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• Yet another "iPhone killer:" Blackberry's Thunder (updated)

  Did you hear that John Mayer is cheating on Apple again? That's right, Apple's poster boy blogged that he's using a Blackberry Bold. Not really surprising considering that RIM sponsored ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Peripherals, Handhelds, Hardware, Verizon Communications Inc., Consumer Electronics, Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Keyboards

  May 16, 2008 8:17 AM PDT

• WinXP on XO laptops OK as long as Linux runs, too

  Microsoft's agreement to offer Windows XP on OLPC's XO laptop is appropriate and long overdue. It was pure hypocrisy for Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to publicly decry the so-called "Digital ...

  Tags: Bill Gates, Operating System, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Gates Foundation, Operating Systems, Microsoft Corp., XO

  May 16, 2008 8:07 AM PDT

• Photo of rumored Palm Treo 800w appears

  Back in the day when I had a Palm OS Treo I used to load up the custom ROMs created by Shadowmite since they took out a bunch of junk ...

  Tags: Peripherals, Matthew Miller, Handhelds, Photograph, Hardware, Palm OS, Microsoft Windows, Palm Treo, Operating Systems, Palm Inc.

  May 16, 2008 7:40 AM PDT

• Open Source in 2013

  Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and ...

  Tags: Human Resources, Workforce Management, World Entertainment Shortage, Dana Blankenhorn, America, Open Source, Job, Recruitment & Selection

  May 16, 2008 7:30 AM PDT

• Let's meet in Berlin

  I'll be in Berlin for a few days, attending SAP's Sapphire conference. I'd love to meet blog readers, so please say hello if you're there. Either send email use the ...

  Tags: Blog, Berlin, Online Communications, E-mail, Internet, Michael Krigsman, Blogging

  May 16, 2008 7:22 AM PDT

• Weekend Gadget Guidance: Put your iPhone 'slide to unlock' screen to use

  Remember when they invented the outside screen for the cell phone? You know, the little piece of crystal that showed the time? A coup for anyone neurotic enough to need ...

  Tags: Screen, Web Browsers, Andrew Nusca, Online Communications, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Internet, Apple iPhone, RSS

  May 16, 2008 7:12 AM PDT

• Barney Pell reports on Powerset's first week in discussion with the Semantic Web Gang

  Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta. Gang members ...

  Tags: Internet, Semantic Web, Paul Miller

  May 16, 2008 6:39 AM PDT

• Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

  The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Web, Web 2.0, Software, Phil Wainewright

  May 16, 2008 6:25 AM PDT

• Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA

  Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown ...

  Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Document, Software, Dana Gardner, SOA, Enterprise Software

  May 16, 2008 5:58 AM PDT

• iPhone's international rollout continues; 10 million units not a stretch

  Apple's iPhone will be headed to a few more countries courtesy of a new deal with French telecom carrier Orange. In a statement, Orange said: Orange today announced a new ...

  Tags: 3G, Personal Technology, Orange PCS, Cellular Phones, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Networking, Telephony, Apple iPhone, Wireless

  May 16, 2008 5:31 AM PDT

• XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

  The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, ...

  Tags: Operating System, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, XO, Open Source

  May 16, 2008 4:48 AM PDT

• eCPMs for large Web sites down 52% in April 2008

  eCPMs for large Web sites (more than 100 mln page views per month) dropped dramatically by 52% from 38 cents in March 2008 to 18 cents in April 2008. Medium ...

  Tags: Web Site, Channel Management, Web, Web Site Development, AM, Monetization, Marketing, Web Technology, Internet

  May 16, 2008 4:48 AM PDT

• Video game hardware and software sales up 47% in April 2008

  Americans spent $1.23 bln on video games, hardware and accessories in April 2008, up 47% from April 2007. Total hardware sales grew 26% to $426.2 mln, with the Wii selling ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Sales, Sales Strategy, AM, Video, Hardware, Games, Software, Sales Force Management, Video Game

  May 16, 2008 4:46 AM PDT

• US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008

  Largest cable companies in the US added 1.19 mln broadband subscribers in Q1 2008, according to Leichtman Research Group. Phone companies added 1.01 mln DSL customers in Q1 2008. Since ...

  Tags: Cable, Personal Technology, Phone, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Cable Company, AM, Telephone Company, Telecom & Utilities, Networking

  May 16, 2008 4:41 AM PDT

• Facebook flap: Google's side

  Amid the Facebook move to block Google's Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook's privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There's ...

  Tags: User Privacy, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan, Online Communications, Marketing, Google Friend Connect, Third Party App, Social Networking, Facebook, Google Inc.

  May 16, 2008 4:12 AM PDT

• News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing

  Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: ...

  Tags: Spam, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Spam And Phishing, Privacy, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan

  May 16, 2008 3:52 AM PDT

• Frenemies

  Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize ...

  Tags: Management, Silo, Oliver Marks, Collaboration, Strategy, Rivalry, Software, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Groupware

  May 16, 2008 3:30 AM PDT

• Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments

  As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past ...

  Tags: Stonegate Management Center, Network, Dan Kusnetzky, Networking, Security, Environment, Stonesoft

  May 16, 2008 3:00 AM PDT

• Introduction to BIT

  This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, ...

  Tags: Jane, Management, Systems Culture, Hardware, Strategy, Data Management, Information System, Productivity, Bear, Storage

  May 16, 2008 12:15 AM PDT

• Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

  There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received ...

  Tags: Industry, Serena, Itasca, Dion Hinchcliffe, Web, MashupHub, JackBe, Mindtouch, Lotus Mashups, Mashup Exchange

  May 15, 2008 10:16 PM PDT

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