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ByDesign, the younger person's ERP

Phil Wainewright: SAP seems to feel that ByDesign will appeal to the forward-looking younger generation of those families--the future heirs of the business.

Product Review Blogs

Review: HTC Advantage X7510

Matthew Miller: The most powerful Windows Mobile device I ever evaluated was the HTC Advantage X7501 and that has been followed up with the HTC Advantage X7510.

IT Management

HP's big new green tech push

Heather Clancy: HP has decided to tackle environmental problems big-time with a series of new products and services coming out of its Imaging and Printing Group.

Web Technology

Microsoft looks to pay you to search

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is rolling out yet another push to grow its Web search share by rewarding users with cash. Is this an offer you can't refuse?

Companies

DOD gunning to nix Apple-PA Semi deal?

David Morgenstern: According to a report, the Department of Defense is reviewing Apple's reported acquisition of a PowerPC processor maker. The concern is over an embedded chip, the PA Semi 1682, which is used by the military.

Security

Mac OS X users at risk

Ryan Naraine: Heads up to Mac OS X users: It appears Apple will be shipping high-priority security patches soon. In the meantime, watch out for strange links and e-mails with requests to add/open calendar (.ics) files.

Operating Systems

Psystar offers 13 non-Apple Software Updates

Jason D. O'Grady: This is the first time that a third-party has distributed modified versions of Apple software updates that I'm aware of.

Enterprise Hardware

Could Dell ever be as cool as Apple?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Part of Apple's recebt runaway success has to be down to the fact that the company and its products are seen as being cool and stylish. Could Dell ever compete?

Communications

Triple booting onto a Fujitsu U810

Matthew Miller: Will Vista, Mac OS X, and Ubuntu operating systems be able to share space on a Fujitsu U810? At least one person says so.

General News

Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works 'unfair and unwise'

Richard Koman: Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works"--so now that Congress is taking up the issue, why is he against the proposed legislation?

Google's search share tops 61 percent; That'll spook Microsoft more

Between the Lines by Larry Dignan

Here's why Microsoft is paying people to use its search: Google's search market share checked in at 61.6 percent, up from 59.8 percent in March, according to comScore. Google's gains...

Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow

Microsoft looks to buy search share (again)

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

At its advance08 ad summit this week, Microsoft is rolling out yet another push to grow its Web search share by rewarding users with cash.

Mary Jo Foley

RSnake picks on Google Health... yes, Google wants your medical records, too!

Zero Day by Nathan McFeters

Interesting article from Robert "RSnake" Hansen yesterday on one of Google's new innovations, the Google Health application.  Yeah, imagine that, Google wants to own the content of your medical records, too! ...

Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

Apple testing geotagging for iPhone 2; 3G switch confirmed

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

According to AppleInsider (via MacRumors) Apple has added a geotagging feature to the Camera application in the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware. The shot below is courtesy of the latest build...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutes

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Over the past few days we've talked on this blog (I've made a few posts and you, through the TalkBack, have expanded on them and added your views) about what...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Google Sites opens up to everyone

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

I guess it was technically available to everyone already, but you needed to have a Google Apps account to use it. Now, as of today, anyone can simply create a...

Garett Rogers

SLES 10.2, RHEL 5.2 Linux upgrades offer better Microsoft, IBM support

Linux and Open Source by Paula Rooney

The two largest commercial Linux providers have released updates to their distributions with enhanced virtualization features and better support for Microsoft and IBM environments. On Wednesday, Novell announced availability...

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

In conversations with senior management and Executive Board members, it's clear SAP understands the need for cultural shifts as it orients toward the small business SaaS market. However, it remains...

Michael Krigsman

GroupSwim brings intelligence to enterprise

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

  I recently ran through a demonstration of GroupSwim, a service that provides intelligent collaboration for small groups of between 50-1,000 users. The service includes blogs, RSS, rich media plus...

Dennis Howlett

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

Enterprise Web 2.0 by Dion Hinchcliffe

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received...

Dion Hinchcliffe

Is SAP's weakness its real strength?

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

Conversations with Doug Merritt, a member of SAP's executive council and the person driving Business Objects as a platform for intelligence are always entertaining. Merritt represents the unconventional, disruptive element...

