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• Student Technology Day: session videos now online

  Last month I attended the Microsoft Student Technology Day 2008 full coverage here in London, with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Andy McLoughlin, CEO of Huddle.net and many others. It ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Microsoft Corp., Video, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Steve Ballmer, Multi-touch

  Nov 21, 2008 8:25 AM PST

• Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?

  On the surface, Salesforce.com's third quarter was impressive. The company hit or exceeded its targets and noted that its "value proposition" was resonating among enterprise software buyers. But worries abound ...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales, Recession, Larry Dignan, Sales Force Management

  Nov 21, 2008 8:18 AM PST

• Nokia Reliability Labs puts the heat on Nokia devices

  If you have ever seen one of almost 100 mobile devices I have owned you will know that I take extremely good card of all of them and they rarely ...

  Tags: Matthew Miller, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Nokia Corp.

  Nov 21, 2008 7:45 AM PST

• Verizon snoops peek at Obama's cell phone records

  Nosy Verizon employees improperly accessed and peeked at Barack Obama's personal cell phone records, the company said in a statement acknowledging the privacy breach. In the statement, Verizon Wireless chief ...

  Tags: Employee, Personal Technology, Ryan Naraine, Phone, Cellular Phones, Cell Phone, Online Communications, Verizon Communications Inc., E-mail, Security

  Nov 21, 2008 7:29 AM PST

• Enterprise 2.0 solution reduces email abuse

  We now live in a day and age where we can expect to get dozens, if not hundreds of emails a day. Most of these you'll find are replies and ...

  Tags: Enterprise 2.0 Solution, Zack Whittaker, Enterprise 2.0, Online Communications, E-mail

  Nov 21, 2008 7:19 AM PST

• iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5

  Today is the last day of a 5-day course on iPhone programming class led by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I've been taking notes on how ...

  Tags: Note, Channel Management, Web, Marketing, Ed Burnette, Apple iPhone

  Nov 21, 2008 7:19 AM PST

• Can open source sustain a talent agency?

  Want to start an open source talent agency? Not an employment agency, a talent agency. Seek talent, represent it for projects, and pass the work off for a cut of ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Talent, Talent Agency, Agency

  Nov 21, 2008 7:09 AM PST

• iPhone update kills 12 security bugs

  Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 with patches for 12 documented security flaws, some very serious. The vulnerabilities covered by the patch which also affect iPod Touch could allow remote ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, SMS, Issue, Consumer Electronics, Apple iPhone, Arbitrary Code Execution, Ryan Naraine, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Security Bug

  Nov 21, 2008 6:51 AM PST

• Metrics of open source success

  There is such a thing as enough money. And there are other drives, equally vital, that open source can satisfy. Some are drives felt keenly by people with lots of ...

  Tags: Money, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Matt Asay

  Nov 21, 2008 6:33 AM PST

• AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential

  After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead. At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a ...

  Tags: Overclocking, Deneb, AMD Phenom, Release, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Nov 21, 2008 6:02 AM PST

• Word 2007 ruler tweak

  A much easier way to controlling the "crazy" ruler in Word 2007, without hassle or mass-customisation. by Zack Whittaker

  Tags: Microsoft Word, Zack Whittaker, Peripherals, Mice, Mouse, Hardware, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites

  Nov 21, 2008 6:01 AM PST

• A guide to cutting IT costs

  Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months ...

  Tags: Management, costs, Information Technology, Strategy, cutbacks, Conundrum, Paul Michaels, Benchmarking, IT management, IT Cost

  Nov 21, 2008 5:05 AM PST

• Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Budget hardware

  Lists ... if there's one thing that people seem to what at this time of year it's lists. Over the next few weeks I've planned on posting several kit lists ...

  Tags: Components, Processors, Corporate Governance, Hardware, 300W Power Supply Unit, Business Operations, Board, ASUS, Semiconductors, Corporate Law

  Nov 21, 2008 4:54 AM PST

• Mac OS X targeted by Trojan and backdoor tool

  Two new pieces of malware affecting Mac OS X appeared this week, a Trojan horse and a hacker tool for creating backdoors. Two pieces of malicious software affecting Apple's Mac ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Tool, Adware & Malware, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, OSX.Lamzev.A, Trojan, Intego, Apple Mac OS, Spyware, Operating Systems

  Nov 21, 2008 4:38 AM PST

• Go ahead...Hang out on MySpace. Wait, what?

  The MacArthur Foundation just released a study suggesting that, not surprisingly, given the integration of social media into business and modern culture, the time kids spend with so-called new media, ...

  Tags: Youth, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson, MySpace, Marketing, Social Media, Barack Obama

  Nov 21, 2008 3:08 AM PST

• Nielson Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer

  Altor Networks Customer Profile, Nielson Mobile I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He ...

  Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Tool, Hardware, Data Management, Nielson Mobile, Productivity, VMWare ESX, Nielsen, Storage, Nielsen Mobile

  Nov 21, 2008 3:00 AM PST

• iPhone 2.2 update is out

  Good news everyone or for iPhone owners at least. Apple has released software update 2.2 for the iPhone. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Personal Technology, Peripherals, Podcasts, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Apple iPhone, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Online Communications, Keyboards

  Nov 21, 2008 2:34 AM PST

• Ed Tech in a recession

  At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Recession, Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Software, Technology, Productivity, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  Nov 21, 2008 2:30 AM PST

• Verizon Wireless: Our employees breached Obama's cell phone records

  Verizon Wireless said that "a number of employees" accessed President-Elect Barack Obama's cell phone records without authorization. That's not a great way to introduce yourself to an incoming president. Unfortunately, ...

  Tags: Employee, Personal Technology, Verizon Wireless, Phone, Cellular Phones, Cell Phone, Larry Dignan, Consumer Electronics

  Nov 21, 2008 2:13 AM PST

• Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration

  There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an ...

  Tags: Management, Distributed Innovation Group, Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Oliver Marks, Morison, Strategy, Leadership, Software, Enterprise Software

  Nov 21, 2008 2:07 AM PST

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