The Silicon Valley institution is beginning an ambitious effort to improve the way it tells the story of computing and of such tech pioneers as HP, Apple, and Google [Source: Business Week - Top News / 07-04]
ChannelWeb - There are multitudes of add-ons, or extensions, for Firefox, with an add-on for seemingly any purpose. Some are strictly for fun, some for productivity. Here is a look at 10 add-ons that we feel are of real use. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
Channel Insider - Developing an effective strategy to address myriad security threats takes time, personnel and a significant monetary investment. But compared to the potential loss of customers, reputation and revenue, these expenditures are paltry. Here are ... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
eWeek - In mid-May, Facebook moves its main offices from downtown Palo Alto, Calif., to a more rural setting on California Avenue just off the Stanford University campus, in a 45-year-old two-story building once used by research engineers at Hewlett-Packard ... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
eWeek - Oracle wants to ease the data modeling process for Oracle database developers. The new tool integrates into Oracle SQL Developer and allows users to develop logical, multidimensional, user-defined data types, relational and physical data models. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
eWeek - The 2009 Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston brought together vendors, analysts and customers looking for the best ways to take cutting edge web technologies such as social networking and Twitter-style micro-blogging and apply them to the challenges of... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
Irregular Enterprise - The love fest around Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is truly extraordinary. The geek crowd certainly seem to like it and Oracle does a great job of singing to the DBA crowd. Dana Gardner is positively effusive :
Oracle has sewn up its fiel... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
Channel Register - And Taiwan demands they stay sold
Taiwan consumer regulators have ordered Dell to honor an online pricing error that offered 19-inch LCD monitors for only NT$500 (US$15, ‚£9). [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
Network World - The native Linux virtualisation hypervisor Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has reached milestone 87 and now integrates the qemu emulator into a single package. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
Baseline - Don't just do the same stuff everyone else does, go geeky. - Any self-respecting geek knows a good summer getaway isn't built around Disneyland or the Grand Canyon or Hawaii, places where the normal, non-techie throngs gather. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
IT Business Edge - I recently finished up some research on Business Process Management (BPM) in the Cloud, a synopsis of which appears on ebizQ at the adjacent link. As a result, my little Google alert keeps raining cloud-computing-related articles on me. Th... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
Channel Register - Ubuntu + Eucalyptus = homegrown EC2
Canonical and its partner in clouds, Eucalyptus, have been working to create a stack of software that runs atop the Ubuntu Linux distribution and allows companies to build their own internal compute clouds... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
The VAR Guy - Enterprise Resource Planning. To most customers, those three words mean complexity. But there are signs ERP deployments are finally starting to benefit from the SaaS (software as a service) craze. Just this week, we've spotted major SaaS developm... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
eWeek - Ziff Davis Enterprise v.p. Eric Lundquist interviews IBM's Sandy Carter at this year's Marketing Profs business to business conference in Boston. Sandy Carter is Vice President, SOA We... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
The Register - Summer arrival for green shoots?
Recruitment agency CV Screen is seeing a big improvement in job prospects for IT staff. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
IT Business - In this roundup we take a look at five free - and fabulous - alternatives to using Microsoft Office Project. None of these are from major software companies. Four of the five are open source while the fifth, jxProjects, is advertising-supported. ... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
eWeek - Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu Linux project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private clouds. - Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, has launched new professional services to help and support ... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-04]
A new doc available on Oracle OTN .
Customers who experience Oracle RAC node evictions due to excessive AIX kernel paging should carefully review and implement these recommended best practices.
