Technology Today

• Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

  Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. ...

  Tags: Management, Personal Technology, Game Players, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Steve Ballmer, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan

  Jul 25, 2008 6:45 AM PDT

• Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards

  The big winner? Open Office. It swept the awards for top project, top enterprise project, and top project in education. by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, SourceForge, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Software, Office Suites

  Jul 25, 2008 6:38 AM PDT

• Is there an open source jobs boom?

  The bottom line is things are about as bad in programming as in anything else. But if you know open source you have a cost-cutting story to tell, and that ...

  Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source, Job

  Jul 25, 2008 6:18 AM PDT

• Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?

  Several observers have suggested Levi Strauss used IT failure as an excuse to deflect attention away from deeper and more significant financial challenges. by Michael Krigsman

  Tags: Management, Financial, ERP, Information Technology, Strategy, Implementation, Levi Strauss, Enterprise Software, Software Deployment, Francine

  Jul 25, 2008 6:16 AM PDT

• Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

  Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook ...

  Tags: Hasbro Inc., Personal Technology, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, Scrabulous, Intellectual Property, lawsuit, Games, Research & Development, GameSpot

  Jul 25, 2008 5:38 AM PDT

• Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08

  OK, it's time once again for The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, ...

  Tags: DDR3, List, Components, Galaxy EGX1000EWL, Processors, Intel Corp., PSU, ASUS, Video Cards, Corporate Law

  Jul 25, 2008 5:35 AM PDT

• AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?

  AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: ...

  Tags: America Online Inc., Finance, Larry Dignan, Internet, Business Structures, Litigation, Business Operations, Portals

  Jul 25, 2008 5:22 AM PDT

• Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

  Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, ...

  Tags: Dancho Danchev, RK West, Click Fraud

  Jul 25, 2008 5:15 AM PDT

• Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall

  Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two ...

  Tags: NetFlix Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan, Earnings, Acquisition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment

  Jul 25, 2008 5:05 AM PDT

• 10 essential gadgets for students

  I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Phone, Lecture, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Headphone

  Jul 25, 2008 3:46 AM PDT

• If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?

  Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools ...

  Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Hardware, Tool, Data Management, Productivity, Storage, Xen, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Open Source

  Jul 25, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

  Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic ...

  Tags: Larry Dignan

  Jul 25, 2008 2:10 AM PDT

• From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

  This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp ...

  Tags: Data Center, Servers, Data-processing, Hardware, IBM Mainframe, Paul Murphy, Data Centers, Data Management, IBM Corp., Mainframes

  Jul 25, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop

  Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance ...

  Tags: Jason Hiner, Workstations, Servers, Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Hardware, R5400, Desktops

  Jul 24, 2008 8:33 PM PDT

• Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide

  Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's ...

  Tags: Ryan Naraine, U.S., Healthcare, Attorney, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service

  Jul 24, 2008 7:13 PM PDT

• 10 considerations to fix failures

  Some distressed projects are so strategic and important they simply can't be allowed to fail. Here are ideas to consider when pulling these special initiatives out of the flames. by ...

  Tags: Management, Blog, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Strategy, Project, Internet, Michael Krigsman, Blogging

  Jul 24, 2008 3:45 PM PDT

• Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

  Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie foreshadowed a couple of still-to-be-released Microsoft's cloud-developer services -- "Zurich" and "Red Dog" -- during his speech at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting ...

  Tags: Zurich, Financial Accounting, SQL Server Data Services, Retail, Hardware, Data Management, Storage, Ray Ozzie, Finance, Ozzie

  Jul 24, 2008 3:38 PM PDT

• Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge

  So does Google have anything up its sleeve, when it comes to the Android mobile communications platform? It better have. Because expectations keep getting lowered. And Apple keeps raising the ...

  Tags: Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Apple iPhone, Mobile, Android, Developer, Google Inc.

  Jul 24, 2008 3:06 PM PDT

• Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up

  Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to ...

  Tags: Finance, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Larry Dignan, Revenue, Operational Accounting

  Jul 24, 2008 2:51 PM PDT

• Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon

  I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is ...

  Tags: Nathan McFeters, CERT, DNS Server, Internet, Dan, Server, Security, Patches, Kaminsky, Domain Names

  Jul 24, 2008 2:30 PM PDT

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