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To understand the fervor regarding camera phone bar By Brian Chee Dec 31, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Songs of the RIAA, Virgled Googins, and More First, I want to let everyone out there in Cringeville know that I did in fact survive the InfoWorld Christmas party last week (or was that the week before?). A big thanks to Skip McJingle for pinch-hitting for me in my brief absence. Now… has anyo By Robert Cringely Dec 31, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development SOA Report Podcast Continues Next Week… Stay tuned for my predictions for 2007, and more tough love. I hope everyone has a Happy New Year! Be careful. Dave… By Dave Linthicum Dec 31, 2007 1 min Software Development Highlighting hidden gems Years like 2007 make you glad to have a ringside seat on the technology industry. The top stories of 2007 were full of drama. Vista flopped like an overindulged celebutante. Consolidation in the software industry reached new heights of excess…. By Eric Knorr Dec 31, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Is looking out for the greater good reasonable? Dear Bob …I recently went to a "conflict management" class and got classified high on the "Conscientious" division on the basis of a short questionnaire. Leaving aside the validity of such a short instrument (never let facts get By Bob Lewis Dec 29, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Pet Peeves: 2007 Everyone's got an end of year list, so… WGA Nightmares After nearly losing my primary development workstation to this Orwellian scam I began to appreciate why so many power users have switched to Linux. Hopefully, Microsoft will hon By Randall Kennedy Dec 29, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development More about Sun’s comeback Even the Web has space limitations. After all, how many times will you click to get through a story? In writing about Sun’s comeback in my Top 10 Unreported feature, I needed to cut an anecdote that I rather liked because it illustrated the pro By Bill Snyder Dec 28, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Top Underreported IT Stories in 2007 The editorial staff and bloggers at InfoWorld did some brainstorming in recent weeks to write up the top underreported stories in IT for the year. Although the topic is a bit of an oxymoron (if a tree falls in the forest, kind of thing…) I think it By Zack Urlocker Dec 28, 2007 1 min Open Source Mobile Phone Barcode system ScanLife is the technology behind the new Sprint ads that have started to appear in print media. I found one in my issue of Wired and while I'm a T-Mobile user, you can still download the application from the ScanLife site and be able By Brian Chee Dec 28, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry Catbird Security and 3Leaf Systems Getting Recognition Catbird was recently named one of 10 companies to watch in 2008 by CRN magazine, which makes good sense. The company's solution marries two hot market segments – virtualization and security. 3Leaf Systems has also been getting a lot of media att By David Marshall Dec 28, 2007 1 min Software Development How Did WordPerfect Go Wrong? <P>I don't know why, but over the last year readers have several times brought up a topic that is a something of an historic gripe – actually, in terms of the technology world, one that is ancient history. Why did WordPerfect – the word pr By Ed Foster Dec 28, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry Defects Our Specialty My parents had an auto parts store in Philadelphia for something like 40 years. Their motto was "Defects Our Specialty." Funny, right? Actually, it was a good slogan, since there was a high incidence of defective replacement auto pa By Martin Heller Dec 27, 2007 3 mins Software Development Are you the “Christmas Geek?” Off the SOA topic for this one, but perhaps interesting to SOA people nonetheless. I've noticed that there is a role that's been emerging over the last few years, one of a "Christmas Geek." Perhaps you're one, and you don By Dave Linthicum Dec 27, 2007 2 mins Software Development 2007: The year in green From the trenches of the datacenter to the corner office, from the eco-minded citizen's living room to the Senate floor, it seemed that just about everyone <strong><a href="/article/07/07/16/29FEgreenreasons By Ted Samson Dec 27, 2007 7 mins Technology Industry Spam filtering for dummies MessageLabs is evil.Not really. I'm sure most of the people who work there, and even most of the people who direct the company are very nice human beings who treat their families well, don't kick dogs, and host backyard barbecues.Nonetheles By Bob Lewis Dec 27, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Apple Looks Tasty @ $200 a share Whoa. Shares of Apple broke the $200 barrier for the first