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• IT Dojo video: Five practical tips for choosing the right UPS

  On the surface, choosing a UPS for your organization's server room may seem like a simple task, but like many IT tasks, the devil is in the details. In this ...

  Tags: Management, United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Information Technology, Larry Dignan, Video, Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Communications

  Oct 07, 2008 2:07 AM PDT

• Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?

  Huge ontologies and taxonomies that attempt to boil the ocean and describe 'the sum of human knowledge' tend to make me deeply uncomfortable. At the other end of the scale, ...

  Tags: Management, Tim O'Reilly, Strategy, Internet, Ontology, Semantic Web, Paul Miller

  Oct 07, 2008 2:06 AM PDT

• News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

  Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that ...

  Tags: Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SAP AG, Web Services, Information Technology, Strategy, Web Servers, Apple iPhone, Enterprise Software, UNIX

  Oct 07, 2008 2:05 AM PDT

• AMD to spin off manufacturing

  Advanced Micro Devices will reveal a broad cost-cutting plan this morning that includes spinning off its manufacturing operations to a new joint venture largely funded by Abu Dhabi investment companies. ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hardware, Manufacturing, Networking, Sam Diaz, Abu Dhabi

  Oct 07, 2008 1:27 AM PDT

• A question about web server volume failures

  It's a shocking confession - I mean, I know how to use google - but I haven't found anything that really describes the nature and order of failures when a ...

  Tags: Test, Web Server, Web, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Paul Murphy, Internet, Server, Web Servers

  Oct 07, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Talkback Tuesday: Mobile Malware

  Last week I wrote two posts about why I was not concerned about mobile malware right now, but I expected mobile malware to become a problem in the near future. ...

  Tags: Spyware, Adware & Malware, Adam O\'Donnell, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Viruses And Worms, Malware, Security, Mobile Malware, Mobile, Mobile Device

  Oct 06, 2008 11:16 PM PDT

• Bill Gates Leaving Might Help Mend Silicon Valley Fences

  Here is a short clip from CNET of a tearful Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, telling employees to personally thank Bill Gates for the opportunity to work at Microsoft and ...

  Tags: Bill Gates, Corporate Law, Silicon Valley, Microsoft Corp., Antitrust, Security, Tom Foremski, Business Operations

  Oct 06, 2008 10:44 PM PDT

• MozyPro for Mac goes public beta

  Online backup storage provider Mozy on Tuesday will roll out a public beta for MozyPro for the Mac, a new service for businesses using Apple's Mac platform. MozyPro for the ...

  Tags: MozyPro, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, Hardware, Software, Mozy, Public Beta, Desktops, Backup, Apple Macintosh

  Oct 06, 2008 9:01 PM PDT

• The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments

  I realize Advanced Micro Devices has some news in the offing this week that likely will supersede the urgency of this blog's content, but I wanted to recount some high ...

  Tags: Larry Vertal, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Heather Clancy, Energy Efficiency

  Oct 06, 2008 8:46 PM PDT

• ZDNet blogger: working from home

  More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Phone, Blogger, Online Communications, E-mail, Tea

  Oct 06, 2008 8:41 PM PDT

• Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]

  Picking up on my post about failed IT culture, Oliver Widder has drawn another great Geek and Poke cartoon: Sadly, this cartoon describes the norm in many organizations, where projects ...

  Tags: Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Michael Krigsman, Cartoon

  Oct 06, 2008 4:20 PM PDT

• Yahoo: Shares dip to 5-year low; AOL deal this month?

  Things just keep getting worse for Yahoo. The company's stock reached a five-year low today, closing at $15.31 - or less than half of the $31 per share that Microsoft ...

  Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz, Business Structures, Google Inc.

  Oct 06, 2008 3:42 PM PDT

• Authorizing and clearing transactions

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, describes how they are competing in the global marketplace. He also outlines their data processing strategies and how their technology operations are giving the company ...

  Tags: Management, Strategy, Administrator

  Oct 06, 2008 3:03 PM PDT

• Moving quickly with tap-and-go technology

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere. ...

  Tags: Management, Strategy, Leadership, Technology, Administrator

  Oct 06, 2008 2:58 PM PDT

• Handling holiday peak periods

  Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, explains how he tests Visa's systems for dealing with high volume times, and how high those peaks can really go. by Administrator

  Tags: Visa Inc., Administrator

  Oct 06, 2008 2:56 PM PDT

• Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

  There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Question, Laughter, Marketing, India, Social Networking, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Programmer, Operating Systems

  Oct 06, 2008 2:12 PM PDT

• iPhone hits another security speedbump

  Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone.  According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses ...

  Tags: Spam, Ryan Naraine, Spam And Phishing, Apple Inc., Spamming, Image, Security, Apple iPhone

  Oct 06, 2008 1:28 PM PDT

• With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management

  The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, ...

  Tags: Management, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), IT Service Management, Information Technology, Strategy, Dana Gardner, HP SOA Systinet 3.0, SOA, Enterprise Software

  Oct 06, 2008 1:13 PM PDT

• Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem

  Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started ...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dennis Howlett, Pricing, Marketing Research, Web Application, Smb/Sme, Small And Medium Enterprise, Marketing, Pricing Strategy, Phil Wainewright

  Oct 06, 2008 12:33 PM PDT

• CEATEC Roundup: Sony's 0.3mm OLED display, Sharp's solar-power TV, Panasonic's LifeWall concept

  While we all wait around until January for the Consumer Electronics Show, an event like CEATEC Japan can give us a taste of the future for home theater. And since ...

  Tags: TV, Wall, Sean Portnoy, 3D, Construction, Sony Corp., Sharp Corp., Organic Light-emitting Diode, Panasonic

  Oct 06, 2008 12:28 PM PDT

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