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Google has joined the semantic search party, though when exactly this happened is officially a mystery, unearthed in part by ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick, who blogged about the possibility that Google has been sneaking disambiguated search under our noses. Google claims it updated its Q&A feature "with more information from the Web," which is close as Google will come to saying it's doing semantic search.
News Analysis. Tonight, Microsoft's CEO inherited keynote the stage long belonging to Chairman Bill Gates. Steve Ballmer certainly was more engaging....
Trojan threats continued to top the charts in December, according to the latest figures published by Sunbelt Software.
Attackers are trying to trick large numbers of users of popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter into handing over their log-in credentials, likely to seed future attacks.
Google today tweaked its servers to make its Google Maps for Mobile app more intuitive by removing ambiguity around local business searches. The improvement is incremental, but for the class of people who hold mobile up as the next great Web surfing frontier, it might not be so trivial.
The latest sign that Indian companies are catching up to their western counterparts: "Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned after saying he falsified earnings and assets, prompting a collapse in the stock of India's fourth- largest software-services provider."...
Posted by Cameron Sturdevant on January 7, 2009 2:40 PM in virtualizationUp until now, virtualization--especially x86 server virtualization--has been pushed forward by the huge hardware and operational savings accrued from app server consolidation. Sadly, the consolidation of whole businesses will likely become one of the main drivers of virtualization in the year ahead.
Obama's national CTO will have his/her hands full. One of the new U.S. tech chief's biggest challenges? Shoring up a project management shortfall among the government IT ranks.
Posted by Simplify PC Solutions Blog Team on January 7, 2009 2:13 PM in VistaTalk about beating a dead horse. Yesterday, IDG posted the kind of "news story" that makes our blood boil.
Posted by Michael Vizard on January 7, 2009 1:12 PM in CIOTough times are surely upon us for 2009, but savvy IT people will always find a way to cope one way or another. Survey Finds Data Center Budgets Holding Up in Recession This may come as a surprise to some...
News Commentary. Yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs missed giving the company's last Macworld Expo keynote. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will deliver his first Consumer Electronics Show keynote. Tonight....
Unless you don't watch any TV--or possibly live in a cave--then you know that in mid-February, traditional over-the-air television broadcasts will end and that consumers who rely on antennas to get their TV will need to buy either a new TV with a digital tuner, or a digital converter box.
To help with this change, the government took a small portion of the money it made from the spectrum auction and launched a coupon program to provide $40 to any citizen who needed to purchase a converter box (which tend to run from $50 to $60). Now, because of poor planning, some fraud and traditional government waste, the coupon program is running out of money, and many people who need converters won't be able to get coupons before the analog signals go dark in February.
Now there are plenty of consumer angles to this story, but the part I find interesting is its lesson in poor planning, a lesson that can also be valuable to developers and IT managers.
The success of the R programming language shows how far open-source software has come.
System Update. Let me extend my apologies for yesterday's Microsoft Watch outage....
Google may be curbing the dark matter, slashing research projects it deems a waste of resources, but it still has the coin to throw political parties during the recession. Google will party with the Obama administration Jan. 20 in the Capitol.
The popular R Progamming Language Challenges SAS and Other Vendors
Posted by Michael Vizard on January 7, 2009 8:27 AM in CIO On the face of it logic would dictate that investing in our collective digital future would be a major boon for the economy. That's why IBM CEO Sam Palmisano reiterated his call for the government to invest $30 billion...
News Commentary. Today, Apple let the cat out of the bag. Snow Leopard is nowhere to be seen....
Posted by Cameron Sturdevant on January 6, 2009 8:03 PM in appleIn Apple's keynote at Macworld, CEO Steve Jobs was played by Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing. It was an evolutionary keynote with just a few points of note for enterprise IT managers.
Posted by Simplify PC Solutions Blog Team on January 6, 2009 7:25 PM in Hardware, Vista
"I just need AT&T to lower the service fees a little bit."
"Don't count on it."