Dennis Howlett

Eco-labeling, lifecycle management services are linchpin for HP's big new green tech push

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

I'm keenly aware of how much paper and ink I waste with my measely personal inkjet printer, I can't even imagine what it's like for a company the magnitude of...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

How much do you need to know about Windows 7 today?

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

My colleague Mary Jo Foley and I have our ears to the ground in Redmond, listening for news of Windows 7, and we're hearing ... nothing. If this were like...

Ed Bott

High-end disks dead in 2 years

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC - the largest data storage vendor - predicted that high-end flash drives will replace high-end hard drives in 2 years. Is this the...

Robin Harris

ByDesign, the younger person's ERP

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

SAP seems to think its Business ByDesign SaaS offering will appeal to the younger generation of small business owners. But are SAP's own company elders giving the youthful project enough...

Phil Wainewright

Poll: No Microhoo for you: Good or bad?

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

Over the weekend, Microsoft announced that it was ending its bid to buy Yahoo!. The proposed deal, and its ultimate demise, was the subject of speculation for weeks. Now that...

Ed Burnette

Why James Bond looks so healthy

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to...

Roland Piquepaille

Facebook censorship; Twitter raises another $15 million; Facebook's pending redesign

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…

Steve O'Hear

Review: HTC Advantage X7510 with 16GB flash drive, haptics keyboard and Windows Mobile 6.1

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

The most powerful Windows Mobile device I ever evaluated was the HTC Advantage X7501 that was released back in August of 2007 and I wrote quite an extensive review that...

Matthew Miller

The XO-2 laptop looks great, but can OLPC deliver in 2010?

Laptops & Desktops by John Morris

The OLPC project announced today the next generation of its XO laptop. The news was expected--enthusiast sites such as OLPC News have been talking about it for a while--but this...

John Morris

SmallWorlds getting ready to open its doors

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

SmallWorlds, an application I called "the coolest Flex app I've ever seen" is getting ready to go into pubic beta mode with a new new features. SmallWorlds is a 3D...

Ryan Stewart

Adding up Sun's pieces

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

What's wrong at Sun? in two words: Wall Street - and the symptomology? A middle management focus on making sales at all costs - including serious costs to both Sun...

Paul Murphy

It’s the economy stupid – collaboration ROI

Collaboration 2.0 by Oliver Marks

With today’s news that oil has reached $135 a barrel – a 100% increase in a 12 month period – it’s clear that there are some serious economic challenges ahead....

Oliver Marks

Coyote Point Application Acceleration

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

Application accelerating was the topic of a recent chat I enjoyed with the folks from Coyote Point recently. We were speaking about a new acceleration appliance, the Equalizer 650si, that...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Is SOA delivering value? We need to understand this better

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

Most organizations simply don't know what business fruit their SOAs are bearing

Joe McKendrick

ZoomInfo spins off 'bizographic' platform for controlled circulation online advertising play

BriefingsDirect by Dana Gardner

Bizo will continue to leverage the company’s understanding of business people and companies to allow marketers to target business users based on thousands of segmenting possibilities, including combinations of title,...

Dana Gardner

Iomega releases leather-wrapped 250GB external HD

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

Sure, it looks like an overpriced flask, but hey -- to each his own. Iomega posted the 250GB Brown Leather eGo Hi-Speed USB 2.0 portable hard drive on their website...

Josh Taylor

Eye-Fi's new SD memory cards add geotagging and Wi-Fi to any digital camera

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

I've been a fan of Eye-Fi's Wi-Fi enabled SD cards since they first came out late last year, so I'm excited to see the company has added two new cards...

Janice Chen

Netflix launches device for watching movies on TV

SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie

Netflix enters the Net-to-TV video race with the introduction of a $99.99 player that enables its members to stream up to 10,000 movies and TV shows. The company has...

Rik Fairlie

Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU

The Core Truth by John Morris

More details on Nvidia's new GTX 200 series GPUs, which are set to launch sometime next month, courtesy of the site TGDaily. The new chip will reportedly be massive, measuring...

John Morris

Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting

Rational Rants by Mitch Ratcliffe

In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform...