time Wednesday as holiday shoppers continue to snap up huge quantities of electronic goodies. It’s been a great year for the Cupertino-based company; Apple introduced a new version of i By Bill Snyder Dec 26, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Visual Studio 2008 Installation Follow-up I wrote on Sunday about my week-long, beyond-weird troubles installing Visual Studio 2008: lack of Internet bandwidth, lost shipments, defective DVDs, and generally bad installation karma. On Monday, things looked up. Two packages that had been missi By Martin Heller Dec 26, 2007 1 min Software Development An Enterprise Windows Christmas Wish On the night before Christmas, I sat down to think of a special list of gifts I'd like that Santa can't deliver–that is, unless Steve Ballmer is playing Santa. It's a modest list, really–I'm not greedy, and I'm not looking By Sean Gallagher Dec 26, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development What the true geek really wanted for Christmas (it’s not too late!) Sure, you've got an iPhone. 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And we've already talked about all of the gre By David Marshall Dec 24, 2007 3 mins Software Development The Worst (and Best) of 2007 It's time again to honor those companies whose high-tech hijinks have made for continual blog fodder over the past year. As with last year, this year's *Moonies (for Malicious Obnoxious Offensive or Nonsensical behavior) come with a handsom By Robert Cringely Dec 24, 2007 5 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Cenzic Announces Hailstorm and Attune Enhances Partner Program Web application security assessment firm Cenzic recently announced that its Cenzic Hailstorm solution has now been integrated with VMware Lab Manager and VMware VirtualCenter. And file virtualization provider Attune Systems announced the company' By David Marshall Dec 24, 2007 1 min Software Development The downside to focusing on the positives Dear Bob …This is strange, but true. My wife has been strongly and relentlessly pushing me to leave my current job because the company sucks and has been getting worse on a daily basis for the last ten to fifteen years.I respond by pointing out opt By Bob Lewis Dec 23, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Weird Happenings: A Visual Studio 2008 Saga For awhile, I thought I was living an episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, or a Lovecraft tale. But I should start from the beginning. When Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) was released just prior to Thanksgiving, I tried briefly to download it By Martin Heller Dec 23, 2007 5 mins Software Development Larry Ellison says SOA Uptake is Slow Just taking a break from the break to bring you this interesting tidbit I found in CIO magazine. You can read the complete article here. In essence Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison has admitted that the rate of SOA adoption is slow. "'While By Dave Linthicum Dec 23, 2007 2 mins Software Development Simon Crosby of Citrix Discusses Virtualization Heading into 2008 Simon Crosby, former CTO of XenSource and now CTO of the Virtualization and Management Division at Citrix Systems, is well known in the industry as a virtualization and open source champion. As we leave 2007 behind us and push forward into 2008, I wa By David Marshall Dec 22, 2007 13 mins Software Development Avocent – SwitchView 100 4-port PS/2 KVM Switch Avocent – SwitchView 100 2-port PS/2 KVM Switch Avocent – SwitchView 100 2-port USB KVM Switch Avocent – SwitchView 100 4-port PS/2 KVM Switch Avocent – SwitchView 100 4-port USB KVM Switch The InteropNET crew has been using the By Brian Chee Dec 21, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry Red Hat Beats Q3 Expectations Red Hat Names Jim Whitehurst, former COO of Delta Airlines, as CEO. Szulik to Continue as Chairman. More here and here. I missed the Red Hat earnings call as I was more interested in RIM (a good Canadian company with awesome products, and whose stock By Savio Rodrigues Dec 21, 2007 3 mins Open Source The ins and outs of outsourcing and offshoring All signposts point to the continued expansion of outsourcing and its hand-in-glove partner, offshoring. Not only will outsourcing and offshoring continue to expand in the enterprise, they'll find their way into midsized and even small companies By Ephraim Schwartz Dec 21, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry HP hones blade management Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager breaks the chains between servers and networks, freeing HP shops to swap blades with ease By Mario Apicella Dec 21, 2007 4 mins Answer key: You don’t know tech The facts behind this week By Dan Tynan Dec 21, 2007 4 mins Careers A side of hash The cryptographic algorithms known as 'hash' can make a huge difference to your data security By Roger Grimes Dec 21, 2007 5 mins Data and Information Security Malware Technology Industry The Best of the Bad in 2007 <P>What did readers have to gripe about in 2007? As per usual, plenty. But somehow the level of absurdity of the situations they found themselves in as customers of IT products seemed this year to reach an all-time high.