While these words could have been shared between any two people with a cell phone and a healthy suspicion of their cell phone operators, this lighthearted exchange actually took place in December between Doug Garland, vice president of product management at Google, and AT&T President of Emerging Devices Glen Lurie during a panel discussion on how Silicon Valley can make money from broadband and mobility.
Posted by Roy Mark on January 6, 2009 5:00 PM in CongressIn June of last year, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., took to the floor of the House of Representatives to announce his office computers had been hacked via China. The veteran lawmaker also revealed that the House Information Resources and...
Today's LinkedIn attacks are pretty lame, but tomorrow's might be pretty nasty if attackers become more targeted in architecting their social networking campaigns.
Posted by Clint Boulton on January 6, 2009 3:57 PM in Google AppsApple's iWork.com joins Google Docs, some Zoho apps, Microsoft Office Live Workspace and other offerings as the latest suite of messaging and collaboration applications running in the cloud. But rather than positioning this tool as an aggressive new entry to the hosted applications space, Apple says iWork.com is more about the ability to share desktop documents created in iWork '09 via the Internet.
McKinsey has a new report on enterprise adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, and the findings should give pause to IT organizations planning to roll these tools out to their internal customers. Overall, these technologies -- which include wikis, blogs...
News Analysis. Today, in San Francisco, Apple announced new versions of iLife and iWork, an 17-inch MacBook Pro, and, "one more thing," iTunes DRM-free music—all without CEO Steve Jobs....
This article about the new era of low-cost computing made me think about the opportunities of an economic downturn. Netbooks and specialized gear would be here no matter what. But the economic crunch puts a premium on cost control that...
Despite what you've heard in countless speeches and articles, it turns out that the Chinese symbol for "crisis" is not translated as the combination of "danger" and "opportunity." But it's such a good point that we'll just go with it...
No one doubts that the Web helps businesses make big gains in productivity, but security pros have always worried about the security threats it brings. And now new numbers show just how threatening it can be.
Right about now a lot of retailers are looking back at the holiday season trying to figure out what worked and what didn't. For a lot of them that's going to be hard to do because the performance benchmarks...
News Analysis. Microsoft has promoted long-time employee Bob Muglia to president of Server and Tools. The move raises the division's status, along with his....
News Commentary. I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more. Today, Microsoft told me that I'm paying an Apple Tax when buying Macs....
Posted by Simplify PC Solutions Blog Team on January 5, 2009 8:08 PM in Software, VistaArguably Vista's most notorious feature is User Account Control, which has its heart in the right place (i.e. it tries to stonewall malware) but annoys the bejeezus out of most users--who usually end up disabling it altogether.
Posted by Chris Preimesberger on January 5, 2009 6:43 PM in GeneralA recent Yankee Group global survey contends that the use of Macs in the enterprise is on the rise. The researcher reported that approximately 80 percent of all businesses have Macs and the OS X operating system installed in their...
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The National Hockey League has performed a hat trick: scoring new video, content management and analytics capabilities at NHL.com.
Just about a year ago, video on NHL.com was, by the organization's own admission, not thoughtfully implemented, and user information was widely dispersed and not well-leveraged. In a very short time, using a homegrown content management system and a video player built by NeuLion, and with the assistance of design company AQKA, the NHL.com site is running as smooth as, well, ice.
According to many pundits, one of the keys to the future of the Web is video. However, based on much of the current use of video on the Web, this future seems to be a ways off.
True, many businesses today are using video on their sites, for everything from spreading news and company information to handling product demos and walk-throughs. But, typically, there is little or no integration with these videos. They basically live in their own siloed areas of a site, with no connection to other content or online commerce.
This was the situation the National Hockey League found itself in more than a year ago. At that time, the NHL.com Web site had plenty of video content, and intrepid fans could search for videos of their favorite teams and players, but the content wasn't very well-structured.
Indeed, most video was just thrown onto the site, according to André Mika, NHL senior vice president and executive in charge of programming new media.
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