Technology Today

• Still pushing the obvious: Sun Ray

  Can a million blonds really be wrong? How about fifty million corporate IT users? by Paul Murphy

  Tags: Laptop Computer, Hardware, Notebooks, Sun Microsystems Inc., Notebooks & Tablets, Productivity, Desktops, Thin Clients, Sun Ray, Computer

  Oct 14, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

  (Update: It also looks like you can grab the final bits as of 12:01 this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0) After listening to the Q&A from the press conference today recording here, digging ...

  Tags: Java Development Tools, Ryan Stewart, Numbers Game, Software Development, Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Linux, Operating Systems, Eclipse, Open Source

  Oct 14, 2008 12:01 AM PDT

• Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri

  Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, ...

  Tags: Siri, Management, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Software, SRI International, Paul Miller

  Oct 13, 2008 10:31 PM PDT

• Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers

  It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it ...

  Tags: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Adam O\'Donnell, Network Technology, Router, Routers & Switches, Networking, Software, Enterprise Software

  Oct 13, 2008 9:58 PM PDT

• And speaking of Sun Microsystems

  Sun Microsystems is not a name we often associate with education outside of high-end technical fields at the university level. Of course, Sun is responsible for OpenOffice and has recently ...

  Tags: K-12, Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization

  Oct 13, 2008 9:52 PM PDT

• Zmanda launches open source backup, recovery solutions for Windows

  Open source backup and recovery independent software developer ISV Zmanda formally announced two new products tailored for Windows users. Zmanda, of Sunnyvale, Calif. announced Zmanda Recovery Manager Enterprise Version 3.0 ...

  Tags: Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Recovery Solution, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Databases, Open Source, Software

  Oct 13, 2008 9:16 PM PDT

• LG introduces Wirewize remote pay home theater tech support

  Best Buy must get some huge margins from its Geek Squad tech support service, because it seems like everyone wants to copy that model of overcharging noobs for help with ...

  Tags: Cable, Personal Technology, Wirewize, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy, Home Theater, LG Electronics Inc., Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater

  Oct 13, 2008 8:53 PM PDT

• OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough

  There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand. OO.org 3.0 really is a serious upgrade over version 2.4 and makes NeoOffice irrelevant ...

  Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Operating Systems, Christopher Dawson, Open Source, OO.org 3.0, Microsoft Office, Software

  Oct 13, 2008 7:48 PM PDT

• Windows 7 will be called... Windows 7

  It's official. The final name of the product codenamed "Windows 7" will be "Windows 7." by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 7:38 PM PDT

• LaCie's 5big Network offers five drive bays, up to 7.5TB storage

  LaCie is bringing its distinctive aesthetic sense to small business networked storage with its new 5big Network device, which offers—surprise—five drive bays and up to a whopping 7.5 terabytes of ...

  Tags: Sean Portnoy, Network, Hardware, LaCie, RAID, Storage

  Oct 13, 2008 4:53 PM PDT

• And Windows 7 is to be called ... Windows 7

  Microsoft puts us out all of out misery as to what the next version of Windows will be called - Windows 7. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 4:21 PM PDT

• Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event

  The clock is ticking toward the big Apple event - you know, the one where the company is expected to announce the sub-$1,000 notebook and/or a new design to the ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Notebook, HDTV, TVs, Home Entertainment, Apple TV, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Tv & Home Theater

  Oct 13, 2008 4:16 PM PDT

• Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

  Get ready for the Copyright Czar. President Bush just signed the Pro-IP Act (the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008), which provides for a new executive ...

  Tags: President, Management, Intellectual Property, Strategy, Richard Koman, U.S. Congress, Leadership, Research & Development, Business Operations

  Oct 13, 2008 4:12 PM PDT

• And the new name is ... Windows 7

  Last week I wondered whether the product currently code-named Windows 7 would get a new name for its release. The answer, made official a few minutes ago, is no. In ...

  Tags: Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott, Software, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 3:16 PM PDT

• Microsoft and Yahoo: Ballmer's 'failure' now a 'dodged bullet'

  Remember that eleventh-hour decision -- when Microsoft opted not to buy Yahoo? Remember how so many pundits portrayed CEO Steve Ballmer's walking away as a fireable offense? What a difference ...

  Tags: Asset Management, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Planning, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Steve Ballmer, Search, Business Operations

  Oct 13, 2008 2:11 PM PDT

• Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

  Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Enterprise 2.0, Hardware, Egnyte, Server, Apple iPhone, On-demand, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups

  Oct 13, 2008 2:03 PM PDT

• How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?

  Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market ...

  Tags: Financial Services, Management, Financing Startups, Financial Accounting, Finance, Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Tom Foremski, IPO

  Oct 13, 2008 1:49 PM PDT

• Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang to kick off Semantic Universe webcasts

  Semantic Universe, the people behind the Semantic Technology Conference, have just announced a new series of free webcasts featuring Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang. These begin on 16 October with ...

  Tags: Podcasts, Web Development, Webcast, Internet, Software/Web Development, Semantic Web, RDF, XML, Paul Miller

  Oct 13, 2008 1:32 PM PDT

• Microsoft readies next two versions of Office Communications Server

  Microsoft is on tap to show off Office Communications Server Release 2 (R2) at the VoiceCon show in Amsterdam on October 14. And the company already is working on the ...

  Tags: Microsoft Office Communications Server, OCS Release 2, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Server, Office Suites, Communications Server

  Oct 13, 2008 12:52 PM PDT

• CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over

  Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean ...

  Tags: Management, Pricing, Information Technology, Technology Department, Marketing, Strategy, Data Management, Enterprise Software, CEO, Business Intelligence

  Oct 13, 2008 12:26 PM PDT

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