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• Hot new open source ISVs, projects make the grade at OSBC

  Six hot open source startups and projects got notice at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Not surprisingly, many of them are in software categories deemed most vulnerable to ...

  Tags: OSBC, Open Source, Paula Rooney

  Mar 27, 2008 10:56 AM PDT

• Facebook adds me-too feature - "People You May Know"

  Facebook has quietly rolled out a new feature called "People You May Know", which, as the names suggests, attempts to identify members of the social networking site who you likely ...

  Tags: Steve O\'Hear, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Facebook, Social Networking

  Mar 27, 2008 10:46 AM PDT

• How fast should news destroy a business?

  It seems to be happening more-and-more. Today it's Singulair. (Picture from Walgreens.) It has been linked today with increased risk of suicide. Who will it be tomorrow? Maybe it's a ...

  Tags: Government, Management, Drug, Strategy, Dana Blankenhorn, Federal Government

  Mar 27, 2008 9:48 AM PDT

• Apple pushes Safari to unsupported operating systems

  It seems that Apple just hasn't thought through the mechanism for pushing Safari 3.1 for Windows through the Apple Software Update tool.  Not only is Apple pushing this update aggressively ...

  Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Operating System, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

  Mar 27, 2008 9:41 AM PDT

• 682,000 Wi-Fi phones sold in 2007

  Sales of Wi-Fi phones increased by more than 60% in 2007, according to Infonetics Research. Last year vendors sold 682,000 Wi-Fi phones worldwide, compared to 358,000 in 2006. by AM

  Tags: AM, Wireless LANs, Phone, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless

  Mar 27, 2008 9:33 AM PDT

• What value in medical endorsements?

  What is the real impact of a celebrity endorsement for a medical product? We all remember the Robert Jarvik contretemps. I thought it was fair that a man whose device ...

  Tags: Advertisement, Dana Blankenhorn, Endorsement

  Mar 27, 2008 9:12 AM PDT

• Comcast, BitTorrent kiss, make up in attempt to keep regulators away

  Comcast and BitTorrent said Thursday that they will collaborate and figure out the best way to manage peer-to-peer traffic on the cable giant's network. Regulators began holding hearings after Comcast ...

  Tags: Productivity, Regulator, Larry Dignan, Network, Comcast Corp., Networking, BitTorrent

  Mar 27, 2008 9:10 AM PDT

• ProtoTest readying open source commercial alternative to IBM Rational, HP's Mercury tools

  One startup I bumped into at OSBC is quietly carving out a solid if not sexy open source niche -- in automated test tools. ProtoTest, a services provider in Centennial, ...

  Tags: Selenium IDE, IBM Corp., Productivity, ProtoTest, Open Source, Paula Rooney, Tool, Selenium, Hewlett-Packard Co.

  Mar 27, 2008 8:47 AM PDT

• Is Apple good or evil?

  There has been a lot of talk lately about how is Apple becoming more like Microsoft and turning evil, but is it really the case? Personally I've known that Apple ...

  Tags: Digital Music, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Public Relations, Web Browsers, Apple Inc.

  Mar 27, 2008 8:37 AM PDT

• File systems of the Mac's past, present and maybe future

  Over the past couple of years, the usurpation of the current Mac's HFS+ file system by Sun's ZFS has been predicted. Sometimes that message has been delivered (incorrectly) by Sun ...

  Tags: David Morgenstern, Ext3, Reimer, File System, Apple Macintosh

  Mar 27, 2008 8:00 AM PDT

• We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

  Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI ...

  Tags: End-game, Software, Profits, Middleware, Sides, Dana Gardner, Enterprise Software, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Information Technology

  Mar 27, 2008 7:42 AM PDT

• Open source and the shrinking waterhole

  Despite a lot of brave talk at OSBC there is little doubt that open source is heading into its first recession. (If you want to explain a recession to your ...

  Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

  Mar 27, 2008 7:40 AM PDT

• 16% of mobile phone owners use mobile banking

  Some 16% of mobile phone subscribers already use mobile banking services, and 60% of them use the services at least once a week, the study found, according to Harris Interactive ...

  Tags: Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Phone, NB, Marketing, Mobile, Mobile Banking

  Mar 27, 2008 7:28 AM PDT

• Saying goodbye to ZDNet

  ZDNet blogs has been my online home since 2004.  With the help and a lot of guidance from David Berlind, Stephen Howard-Sarin, and David Grober, I was brought in to ...

  Tags: Blogging, George Ou, Goodbye, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Internet

  Mar 27, 2008 7:16 AM PDT

• When the going gets tough, Oracle talks less smack

  Analysts are lamenting Oracle's February quarter and the lower than expected new license revenue growth, but the lack of competitor bashing should really have folks worried. Oracle's quarter wasn't bad, ...

  Tags: Oracle Corp., Analyst, Deals, Larry Dignan

  Mar 27, 2008 7:14 AM PDT

• Prices for small displays to reach $6.80 in Q1 2008

  Although prices for digital photo frame displays will decline by 3.3% in Q1 2008, prices will increase slightly in other areas, including Portable Media Players (PMPs), mobile handsets, automotive applications, ...

  Tags: Digital Music, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, NB, Digital Photography, Media Players, iSuppli Corp., Digital Media, Digital Cameras

  Mar 27, 2008 6:48 AM PDT

• 28% of those online users who listen to radio have a MySpace page

  28% of online radio listeners have a MySpace page. 24% have a profile on LinkedIn, according to Arbitron and Edison Media Research. by NB

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, NB, Marketing, MySpace, Radio

  Mar 27, 2008 6:40 AM PDT

• Adobe launches free Photoshop Web application

  Google, eat your heart out. Adobe Photoshop was one of the original reasons why people purchased Macs. Adobe Systems, Inc. launched the powerful photo editing and retouching application in 1990 ...

  Tags: Sales Force Management, Adobe Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Jason D. O\'Grady, Sales, Adobe PhotoShop, Desktops, Hardware, Web Application

  Mar 27, 2008 6:34 AM PDT

• New Web sites in financial top 100 in December 2007

  December 2007 Rank January 2008 Rank Website Domain 120 35 Centennial Credit Card www.centennialapplication.com 112 65 Centennial Gold MasterCard www.centennialgoldcard.com 184 87 Americas Banker Direct www.americasbankerdirect.com 124 89 TransUnion - ...

  Tags: Web Technology, Financial, Web Site, Sales Channel, NB, Sales, Web, Web Site Development, Internet

  Mar 27, 2008 6:20 AM PDT

• Eben law can have an open source business model

  Anyone can have an open source business model. Even an open source lawyer. Eben Moglen, whose Software Freedom Law Center provides free legal help to open source projects, has just ...

  Tags: Ravicher, Open Source, Lawyer, Dana Blankenhorn, OpenNMS

  Mar 27, 2008 6:19 AM PDT

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