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By Robert Cringely Dec 19, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Test Center Tracker: Red alert for IE You patched what? Hopefully this reaches you just in time to stop the automatic update rollout of Internet Explorer at your place. Last week's updates could do more harm than good, Sean Gallagher reports. Some unfortunate early adopters have exp By Mario Apicella Dec 19, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Happy new ear! My picks among Bluetooth headsets Headsets and hands-free Bluetooth devices from BlueAnt and Plantronics keep your phone and music player in your pocket In my September roundup review of mobile devices (see "Supersmart phones for extreme mobility"), I neglected a vital cate By Tom Yager Dec 19, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry IE patch causes crashes There are reports that last week's security patch for Internet Explorer may have caused some unforeseen problems for many IE users, both on Windows XP and on Vista. 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The moka5 LivePC Engine allows users to create, run, and share LivePCs, which are complete managed virtual computing environmen By David Marshall Dec 19, 2007 2 mins Software Development SAP Support on VMware and the Endeavors Free Offering We recently talked about the support or lack of support being offered by Oracle for their applications in a VMware ESX Server environment – But SAP is now coming forward signing a different tune. Let's hope that this is only the beginning, and t By David Marshall Dec 19, 2007 1 min Software Development Stock holders lambaste Reality Check blog post I’ve been getting a lot of hate mail over my recent post about Patriot Scientific settling with Toshiba, Panasonic and others over a patent infringement suit against those companies for using the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio owned by P By Ephraim Schwartz Dec 18, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Congress misses chance to seed essential green-energy growth A few days have passed since the U.S. Senate passed a modified version of the energy bill that passed through the House of Represenatives. One of the most notable changes, as summarized by CNN: "a broad tax package that they had designed to pay By Ted Samson Dec 18, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Jackass 2.5 Uses Silverlight Jason Snyder, quoting the Times, reported on Friday that Paramount Pictures will debut Jackass 2.5 online. This reporter has since learned that Blockbuster is using Microsoft Silverlight to "pioneer this movie experience." According By Martin Heller Dec 18, 2007 1 min Software Development The best of “Off the Record” From the ridiculous to the sublime, reader tales cover the gamut of real-life IT experiences It's no easy feat choosing the "best" of Off the Record. One tech's poison is frequently another one's honey. Who's to say whic By InfoWorld Anonymous Dec 18, 2007 4 mins Data Management One Window? Ephraim wonders about the necessity of having BI applications on your cellphone, and offers an alternative: One window. "a single mobile environment, a single mobile window, if you will, lower case W please, in which information can be sent By Martin Heller Dec 18, 2007 1 min Software Development WaveMaker ships Enterprise Web 2.0 tools WaveMaker is shipping its "Enterprise Web 2.0" application toolset this week, the company said on Tuesday. Featured is the WaveMaker Visual Assembly Studio and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Framework. Developers can bring Web 2.0 capabilities By Paul Krill Dec 18, 2007 1 min Technology Industry We don’t need another standalone mobile business application Marketing strategies created on such assumptions as "if you build it they will come" or if there are going to be 1 billion cell phones in the world, we should have a cell phone product doesn’t always work. Thus when Cognos announced C By Ephraim Schwartz Dec 18, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry SugarCRM 5.0 Now Available SugarCRM has announced the GA version of Sugar 5.0. This includes new features such as improved dashboards with charts and graphs, an AJAX email Client, and a new Module Builder that allows easy customization. It's a major new release and if you By Zack Urlocker Dec 18, 2007 1 min Open Source Tough Love for SOA Vendors Download file… By Dave Linthicum Dec 18, 2007 1 min Software Development The channel makes a comeback Resurrected by enterprise vendors discovering the midmarket, the channel delivers high strategic value — and confusion For a while, it seemed as if indirect sales — aka the channel — went away, as e-commerce enabled vendors such as Cisco, Hewlett- By Ephraim Schwartz Dec 18, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Warning — This Product Contains DRM <P>Shouldn't a vendor be required to inform customers that a product they're about to buy contains technology designed to disable it? Currently in the U.S., the only laws pertaining to Digital Rights Management (DRM) prohibit attempts By Ed Foster Dec 18, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Harvard Business Tries to Go to the Crowd Piggy backing on my <a href="/article/07/12/10/50FE-crowdsourcing_1.html" target="new">mob wisdom feature article</a> from about a week or so ago, I see that Hardvard Business has gotten into pr By Lena West Dec 18, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry SWsoft – New Name with Added Vision SWsoft, perhaps the second largest virtualization software producer in the market, recently decided that it would change the company name, its logo, its product names and its vision all in one fell swoop. In January 2008, the company will adopt the By David Marshall Dec 18, 2007 2 mins Software Development TechIQ: 10 Open Source Companies to Dominate 2008 TechIQ, which focuses on the VAR IT channel business, has identified the top 10 open source companies they expect to succeed in 2008. It's a good article and although it includes some obvious choices, it also includes a few well-thought out surp By Zack Urlocker Dec 17, 2007 1 min Open Source Green ventures in Silicon Valley, Mass. reaped most VC cash in ’07 Curious where venture capitalists are seeding their green- and clean-tech dollars? Martin LaMonica over at CNET posted a well-researched piece about the scene last week. "Most of the new company creation is rooted in the traditional financial in By Ted Samson Dec 17, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Forrester: Eco-minded activity up among IT pros Between April and October, the percentage of companies employing environmental criteria in choosing tech gear jumped 15 percent, according to a study from research company Forrester. "As of October, 38 percent of IT professionals said that their By Ted Samson Dec 17, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry SCO long, it’s been bad to know ya The fat lady may not yet be singing in the long and painful saga of SCO v. The World, but you can hear her warming up. And don't she sound sweet? Those of you following the case know that SCO got b*tchslapped last August, when a federal judge ru By Robert Cringely Dec 17, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Top 10 things I don’t want to see happen in 2008 1. