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• 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

• Facebook as social rule of thumb?

  This new course I'm taking introduces sociology, and I assure all you budding sociologists who read that this new-found knowledge isn't going to my head. It seems for many, especially ...

  Tags: Management, Zack Whittaker, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Social Networking, Facebook

  Oct 13, 2008 12:22 PM PDT

• Touchscreen Asus Eee PC available for UK preorder

  Look! There it is, on preorder in the UK: Asus' all-in-one Eee PC is available for £399.99, and seems sluggish to boot: 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard ...

  Tags: Memory, Components, U.K., Peripherals, Microsoft Windows XP, Hardware, Desktops, Touch Screen, ASUS, Microsoft Windows

  Oct 13, 2008 12:01 PM PDT

• OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

  Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ...

  Tags: OpenOffice, Symphony 1.2, Desktop, Conversion Tool, Sun Microsystems Inc., Training, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Microsoft Office, Software

  Oct 13, 2008 11:49 AM PDT

• Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.

  In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that ...

  Tags: Federal Government, Andrew Nusca, FCC, Government, Wireless Internet, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Airwave

  Oct 13, 2008 11:44 AM PDT

• Economics of open source remains an academic challenge

  Explain the economics of open source, especially as it relates to international trade. Give us charts, graphs, and especially models. We like models. Then just wait for the phone call ...

  Tags: Theory, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Economist

  Oct 13, 2008 11:44 AM PDT

• Does the credit crunch represent a silver lining for open source?

  If my email inbox is anything to go by, the credit crunch could be just what open source has been waiting for. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Tags: Management, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Oct 13, 2008 11:31 AM PDT

• 9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net

  Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to ...

  Tags: Engineering, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Battery, Richard Koman, Internet

  Oct 13, 2008 10:53 AM PDT

• Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

  Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing ...

  Tags: Finance, Sam Diaz, Operational Accounting, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

  Oct 13, 2008 10:39 AM PDT

• The candidates on tech

  Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is ...

  Tags: Industry, Net Neutrality, John McCain, Human Resources, Telecommunications, Spectrum, H-1B, Richard Koman, Broadband, Obama

  Oct 13, 2008 10:39 AM PDT

• Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no

  Microsoft announced, as expected, on Monday that the second version of its Silverlight browser plug-in is done and will be available imminently for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Google Chrome, Microsoft Corp., Operating Systems, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Software, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple iPhone, Google Inc.

  Oct 13, 2008 10:39 AM PDT

• More confusion on vitamin D

  Doctors are going to have to come up with some good explanations why God's way of giving us Vitamin D is bad and the chemist's way is better. by Dana ...

  Tags: Salt Lake Tribune, Doctors, Vitamin, Parents, Dana Blankenhorn, Louisville Courier-Press

  Oct 13, 2008 10:25 AM PDT

• Using your voice to pilot your computer

  According to The Seattle Times, an interdisciplinary team of scientists of the University of Washington UW has developed Vocal Joystick, a software which enables people with disabilities to control their ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille, Mice, Voice, Hardware, Pattern Recognition, Application Driver, Productivity, Computer, Telecommunications

  Oct 13, 2008 9:45 AM PDT

• Growing open standards pressure on healthcare

  The devil here is in the details, but we do have the ingredients of an agreement, in the form of Internet standards, XML technologies, and such standards as HL7. by ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Open Standard, Benefits, Enterprise Software

  Oct 13, 2008 9:44 AM PDT

• Raw meat iPod case

  Now I've seen everything. This raw meat iPod case is from a Japanese company called Solid Alliance. It's not made of actual raw meat but it sure looks convincing. (Tip: ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Apple iPod, Meat, Digital Media, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Oct 13, 2008 9:36 AM PDT

• IT warning: Turbulence ahead

  The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you ...

  Tags: Management, Information Technology, Larry Dignan, Strategy, CIO, Gartner Inc.

  Oct 13, 2008 9:26 AM PDT

• Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow

  Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the ...

  Tags: Linux, Silverlight 2, Operating Systems, Ryan Stewart, Open Source, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Software, Microsoft Silverlight, Productivity

  Oct 13, 2008 9:16 AM PDT

• MacBook revision could drop FireWire port

  There's a very spirited discussion going on at MacRumors about the new aluminum MacBook's port lineup. If purported spy shots of the unreleased machine are to be believed, Firewire could ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Firewire Port, FireWire, Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Networking, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Ethernet

  Oct 13, 2008 9:16 AM PDT

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