</P> <P>Get By Ed Foster Dec 21, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry GlassHouse Hopes Virtualization Can Fuel the Company’s $100M IPO GlassHouse Technologies, an independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, has registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to file their initial public offering (IPO) in hopes of raising nearly $100 million. All of the shar By David Marshall Dec 21, 2007 2 mins Software Development Google-backed Nanosolar rolls out first set of panels Even without additional funding from Congress via the recently passes energy bill, the future of solar power is looking bright. As reported the other day in the New York Times, Google-backed solar-panel start-up Nanosolar has started cranking out a n By Ted Samson Dec 20, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Visa low down — the alphabet soup explained Immigration laws are an alphabet soup of visas from the A-1 for diplomatic personnel, including your every day ambassador, all the way to the proposal in Senate Bill 1348 this year to create a new class of Z visa as a solution to address the problem By Ephraim Schwartz Dec 20, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Apple Shuts Down Think Secret It was great to read how Apple and Think Secret have settled their long-running law suit and delcared "positive results for both sides." The only downside is that the ThinkSecret site is being shut down. It's like saying the operation By Zack Urlocker Dec 20, 2007 1 min Open Source Silverlight for Designers: New Expression Blend Preview Available Most designers would never use Visual Studio, or even consider using it. Microsoft has a partial solution for designers who want to create Silverlight-based RIAs: Expression Blend. There's a free December preview of Expression Blend 2.0 availabl By Martin Heller Dec 20, 2007 1 min Software Development Oracle Blows Away Expectations Finally. Some good news in tech. Oracle did more than give its own investors a great Christmas present yesterday, blowing away Wall Street's expectations for the second quarter. Larry Ellison and crew also raised the hope that we'll see bro By Bill Snyder Dec 20, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry IT leaders share green-tech predictions for 2008 Green tech has flourished in the past year as vendors and customers alike have invested plenty of resources in making their products and practices more energy efficient, less wasteful, and eco-friendlier. But is this sustainable-tech trend a mere gre By Ted Samson Dec 20, 2007 11 mins Technology Industry Oracle Blows Out the Quarter I've been tracking the "Demise of the traditional software market" for some time now. One more data point from Oracle today. Second quarter total revenues were up 28% to $5.3 billion, while quarterly net income was up 35% to $1.3 billi By Savio Rodrigues Dec 20, 2007 1 min Open Source Growing Demand for SaaS Maybe this is obvious to everyone already, but a recent study of Microsoft channel partners by IDC shows that Software as a Service is seen as a big opportunity by traditional Software ISV channel partners. – 76% view that SaaS will dramatically impa By Zack Urlocker Dec 19, 2007 2 mins Open Source Unisys pushes green envelope with datacenter expansion I've read about various types of datacenter designs and renovations over the past year and I've found it interesting to observe the diverse approaches companies take to make their facilities greener, in the broad sense of the word. Digital By Ted Samson Dec 19, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Beowulf Pre-viz used NVidia boards I mentioned last month that I was interested in (and somewhat skeptical of) the Vicon motion capture technology behind the new movie of Beowulf. In fact, I haven't seen Beowulf yet myself: my wife and I decided that my twelve-year-old son wasn& By Martin Heller Dec 19, 2007 2 mins Software Development iPod Touch is as doomed to oblivion as all the other handhelds On the news that Palm Inc posted a $9.6 million loss for its second quarter ending November 30, 2007, it probably won’t come as a shock to anyone if I say that the traditional handheld is dying if not dead. I also include in that statement the By Ephraim Schwartz Dec 19, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Vendor relationship management concerns Dear Bob …You may have already entertained this topic but I have not seen it. 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