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December 17, 2006

7 entries filed this day

Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone

Editor · Wireless

The Observer of London is reporting that Google might be working with HTC and mobile/telecom giant Orange to build a Google Mobile Phone, which could possibly have Google software inside the device, and would be able to do many of the web tasks smartly. The device, article speculates, could go on sale in 2008. (Of course, we would all have forgotten by then… if it doesn’t happen.) Orange and Google, both declined to comment.

Filed at 4:33am

Think of the children

Editor · IT Management

An engineer recently told me he bought the famous Harry Potter book in e-book format in order to be able to read it to his kid at bedtime while “doing email” at the same time. No, this is not a...

Filed at 6:17am

We’re all Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

Editor

I’m a little surprised and confused with this one. Time magazine named ‘You’ as its person of the year Saturday, with a mirror cover designed to reflect the importance of user-generated Internet content as a driving force in the modern world.

Filed at 10:29am

Reflecting on corporate memory

Editor · Knowledge Management

Sharing via explicit, evolving documentation is receiving more attention as wikis and blogs move into the enterprise. Let's take a deeper look: Why and how does explicit knowledge sharing make a difference? 1. Reflection: in the fast and furious pace...

Filed at 12:21pm

Querying Server Configuration from the MOM Operations DB

Editor · Patch Management

For Day 4, just a quick heads-up on where to find useful data in the Onepoint database... MOM 2005 uses computer attributes to determine server roles (and thus group membership and rule assignment). Did you know that you can query this information from directly from the Onepoint database to retrieve server attributes for reporting purposes?

Filed at 6:19pm

First Apple’s iPhone, Next Google’s GPhone

Editor

France Telecom’s mobile phone unit, Orange, reportedly sent executives to the Googleplex to discuss a potential partnership. The discussions could lead to Google’s search technology powering a new “Google phone”, which would make using cell phones as easy as the world’s most popular search engine.Their plans centre on a branded Google phone…it might have...

Filed at 10:44pm

iPhone is out, just not THAT iPhone

Editor · VoIP / Wireless

A couple of days ago, Brain Lam of Gizmodo played a cruel joke on the world, promising details of an iPhone , which he hinted would be launched on Monday, December 18th.

Filed at 1:00am

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