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Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Larry Dignan: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS.

IT Management

Bausch & Lomb reduces IT boundaries

Michael Krigsman: In a move apparently designed to reduce poor alignment and create strategic opportunity, Bausch & Lomb has merged its customer service and information technology functions.

Security

Attack code published for DNS flaw

Ryan Naraine: Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool.

Companies

Hints of Apple's product transition

Jason D. O'Grady: Apple execs mentioned a "product transition" that Apple is preparing for that will cut profit margins to help shut out rivals. No details were given but some hints can be found by reading the tea leaves.

General News

Ultra-light micro air vehicles

Roland Piquepaille: This micro air vehicle weighs only 3 grams and has a wingspan of 10 centimeters. This tiny remote-controlled aircraft also carries a payload--a 0.4 gram camera.

Enterprise Software

PaaS embraces client access licensing

Phil Wainewright: Coghead became the latest PaaS vendor to introduce a subscription that recognizes a separate class of casual or less frequent user.

Communications

October Esquire will use electronic ink

Matthew Miller: Hearst is now going to bring a bit of mobile technology to print media with their usage of electronic ink in the October issue of Esquire.

Enterprise Hardware

The $200 web tablet--dream on!

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hands up anyone who would love to get their hands on a web tablet for $200. OK, now hands up who thinks that Michael Arrington can deliver this.

Web Technology

Google opens Knol--Wikipedia with bylines

Google opened its website Knol which allows people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.

Product Review Blogs

MSI to build LG's X110 netbook?

Andrew Nusca: The mini laptop is said to boast an 8.9-inch panel, 120GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM and Windows XP under the hood--with a price between $625 and $790.

Microsoft buys DATAllegro

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

Microsoft on Thursday said that it will acquire DATAllegro, which makes data warehouse appliances. The purchase is expected to "extend the capabilities of Microsoft's mission critical platform," according to a...

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Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

The same day that Forrester Research is touting yet another of a growing number of studies claiming Vista is failing to gain traction in the enterprise, Microsoft is claiming just...

Mary-Jo Foley

AT&T iPhones exposed to DNS cache poisioning? Or not?

Zero Day by Ryan Naraine

Here's a photo of my iPhone after running Dan Kaminsky's Doxpara DNS Checker tool a few minutes ago: I ran the same test at the DNS-OARC's DNS checker and got...

Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple must be feeling pretty flattered now that both Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) and Microsoft have expressed a desire to...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search -- and I'm still sure that's...

Garett Rogers

Ingres gives Fortify security study a good fisking

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

Open source projects in Fortify's Open Review report fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary products in the same review.

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Bausch & Lomb reduces IT boundaries

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

The commonly used phrase "lack of IT alignment" suggests communication problems arising from dysfunctional boundaries between IT and business groups inside an organization. Bausch & Lomb has shattered boundaries by...

Michael Krigsman

MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki...

Dennis Howlett

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and...

Jason Perlow

Apple chaos theory

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

I got a fairly lukewarm response to my excitement over Oracle putting applications on the iPhone. That should be no surprise to readers of Fortune which also poured cold water...

Dennis Howlett

The little wind turbines that could

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

I have to admit, I’m more used to reading about U.S. tech firms expanding abroad rather than the reverse. But in the case of certain green tech innovations, I suppose...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

First hints of Microsoft's "fight back" ads appear

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

A new ad at Microsoft.com tries to make the case for a fresh look at Vista by pointing out that "at one point, everyone thought the earth was flat." Aligning...

Ed Bott

Apple's coming notebook transition

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a...

Robin Harris

How SlideRocket plans to make money

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

Unlike so many misguided Web 2.0 startups, SlideRocket is going to ask its users to pay to use its Flex-based on-demand presentation application, and it plans a potentially lucrative add-on...

Phil Wainewright

Google + Digg = ?

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

There's a persistent rumor that crops up every few months about social news site Digg being acquired by ____ (insert company here). The latest, citing "multiple sources inside and outside...

Ed Burnette

NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University...

