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• Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.

  A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda ...

  Tags: Data Center, Hardware, Heather Clancy, Data Centers, Data Management, CIO, Voltaire Inc., Storage

  Sep 05, 2008 2:13 PM PDT

• Microsoft builds $300M cathedral to Bill Gates, hires Jerry Seinfeld as Pope

  I'm just having a little fun.... I don't get the Seinfeld commercial. They are selling Bill, not Windows. What's with that? Bill retired in July. This just in from Adweek's ...

  Tags: Management, Bill Gates, Ass, Marketing, Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Branding, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp.

  Sep 05, 2008 1:47 PM PDT

• Is Firefox faster than Chrome?

  Today Mozilla hit back at claims that Google's Chrome browser outperforms Firefox by releasing benchmark results that show that Firefox 3.1 is faster at executing JavaScript that Google's offering. by ...

  Tags: Engine, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software/Web Development, Internet

  Sep 05, 2008 1:12 PM PDT

• What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?

  The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of ...

  Tags: Ryan Stewart

  Sep 05, 2008 12:07 PM PDT

• LHC scientists get death threats

  So it's come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course. Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank ...

  Tags: Physicist, Scientist, Public Relations, Marketing, Richard Koman, Corporate Communications, Black Hole

  Sep 05, 2008 11:58 AM PDT

• Cool Tools - Overlay.TV can reduce training, video production costs

  Overlay.TV is much better tool for training than static old WebEx. by Jennifer Leggio

  Tags: Jennifer Leggio, Team, Video, Tool, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Training, Overlay.TV

  Sep 05, 2008 11:50 AM PDT

• Mainstream media writes Windows obit

  Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its ...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Web Browser, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software

  Sep 05, 2008 11:12 AM PDT

• 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

  The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it ...

  Tags: Advertisement, News, Finance, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Revenue, Governor, Internet Advertising, Operational Accounting

  Sep 05, 2008 11:11 AM PDT

• The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

  I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I ...

  Tags: SlideRocket, Microsoft PowerPoint, Collaboration, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Fax, Digital Signatures, Appirio, Document, Microsoft Office

  Sep 05, 2008 10:58 AM PDT

• Possible AMD Q4/08 desktop processor roadmap surfaces

  CHW.net has published what seems to be on the face of it a convincing looking AMD Q4 08 processor roadmap that gives us a glimpse into what AMD has in-store ...

  Tags: Components, AMD Athlon, Processors, Semiconductors, Desktop, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, CHW.net

  Sep 05, 2008 10:46 AM PDT

• Service integrators = Ed Tech bargain hunters?

  I'm not entirely enamored of my ISP right now. Their backbone is dated, downtime too frequent, the email interface they provide is kludgy at best, application support for their web ...

  Tags: Christopher Dawson, Internet Service Provider, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Web Hosting

  Sep 05, 2008 10:37 AM PDT

• The Importance of Dissent

  Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his ...

  Tags: Joe Brockmeier, Arjen, Databases, Open Source, Data Management, Software, MySQL, Enterprise Software

  Sep 05, 2008 10:32 AM PDT

• Echelon wins smart meter project in Germany; plus insight on smart grid in Europe

  A reseller for smart grid technology player Echelon announced a deal this week to deploy an advanced metering infrastructure system that will serve roughly 10,000 customers in Hassfurt, Germany. The ...

  Tags: Grid, It Management, Utility Computing, Cloud Computing, Network Technology, It service Management, Heather Clancy, Networking, Germany, Green Technology

  Sep 05, 2008 10:17 AM PDT

• Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

  [ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser is beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Google Chrome, Ryan Naraine, ModSecurity, Web Browser, Internet, Security, Google Inc., Vulnerability

  Sep 05, 2008 9:33 AM PDT

• Microsoft's Ozzie to head another new Microsoft lab

  You may have heard of Microsoft's Live Labs, Office Labs, adCenter Labs. Get ready to add one more Microsoft incubator that is designed to speed up the delivery of Microsoft-created ...

  Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Product Development, Research & Development, Mary Jo Foley, Business Operations

  Sep 05, 2008 9:12 AM PDT

• Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

  Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Single Sign-on, Password Management, RoboForm Enterprise, Software, Mozilla Firefox, Password

  Sep 05, 2008 9:08 AM PDT

• What the fight against cancer really needs

  What the fight against cancer really needs isn't another feel-good telethon but an open source process. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Cancer, Biotechnology, Construction, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

  Sep 05, 2008 8:40 AM PDT

• Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

  Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users ...

  Tags: Application, Ryan Naraine, Network, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, DOS, Social Networking, Denial Of Service, Facebook

  Sep 05, 2008 8:29 AM PDT

• Seinfeld becomes McCain

  You can see the first Seinfeld ad for Microsoft here. It aired last night. This is going to sound political, but it looked to me a lot like John McCain's ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Bill Gates, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

  Sep 05, 2008 8:05 AM PDT

• Red Hat buys Qumranet, adds gasoline to the spreading VDI bonfire

  VDI, somewhat ironically, may also work well for market mover Microsoft as it seeks to slow the momentum to outright web-based and OSS/LAMP-supported applications and services for large businesses. Microsoft ...

  Tags: Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner, Desktops, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Utility Computing, Operating Systems

  Sep 05, 2008 7:56 AM PDT

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