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Software support and maintenance revolution

Larry Dignan: There's a brewing backlash among software customers as big vendors raise their support and maintenance prices.

Security

DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released

Rob Fuller: DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Las Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It's more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences.

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives

Mary Jo Foley: After sending me a note that led me to believe that Microsoft had decided to veer from its original plan of an R2 update followed by a full-fledged Server update, a Microsoft spokeswoman called to tell me that her note to me was misleading.

Enterprise Hardware

More info on USB 3.0 emerges

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Some detailed information has been posted on USB 3.0, including a closer look at the connectors and the cable.

General News

Overheated iPod nano blamed for three fires

Japan's trade ministry said that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect.

Web Technology

Search engines under the spotlight this week

Sam Diaz: At Search Engine Strategies they'll be talking about mobile search engine optimization, standards for tagging and organizing videos, running search engines on an enterprise Intranet, and alternative search advertising options.

Communications

T-Mobile 3G news heats up with rumors

Matthew Miller: Rumors that T-Mobile may launch a Google Android device in September seem more and more plausible now, and the Samsung T919 (aka Tocco) may be coming soon.

Product Review Blogs

Office 14: Alpha testing to begin

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft opened up its Office 14 Technical Adoption Program nomination program in mid-May 2008. And new posts say the product testing should begin in November or December.

Companies

Google, Apple surge in customer satisfaction rating

Larry Dignan: Apple lead the personal computer industry with a score of 85, an all-time high, while Google dominates the business arena.

IT Management

Analysts: vendors are mellowing their SOA pitches

Joe McKendrick: SOA vendors seem to toning down their act, either gearing their pitches to more immediate business benefits of SOA, or moving away from the "SOA" term altogether. What does this mean for users?

Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday that the software giant will invest more into the companies' SUSE Linux partnership. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will buy an additional $100 million...

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WSUS users get a surprise: Windows 7 client

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

Some Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) users got a surprise on their patching servers on August 20: A mention of Windows 7 Client.

Mary-Jo Foley

Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit (DCPU) have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers...

Ryan Naraine & Dancho Danchev

Dell to offer one year warranty extension on GeForce 8600M GT

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

On 8 August 2008 I reported that some MacBook Pros with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT GPUs were failing prematurely. Today Dell extended the warranty on their notebooks that use...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Windows 7 wishes

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Today Ed Bott has been furiously rubbing the lamp hoping that the great genie Sinofsky will appear and grant him some wishes. Well, since there's a chance that Microsoft is...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

New Android SDK finally given to developers

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

It's been a long time since a new Android SDK has been publicly released to developers -- the last one was made available only to contest winners which made some...

Garett Rogers

Novell as Microsoft's client state

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

Microsoft has created a compliant client state, a vassal, small and subservient, a bridge between the closed world of Windows and the free world of open source.

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

The triple sins that cause IT failure

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

Why don't more organizations recognize potential IT project problems before they escalate into full-blown failures? Companies reject good solutions to fix bad projects for three reasons: internal politics, budget, and...

Michael Krigsman

Zoho's future in Google's hands?

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

  Earlier today, Zoho sent over an intriguing email with a whole bunch of numbers and spreadsheet demonstrating why Google in particular is not likely to be a threat to...

Dennis Howlett & Zack Whittaker

CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBC

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

Yesterday I posted about how Limelight Networks was used as the primary caching content provider for NBCOlympics.com and lifted a huge burden off on the public Internet by leveraging relationships...

Jason Perlow

SEC introduces IDEA

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

Earlier today, Christopher Cox, SEC chairman introduced IDEA - Interactive Data and Electronic Applications, an XBRL framework for surfacing information used by investors. In prepared remarks, Cox said: "It will...

Dennis Howlett

Another way to ditch your gadgets the green way and earn some money in the process

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

For about a year now, a Web site that started life as Second Rotation has been buying back electronic gadgets including cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops, GPS devices,...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

My Windows 7 wish list

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

Cynics see the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which launched last week, as a pure PR play from Microsoft. Maybe. But in a 2000-word post yesterday, Windows boos Steven Sinofsky...

Ed Bott

3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming....

Robin Harris

SaaS mashups shape up

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

As SaaS vendors and integrators begin to roll out enterprise mashups, the mashup's seminal role as the disruptive motor at the heart of the on-demand model is becoming clear.

Phil Wainewright

Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

Swaddled in air-conditioned comfort, sipping a Diet Coke I hardly noticed the late afternoon thunderstorm that blew in last Friday. They're a common occurrence in central North Carolina in the...

Ed Burnette

New algorithm speeds up networks

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

Routing scalability has always been a problem in networking research. Now, computer scientists at UC San Diego (UCSD) have developed a new algorithm to improve the routing efficiency of networks....

Roland Piquepaille

Yahoo Buzz! opens up, let the gaming begin

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

Buzz, Yahoo's social news site and “meme tracker”, has opened its submission process so that any site on the Web can now be 'buzzed'. Prior to today, only select publishers...

