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Developers Getting Excited About The New Kindle The introduction of the Kindle Fire has seemingly heated up the running for the king of Android tablets. Date: 2011-12-06 Reactions To Google's Recent Algorithm Update I'm not sure what other writers are calling Google's algorithm update, as we've only had it for a day. I'm staying with the KISS (keep it simple stupid) method, and calling it "Google Fresh". Date: 2011-11-08 Cutting Data Center Building Costs With Open Source Servers The Open Compute Project Foundation recently announced results from Facebook's attempts to build an efficient data center at the lowest possible cost. Date: 2011-10-28 Social Media Flies Past Email And Search For Web Usage I can remember when Email and Search were the top two in Web usage (aside from porn). Of course, I can remember when there was no Web. Times have changed. Date: 2011-10-04 Should You Move Your Email To The Cloud? I am attending Forrester's Content & Collaboration Forum 2011. Forrester notes that in five years, almost half of US workers - about 63 million people - will work virtually. Date: 2011-09-23 Gartner Reports That Big Data Challenges Go Beyond Managing Large Volumes Of Data Big Data is certainly a hot topic. I went to a session on Big Data Analytics for Social Media at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. Here is some advice from Gartner that we can certainly agree with as reported by Nathan Eddy in the Channel Insider. Date: 2011-08-24 VMware Backs Down On Licensing Changes VMware's vSphere 5 new licensing model raised eyebrows and tempers across the industry just three weeks ago. Bowing to the negative response, VMware has announced three changes that should appease customers - but will still likely lead to higher virtualization costs for VMware customers. Date: 2011-08-05 Is Cloud Computing The Victim Or The Suspect? When cloud computing arrived at center stage back in the late 1990's, it was the future. It was the invention of the microchip all over again. IT departments and CFO's everywhere were breathing a sigh of relief. Date: 2011-07-15 Has The Tech Industry Forgotten Users? You know when I read David Heinemeier Hansson write that all he needs is 10 apps I believe we've all lost our minds. Then I look at Techmeme and see all the insider baseball and nothing about real users and I realize we have indeed lost our minds. Date: 2011-06-23 Chrome 12 Hits Users, Improved Security And Privacy Google Chrome has the fastest growth of all browsers and currently has over 160 million active users. That puts them at over 10 percent of the total web population in the U.S. and a substantially larger portion overseas. Date: 2011-06-10 Microskype? Skyprosoft? Microsoft Buys Skype This is one of those cases where we get to see why rumors are just rumors. Last week we reported that a potential deal between Facebook and Skype was on the table. Date: 2011-05-12 Technology Firms Are Investing More In Social Media Are technology firms adopting social media' is one of the areas that the recent Eurocom Worldwide 2011 Annual Technology Confidence Survey explored. Date: 2011-04-28 Using Semantic Technology And Machine Learning For Consumer Advice: Retrevo With all the publicity over IBM's Watson, there has been a lot of discussion about how far computers can go to "replace" people. Of course, I think that is not really the question to ask. It should rather be conceived as how computers can complement people. Date: 2011-04-14 Comodo Hacker Strikes Again A follow up message was again posted on pastebin by an individual using the handle of "COMODOHACKER." Date: 2011-03-31 Open Source Revenue Models: Red Hat's Tactics And Strategies Red Hat recently disclosed publicly a change in the way they distribute kernel patches, explaining that such decision came out in reaction to third parties (competitively) supporting RHEL. Date: 2011-03-16 RPath Supports The New Dynamic And Cloud-based Vision For IT A major transformation is occurring with enterprise IT services. I recently spoke with Jake Sorofman, CMO at rPath, to get his perspective on these changes. Jake pointed out that IT used to have a local monopoly on IT services. Date: 2011-03-03 White House Jumping On The 'Cloud' Bandwagon Who knew that making upgrades in the IT sector of our government could potentially save us billions of dollars. According to U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, that's how much tax payer money could be saved by upgrading the country's infrastructure. Date: 2011-02-17 Tibco Releases Social Media Platform For It Professionals There are numerous social media platforms available on the Internet that cater to specific groups and interests. Date: 2011-02-03 Mid-size Businesses Ready To Move To The Cloud According to a recent survey over 60 percent of respondents in the mid-size business space say they are ready to look to the cloud. Date: 2011-01-20 The Top 10 Tech Industry Missteps There can never exist an industry in this world that can survive from making mistakes. And an industry that needs to be very meticulous in fabricating every... Date: 2011-01-06 |
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