Many Thanks to Frederic Dubois from my OIIS team for this link [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-04]
Whenever we ship a new release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, one of the first questions that always come back to us is when we will release port X, with X being the operating system environment that a particular customer is interested in. We get ... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-04]
Quark announced today its work with EMC to integrate Quark(R) XML AuthorTM with the EMC Documentum enterprise content management solution to bring easy XML authoring to anyone using [Source: Business Wire / 07-04]
Zoho today announced the immediate availability of Zoho Projects 2.0, the latest version of the company's online project management and team collaboration solution. With Zoho [Source: Business Wire / 07-04]
Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced the preliminary results of its previously announced modified Dutch Auction tender offer, which expired at 5:00 [Source: Business Wire / 07-04]
Storix, Inc., provider of Unix-based backup and disaster recovery solutions for Linux, AIX and Solaris Systems, today announced System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) version 7.1 now with [Source: Business Wire / 07-04]
Ciena(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced that MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic Gigapop for Internet2), an Information Systems and Computing organization at the [Source: Business Wire / 07-04]
Project Insight, the leading mid-market project management software solution, announces the release of version 8.1 with advanced portfolio roll ups, tiered timesheet approvals, [Source: Business Wire / 07-04]
The number of Smartphones shipped with open source operating systems (OS) will increase from 106 million this year to 223 million by 2014 according to a new report from telecom [Source: Business Wire / 07-04]
To stay open. That's the goal of business owners across the country as they continue to lay off employees, cut benefits and pull back on retirement contributions. These cost-cutting strategies are likely to stay in place for months to come, according to severa... [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 07-04]
Manufacturing sector activity rose in June for the sixth straight month, but the index reading still indicates a contraction, a purchasing managers' group said Wednesday. [Source: CNN - Top Stories / 07-04]
Google released some interesting data about the volume and types of attacks its spam detection software identified over the last quarter. According to Google, overall spam levels in the second quarter of 2009 were 53% higher than during the first quarter, and ... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 07-04]
Over the last few years, Pingdom has established itself as a well-regarded uptime monitoring service, but until now, its services were only available to paying customers. Today, however, Pingdom launched a free version of its service. The free service offers a... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 07-04]
It ain't over till the fat lady sings means that nothing happens until you get the signature on the contract. That is when the ... [Source: ReadWriteWeb / 07-04]
U.S. manufacturing mustered its highest level of activity in nearly a year in June but unexpected weakness in private sector employment signaled how slow an economic recovery might be, reports released on Wednesday showed. [Source: NewsBlotter.com / 07-04]
Wouldn't it be useful to have a gadget that immediately warned you when the information you just saw on the Internet or heard from a buddy might be baloney? [Source: physorg.com / 07-03]
The race to woo recession-hit clients across the world is forcing IT biggies to reduce their client billing rates, sometimes as high as 35-40 %, though most are still managing to control any sharp declines in their topline. [Source: India Times / 07-03]
ChannelWeb - Increased density, flexibility and security are on tap for enhancing HDS' midrange storage line. The company is also shipping an ETSI/NEBS-compliant version for telecom customers. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-03]
ChannelWeb - Firefox 3.5's enhancements gives it far superior performance over previous releases and shames IE 8's benchmark test results. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-03]
ChannelWeb - Mozilla says that the browser has radically improved its JavaScript performance and now includes the new Trace Monkey JavaScript engine. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-03]
Channel Register - Dear turkey, early Christmas?
HP has begun asking EDS staff to take a pay cut as part of its wide-ranging cost cutting strategy. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-03]
Channel Register - Waves around own 34nm process NAND
With Intel rumoured to be set to raise its SSD capacity up to 320GB through a shrink to a 34nm process, its Flash partner Micron has introduced - guess what - NAND chips using a 34nm process. [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-03]
Channel Insider - Executive says the average cost per year to maintain a three-year-old system is $500, while the maintenance costs for a newer PC is only $125. - Stretching out the refresh of PCs and notebooks can end up costing organizations more money ov... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-03]
Channel Register - What products and services are available?
