Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008; Is Apple more controlling than Microsoft?

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says Red Hat violated Microsoft's intellectual property rights and should pay; Start-up Bitkoo has launched an online identity management service that provides authentication and authorization capabilities; and instant messaging poses a security risk. (7:35)

Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008
The 10 most important technologies IT executives should examine in 2008 include green IT, unified communications, virtualization, ...

Tolly: Is Apple more controlling than Microsoft?
While still on the fringe, Apple is continually gaining ground in the corporate environment. Recent studies have shown that universities, too, are seeing a surge in OS X usage – some of which will soon translate into enterprise demand as those graduates enter the work force. While many users laud Apple for the freedom that it gives them, recent developments indicate that Apple might be even more of a “control freak” than Microsoft.

Executive Guide: Stay ahead of the data growth curve

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Microsoft not worried about Google Apps
Google’s much-hyped entrance into the office tool market dominated by Microsoft doesn’t seem to have worried CEO Steve Ballmer, who dismissed competitors as not “even as good as ‘me too’” in an interview Wednesday.

22 top iPhone tips
You can do a lot with the iPhone -- surf the Web, send e-mail, listen to music, and (yes) make phone calls -- with just a touch of a virtual button. But dig a little deeper, and you can do even more. Now that we've had some time to live with the iPhone, we've found a few tricks that help us get the most out of it.

Does software life begin at 40? IBM updates IMS database
IBM later this month plans to release Version 10 of its Information Management System (IMS), a 39-year-old database originally built to ...

Commerce Bank says hacking damage was limited
A regional bank in the U.S. said it was able to deflect most of a hacking attempt on its database, but not before some customer information ...

E-mail boosts productivity; IM poses threats: survey says
IT consulting firm Dimension Data polled 524 enterprise users to learn which means of communication is preferable in the workplace and if ...

Quantum sues Riverbed over data de-duplication
Quantum sues Riverbed Technology for patent infringement over its use of data de-duplication technology just after settling such a dispute with ...

Cell phones, text messaging and the 10 rudest office behaviors
Actions might be funny on “The Office” TV show but not in real life, study finds

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4 stages of grid computing
Grid computing is all about scaling out the enterprise IT infrastructure without having to invest scads of money in high-powered systems. But companies don’t typically through their mission-critical business applications on a grid all at once. Songnian Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Platform Computing, understands the enterprise motivation well, having worked with myriad grid computing customers over the years. Zhou sees companies adopting grid in four steps. He talks with Beth Schultz, New Data Center editor, about those steps, including the business goals, challenges and benefits to be gained in each. (25:57)

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