Steve O'Hear

Jobs reportedly acknowledges 3rd party app failure to launch issue

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

I posted on my experiences with the iPhone 3G and upgraded original iPhone last week and there were quite a few comments posted by readers, with many stating they were...

Matthew Miller

HP ultraportables get new Intel chips, 80GB SSD

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

HP has added three new ultraportables to its laptop lineup. All three have 12.1-inch wide-screen displays. Two of them, a 3.2-pound model with a built-in optical drive and a convertible...

John Morris

NBA looking to stream live games

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

Rich media on the internet could be getting another big win if the NBA decides to go through with its plan to stream games to people in local markets. The...

Ryan Stewart

The opportunities in search

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

Cuil doesn't seem competitive with google -and when you look at other internet search engines they seem pretty pathetic: 1950s ideas dressed up for the internet age. So where are...

Paul Murphy

Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

Clearspace, Jive Software's 'social productivity' collaboration software, hits version 2.5 today. This latest release builds on a solid foundation, and has many new features and enhancements, as the above video...

Oliver Marks

Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

The debate for the heart of the enterprise intensifies -- EA vs. EA, EA vs. BA

Joe McKendrick

Morph Labs and FiveRuns combine efforts to support, test and monitor Rails apps

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

The goal is to make enterprise-class application developers and deployers an offer they can't refuse.

Dana Gardner

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Share, compare gas mileage

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

New web app Fuelly tracks your car's mileage per gallon (MPG), shares it with friends and compares it to the mileage of other Fuelly users. Sign up for Fuelly and...

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

Nikon announces six new Coolpix cameras: P6000, S710, S60, S610c, S610, and S560

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Included in Nikon's blast today are six new Coolpix cameras that sport features like built-in GPS (the P6000), a 3.5-inch touchscreen (the S60), and built-in WiFi (the S610c). Ranging in...

Janice Chen

AT&T blunders on free Wi-Fi for iPhones

SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie

AT&T just can’t commit. To free Wi-Fi for iPhone 3G customers, that is. The company seems to be having a blunder-fest with announcements that iPhone 3G customers can get free...

Rik Fairlie

Before Intel's big show, AMD launches an attack

The Core Truth by John Morris

With Intel's annual conference set to start this week, AMD launched a pre-emptive strike in a press conference on Friday. AMD executives said the processor innovations you'll hear about next...

John Morris

UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

People over the years have said to me, "computers are the future; you'll end up getting a great job with wads of money." I'm not a money person, to be...

Zack Whittaker

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

Over the past couple weeks, I've been conducting polls about ebooks as I think about doing some publishing. The overwhelming response to the polls has been that there is not...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

The days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their...

Dion Hinchcliffe

Curing what ails Microsoft

A Developer's View by John Carroll

Microsoft's biggest problem lies in its inability to maintain consistency across product categories, both from a user interface standpoint, and increasingly, from an API and technology standpoint. What Microsoft needs...

John Carroll

Expensive Oil, Stupid Trade Groups, and Pending Enterprise Software Growth

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

USA Today had an interesting article today that calls into question a few of the doomsday scenarios that have dominated US policy-makers and those for whom policy has been made...

Joshua Greenbaum

Corporate Innovation . . .

IMHO by Tom Foremski

Late last week I caught part of SDForum's SDForum's first "Corporate Innovation and Research Fair." Here is an edited video of the lunchtime panel: From left to right: Roger Meike,...

Tom Foremski

Vodafone's Big(ish?) Adventure

On Sustainability by James Farrar

It's fun to think of similes to categorise the headlong rush towards CO2 reductions or at least the pledges for such. I think of Vodafone's pledge of a 50% cut of the...

James Farrar

Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might...

Denise Howell

PC gaming generated $10.7 bln in 2007

IT Facts by AM

PC gaming was a $10.7 bln industry during the year of 2007, with retail sales accounting for just 30% of total revenues. According to PC Gaming Alliance, growth was largely...

Alex Moskalyuk

Eight pitfalls of predictive markets

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

Predictive markets sound like such a great idea for determining what will work in the market and what won't. But misplaced trust in these markets can spell gloom and...

David Greenfield

PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

Last week I wrote about how bloggers could better work with public relations folks. While I won't to get into the habit of writing about PR I think we'd all...

Jennifer Leggio

Data architects: You're "hot"

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

Yes you are.Information and data architects and information security experts, here's some good news: You're the hottest. Fear not, data and content-oriented business analysts, business and enterprise architects and vendor...

Deb Perelman

An Event Apart 2008: Day 2

The Web Life by Andrew Mager

The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved...

Andrew Mager

Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As...

Paul Miller

OK, so the meeting wasn't so bad

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

Just a quick note on my first administrator's meeting: it wasn't too bad. I had a couple things going for me. We haven't had anyone looking at technology from a...

Christopher Dawson

Google.org invests in geothermal

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Google.org is investing $10 million in Enhanced Geothermal Systems, a technology that drills miles down into the earth to get that nice, hot granite under the surface, Tom Zeller reports...

Richard Koman

Compromise on the drinking age debate

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

Issue pub licenses to colleges. Let those pubs serve beer and wine to those with student IDs as young as 18.

Dana Blankenhorn

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