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Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

Michael Krigsman: SAP implementation problems prevented Levi Strauss from fulfilling orders for a week during the second quarter of this year.

Security

Unpatched code execution bug haunts BlackBerry

Ryan Naraine: Security alerts aggregator Secunia has raised an alarm for a "highly critical" vulnerability that puts users of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server at risk of code execution attacks.

Product Review Blogs

More iPhone 3G observations

Jason D. O'Grady: The iPhone 3G has been out almost a week and it's time to give it an early evaluation. Despite the lack of coverage in my area, the phone is very fast and finds cheap gas, too.

Operating Systems

Tough love: We need more Linux haters

Jeremy Allison: We all need to become Linux haters in order to give our favorite software the tough love it needs to become as popular as I think it deserves to be.

Enterprise Hardware

iPhone 3G GPS antenna too small?

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: There is no turn-by-turn software for the iPhone 3G because the GPS was intended for quick "where am I" checks rather than navigation. Part of the antenna is the ring around the camera lens.

Web Technology

Will Twitter tip in the UK first?

Steve O'Hear: If Twitter is to reach a tipping point, it will likely happen in the UK first not the U.S., according to web analytics firm Hitwise.

Enterprise Software

FastScale Composer Suite

Dan Kusnetzy: FastScale's latest product is aimed at reducing the complexity of creating and maintaining virtual machine images.

Companies

AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?

Larry Dignan: Hector Ruiz steps down amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. New CEO Dirk Meyer's job: Restore credibility.

Communications

How to make Silverlight enterprise fit

Dave Greenfield: A startup has enabled their Visual WebGui environment to redirect Siliverlight calls across the network, enabling the Silverlight applications to run on any desktop without client software.

General News

Supercomputers fight against bird flu

Roland Piquepaille: Now, U.S. scientists are using supercomputers to find new drugs to fight the ever-changing bird flu virus and to stay ahead of its daily mutations.

Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?

Between the Lines by Sam Diaz

After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for...

Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft

All about Microsoft by Mary Jo Foley

Hamilton "Hammett" Verissimo, the founder of the open-source Castle Project, is joining Microsoft on August 11 as a program manager on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF) team.

Mary-Jo Foley

Spam coming from free email providers increasing

Zero Day by Dancho Danchev

After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers...

Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev, Nate McFeters

My top 10 free iPhone applications

The Apple Core by Jason D. O'Grady

It's been a week since the iPhone 3G launched and I wanted to run down my top 10 free iPhone applications – so far. So here goes... Image Gallery: Top...

Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern

Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!

Hardware 2.0 by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

My post the other day about Windows "Workstation" 2008 (the nickname given to an installation of Windows Server 2008 that's been tweaked to be more of a desktop OS) seemed...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Android losing its mojo fast

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest to get developers drooling. With some...

Garett Rogers

Apple is not the real enemy of open source

Linux and Open Source by Dana Blankenhorn

Apple embraces DRMs, and any other restrictions the copyright industries want. This is at the heart of its power. Its alliance with the copyright industries has brought Apple from the...

Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney

Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter

IT Project Failures by Michael Krigsman

SAP implementation problems prevented Levi Strauss from fulfilling orders for a week during the second quarter and contributed to a 98% decline in net income relative to the same quarter...

Michael Krigsman

Twitter going commercial?

Enterprise Alley by Dennis Howlett

According to Mike Arrington, there is a commercial play for Twitter in the works. During a conversation with Ev Williams, Twitter co-founder: MA: What is your revenue model? Do you...

Dennis Howlett

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare

Tech Broiler by Jason Perlow

Apple may win the battle, but they'll lose the war, eventually. Well, that was predictable, really. A small startup in Florida decides to go make Mac clones, and surprise,...

Jason Perlow

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

Irregular Enterprise by Dennis Howlett

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far...

Dennis Howlett

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

GreenTech Pastures by Heather Clancy

My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for...

Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy

Has Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows Easy Transfer Companion?

Microsoft Report by Ed Bott

More than two years ago, Microsoft purchased Apptimum, Inc., which had developed two system utilities for transferring programs and settings from one computer to another. Roughly six months later, around...

Ed Bott

Super flash, hyper flash

Storage Bits by Robin Harris

Samsung has announced a new SLC flash part with 5x the write/erase cycle spec over standard single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash. They call it server grade flash. Is this the...

Robin Harris

SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales

Software as services by Phil Wainewright

SaaS CRM vendor Entellium is phasing out its browser-based offerings in favor of a smart client version that it says sells faster, better and at one-fifth of the marketing costs...

Phil Wainewright

Beta version of Hello, Android book is out

Dev Connection by Ed Burnette

Ever since Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance announced the Android platform last November, I've been working on a book to help developers write programs for it....

Ed Burnette

Looking at single atoms of hydrogen

Emerging Technology Trends by Roland Piquepaille

As you probably know, graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms packed in a dense two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. And it recently became very popular recently as a basis for...