Mitch Ratcliffe

Globalization's discontents

John Carroll by John Carroll

I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared...

John Carroll

Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP's Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry's coverage here, and Dennis' coverage here),...

Joshua Greenbaum

The panelist's nightmare

IMHO by Tom Foremski

What do you do if you are moderating a panel and you are the smartest and most interesting person on the podium? Do what Faisal Rehman Malik, a TV anchor...

Tom Foremski

HP CSR Report: A Triumph for Transparency (but back slides on blogging)

On Sustainability by James Farrar

Ground breaking stuff in HPs latest CSR report released last week - HP becomes the first in its sector to publish details of the major players in its supply chain....

James Farrar

Stanford Information Law Symposium

Lawgarithms by Denise Howell

Though it could scarcely be more cumbersomely named — the Transatlantic Information Law Symposium — this upcoming (and free) program at Stanford Law School looks excellent, featuring such big...

Denise Howell

87% of all teens engage in electronic communication

IT Facts by NB

87% of all teens engage at least occasionally in some form of electronic personal communication, which includes text messaging, sending email or instant messages, or posting comments on social networking...

Alex Moskalyuk

Nortel Demos Virtual World Platform

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

Nortel demoed a virtual world prototype here in a Ottawa at a day long event. Dubbed Project Chainsaw, the virtual world is the first project to come out of Nortel...

David Greenfield

Ask questions of Tim Berners-Lee, Nova Spivack and others

The Semantic Web by Paul Miller

On 11 June, Rennsaelaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is hosting a debate to explore the views of luminaries in the evolving Semantic Web. Somewhat unusually, the questions that panellists face will...

Paul Miller

Another reason to ban cell phones in school?

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

Several media outlets featured a story Wednesday on nude photos of junior high school girls being circulated via cell phone in a Texas school. Fox News reported that "Those students...

Christopher Dawson

Google's Page pitches for white spaces in DC

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

Google's Larry Page is in Washington, talking up white spaces to Congress – and speaking out against lobbyists, as well. Page met with key lawmakers including House Energy and Commerce...

Richard Koman

How important is Mirth?

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

Are major vendors like McKesson, Cerner and Siemens really going to implement HL7 interoperability Mirth-lessly? Would it not make more sense to provide Mirth with the financial and technical support...

Dana Blankenhorn

  • All About Microsoft

    Mary Jo Foley

    Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley's blog covers the products, people and strategies that make Microsoft tick.

  • Between the Lines

    Larry Dignan with Jason Perlow

    Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.

  • BriefingsDirect

    Dana Gardner

    Analyst Dana Gardner examines IT news and trends that impact software strategists to provide insights and outcomes on SOA, app dev, SaaS, enterprise infrastructure and mobile convergence.

  • Collaboration 2.0

    Oliver Marks

  • Dev Connection

    Ed Burnette

    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.

  • Digital Cameras

    Janice Chen

    Gadget geek Janice Chen delivers real-world buying advice of the best gear to get.

  • Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

    Ed Bott

    Get outspoken insights and expert advice on Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products from a source who knows these technologies inside and out.

  • Emerging Tech

    Roland Piquepaille

    Emerging trends in technology and new developments in science will affect the way we live. Roland Piquepaille selects and analyzes news about our future that you'll almost never find anywhere else.

  • Enterprise Alley

    Dennis Howlett

    Showcasing the new breed of startup-style vendors who are solving old problems in a fresh way or offering a glimpse into the future of enterprise applications.

  • Enterprise Anti-matter

    Joshua Greenbaum

    Software analyst Josh Greenbaum's opinions on enterprise software have annoyed enough vendors that he now checks under the hood of his PC every morning before he boots up.

  • Enterprise Web 2.0

    Dion Hinchcliffe

    Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.

  • Googling Google

    Garett Rogers

    Garett Rogers explores the mystery behind the hottest and fastest growing tech company in the world.Google spoilers inside.

  • GreenTech Pastures

    Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

    As the global warming debate rages, Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy chronicle alternative energy start-ups, green data center projects and other high-tech and political developments shaping the green technology movement.

  • Hardware 2.0

    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

    Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sieves through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.

