Between the Lines
IBM follows Sun's lead with open letter to Massachusetts gov't
Yesterday, I wrote a blog entitled Let the file format hairsplitting begin. The blog is about how Sun Microsystems director of corporate standards Carl Cargill sent a letter to Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance ...more
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- Sandbox schmandbox. Java springs a critical security leak.
- SSE, RSS, and Web data
- It's not about OpenDocument vs MS. It's about open standards.
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Mapping learns an open source lesson
Some applications need open source more than others, because some require the support of a community more than others.One application type which it seems plain needs a community behind it, and thus open source, is ...more
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- Rosen approves Microsoft Office format license
- Free software is not really free
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George Ou
Why can't Microsoft just patch everything?
Nearly four years ago, Microsoft's Bill Gates ate some humble pie and declared that they must do much better with their security issues and launched the Trustworthy Computing Initiative. One and a half years later, ...more
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ip-telephony
CableLabs RFP reveals tech wish list for cable VoIP providers
CableLabs is a consortium of cable television access providers charged by member companies with developing enhanced services.... They've just put out an RFP ("Request For Proposal) for solutions that could, in CableLabs own words, "enable ...more
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- I don't care how cool TiVo-iPod is, and neither do the lawyers
- This technology could arm Jihad against VoIP customer choice
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Software as Services
What to expect from Web 3.0
Any veteran of the software industry will tell you that version 2.0 of any product tends to be a shortlived staging post on the way to 3.0, which is where ...more
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- Ad-supported applications: just say no
- Why not fund on-demand with ... money?
- It's dog-eat-dog in CRM land
John Carroll
AJAX vs. desktop development
AJAX is the web development buzzword du mois. AJAX programming isn't really anything revolutionary. It is simply a means of combining a bunch of web-oriented technologies in a way that enables highly-interactive browser-based applications. There are ...more
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Paul Murphy
Media response to ZFS
Two weeks ago I blogged about the media's unthinking response to an uninformed and ungrammatical Sun press release announcing the Niagara (or UltraSPARC T1) CPU. Sometime later that drew a response from a senior non ...more
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Emerging Tech Trends
A mathematical theory of surprise
Computer scientists in California have built a mathematical theory of surprise, working from first principles of probability theory applied to a digital environment, according to this news release from the University of Southern California (USC). ...more
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Web 2.0 Explorer
Mobile Web browsers - Microsoft's downfall?
There were some interesting comments to my previous post Browser Wars 2006 - Microsoft set to continue dominance. I particularly like this comment from louisng: "Firefox 15% market share is already ...more
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- Browser Wars 2006 - Microsoft set to continue dominance
- OPML Sampling using Yahoo API
- Web 2.0 Wikipedia page taken over by Cynics
Ask Bloggie
So Why Do People Hate Windows?
Mired in New Zealand asked, in part, " I was having some trouble believing that Windows is such the slam-dunk winner that it's purported to be over Linux."Paul answered with some great comparisons on issues of ...more
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The Apple Core
Mac mini to go Intel in January
ThinkSecret is reporting that Apple will announce an Intel-based Mac mini in January — presumably at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. According to the story, which I confirmed with another source, the new Mac mini ...more
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Googling Google
How do I know the number of Google Analytics accounts?
Google Analytics has currently 237,021 accounts -- 241 more than my last post. I've had a few comments asking me how I got this information, and a whole group of diggers asking the same question. ...more
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- Google starts accepting new analytics registrations
- First signs of Google using Analytics data
- Google using Time Warner Telecom for VoIP?
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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- Microsoft: No substitutes for Trusted Platform Module allowed
- Tom's Hardware: "Vista Ready" video cards won't crash OS
- Enterprise Vista/Software Assurance tie gets mixed reviews from IT pros
Service Oriented
Binary XML advances, but not all are happy
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently took the next step in its efforts to establish a Binary XML standard. The group announced the launch of the "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group," charged with ...more
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- SOA: failure is not an option... yet
- The ugly little angle-bracket syntax that changed the world
- It's a floor cleaner! No, it's a client interface!
Datapoint
Visualizing consumption trends: an analysis of operating systems resources
Using BT Trax we are able to see how the consumption of resources in our IT directory trend over time. Below is a chart showing how the major operating systems stack up over the last 12 months. ...more
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- SOA 101
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Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter
Roberts v. Roberts
John Roberts is beating the dead horse slowly once more on full text feeds. Yet his most compelling argument against his position is his own blog. Unless he front-loaded enough of his argument in the ...more
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Spyware Confidential
How to make an anti-spyware zealot
Some adware company respresentatives and adware apologists like to refer to people like me as zealots. At Spyware Warrior I've blogged another installation of 180solutions software in the wild with... drum roll... No Notice and ...more
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