Filed in archive Security
by Scott Wilson on October 31, 2007
In the "More Unsurprising News" category we have today's article from Help Net Security detailing a recently released study which found that 35% of employees have violated their...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on October 31, 2007
Dave Berlind finds himself with a few parting words to say before the theme music kicks in and the closing credits roll. Dave is commenting on a rather brief debate that was kicked off, at least in...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on October 30, 2007
Microsoft today announced a new, amorphous project entitled "Oslo" which encompasses the corporation's "Software + Services" roadmap for the coming years. "Software +...
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In a word: support. I went into this issue in more detail, and with earlier versions of Apple software, a few months ago. But the rash of blue screen (not a term traditionally associated with OS X......
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Filed in archive Security
by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2007
At least if new developments in the TJX data breach case play out in favor of the plaintiffs. Several banks are suing the company, which probably first came to your attention earlier this year as yet...
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Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2007
It must seem like Michael Krigsman is paying me off, considering how often I've been linking to him lately, but I swear, it's really just that he keeps posting stuff that piques my interest....
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I'd have to search through the archives to be sure, but I doubt that Apple has ever been discussed much in this blog... there's always a faint whiff of amateurism in "professional"...
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Prompted by some recent posts and the subsequent conversations over at Michael Krigsman's ZDnet Project Failures blog, I've dug in and written a lengthy treatise on consultants and incentives...
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Citrix's recent acquisition of virtualization software company XenSource is finally bearing fruit for the company. Monday, the company announced the release of a new line of products titled...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on October 24, 2007
As reported here last week Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service is now out of beta and available for general use; now, a new service is out which begins the mind-bending journey of...
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Filed in archive Events
by Scott Wilson on October 22, 2007
Microsoft announced today that it would not appeal the decision recently made against it in the European Union anti-trust case. After nearly ten years, the company has agreed to comply with decisions...
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It's refreshing to read about IT issues from overseas from time to time, particularly when they are liberally peppered with bollocking and crikeys and codswallops, and so I give thanks to this...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on October 20, 2007
Gartner's IT Symposium in Orlando last week generated the usual amount of news and interest from that annual gathering and the last gasp has been summed up in this Baseline article, "CIOs...
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This topic has some direct bearing on another recent post, the one regarding the future of Microsoft, but it's really its own story, which Microsoft just happens to own a small piece of. The...
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Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on October 18, 2007
Microsoft's Silverlight project, a browser-based Flash competitor, is apparently sparking some concern among the states which sued, and won, against the company based on anti-trust violations....
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2007
Amazon's EC2 virtual Computing resource service has ended its beta phase and is now available to all developers, according to Dan Farber at ZDnet. The service, particularly in combination with...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2007
Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to expand their Software as a Service offerings this week under their Business Technology Optimization umbrella. The BTO offering covers a variety of IT service...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007
Ah, the venerable beige box-one beneath every desk in corporate America before manufacturers discovered the color "black" and got all trendy on us. But perhaps no longer, according to...
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In San Francisco this morning Microsoft has announced the release of their Unified Communications family of software and hardware. I'm about halfway through watching the keynote now, enjoying the...
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Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007
Much of the speculation over the first Linux patent lawsuits filed last week against Red Hat and Novell revolved around whether or not Microsoft-famously vocal about its belief that its patents were...
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Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on October 15, 2007
It's Ballmer Gone Wild at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando this past week, it seems... in addition to the previously described dust-up with analyst Yvonne Genovese, we are getting word now of...
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The first patent-infringement lawsuit against Linux has been filed in Texas against Red Hat and Novell as of last week. The patent holder, IP Innovation LLC, appears to be a subsidiary of Acacia...
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Whatever happened to micro-payments, you have to wonder on reading this blog entry about the inability of Amazon's S3 service to charge certain credit card companies for particularly small...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on October 11, 2007
Or so it would seem according to a new survey from the Society of Information Management, indicating that the number of CIOs reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer has dropped...
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