the tabs mean you don't have to drill down through several hundred menus to find functionality), and b) I sure hope MS improves its"Publish to Blog" feature, because right now it stinks; I can't get it to play with the Whatever, which
Gates Says Next Windows, Office Will Show The PC Is 'In No Way Standing Still'
The new versions will change a lot about how the PC operates, from how it boots up to how data, photos, and music are accessed.
Peak Performance: ERP's Promise: Is Reality Stunted by Perception?
Can enterprise resource planning live up to its promise? What is the future for ERP in large organizations? The
enterprise IT group must define what's next.
Kimball University: Data Stewardship 101: First Step to Quality and Consistency
Data stewards are the liaisons between business users and the data warehouse team, and they ensure consistent, accurate, well-documented and timely insight on resources and requirements.
Feature: The Personal Workspace Evolves
In a sign of progress for data hunter-gatherers, Microsoft, SAP, IBM and Google are taking steps toward higher order personal productivity environments that will let you interact with enterprise data.
Progress Launches Dashboard For Business Activity Monitoring Platform
Progress Software unveils a dashboard that provides a variety of visual displays for constantly changing data in the software maker's business activity monitoring platform.
Analysis: Invest in Tech as you Would Stocks and Bonds
The IT Governance Institute introduces Val IT.
Open-Source Java: What's It To You?
The real winner with any Java open-source scenario will be Sun, which has been scrambling to lower the prices of its products and services to compete with the likes of Linux and the Wintel crowd.
Shortlist
QlikTech QlikView, OutlookSoft 5, and more.
Q&A with Business Guru Tom Davenport: Test Your Intuition
Business change guru Tom Davenport, professor at Babson College and author of numerous articles and books, offers advice on making the most of business intelligence.
Put to the Test: Appian Enterprise 5 Masters Process Change
Liberating users from rigid models, Appian's Enterprise 5 BPM suite lets you alter the process to ease exception handling.
Put to the Test: HaleyAuthority 5.1: Follow the Rules (in Plain English)
This BRM system offers a natural-language alternative that puts business users in charge of rules management.
Content Management Behind the Scenes: Targeting Transparency
A global law firm, a multi-agency county government and a giant energy-industry services firm demonstrate that the best approach to hiding content management complexity depends on user work habits and favored applications.
Enterprise Content Management: Hide What's Inside
Content management works best when its behind the scenes -- and not treated it as an application unto itself. Consider integrating with e-mail and business apps or explore emerging options for infrastructure- or service-based management.
TiVo's Magazine Team-Up Shows Old-Media Arrogance: They're Just Too Fuller Themselves
TiVo's announcement Monday that it's teaming up with old-line magazines like Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, and several other major print brands to create a so-called Guru Guide service for viewers shows that the company and its heavily recycled CEO, Tom Rogers, fundamentally don't get what's driving the new, networked, Internet 2.0 economy. So if I were a TiVo shareholder, which I'm not, here's why I'd be dumping that stock faster than Paris Hilton ditches Greek millionaires
Top Five Skype Tips
Get tips about adding SkypeOut to call landlines, SkypeIn to let landlines call you, adjusting your status, privacy and mood messages, and other things you can do to get the most out of Skype.
Diagnosing an MDM Malaise
How to tell if you have problems with master data.
Business Objects and Purisma Announce Technology Partnership
Business intelligence and customer data integration will come together.
How To Succeed In Business
It's the year of social networking. Oh no, wait, that was 2003.
Because by mid-2004, pundits were already predicting the death of what was being called just a passing fad. But social networking couldn't have been quite moribund because people, with great fanfare, pronounced it dead again almost a
Five Questions For Andrew Shue, Co-Founder Of ClubMom.com
A one-time heartthrob on TV's Melrose Place, Shue is also a former professional soccer player, algebra teacher in Africa, and entrepreneur. These days, he's launching ClubMom's social network and co-producing Gracie, a film to be released next year.
Patent Office To Review Legitimacy Of Amazon's One-Click Shopping Patent
A government examiner agreed evidence provided by a New Zealand actor warrants a re-examination of the patent.
Microsoft's Not The Only Game In Town
If you're like me, you use several Microsoft products every day: Windows, for starters. Word. Excel. PowerPoint. Windows Media Player. Huge numbers of you use Outlook for E-mail, contacts, and calendaring. Even if you've switched to Firefox or Opera, you probably use Internet Explorer for certain sites, such as corporate tools, that won't support other browsers.
Microsoft software is everywhere on both corporate and home desktops. We use it all the time without even thinking about it. We may e
Hardware Monitoring On Windows
In the last post, I wrote about the hardware-level monitoring tools that are available for Linux, and in this post I'll look at the same kinds of tools that are available for Windows.
Surprisingly, hardware monitoring on Windows is much more complicated than it is on Linux. For one thing, there's no single extensible sensor engine like lm_sensors on Linux
Gates Lists BI As A Focus For Microsoft Business Software
Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., says the software maker is focusing on business intelligence to help address the need for better information management within companies.
Analysis: IBM Takes Dead Aim At Microsoft Office With New Notes Version
Microsoft has good reason to be concerned: The new version of Notes will include a built-in office suite complete with a word processor, spreadsheet, and graphics program.
Sun Answers The World's Most Boring Question
Before announcing yesterday that it would release Java under an open-source license, Sun's executives might have considered the matter very carefully. They might have debated the pros and cons of open-source Java; invited outside experts to weigh in on the matter; and then settled on a carefully-timed plan for getting the job done.
But they didn't. Rich Green, Sun's prodigal software boss, said yesterday about Sun
BlackBerry Vs. Laptop: It's No Contest
If you could use only one device for an entire day, which would it be: your BlackBerry, cell phone, iPod, or laptop?
Bigger Not Always Better For Networks
Rather than focus on expensive and high-bandwidth networks, Gartner analysts say most companies would be better served with technologies that are geared to a distributed workforce.
Sun's Schwartz Welcomes Bad-Boy Fleury To JavaOne Stage
Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss Inc., took the stage at the opening keynote of JavaOne wearing a red beret. Well, he's French, which explains the beret, and JBoss is being acquired by Red Hat, which explains the color. But that's not what's surprising about Fleury being on stage during Sun President Jonathan Schwartz' address.
Tibco To Add Third-Party Ajax Components To App Dev Tools
Tibco Software, an integration and process management software maker, says it is adding open source and commercial third-party Ajax components to its Web application development framework.
Google In Your iBook
Charity, it seems, is catching, not to mention competitive. The Maine Department of Education recently struck a deal with Apple Computer to provide iBooks for 36,000 students for $289 apiece as part of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative.
The iBooks come with plenty of nifty software. But nothing from Google. So Google, ever committed to organizing the world's in
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
Download this report to compare how cloud usage and spending patterns have changed in 2020, and how respondents think they'll evolve over the next two years.
2021 Top Enterprise IT TrendsWe've identified the key trends that are poised to impact the IT landscape in 2021. Find out why they're important and how they will affect you.
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