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• Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

  Experts speaking at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Australia warn that JavaScript will continue to get speedier, making it the biggest rival of Silverlight technology. The biggest rival for Microsoft's next-generation ...

  Tags: Scripting Languages, Adobe, Google, Web Development, JavaScript, Chrome, Flash, Software/Web Development, Microsoft Silverlight, Suzanne Tindal ZDNet Australia

  Sep 05, 2008 6:16 AM PDT

• My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco

  Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that ...

  Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman

  Sep 05, 2008 6:00 AM PDT

• Nokia: Our market share will slip over weak demand

  Nokia said Friday that its mobile device market share will slip in the third quarter from the second quarter "due to weaker consumer confidence in multiple markets." The company also ...

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobile Device

  Sep 05, 2008 5:44 AM PDT

• Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?

  The day after it launched the first ad in its $300 consumer-focused make-over campaign, Microsoft is going public with some of the other planned Windows-branding fixes it has in the ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Brand, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Sep 05, 2008 5:30 AM PDT

• EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses

  Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, video games, Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Reuters, Electronic Arts Inc., Games, Spore

  Sep 05, 2008 5:26 AM PDT

• Video: Google Apps adoption rates up

  At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise, discusses the user acceleration of its Google Apps software. Glotzbach also shows a chart ...

  Tags: Cloud Computing, OpenOffice, Larry Dignan, Video, Software, Office Suites, Google Apps, Google Inc.

  Sep 05, 2008 4:55 AM PDT

• Dell repair adventure, conclusion

  Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than ...

  Tags: Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Dan Kusnetzky, Marketing

  Sep 05, 2008 3:30 AM PDT

• VMworld is bringing out the vendors

  Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller ...

  Tags: Channel Management, Supplier, Dan Kusnetzky, VMworld, Marketing, Announcement

  Sep 05, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• End of an era: Dell may dump its factories

  Dell is reportedly trying to dump its manufacturing facilities across the globe in a turnabout that indicates it has no discernable edge in making PCs anymore. According to the Wall ...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Larry Dignan, Hardware, Manufacturing, Desktops

  Sep 05, 2008 2:41 AM PDT

• Welcome Adam O'Donnell, Sean Portnoy

  We have a few new faces on the blog network--Adam O'Donnell has been added to Zero Day and Sean Portnoy, who is taking over the SoHo networking blog. Adam rounds ...

  Tags: Blog, Adam O'Donnell, Sean, Larry Dignan, Research & Development, Internet, Blogging, Productivity, Security, Business Operations

  Sep 05, 2008 2:30 AM PDT

• News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell

  Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho ...

  Tags: Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Office 2.0, Comcast Corp., Software, Google Inc.

  Sep 05, 2008 2:11 AM PDT

• XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

  The One Laptop Per Child OLPC program will begin selling its XO laptop via Amazon this year in a reprise of its Give One Get One (G1G1) program, according to ...

  Tags: Developing Country, XO, Christopher Dawson, Amazon.com Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project

  Sep 05, 2008 1:59 AM PDT

• From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

  The appliance computing culture earned its successes by focusing on the revenue generation side - and that, in turn, drove its own evolution to database technology, the "application as interfaces ...

  Tags: Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Database, Hardware, Paul Murphy, Processor, Job, Mainframes, Recruitment & Selection

  Sep 05, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Martin jabs back at Comcast over suit

  FCC chairman Kevin J. Martin responded to Comcast's lawsuit challenging the agency's authority to sanction the company. "Given Comcast's past failure to disclose its network management practices to its customers, ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Marketing, Richard Koman, Networking, Comcast Corp., Productivity

  Sep 04, 2008 10:39 PM PDT

• Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?

  The long-awaited $300 million ad campaign that Microsoft launched to counter Apple's successful "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign aired during the Thursday night kickoff to the NFL season. ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Advertisement, Hardware, Productivity, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., Jerry Seinfeld, Apple Inc.

  Sep 04, 2008 7:31 PM PDT

• Google Chrome already beating Opera

  Maybe Google really does have something here -- in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish. I would have ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Opera Software, Garett Rogers, Internet, Google Inc.

  Sep 04, 2008 7:10 PM PDT

• Cablevision blankets Long Island with Wi-Fi

  Cablevision Systems, one of the biggest cable providers in the New York City metro area, announced that it's completed the first stage of a massive Wi-Fi network project called Optimum ...

  Tags: Sean Portnoy, Cablevision Systems Corp., Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Sep 04, 2008 7:03 PM PDT

• Microsoft Student Technology Day UK

  Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies ...

  Tags: Management, Zack Whittaker, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship

  Sep 04, 2008 6:47 PM PDT

• Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

  The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is ...

  Tags: Virtual Desktop, Red Hat Inc., Jason Perlow, Hardware, Open Source KVM, Hypervisor, Virtualization, Qumranet

  Sep 04, 2008 6:10 PM PDT

• Silicon Valley's gender gap

  I recently spoke with Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, about her new book "Closing the Innovation Gap." But what about closing the gender gap? I asked her ...

  Tags: Management, Human Resources, Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship, Gender And Diversity, Tom Foremski

  Sep 04, 2008 6:04 PM PDT

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