Roland Piquepaille

Will Twitter tip in the UK first?

The Social Web by Steve O'Hear

If Twitter is to reach a tipping point, it will likely happen in the UK first not the U.S., according to web analytics firm Hitwise.

Steve O'Hear

MobileTechRoundup show #140, iPhone apps, Opera Mobile 9.5 beta, and netbooks

The Mobile Gadgeteer by Matthew Miller

We really tried to get away from talking just about the iPhone in MobileTechRoundup show #140, but when it is the hottest news in the mobile space it is tough....

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

Second version of NASDAQ MarketReplay application released

The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart

Last week NASDAQ released version two of their Market Replay AIR application and added a couple of interesting features as well as provided some details of how the service works....

Ryan Stewart

The iPhone meets Journalism

Managing L'unix by Paul Murphy

If you read general coverage of Apple's new G3 iPhone you'll soon discover either that it's perfection incarnate or the worst excuse for a cheap handset anyone's ever foisted on...

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

FastScale Composer™ Suite

Virtually Speaking by Dan Kusnetzky

I just spoke with Jerry McCloud, VP of Business Development of Fastscale Technology, about the newest release of their product, FastScale Composer™ Suite. This product is aimed at reducing the...

Dan Kusnetzky & Paula Rooney

Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamed

Service-Oriented Architecture by Joe McKendrick

How many moths would it take to bring down a SOA?

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

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Benchmark your PC, free

The ToyBox by Andrew Nusca

Free application PC Wizard is a portable tool that analyzes and benchmarks your Windows PC. On the simple side, the 'Wiz gives you an in-depth look at your hardware and...

Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca

Top digital camera vendors partner to develop new wireless transfer technology

Digital Cameras by Janice Chen

Imagine being able to display photos on your TV screen just by touching your digital camera to the TV--no more card readers or cables to fuss with. Today, Sony along...

Janice Chen

D-Link launches new surveillance cam with Powerline networking

SOHO Networking by Rik Fairlie

D-Link is shipping the first in the line of its D-Life products, a series that is designed to enable users to easily manage networking devices via its D-Life Web site....

Rik Fairlie

Samsung ships 128GB SSDs with cheaper flash memory

The Core Truth by John Morris

Samsung announced today that it has begun manufacturing 64GB and 128GB SSDs based on a less-expensive type of NAND flash known as MLC. The company also said it was still...

John Morris

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

iGeneration by Zack Whittaker

You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use...

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

Microhoo, MicroAOL, and challenging Google

A Developer's View by John Carroll

Microsoft interminable hunt to cobble together an ad platform with greater market share continues, reaching now into AOL territory. There is merit in the goal, though much risk in the...

John Carroll

Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way

Enterprise Anti-matter by Joshua Greenbaum

I came away from this week's Microsoft Worldwide Partner (WPC) conference convinced, finally, that the future of Vista is assured in the enterprise. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't because...

Joshua Greenbaum

Intel's Centrino 2 + WiMAX could break the Luddite Telcos

IMHO by Tom Foremski

I was at Intel's Centrino 2 launch on Monday and I'm hoping that Centrino 2 can do the same thing Centrino 1 did for WiFi but this time for WiMAX...

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

Top online ad campaigns by fast food chains

IT Facts by NB

Advertiser Ad views, 000 Share of ads Unique ad viewers, 000 Frequency McDonald’s 295,884 33.6% 51,897 5.7 Quiznos.com 98,041 11.1% 16,390 6.0 KFC.com 84,974 9.6% 12,620 6.7 PapaJohns.com 82,298...

Alex Moskalyuk

How to make Microsoft Silverlight enterprise fit

Team Think by Dave Greenfield

A father and son team think they’ve found a way to make Microsoft Silverlight  more enterprise friendly. Navot and Gai Peled who run Gizmo, Ltd., an Israeli startup, have...

David Greenfield

Twellow mellow about Twitter-Summize deal

Feeds by Jennifer Leggio

Who's afraid of the big Twitter-Summize deal? Not Twellow. The company's Matthew Daines discusses social search, new features and why it's here to stay.

Jennifer Leggio

My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier

The IT Grind by Deb Perelman

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that...

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

Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice

Education IT by Christopher Dawson

The more I use these, the more I really don't care for iWork. Sure, Keynote makes some darned pretty presentations, but NeoOffice (and OpenOffice for the matter) cuts the mustard...

Christopher Dawson

NebuAd: Galileo or pariah?

ZDNet Government by Richard Koman

So, it would seem we have found the outer limits of user tracking and ad-serving. At a House hearing yesterday, NebuAd ran into universal condemnation for its plans to monitor...

Richard Koman

U.S. health care not getting better

Healthcare IT by Dana Blankenhorn

In its second National Scorecard on Health System Performance the Commonwealth Fund gives the U.S. system 65 points out of 100. The New York Times kindly calls this a "D"...

Dana Blankenhorn

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