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More frequent upgrades? That's the last thing Microsoft customers need
In Ina Fried's article Microsoft's 'big bang' could be its last, I couldn't disagree more with Gartner fellow Tom Bittman's comment that Windows XP (or any other Microsoft product) is "stuck in the weeds..." Windows ...more
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Open source science
Most science happens in silos. The chemists own the chemistry experiments, the biologists the biology experiments. It's like a collection of little, proprietary software enterprises, which don't share.In open source science the entire campus can ...more
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George Ou
Is Oracle in denial about security?
With more than 100 security vulnerabilities plaguing Oracle within the last year and potentially hundreds more yet to be patched, a new report on Oracle's weak authentication scheme by Joshua Wright (deputy director of training ...more
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SBC chief: Vonage, other VoIP providers should pay to use our pipes
In a new Business Week Online interview, SBC Telecommunications CEO Ed Whitacre sounds a bit more than forthright about what he sees as his company's right to demand carrier fees from Internet telephony providers.Whitacre, whose ...more
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Software as Services
Rearden would rather buy Google
AMR's Bruce Richardson has garnered attention with his speculation that "Google should buy Rearden Commerce." I'm not surprised to learn that Rearden's CEO and founder, Patrick Grady, "laughed" when Richardson called to ask his opinion. ...more
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John Carroll
Notorious B.G. on MTV
I know I've been plumbing the intellectual depths this week, first with my last post (the invincible points of which no Talkbacker managed to defeat), and now with a post that will consist almost entirely ...more
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Paul Murphy
Sun's LBO Rumour
Sun's annual shareholder's meeting last week produced some odd rumblings, one consequence of which was to make me re-consider last spring's rumours that Sun's management was considering a leveraged buyout. ...more
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Emerging Tech Trends
Exploring Mars will be a risky business
Are humans ready to stay on Mars for several months? Can we deal with all the risks that its environment may cause to astronauts and space missions? Red Nova says that some answers are contained ...more
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Web 2.0 Explorer
Web 2.0 Humor
There's been a lot of excellent Web 2.0 humor this past week. Paul Montgomery has a wicked take-off of an AC/DC song, called Two Point Two Oh Ain't Web Pollution. Here is ...more
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Ask Bloggie
Using perl with RH and apache
Dear Bloggie: Problem #1: The musicians recently had a camp out for jamming, but mostly eating. Our normal approach is to take a hard copy sign up sheet to a weekly class ...more
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The Apple Core
Front Row and Photo Booth spotted "in the wild"
Apple released two compelling new applications with their October 12 announcements; Front Row and PhotoBooth, the problem is that neither is available as a standalone application.When Apple announced the new iMac G5s with built-in iSight ...more
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Googling Google
Will Google Base have an API?
Most of Google's services have an API that allow developers to create their own applications around them. Will Google Base be any different? Why wouldn't application developers or webmasters fuse their applications with a robust, ...more
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Microsoft Vistulations
Correction on Vista and TPM versioning
Microsoft has issued a correction to the statements that were given to me during our last conference call regarding the type of Trusted Platform Module hardware that must be included in a PC in ...more
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Service Oriented
People who need BPEL aren't the luckiest people...
A new report discloses that Version 2.0 of the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is being delayed until the first half of 2006 while "technologists at OASIS continue sorting through approximately three dozen issues, whittled ...more
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Datapoint
Analyst thinks Google should buy Rearden Commerce
In his latest "Alert Highlight," (it might as well be called a blog), AMR’s Bruce Richardson muses over the "Google Economy," a subject not suffering from any lack of coverage these days. His final of ...more
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Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter
Attention Bunny
When Robert Scoble reported on our late night conversation after the Berkeley meat-up Monday night, I briefly panicked when I realized he had really gotten what I've been talking about with regards to attention. Then ...more
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Spyware Confidential
Trick or treat: AIM worm delivers backdoor, rootkit and adware
Imagine you're chatting with friends in an AOL IM chat room one minute, you click on a seemingly innocent link, and the next minute your computer is taken over by a worm delivering an extraordinarily ...more
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