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19 entries filed this day
Editor · VoIP / Wireless
Skype users received an early holiday present, at least those in the USA and Canada, with a new year long pricing scheme that provides twelve months of unlimited calls from the USA and Canada to numbers in the USA and...
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Editor · Business Intelligence
The only certainties are death death and taxes. We might want to add to that the importance of data. Since I own a business intelligence company, it's always interesting to watch as a group of people become interested in a certain subset of data, because inevitably they will come up with an ideal way they want to look at it.
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Editor · Security
Hackers have gained access to a database containing personal information on 800,000 current and former UCLA students.
Filed at 8:43am
Editor · Wireless
Here are the top ten IT Conversations shows for November (based onindividual downloads of the MP3): MarkThompson - Success Built to LastSeanCarroll - The Making of the FittestMore ThanJust A Game - Supernova2006TonyGiordano - a PhD in BiotechManagingVendors Before They Manage You - TechnometriaRyanFreitas - Facilitating CollaborationRossMayfield - TechnometriaPanelDiscussion - Rise of the VideonetWeb 2.0Panel - SofTECH Erik Larson - The Transatlantic Hunt for a Murderer Tags: itconversations
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Apparently there is no such thing as a free lunch as Skype , the Internet calling service owned by eBay , which has offered unlimited calls to landline and mobile phones within the United States and Canada since last Spring. Skype is planning on charging an annual $30 fee for those same calls starting January 1, 2007 according to a recent NYTimes report . The report went on to say:
Filed at 11:13am
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Virtualization is becoming a ghetto for some lines of business applications. Those server-based applications, each of which used to get its own dedicated hardware, are increasingly stacked like pancakes on a single machine. In some companies, applications that used to have their own homes are now housed in the IT equivalent of cheap tenements. In some cases 50 or more applications may reside on a single physical server. But with too many virtual machine tenants-in-residence, the underlying hardware foundation starts to crack. Performance degrades. The user experience begins to suffer.
Filed at 11:59am
Editor · Patch Management
I'm expecting we'll see much more complete documentation with RC2... Operations Manager RC2 Now Available We are happy to announce Operations Manager RC2 is now available for download. This release marks an important milestone on the road to our March MMS launch in San Diego ( www.mms2007.com ). Major Improvement Over RC1 Over 10,000 customers have downloaded Ops Mgr Beta 2. Our collective goal is to make sure each of you downloads and starts using the new RC2 today. Key improvements in RC2 include:
Filed at 12:32pm
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On Dave Winer's blog, I saw a post about Le Web3. Can you say "le web"? I thought that the language police gotmad about non-French words. Is there a French version of "web" (Iseriously want to know)? I listened to Jean-BenoitNadeau on Diane Rhem last week speaking about his book TheStory of French. The interview was good and I enjoyed it.Looking on Amazon, I see that Nadeau is also the author, along withJulie Barlow, of SixtyMillion Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France but Not theFrench.
Filed at 1:28pm
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blogging leweb3 Web 2.0Here is the text of an email I just sent to Le Web 3 organiser Loic Le Meur:Loic,I am furious at the way you arbitrarily decided to change the Le Web conference schedule without any notification to the people who paid good money and took valuable time out of their...
Filed at 1:38pm
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Sometimes I think that Google has a bunch of pissed-off ex-securities lawyers on staff whose sole job it is to screw around with things and come up with ideas that make Wall Street mad, or confused, or both. They haven’t been that busy since the IPO (Hey, let’s do a Dutch auction! And then not give quarterly estimates!) but they’ve come up with another doozy: why not create an online auction and let employees trade their stock options? Well, why not indeed.
Filed at 1:57pm
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I'm back in RBI towers after my sojourn in Paris, and finally had the chance to check my feeds. My, oh my, the reaction is just growing and growing isn't it? Tom Morris is continuing his superb job of collating the reaction to LePolitics3. Oh, and Loïc has (allegedly) made his first response to the criticisms… And, interestingly, a post has popped up in my feed reader saying that the author of the post, Sam Sethi, has been asked to leave TechCrunch because of his comments about Loïc. The post has since disappeared from the site. I've got a few more posts to make on the subject, and I'll get to those once I've had the chance to deal with a few problems that have cropped up in my absence. Technorati Tags: leweb3...
