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• T-Mobile announces the WiFi-enabled BlackBerry Pearl, Verizon finally gets the Curve

  With the recent announcement of the AT&T; WiFi-enabled BlackBerry Pearl we all knew it was just a matter of time before T-Mobile was going to announce one with support for ...

  Tags: RIM BlackBerry, T-Mobile, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, BlackBerry Pearl, Wireless, Hardware, Verizon Communications Inc., Matthew Miller

  Apr 01, 2008 12:12 AM PDT

• Why HP is different from IBM

  Ann Livermore weighs in on what separates her company from Big Blue, along with the shift to virtualization and what it means to be green. Last year, Hewlett-Packard overtook IBM ...

  Tags: Corporate & legal,

  Mar 31, 2008 9:10 PM PDT

• University of Massachusetts enters online degree deal with China

  The University of Massachusetts announced today that it would be the first foreign university to offer courses and degrees via the Internet in China. Plans call for UMassOnline to offer ...

  Tags: Software, Christopher Dawson, University Of Massachusetts, Enterprise Software, Groupware, China, Internet

  Mar 31, 2008 7:51 PM PDT

• So I introduced my students to Twitter

  And now half of them are tweeting like mad and really dig the idea of microblogging, while the other half just can't see the point. It shouldn't surprise me that ...

  Tags: Christopher Dawson, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Twitter

  Mar 31, 2008 7:40 PM PDT

• Can the Apple logo make you more creative?

  Apparently so, according to yesterday's Science Daily. In a recent study by Duke University and the University of Waterloo, Canada, researchers found that even brief exposure to established brands can ...

  Tags: Andrew Nusca, Brand, Branding, Marketing, Logo, Apple Inc.

  Mar 31, 2008 7:26 PM PDT

• If the birthmark fits, Microsoft will wear it

  When Jason Perlow reported on last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, he sought to compliment the company by giving CEO Steve Ballmer a Gorbachev-like birthmark (right). But Gorbachev was a Communist. ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Iso standards, Process Improvement, Baldness, Dana Blankenhorn, Business Operations, Quality, Standards System

  Mar 31, 2008 7:24 PM PDT

• Norweigan civil war: Call to recall OOXML 'yes' vote

  Posted on Geir Isene's blog: Formal protest regarding the Norwegian vote on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 I am writing to you in my capacity as Chairman (of 13 years standing) of ...

  Tags: Software/Web Development, Blogging, Software, Web Development, Irregularity, Vote, XML, Microsoft Office, Richard Koman, Office Suites

  Mar 31, 2008 6:51 PM PDT

• How to predict the weather of your cubicle via USB

  Are you slightly obsessive-compulsive about your machine? Maybe worried that humidity or temperature might wreak havoc on its CPU? Is Weather.com your home page? In another innovative use of a ...

  Tags: Andrew Nusca, Temperature, USB

  Mar 31, 2008 6:40 PM PDT

• Looks like I'm next...

  You can now offshore me.      Am thinking of re-training as a plumber        ... you can't offshore them               ... can you? ...

  Tags: Outsourcing, Offshore, Phil Fersht, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Business Operations, It Operations

  Mar 31, 2008 6:35 PM PDT

• EPA to data center operators: We want your energy stats

  Ok, here's the skinny. As I mentioned last week, the Environmental Protection Agency -- the folks who brought you the original Energy Star program for client IT gear like desktops ...

  Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heather Clancy, Data Management, Storage, Data Center, Hardware, Data Centers

  Mar 31, 2008 5:43 PM PDT

• Swarming around in HiveLive

  Does anyone need another enterprise collaboration tool for helping get closer to the customer? How about if you had a collection of tools in one space that are people centric ...

  Tags: Software, HiveLive, Marketing, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Wiki, Groupware, Dennis Howlett, Internet, Blogging

  Mar 31, 2008 5:11 PM PDT

• Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel?

  In my post about Windows 7 back in January ("Windows 7 = Vista Release 2"), I ended with a statement that deserves some follow-up: Those who are predicting that Windows ...

  Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, MinWin, Operating Systems, Kernel, Ed Bott, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista

  Mar 31, 2008 4:00 PM PDT

• Still no word: ISO to announce results of OOXML vote Wednesday

  The International Standards Organization won't make an official announcement about whether Office Open XML (OOXML) will be a standard until Wednesday -- and perhaps for good reason. Final voting and ...

  Tags: Irregularity, Iso standards, ISO, OOXML, Norway, Process Improvement, Paula Rooney, Business Operations, Quality

  Mar 31, 2008 2:30 PM PDT

• Dell: We'll save $3 billion; Cut 8,800 positions

  Dell on Monday gave a preview of its analyst meeting later this week and reaffirmed that it will aim to save $3 billion over the next three years and reduce ...

  Tags: Investment, Financial Accounting, Larry Dignan, Financing, Notebooks & Tablets, Dell Computer Corp., Finance, Desktop, Hardware, Notebooks

  Mar 31, 2008 2:03 PM PDT

• Forrester: Forget Macs. In business, it's still all about Windows

  In spite of the continual noise around Macs gaining marketshare, Windows still totally and completely rules the enterprise roost. That's another of the findings of the Forrester Research report I ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Upgrades, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc.

  Mar 31, 2008 1:32 PM PDT

• Pwn2Own: What OS really won?

  Apple had a rough security week. Vista was hacked. And Linux is unhackable. Those takeaways appear to be the consensus view following the Pwn2Own contest but it's not that simple. ...

  Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Pwn2Own, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Vista, Notebooks, Hardware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hacker

  Mar 31, 2008 1:05 PM PDT

• The Semantic Web goes thin

  Increasingly, it looks like Weight Watchers has gotten hold of the Semantic Web. Fat is out. Thin is in. And while no one's counting points, it certainly looks like, thin ...

  Tags: Vivaty, Dave Greenfield, Marketing, ScreenCaster, Web Browser, Channel Management, Web, 3D, Semantic Web

  Mar 31, 2008 12:30 PM PDT

• Microsoft's storage geeks speak

  What do Microsoft storage heavies say when the suits let them off leash? Microsoft engineers at the ubergeek Usenix FAST 08 conference last month talked about Microsoft's storage intentions to ...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Robin Harris, Storage, Hardware

  Mar 31, 2008 12:03 PM PDT

• WSO2 launches Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0

  "Contract first" or "code first?" Spring developers now have a choice with WSO2's release of Web Services Framework (WSF) for Spring 1.0. The new WSF/Spring 1.0 integrates the Apache Axis2 ...

  Tags: Software, Web Service, WSF/Spring 1.0, Marketing, WSF/Spring, Dana Gardner, Enterprise Software, Channel Management, Web, Axis2

  Mar 31, 2008 11:59 AM PDT

• More details on the Pwn2Own Flash flaw that won the Vista machine

  So, I've been pretty surprised by the response to the discussion of the Flash flaw that allowed the Vista machine to be compromised in the Pwn2Own contest.  I'm working on ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Nathan McFeters, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Operating Systems, Data Execution Prevention, Microsoft Windows Vista, Security, Java

  Mar 31, 2008 11:39 AM PDT

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