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer hold a press conference with Eric Schmidt by their side to declare the war is over and they will jointly develop all new products 2. Or – Google, now YouTube's parent company, partners with Amazon and eBay t By Ephraim Schwartz Dec 17, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Social Media Talent Wars It used to be that health benefits and a generous number of sick days were enough to have top-notch talent scratching at your corporate threshold. Now? Not so much. By Lena West Dec 17, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Mu busts vulnerabilities Secure thanks to you, Mu: There's nothing quite like a vulnerability to expose your organization's confidential data to malicious types. If you're among the IT admins of the world like to plug those security holes, InfoWorld Contributi By Ted Samson Dec 17, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry When chip manufacturers mess up the fundamentals, the future of big compute suffers <p>Chip manufacturers have long missed schedules and produced chips that only sometimes work as advertised. But, as big compute grows up and is adopted in departments and enterprises throughout the business landscape, it's time for the big By John West Dec 17, 2007 4 mins High-Performance Computing Technology Industry Red Hat, JBoss and Corporate Culture By now, some of you have read that several analysts downgraded Red Hat due to Red Hat's execution of the JBoss acquisition. I chose not to blog the story because, well, it's about the performance of a competitor (JBoss) to IBM WebSphere App By Savio Rodrigues Dec 17, 2007 3 mins Open Source Security at the barricades The bad news is that no organization with an Internet connection can ever be truly secure. The good news: The tools and the law enforcement are getting better. As long as bad guys want to steal our data, infect us… By Eric Knorr Dec 17, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Mandriva Flash 2008 First Look A bootable 4 GB Flash Drive containing a portable version of Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available from Mandriva for 79 EUR ($89) and from Amazon for $94. The general idea is that you can take this little memory stick with you and be able to run Linu By Martin Heller Dec 17, 2007 2 mins Software Development Microsoft SQL Server: SQL Server Compact 3.5 CRM can mean many things to many people and for those that put their workforce out in the field this latest release of Microsoft's SQL server could mean a large reduction in the time and effort needed to put a CRM app into the field. Microsoft S By Brian Chee Dec 16, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry NetXen Makes 10-GigE Available on VMware Following a two year collaboration between NetXen and VMware, the first 10-Gigabit Intelligent NIC solution to be natively supported by VMware is now available. The solution is called NetSlice and it offers drivers for VMware's latest version of By David Marshall Dec 16, 2007 2 mins Software Development Virtual Iron Version 4.2 Strengthens Business Continuity With a growing list of who's who in the virtualization platform market, virtualization vendors like Virtual Iron have been trying to carve out their own niche market to help them expand their sales efforts. Moving beyond the server consolidation By David Marshall Dec 16, 2007 2 mins Software Development Does Microsoft’s Early Release of Hyper-V Help Combat VMware? Microsoft fired an unexpected shot that was heard around the world when it announced the early public beta release of its widely anticipated virtualization hypervisor, Hyper-V. Originally expected sometime in Q1 of 2008, Hyper-V is Microsoft's h By David Marshall Dec 15, 2007 4 mins Software Development When you hear you’re going to be replaced Dear Bob …Well, I just found out that my boss is interviewing people to replace me. I have no idea why. We don't have performance reviews and my boss has never had a bad word to say to me. So far as I knew everything was fine. Obviously not. I By Bob Lewis Dec 15, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry Linthicum’s SOA Predictions for 2008 It seems that pundit predictions are mandatory this time of year, so I'll not be an exception. So, here are my SOA predictions for 2008. IBM will purchase one big SOA company and one small SOA company. You got to hand it to IBM, they are mixing By Dave Linthicum Dec 15, 2007 3 mins Software Development Teach Your Users Well One of the issues many small businesses deal with is how to get product information and training to customers, employees, and partners. I know companies that use services like YouTube, though you can't really say that the popular video service d By Curt Franklin Dec 15, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Sybase offers SQL developer tool Sybase this week announced Sybase WorkSpace 2.0, a design and development environment combining enterprise modeling and database and Web development in an Eclipse-based framework, Sybase said. WorkSpace 2.0 also offers data federation and services de By Paul Krill Dec 14, 2007 1 min Technology Industry From Free to Cash Here are three points from Tim Bray's recent post. They very relevant to OSS. (I added the numbers to delineate his points): [1] Getting started should be free: Also, it shouldn’t take more than a few days. [2] Some popular tools will be O By Savio Rodrigues Dec 14, 2007 2 mins Open Source The Internet May Be a Sucky Customer to Base Decisions Back in the day, Sun was riding high as a result of its success with Dot Coms. It was all going to be different; brick and mortar customers were laggards that "didn't get it", the future was in the hands of Dot Coms. Sun bet on the dot By Savio Rodrigues Dec 14, 2007 2 mins Open Source Implementing Standards Sam Ruby has a knack of making simple statements that convey so much. Here's an example: "Standards that Matter are Standards that Ship" So true. Sam talks about the <video> element in the HTML5 spec and how certain vendo By Savio Rodrigues Dec 14, 2007 1 min Open Source Geek Week in Review w00t's all this then? In yet another sign of the coming apocalypse, denizens of the Merriam Webster site have designated "w00t" as their word of the year. "W00t" means a whoop of joy or triumph generated by an online gamer af By Robert Cringely Dec 14, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Electric utility providers going digital The combined reach of the electric power utility companies and IP technology are making for some interesting services. 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