Filed at 2:42pm
Editor · Security / Storage
This is my most recent Storage Bin. Interestingly enough both CommVault and Riverbed are rocking since thier IPO's - market caps up, up, up - and both are acquiring new customers and revenues at amazing clips. The article, via the...
Filed at 2:47pm
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Anthony Mayfield, who was great company during the Le Web 3, has posted his measured reactions to what happened. Nicole Simon singles out Orange for criticism about the WiFi in the hall. I'd like to go further than that, because not only did their WiFi in my hotel periodically log me out for no reason, the WiFi in Gare du Nord refused to recognise my week-long account while I was waiting for my train. Really, I will avoid Orange whenever possible in future. Ewan Spence gives a speaker's eye view of the problem: Unfortunately Loïc Le Muir, the organiser, (…) cancelled my session for another ’surprise speaker.’ By deciding (for whatever reasons) to provide a platform to the ex-Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Perezm and French Presidential candidates Nikolas Sarkozy and François Bayrou, Le Web 3 was turned into a political rally, all the attendees and sponsors will now be used to provide legitimacy for the candidates views, a good number of speakers have not been able to put on a great show, and the general feeling from attendees is as close to a lynch mob that the blogosphere can muster. Ewan managed to put on a superb show anyway, and I'll be blogging about that later, as gaming is a subject close to my heart. Scoble noticed. And his Naked Conversations co-author has wise words: Ian, enjoy the conference. Meet people. Share thoughts. I hope the food is better. At the end of the event look back. I have a hunch you will feel you got your 600 Euros worth. You know, what? I have many criticisms of the conference, but the chance to meet people like Tom and Stephanie and Hugh and Maarten and others made it more than worthwhile for me. Technorati Tags: leweb3...
Filed at 2:59pm
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Looks like Loïc will be responding to the criticisms. From a comment he left on TechCrunch UK: I will post more on my blog later, Excellent news. He also gives a reason for his earlier, brief comment on the same blog. take the insult as an exhausted organizer after a few crazy weeks. I hate to think what it must have been like, coming back from an exhausting few days to find a shitstorm of criticism waiting… Technorati Tags: leweb3...
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Editor · Enterprise Applications
SAP has some advertisements out on TV. Dennis mentioned that he had seen some on Sky Sports, and I’ve read that they are on the box in the US too. Dennis commented:But then it has to get through the public perception of SAP as a player for the large company alone. At least that’s what...
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Editor · IT Management
Broadlydispersed datacenters are a huge and growing expense to enterprises --yet the demands for more applications delivered fast and reliably ismounting. Can enterprises have it both ways: Fewer datacenters andbetter performance? Can they cut operating costs in doing so, andprotect their resources from disasters? Two executives from Hewlett-Packard's Consulting and Integration Group unequivocally say, "Yes!" My most recent sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast is with Ewald Comhaire ,director of the global practice for Infrastructure Services at HP,along with Peg Ofstead, worldwide solution lead for HP IT SharedServices and IT Consolidation Services .
Filed at 3:44pm
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arrington leweb3 sethi techcrunch techcunchuk TechnologyThere is a post on the web2ireland blog claiming that Techcrunch UK’s Sam Sethi has been fired by Mike Arrington!The post author, Paul Walsh is very close to Sam so I would put a lot of faith in this post.My sources are telling me that...
Filed at 3:49pm
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I just wanted to say a quick “congratulations” to The Telegraph's blogging team. Their blogs are one year old today. I remember reading about the launch of their blogs in a copy of the paper I found in a hotel lobby on the Isle of Wight a year ago. They've been doing an excellent job over that time, and I subscribe to the RSS feeds of several of them. Who says that old media can't start to use new media techniques? Shane Richmond has collected some of the best posts from that year. Go and enjoy. Technorati Tags: blogging, blogs, journalism, media, newspaper blogs, newspapers, the telegraph...
Filed at 4:02pm
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leweb3 loic loiclemeur sam sethi Technology typepadBen Metcalf is reporting that Sam Sethi’s Typepad personal blog has been disabled. Typepad is the company Loic Le Meur works for and Sam recently wrote a post on Techcrunch UK critical of the Le Web conference organised by Loic.This definitely sounds too incredible...
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