Technology Today

• An IE8 Beta 2 Q&A

  Yesterday I published my first look at the just-released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. I got some great comments in the Talkback thread and via e-mail and thought it ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Beta, Ed Bott, Software, IE Beta Newsgroup, Microsoft Windows

  Aug 28, 2008 11:40 AM PDT

• The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

  Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage ...

  Tags: Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Joshua Greenbaum, Software-as-a-service, Emerging Technologies, Customer Choice

  Aug 28, 2008 11:21 AM PDT

• Public policy and open source

  What role should government have in moving open source forward? by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Government, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

  Aug 28, 2008 11:16 AM PDT

• Community managers akin to 'Internet police'

  More fodder for the "marketing should stop trying to control the message" file. Don't control. Don't manipulate. Join the conversation. by Jennifer Leggio

  Tags: Management, Community Manager, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio, Twitter, Team Management, Internet, Blogging, RSS, Benefits

  Aug 28, 2008 11:09 AM PDT

• Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into

  I've been following the Engineering Windows 7 blog closely and I've come to the conclusion that while Steven Sinofsky is a man of many words, those words don't say an ...

  Tags: Home Basic, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows

  Aug 28, 2008 11:06 AM PDT

• Why does Safari stink?

  I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn't access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Apple Safari, Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Internet, Desktops, Portals

  Aug 28, 2008 10:34 AM PDT

• We can change your cells and cure your diabetes

  Transforming cells through the injection of genes is a very big deal. While it will take some time to prove, and even more time to reach the market, it's a ...

  Tags: Medical Research, Gene, Dana Blankenhorn, Stem-cell, Cell

  Aug 28, 2008 10:21 AM PDT

• A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Sputnik

  A piece of the infrastructure powering Microsoft's adCenter and paid-search technologies is today's featured Microsoft Codename of the Day. Read on for more about "Sputnik." by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Sputnik ETL, Mary Jo Foley, Codename

  Aug 28, 2008 9:46 AM PDT

• Things you've probably done this summer instead of work

  Those deeply ingrained school year patterns of summers off aren't easily forgotten once you work all year round. Fact is, everyone slacks off a little in the summer, and this ...

  Tags: Hour, Worker, Odds, July, Deb Perelman

  Aug 28, 2008 9:39 AM PDT

• Wireless networks mimicking biological systems

  The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learned from living organisms. These wireless sensors will be used for a ...

  Tags: Wireless Network, Roland Piquepaille, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Sensor, Measurement Data, Networking, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Aug 28, 2008 9:29 AM PDT

• Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time

  How he got ahold of them, he's not saying but LA blogger Kevin Cogill did get ahold and posted unreleased songs from a new Guns n Roses album, Chinese Democracy. ...

  Tags: Bail, Federal Government, Government, Agent, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Judge, Public Relations, Skwerl

  Aug 28, 2008 9:07 AM PDT

• Google Apps dashboard: Serious about the enterprise?

  Google is developing a system status reporting dashboard for its Apps Premier product line. This decision provides further evidence Google is serious about becoming an enterprise software vendor. by Michael ...

  Tags: Dashboard, Michael Krigsman, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Google, Google Apps, Google Inc.

  Aug 28, 2008 8:22 AM PDT

• The importance of the Veoh decision

  Needless to say, Google's lawyers are happy. They now have a precedent to hit Viacom over the head with. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Corporate Law, Safe Harbor, Piracy, Dana Blankenhorn, Antipiracy, Video, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Veoh, DMCA

  Aug 28, 2008 8:08 AM PDT

• Are gamers doping during tournaments?

  It's not typical Toybox fare, but it made me wonder just what kind of "toys" people are keeping in their toyboxes these days. A fascinating recent Gameplayer interview chronicles some ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Management, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca, Strategy, Knowledge, Games, Tournament, Director, Policies And Procedures

  Aug 28, 2008 8:02 AM PDT

• Steve Jobs death has been greatly exaggerated

  News outlet Bloomberg gave Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday when it accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. Although the ...

  Tags: Financing Startups, Corporate Law, Finance, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Business Operations, Jason D. O\'Grady

  Aug 28, 2008 7:29 AM PDT

• Is probiotics a scam?

  Some of the claims made by probiotics advocates remind me of the patent medicine craze of the 19th century. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Human Resources, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Health Care, Food & Beverage, Dana Blankenhorn, Bacteria, Manufacturing, Software, Probiotics

  Aug 28, 2008 7:09 AM PDT

• First images of Google-powered HTC Dream

  It was rumored that the HTC G1 Dream would be the first Google powered phone on the market, and if everything pans out, those rumors will end up being true ...

  Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Personal Technology, Bluetooth, Cellular Phones, Digital Video, Garett Rogers, Digital Media, Digital Music, Wireless, Consumer Electronics

  Aug 28, 2008 7:00 AM PDT

• What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?

  In the IE 8 Beta 2 Reviewers' Guide, Microsoft provides a list of what it considers the most alluring features for business users of IE 8, the final version of ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

  Aug 28, 2008 6:54 AM PDT

• Perot: Making Sure "Everybody Has Access To The Truth"

  He doesn't "do a lot of Internet work." He's not on Facebook, Linked In or MySpace. He's not an iPhone guy. He prefers to get "instant feedback from the people,'' ...

  Tags: Ross Perot, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Microsoft Access, Nominee

  Aug 28, 2008 6:40 AM PDT

• SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years

  Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's ...

  Tags: Software As A Service (SaaS), SaaS, Cloud Computing, Software as a service, ZDNet Asia, Lawson, Software-as-a-service, Emerging Technologies, software, Asia

  Aug 28, 2008 5:47 AM PDT

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