Technology Today

• Can a price cut, TV ad give Zune a lift?

  This holiday season, if you can't afford an iPod, will you consider a Zune? Microsoft is announcing a price cut today to its flash-based Zune models: $99 for the 4GB ...

  Tags: TV, Management, Personal Technology, Advertisement, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Zune, Sam Diaz, Software, Digital Media, Digital Music

  Nov 19, 2008 10:30 AM PST

• Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI

  This post is a warning for folks that they need to end their debating before they are fired, or as we like to call it during these times "downsized." by ...

  Tags: Roi/Tco, Managerial Accounting, Jennifer Leggio, Finance, IOR, Social Media, ROI, Kyle Flaherty

  Nov 19, 2008 9:56 AM PST

• Towards a World Wide Grid?

  In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. ...

  Tags: Grid, Roland Piquepaille, Middleware, Eclipse, g-Eclipse, Open Source, Eclipse Project

  Nov 19, 2008 9:51 AM PST

• Holding VistA's age against it

  In computing it is common to disparage old code. Old code runs on old machines. Old code is obsolete. Old code must be replaced. This common canard is being pushed ...

  Tags: Code, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Nov 19, 2008 8:59 AM PST

• Is the BlackBerry Storm too 'consumer'?

  Enterprise customers getting hold of the long-awaited BlackBerry Storm are discovering that the smartphone isn't quite as "enterprise" as they might have hoped. Is the BlackBerry Storm too "consumer" for ...

  Tags: Andrew Nusca, Internet Solution, Handhelds, Hardware, RIM BlackBerry

  Nov 19, 2008 8:27 AM PST

• GE plays the embrace and extend game

  Now is the time for government to put the hammer down on all medical vendors and demand open, universal, transparent, royalty-free standards. Had we done that with the automakers we ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Vertical Industries, Dana Blankenhorn, Government, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Human Resources, Healthcare, Health Care

  Nov 19, 2008 8:14 AM PST

• 'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accent

  The new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, according to a report by Agence France Presse. The ...

  Tags: Web Site, Andrew Nusca, Web Site Development, Telecommunications, Accent, Web Technology, Internet, Apple iPhone, Google Inc.

  Nov 19, 2008 7:53 AM PST

• Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in 2010

  Microsoft's just-announced free anti-virus/anti-malware service, codenamed Morro, isn't the only new Microsoft security service in the works. There's a Microsoft-hosted security service for businesses in the pipeline, too, and it's ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Service, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Blogging, Security, Forefront

  Nov 19, 2008 7:35 AM PST

• Can database lock-in be broken

  It seems to be an Iron Law. As a database structure grows more complex the cost of shifting vendors becomes prohibitive. Free becomes expensive and expensive nearly free. by Dana ...

  Tags: Ingres, Databases, Dana Blankenhorn, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Oracle Corp., Storage

  Nov 19, 2008 7:12 AM PST

• Did Microsoft really kill OLPC?

  I posted a number of pieces Monday about OLPC and its XO laptop now for sale on Amazon in a reboot of the Give One Get One program, one of ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Christopher Dawson, One Laptop Per Child Project

  Nov 19, 2008 7:08 AM PST

• GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo Finance

  While General Motors executives are on Capitol Hill begging for money the automaker is also taking its case to Yahoo Finance's news section. And you can't escape GM's pitch. Based ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan, Social Security, Government, General Motors Corp., Operational Accounting

  Nov 19, 2008 7:06 AM PST

• Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist

  Two Dell-related green tech proclamations this week: First, the company has done one of those fun green math exercises and is calculating that its customers have saved an estimated $3 ...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Procurement, Hardware, Heather Clancy, Dell Optiplex, Desktops

  Nov 19, 2008 7:03 AM PST

• VUDU shuns economic reality; targets high-end

  $1299? Are they out of their minds? Last week, I posted an entry about VUDU, the company that's selling a $300 set-top box that enables consumers to rent or buy ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Branding, Home Entertainment, VUDU, Marketing, Sam Diaz, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics

  Nov 19, 2008 7:01 AM PST

• Stepford: A vision of IT utopia

  In this ideal world, business users gratefully accept whatever techno-babble nonsense IT throws at them, with technology having become utterly divorced from any business purpose whatsoever. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Information Technology, Strategy, Michael Krigsman, Vision, Software, Cartoon, Enterprise Software

  Nov 19, 2008 6:56 AM PST

• Will identity be open source?

  Not only have project managers had to explain and defend the need for secure identities to a consumer audience which thinks it Big Brother, but they had to navigate among ...

  Tags: Identity, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

  Nov 19, 2008 6:46 AM PST

• Review: OtterBox Impact and Defender Series cases for the BlackBerry Bold

  I picked up a RIM BlackBerry Bold a couple of weeks ago and was extremely happy with the device. The inability to sync with my Exchange account forced me to ...

  Tags: Defender Series, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Membrane, BlackBerry Bold, Hardware, OtterBox Impact Series, Holster, RIM BlackBerry, OtterBox Impact Series Case

  Nov 19, 2008 6:30 AM PST

• iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

  This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Big Nerd Ranch. To make things ...

  Tags: OpenGL, Ed Burnette, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers

  Nov 19, 2008 6:26 AM PST

• Great educational websites (and an intro to Diigo)

  As promised, I've compiled your suggested educational websites and posted them on Diigo, as well. Diigo, by the way, is a bit like delicious on steroids. It has a really ...

  Tags: Web Site, Channel Management, Web, Web Site Development, Christopher Dawson, Marketing, Web Technology, Internet

  Nov 19, 2008 5:41 AM PST

• Giddyap - Oracle Mid-market apps team with Wells Fargo

  A Treasury Solution to Save Money not cost more of it I got a briefing from Oracle's Tony Kender and Wells Fargo's Brad Stewart concerning their new joint plug-in adapter ...

  Tags: Adapter, Brian Sommer, Team, Oracle Corp., Wells Fargo & Co.

  Nov 19, 2008 5:23 AM PST

• Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

  I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, ...

  Tags: Financial, Management, It Services, Krishnan, Financial Accounting, Vineet Nayar, Strategy, Marketing, Leadership, Nayar

  Nov 19, 2008 3:44 AM PST

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