Regcast With major security breaches in the news almost daily, IT security practitioners are starting to pay more attention to the how rather than the why when it comes to application security. This ... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-03]
SOA World - System architects and engineering teams are designing increasingly complex embedded systems in order to satisfy their customers' stringent functionality and performance requirements. In addition, within tactical systems, it's not uncommon to requir... [Source: DevelopmentScoop / 07-03]
Tripwire today announced the results of a commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting to determine the top priorities and challenges of today's virtualization professionals, Removing Barriers To Better Server Virtualization Efficiency. [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 07-03]
EnterpriseDB, the leading enterprise-class open source database company, announced today that Cleanwise, the industry leader in procurement management of not-for-resale janitorial and sanitation supplies, has chosen EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server t... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 07-03]
Paglo (www.Paglo.com), the IT management SaaS leader, announced today a breakthrough new service for indexing, searching, and visualizing log data. The new Log Management application enables IT professionals to automatically capture and store their logs and in... [Source: Market Wire - Computer / 07-03]
TSC contributor Gary Krakow looks at the new netbook computer from Hewlett-Packard with some interesting added features - including one suggested by TheStreet.com's intrepid reviewer. [Source: TheStreet.com / 07-03]
Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe is planning to launch the firm's newest satellite, WorldView-2, in October from a launch site in California, the firm said Tuesday afternoon.... [Source: techrockies.com / 07-03]
Microsoft has introduced a new feature in Internet Explorer 8 called Accelerators. These accelerators help you quickly perform your everyday browsing tasks without navigating to other websites to get things done. Simply highlight text from any webpage, and the... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-03]
Modern business communication involves a variety of unique workspaces that are rarely physically connected and are increasingly unlike traditional office environments. Beyond the U.S. [Source: Business Wire / 07-03]
White Sky Inc., formerly Guard ID Systems, Inc., today announced it has signed a multi-year agreement with Lenovo Group, Ltd., to include its ID Vault identity theft prevention [Source: Business Wire / 07-03]
Force10 Networks, the technology leader for building and securing intelligent services networks, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labs [Source: Business Wire / 07-03]
Noetix Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence (BI) content from enterprise applications, announced today that it has been listed for the third [Source: Business Wire / 07-03]
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced that Zen Internet, one of the UK's premier independent Internet Service [Source: Business Wire / 07-03]
Avnet has another first in the industry and a first for a Fortune 200 corporation by successfully create their own B2B Video Portal – Avnet on Demand. I recently got a chance to talk with Al Maag the Chief Communications Officer for Avnet where I took the opportunity to learn more about Avnet on Demand and the story behind it. [Source: Fun with Fred / 07-02]
Channel Insider - IBM will distribute its IBM Smart Cube through Ingram Micro. Designed for small business and midsized business, the IBM Smart Cube combines server hardware together with standard software applications that every business needs, such as email,... [Source: ChannelScoop.com / 07-02]
CIOs rate 'reducing costs' as number-one concern Reducing costs has replaced improving security as CIOs' top business priority, research from distributor Arrow has suggested. Echo Research quizzed 200 US I... [Source: VNU / 07-02]
Building a SOA Suite Cluster Having spent a couple of weeks working on a SOA Suite cluster thought I would share some thoughts around clustering and SOA Suite. Clustering of both BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Service Bus is relatively straightforward but t... [Source: Oracle Blogs / 07-02]
After nearly a 20-month gestation period, Oracle (ORCL) today announced the arrival this month of the next generation of its sprawling middleware family, the long-anticipated Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 g. Billed as a "complete, integrat... [Source: Seeking Alpha / 07-02]
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS), today announced that its Citrix(R) GoToMeeting(R) Online Meeting solution has won the [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions, today announced that with a growing emphasis on [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
ILS International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the SIRIUS [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
Unisys Corporation (Unisys or the Company) (NYSE: UIS) announced today that it has commenced private exchange offers and consent solicitations in respect of [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) today announced that the company's Board of Directors has elected J. Donald Sherman, the chief financial officer of Akamai Technologies, Inc., to [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
Dell today announced the latest addition to its expanding line of Vostro laptops, the 12.1-inch Vostro 1220. This stylish, ultraportable laptop was designed exclusively for business [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
Lenovo today announced its latest line of servers, the ThinkServer TD200 and TD200x tower servers as well as the RD210 and RD220 rack servers. The new servers offer small [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced a significant new version of Sun(TM) VirtualBox(TM), its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
MultiFactor Corporation, an innovator in 2-factor authentication, web application security and VPN Authentication solutions today announced the release of SecureAuth 5.0.6, enabling true [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
It's been a long time coming, but the humble Web browser is finally entering a golden age. Some 20 years after creation of the World Wide Web and more than 10 years after Microsoft crushed Netscape, the browser market has become increasingly dynamic. Not only ... [Source: physorg.com / 07-02]
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
Most organizations are receiving a poor return on their firewall investments, according to an IDC multimedia white paper sponsored by McAfee Inc. (NYSE:MFE). The findings are [Source: Business Wire / 07-02]
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