Roland Piquepaille

F8: Zuckerberg's keynote takeaways

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

I've just finished watching live stream of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote speech at this year's developer conference. Here are a few of the major takeaways, some of which will...

Steve O'Hear

Samsung INNOV8 S60 mobile device with 8 megapixel camera revealed

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

The Nokia N96 was revealed back in January and should be hitting the streets in the next couple of months. I guess I haven't been following the S60 rumors closely...

Matthew Miller

Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony...

John Morris

Entellium puts a video game spin on CRM with a desktop RIA

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application....

Ryan Stewart

DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

Why isn't the Linux kernel group doing what the BSD people did with respect to DTrace: seeing a better idea and grabbing it with both hands? My guess is personal...

Paul Murphy

GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

General Electric, the venerable multinational that was founded in 1878 in New Jersey, have at their core a hugely sophisticated enterprise collaboration system that is arguably the largest in...

Oliver Marks

Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Enterprise Service Busted?

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

ESBs: an inconvenient truth?

Joe McKendrick

WSO2 adds data services and security features in Mashup Server 1.5

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

The latest version from the Mountain View, Calif., and Sri Lanka company adds WSO2 Data Services and security features for enterprise-class service composition. Mashup Server 1.5 is built on the...

Dana Gardner

World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

Buffalo just announced the world's fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x (assuming you can find...

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

Panasonic announces four new Lumix cameras: FX37, FZ28, LX3, and FX150

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Panasonic added four new models to its Lumix lineup today: the DMC-FX37, a 10.1-megapixel wide-angle compact; the DMC-FZ28, a 10.1 megapixel megazoom model; the DMC-LX3, a 10.1 megapixel enthusiast compact...

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

Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics

The Core Truth by John Morris

In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based...

John Morris

Students: the broadband troubleshooter

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time...

Zack Whittaker

Amanda Chapel, aka "Strumpette," needs some tough love

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

I had a strange Twitter back-and-forth with "Amanda Chapel," the pseudonymous authors of a PR blog called "Strumpette," about the nature of the hacker ethic. I personally don't think the...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Enterprise 2.0: Lively conversations driving change

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

Last week’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston has been over for a few days and coverage continues to pour out in the mainstream press and the blogosphere, including here on...

Dion Hinchcliffe

Government, markets and regulation

A Developer's View by John Carroll

Problems in the housing market in the United States provide some interesting lessons about government regulation in general, lessons that have equal applicability to the intersection between Information Technology and...

John Carroll

Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third...

Joshua Greenbaum

Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?

IMHO by Tom Foremski

I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a...

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

Care to spend your holiday weekend policing directory listings?

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

I'm not a fan in general of sites that create a listing or profile for you, hoping you'll eventually claim and/or correct it. This tactic, neither user-centric nor user-driven,...

Denise Howell

90% of Americans 18-28-year-old own a PC

IT Facts by AM

According to the Forrester Research, although Gen Y is a small generation of 18- to 28-year-olds, comprising only 38 mln US adults, it sets the pace for technology adoption. 90%...

Alex Moskalyuk

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

When the time came for a new PBX, Brian Snipes chose to do something a bit unconventional. The IT manager at law firm Hare, Wynn, Newell, and Newton LLP...

David Greenfield

Enterprise communities: build or join?

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps...

Jennifer Leggio

10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

"The dog ate my presentation." "We've decided to change directions." "I'm dumping this employee on you who has failed at every other thing we've assigned them." ... IT project managers...

Deb Perelman

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces. The whole Yahoo! open platform initiative continues...

Paul Miller

COPA suffers another blow

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools (among other institutions) that fail to prevent...

Christopher Dawson

Childs rigged crazyquilt private network

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The...

Richard Koman

Ready for real Indian medicine?

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

With political sovereignty over quality-killing issues such as medical malpractice and a "clean-sheet" approach, Medical Onshoring could provide certain services (e.g., cardio-vascular, artificial knees) at prices at least 15% less...

Dana Blankenhorn

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    Who said computers have to be all work and no play? Software developer and author Ed Burnette shares his unique view of industry trends, technologies, and personalities.

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    John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.

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