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 Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's authorized biographer said during a CNBC interview on September 3, 2008 that the conservative media baron is quite embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly and by his Fox Television network, and he will vote for Senator Obama in the upcoming elections. CNBC's "Power...Oct. 4, 2008 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,408 Replies: 2 |
 Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who join...Sep. 12, 2008 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 26,876 Replies: 2 |
Google and its little pal YouTube have attracted another lawsuit for copyright infringement. Rome-based Mediaset, controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is demanding 500 million euros ($779.3 million) in damages. Mediaset sampled YouTube’s content on June 10 and says i... Jul. 30, 2008 01:50 PM EDT Reads: 1,241 |
The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain la... Jul. 23, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,975 Replies: 1 |
 Having peered into various crystal balls, Cisco figures global Internet traffic will grow 46% a year between now and 2012, nearly doubling every two years. The projection translates into an annual bandwidth demand of more than a half a zettabyte, the equivalent of at least 125 billion ...Jun. 23, 2008 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,246 |
 2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? T...Jun. 20, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 41,207 Replies: 2 |
 From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 100,442 Replies: 2 |
Conference in San Francisco. Dvorak held forth on a number of topics, including the new AMD/Intel lawsuit, the viability of Java and Sun, the value of (or lack thereof) of corporate PR, and whether or not a new book about Silicon Valley is really worth reading. Jun. 5, 2008 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 19,067 Replies: 2 |
 Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ...May. 27, 2008 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 26,058 Replies: 2 |
 According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway ...May. 9, 2008 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 12,951 Replies: 1 |
 Weitzner brings 30 years of publishing experience to ZDE, starting in editorial at Hearst Business Communications and moving over to the business side at CMP Media. As CMP Media COO and CEO, he transformed the company from a print-centric publisher focused on multiple markets to a tech...Apr. 28, 2008 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,334 |
 You remember back in the early days of video games when there wasn't enough capacity on the carts themselves to support 30 hours of gameplay? What was the solution to keep you playing? They made the games unbelievably freaking difficult. Try playing Kid Icarus now after having played a...Apr. 26, 2008 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,687 Replies: 2 |
 Silverlight 2.0 kicks ass and I can't wait to start dropping more hardcore blog posts regarding it. Scott Guthrie's tutorials are a fantastic place to start. The issue I have, however, is that all of the tutorials assume you have installed Silverlight 2.0 tools for VS 2008. There is a ...Apr. 13, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 29,602 Replies: 23 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,003 Replies: 6 |
 Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of th...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 16,348 |
Brightcove announced distribution partnerships with Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh, giving media companies new opportunities to expand the reach of their online video, while maintaining control over their content and advertising inventory. Now media companies using the Brightcove... Apr. 7, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,123 Replies: 1 |
 This was the first time I've included into the list of the RIA players a little known product called Curl. Even though this language was created in MIT, it's mainly used in Japan. I had a chance to spend an hour with Curl folks today, and it seems that this language may be a good fit ...Apr. 7, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,322 |
 Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company...Apr. 4, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 13,254 |
 Fast-spreading rich Internet applications require new skills for development of what was known as boring-looking enterprise applications. In the past, development of the user interface was done by software developers to the best of their design abilities. A couple of buttons here, a gr...Mar. 30, 2008 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 18,556 Replies: 5 |
 I want to thank everyone who showed up to share my enthusiasm for the iPhone as it is, what I believe, the mobile development platform to target. I also want to thank those people who tolerated my evasiveness and lack of detail during the SDK session. As I've said before, just because ...Mar. 30, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 16,204 |
 The F2F meeting of OpenAjax Alliance at NYC on March 21st worked out really well in my oppinion. As a result of the last F2F meeting in October 2007, we formed a new task force called 'Runtime Advocacy Task Force' at OpenAjax. The goal of Runtime Task Force is to collect a 'wish list' ...Mar. 29, 2008 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 14,993 Replies: 1 |
