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December 28, 2006

9 entries filed this day

Why ESBs are Made for Event-Driven Architecture

Editor · SOA

Recently I posted an article on how EDA extends SOA and why it is important . I am very pleased this article is gaining popularity in the SOA/EDA community. The posting is also available as a downloadable PDF, which I frequently extend with additional content.

Filed at 6:01am

Nice rundown of the top SOA happenings of 2006

Editor · IT Management / SOA

Michael Meehan, news editor at SearchWebServices.com , has identified the top eight SOA stories for 2006. Not only does he quote me liberally, which might just prompt me to blogas a vanity exercise, but he advances SOA understanding by choosing andranking these trends and topics well.

Filed at 11:12am

Microsoft Under Fire Over Laptop Giveaways to Bloggers

Editor

While i spent the day in the sun at the cricket watching Australia totally decimate England a storm has been brewing in the blogosphere over Microsoft giving away Ferrari Acer laptops loaded with Vista to bloggers to review - and if they want, to keep.

Filed at 11:55am

Considerations for Deploying Mobile WiMAX at Various Frequencies

Editor · Networking

«The explosive growth of the Internet over the last decade has led to an increasing demand for high-speed, ubiquitous Internet access. As technology evolves to address portable and mobile applications, the required features and performance of the system will increase. Evolution toward the phase called "full mobility" provides incremental support for low latency, low packet loss and real-time handoff of subscriber terminals operating at high speeds. Mobile WiMAX technology is uniquely positioned to extend broadband wireless beyond the limits of existing technologies. In this white paper, key considerations associated with deploying and operating mobile networks in different radio frequency bands are discussed.» Download this paper to get a better understanding of:

Filed at 12:11pm

The Perfect Storm: The Economy and Regulatory Compliance

Editor · IT Management

While I was in Amsterdam, an editor of Europe’s Banking and Finance magazine invited me to contribute an opinion piece on the IT (they favor Information and Communications Technology or ICT) component of mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry.

Filed at 2:26pm

Gigantic Banana over Texas Sky

Editor · Storage

This is funny! A project to put geostationary banana over Texas . Why didn't they pick a place in Canada? The project leader, Cesar Saez, is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Filed at 5:57pm

The State of Open-Source Wi-Fi Support

Editor · Open Source / Wireless

Fantastic article by Jem Matzan provides the background and specifics on why support for Wi-Fi in open-source, GPL, and free operating systems is so problematic: Matzan has done a superior job in tying together the technical, political, and legal reasons why it's just so darn hard for OS developers outside of major, proprietary, for-fee releases (i.e., Windows and Mac OS X) to obtain the necessary pieces to support any given Wi-Fi device. (Mac OS X is quasi-proprietary: Large parts of the system are dependent on open-source and related software, but Apple keeps many elements of its system private.)

Filed at 6:31pm

Google Faces Catch-22 With Deleted Gmails

Editor · Storage

TechCrunch has details of a developing story involving the Gmail accounts of 60 users who found all emails deleted due to a suspected breach in FireFox .

Filed at 11:30pm

The Five Key Missteps Microsoft Made with the Vista Blogger Fiasco

Editor · Software Development

I’ve been giving some thought to why Microsoft’s attempt to reach out to bloggers, by sending them free Vista-loaded laptops, went horribly wrong .

Filed at 12:00am

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