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Microsoft Blogger Identifies Top Three Tech Majors IT professionals who are going back to school, mentoring a younger person, or the parent of a student with tech-related leanings might do well to read a blog post authored by a Microsoft HR specialist. Date: 2010-08-26 Bill Gates Predicts Shift To Online Post-Secondary Education At the recent Techonomy Conference, Bill Gates presented on a variety of issues during his keynote session. Date: 2010-08-13 Is An Open Core Lock-in A Bad Idea Or A Viable Option? A debate has been raging over the popular open core business model that many open source vendors are utilizing today. Date: 2010-07-30 Tech Spend Begins To Rise As Recession Weakens I recently wrote that collaborative applications market remains strong. Here is more good news as Businessweek reports that IDC predicts that global tech spending is set to rise by 3.8 percent, to $1.5 trillion this year after falling by 4.2 percent in 2009. Date: 2010-07-16 Apigee Launches New Tool for Facebook Developers Apigee has launched a Facebook API Console. This is a free tool that allows Facebook developers to learn, debug, interact with and develop on Facebook's Open Graph API in a more simplified way. Date: 2010-06-29 IBM Buys Web Analytics Company IBM doesn't make too many mistakes, but I thought it made a big one four years ago when it sold off its SurfAid Web analytics business to Coremetrics. Date: 2010-06-17 Storage Software Market Continues Recovery The global storage software market experienced solid growth in the first quarter of 2010 with revenues of $3 billion, representing 7.2 percent growth 0ver the same quarter one year ago, but a 1.6 percent decrease from the previous quarter (Q4 2009). Date: 2010-06-07 What Does Google's WebM License Mean For Open Source? Google's WebM, an open and royalty-free media format based on the VP8 video codec, was amongst the highlights coming out of Google I/O 2010. Date: 2010-05-28 Take The (Open) Plunge Already! About ten years ago or so, you may have ran across this nice little swimming hole called open source software (OSS). Date: 2010-05-13 Does The iPad Really Have IT Power? Now that the iPad's been out for a bit, I thought I'd share a few quick takes on my experience with it now that the novelty is wearing off. Date: 2010-04-29 Worldwide IT Spending To Grow 5.3% In 2010 Global IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 percent increase from IT spending of $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to the latest report from Gartner. Date: 2010-04-15 Usharesoft Talks Open Source Strategy In The Cloud Open source cloud is getting hype, and looking at the different slices of the "burger cloud" among SaaS cloud providers I happened to step into UShareSoft, a French company based in Grenoble providing an appliance factory to design, build and deploy software appliances in virtual and cloud environments. Date: 2010-04-09 Leveraging Your Data To Dominate Your Niche A few years ago Google's chief economist Hal Varian explained that scale is over-rated: We're very skeptical about the scale argument, as you might expect. Date: 2010-03-25 Should New Tech Come With Literacy Testing? The technology that lies underneath the services we use every day is complex and changing quickly. Technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, are changing how developers and architects build these services. Date: 2010-03-11 Global IT Spending Set For Modest Growth A slow but steady improvement in the macroeconomic environment in 2010 should lead to modest growth in overall IT spending, according to a recent forecast by Gartner. Date: 2010-02-25 Why Zend Sees No Competition In Facebook's PHP Facebook recently open sourced HipHop for PHP. According to Facebook engineers, the technology has been used to reduce Facebook Web server CPU usage by an average... Date: 2010-02-08 Carlo Piana Investigates The Oracle/Sun Merger Clearance Larry Ellison will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission's clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger. Date: 2010-01-28 Private Clouds Should Only Be Used Temporarily Here are several excerpts from an insightful article by Alistair Croll, principal analyst at Bitcurrent, Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future... Date: 2010-01-15 |
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