 During the Q&A period after one of my sessions at the iPhone Developer Summit last Thursday, there was someone there from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence. She asked myself and some other folks who were lingering nearby to describe, in our unbiased opinions, what we thought was wrong...Mar. 25, 2008 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,873 Replies: 1 |
 Sybase iAnywhere announced availability of support for Apple iPhone during the first international iPhone Developer Summit, colocated with AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East. Information Anywhere now enables IT organizations to provide secure delivery of Lotus Domino and Microsoft E...Mar. 25, 2008 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 13,823 |
 Google said Tuesday that it's going mobile with its Google Gears technology, the stuff that's supposed to let web-based apps run unconnected to the web, beginning with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices ahead of its own nascent Android platform. Same day, Microsoft came out and made a vict...Mar. 17, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 23,138 Replies: 2 |
 IBM says it's found a way to make mashups secure enough for business. Because of inherent browser insecurity, mashups aren't really viable for widespread business adoption. But what's a little thing like viability compared to the pressure of keeping up with the Joneses - in this case t...Mar. 13, 2008 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,963 Replies: 1 |
 Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur...Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 17,029 Replies: 2 |
More than 30 million mobile phone users in the Philippines now have access to the latest in mobile communications with a new video SMS service offered by Smart Communications (SMART) and built on NMS Communications' proven Video SMS solution. SMART, the leading wireless services provid... Feb. 21, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 7,977 |
 So is O'Reilly actually condoning the hacking of the phones? O'Reilly has had a long and prestigious history as being the ultimate source for *nix manuals, including many books that became so dogeared I actually bought multiple copies, including dozens of 'in a nutshell' books. Back in...Feb. 16, 2008 07:15 PM EST Reads: 15,853 Replies: 7 |
This session will focus on our experience of developing open source-based mobile messaging and sync applications for both of these platforms. It will compare and contrast the platforms in terms of the development methods and tools required, and their strengths and weaknesses from a dev... Jan. 11, 2008 02:15 PM EST Reads: 7,525 |
As interest in mobile AJAX gathers in the wake of the Apple iPhone release, the ICEfaces open source project is poised to deliver mobile AJAX solutions. This presentation talks about why the server-centric nature of the ICEfaces technology provides inherent advantages in the mobile sp... Jan. 8, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 21,618 |
 Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in...Dec. 24, 2007 12:45 PM EST Reads: 17,812 |
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), defender of the GPL's honor, said Monday that Xterasys Corporation, one of the companies it sued in November for not providing users with the source code to the GPL 2-protected Busybox Unix utilities as the license requires, has settled out of co... Dec. 24, 2007 08:45 AM EST Reads: 9,690 |
 Limelight Networks announced that Blockbuster has exclusively selected Limelight Networks' rich media CDN and Microsoft Silverlight to provide the technical streaming capabilities for the first studio-backed feature streamed in its entirety -- JACKASS 2.5 -- to be distributed directly ...Dec. 17, 2007 06:30 PM EST Reads: 10,568 |
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 44,382 Replies: 1 |
 Comtrend announced it has become the first manufacturer to offer home networking adaptors that support speeds up to 400 Mbps. Comtrend's new product, called the PowerGrid 904, is an Ethernet Powerline adaptor that plugs into any standard power plug in a home. The PowerGrid 904 provides...Dec. 12, 2007 08:45 AM EST Reads: 10,806 |
 My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critic...Nov. 29, 2007 09:45 PM EST Reads: 23,473 Replies: 2 |
'Building a technical infrastructure that provides access to all our sites - large or small, newspaper or TV-based - is essential,' said Jack Williams, president of Gannett Digital, as he announced this week that the Maven Internet TV Platform will be providing enterprise-wide Internet... Nov. 29, 2007 04:00 PM EST Reads: 10,996 |
The great Exaflood, when modern man drowns in his online videos and other bandwidth-intensive content and the Internet grinds to a crawl with brownouts, is only two years off according to a study done by Nemertes Research. It calculates that it will take $137 billion in global infrastr... Nov. 29, 2007 03:00 PM EST Reads: 6,483 |
 As the convergence of the four screens continues - PC, TV, mobile phone, and Personal Mobile Platform (PMP) - Internet video has shifted programming into the hands of Web users instead of television viewers, blurring the division between a Website and a TV channel as broadband connect...Nov. 28, 2007 10:15 AM EST Reads: 7,460 |
 After Google's Android announcement, at least four big guys should be irritated: Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.Google approaches telephony from the open source side - Linux-based platform, uses Java but does not care about sticking to Java ME - they are planning to use f...Nov. 16, 2007 02:45 AM EST Reads: 27,263 |
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