  • Irregular Enterprise

    Dennis Howlett

    Dennis Howlett analyzing the issues faced by senior business practitioners who work with enterprise software.

  • IT Facts

    Alex Moskalyuk

    Your daily research synopsis is the top resource for business and technology statistics that inform, enlighten and entertain.

  • IT Project Failures

    Michael Krigsman

    Michael Krigsman is passionate about reporting, analyzing, and reducing IT failures.

  • John Carroll

    John Carroll

    At the intersection between technology and economic policy, John Carroll brings years of experience as a software developer to bear on the latest issues affecting the technology industry.

  • Laptops & Desktops

    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about notebook and desktop computers.

  • Lawgarithms

    Denise Howell

    Issue-spotting the Live Web, attorney Denise Howell muses about cutting edge technology-related legal issues.

  • Linux and Open Source

    Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

    Covering all aspects of the shared software, shared processes business model, including open spectrum, an open Internet and the implications of open source values on politics and society.

  • Managing L'unix

    Paul Murphy

    A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.

  • On Sustainability

    James Farrar

    James Farrar focuses on the business balance between financial performance and social-environmental impact.

  • Rational Rants

    Mitch Ratcliffe

    "Mitch Ratcliffe blogs about the constantly changing boundary between media and life, the businesses that live on that border, and the meaning of all this change to society and the economy.

  • Service Oriented

    Joe McKendrick

    SOA promises many "-ilities": greater agility, flexibility, and reusability. Joe McKendrick explores the challenges and opportunities with SOA, and how to capitalize on this new computing philosophy.

  • Software as Services

    Phil Wainewright

    In the best-informed blog on software-as-a-service and on-demand business applications, Phil Wainewright cuts through the vendor spin, analyzes the trends to watch and adds his thought-provoking insights.

  • SOHO Networking

    Rik Fairlie

    Get the latest news and expert views on new wireless networking products and services, plus tips on how to optimize your SOHO network.

  • Storage Bits

    Robin Harris

    Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.

  • Team Think

    David Greenfield

    David Greenfield delivers practical information about tools and technologies that enable organizational teams to work more effectively with one another.

  • The Apple Core

    Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

    Apple technology keeps gaining respect in the executive suite, with businesses and in the data center. Jason O'Grady and David Morgenstern deliver critical news and penetrating analysis that managers need to succeed.

  • The Core Truth

    John Morris

    John Morris delivers straight talk about semiconductors.

  • The Mobile Gadgeteer

    Matthew Miller

    Professionals are doing more today on the go than ever before. Matthew Miller provides you with news, commentary and in-depth reviews of the latest in mobile gadgetry running Windows Mobile, S60, Palm, BlackBerry, and more.

  • The Semantic Web

    Paul Miller

    Paul Miller offers insight and analysis on the Semantic Web, dissecting the news and showing why it matters to the wider business world.

  • The Social Web

    Steve O'Hear

    From Facebook to MySpace, YouTube to Second Life, social software is reshaping the world we live in. Steve O\'Hear provides daily news and analysis of the emerging social web.

  • The ToyBox

    Josh Taylor

    The latest gadgets and gear -- because even busy business professionals need their playtime.

  • The Universal Desktop

    Ryan Stewart

    The technology and business implications of the next generation of software, rich Internet applications.

  • Tom Foremski: IMHO

    Tom Foremski

    Former Financial Times reporter Tom Foremski writes about Silicon Valley business trends and the intersection of technology and media.

  • Virtually Speaking

    Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

    Virtualization is a mix of technologies that is changing how datacenters use standard systems. Dan Kusnetzky examines this hotly competitive market and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of each supplier.

  • ZDNet Education

    Christopher Dawson

    News and analysis on IT and computing in the education sector.

  • ZDNet Government

    Richard Koman

    Richard Koman delivers news and analysis on IT and enterprise computing in city, state & federal government.

  • ZDNet Healthcare

    Dana Blankenhorn

    Covering all areas of medical technology, and the public policies under which they're paid for. From networked systems and electronic medical records to gadgets, breakthroughs, and research.

  • Zero Day

    Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

    Staying on top of the latest in software/hardware security research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks.