Posted by Clint Boulton on February 9, 2010 11:47 AM in Google Maps, Google Search

Mike Blumenthal did a nice Q&A with Carter Maslan, Google's vice president of product development for Google Maps, about Nearby Place You Might Like, a new feature that surfaces competing stores when you search for a business on Google Maps.
Comments (0)

Posted by Larry Walsh on February 9, 2010 10:35 AM in Analysis

Here’s the deal: No one told hackers there was a recession. Consequently, many of the big security companies closed 2009 with strong revenue and balance sheets. And that’s making even the big security companies like McAfee, Check Point and Symantec potential acquisition targets.
Comments (0)

Posted by Ed Cone on February 9, 2010 8:01 AM in Culture, The Industry

Not everyone needs to be a tech enthusiast. And a skeptical eye is needed more than ever.
Comments (0)

Posted by Matthew Hines on February 9, 2010 7:04 AM in Botnets, Exploits and Attacks, Malware, Malware toolkits, Online malware, Trojan attacks, Virus and Spyware

The nascent SpyEye botnet kit could soon touch off a war with Zeus, researchers with Symantec contend.
Comments (0)

Posted by Migration Expert Zone Team on February 8, 2010 9:02 PM in Windows Server 2008

Running out of drive letters? Here's a trick for your admin toolbox: Create a mount point for each logical drive you want to add, thus allowing performance to be contained to a logical drive while still conforming to your drive-letter...
Comments (0)

Posted by Chris Preimesberger on February 8, 2010 8:18 PM in General, thought leaders

Somebody should think about staging an actual I/O race among some of the solid-state disk companies, because almost all of them claim to have the fastest gun in the west for new mobile devices. Maybe The Station will organize some...
Comments (0)

Posted by Stephen Wellman on February 8, 2010 7:38 PM in BlackBerry, CIO Mobility, Health Care Mobility, Mobile Applications, Mobile Device Management, Mobile Strategy, Mobile Web, Vertical Markets, Windows Mobile, iPhone

Let's face it, the future of the mobile enterprise will include many different types of devices: RIM's BlackBerry, Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Apple's iPhone and Google Android. In tandem with device agnosticism, IT managers will need to embrace different applications and...
Comments (0)

Posted by Brian Prince on February 8, 2010 7:36 PM in Infrastructure security, Oracle, Vulnerability Research

Oracle has pushed out an emergency fix for a vulnerability made public on a Website roughly two weeks ago.
Comments (0)

Posted by Judy Mottl on February 8, 2010 2:29 PM in Administration, Business Analytics, Database, Hardware, IBM, ROI, Server, Sun, Virtualization

There’s a longtime successful management phrase “faster, better, cheaper” and IBM’s new POWER7 systems meet that mandate on each level.
Comments (0)

Posted by Nicholas Kolakowski on February 8, 2010 1:38 PM in Corporate, Desktop & Mobile, Windows 7

The Zune HD 16GB and 32GB, Microsoft's competitors in the portable media player space, have been lowered in price, possibly in advance of new device versions hitting the market. Recent rumors about a "Zune Phone" or smartphone with Zune software being announced by Microsoft on Feb. 15 raise the possibility that the new device could indeed be a mobile device, although issues with Zune branding may also prevent this from occurring. The Zune HD price dip could also be a promotional effort.
Comments (1)

Posted by Donald Sears on February 8, 2010 12:10 PM in Certification, Compensation, Competition, Education, Employment Economics, Firing, IT Contracting, Job Hunting, Networking, Outsourcing, Recruiting, Wages

Most career experts and economists tout technology jobs as some of the brightest for future growth, but look at what some long-term unemployed workers are facing right now.
Comments (0)

Posted by Ed Cone on February 8, 2010 11:02 AM in Enterprise Applications, The Web

by Tim Moran A favorite site of ours, The Register.com (Biting the hand that feeds IT), reports that Facebook--which reporter Gavin Clarke calls "a social network site that's a poster child for the Web 2.0 revolution and online services"--has re-written...
Comments (0)

Posted by Clint Boulton on February 8, 2010 9:30 AM in Google Advertising, Google vs. Microsoft

Google aired its Parisian Love ad, a 52-second YouTube clip with toward the end of the third quarter of the NFL Super Bowl Feb. 7 between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. Where was Microsoft Bing during the Superbowl? With 11 percent, that search engine is starving for more users. Once again, Microsoft is left out of another Web conversation, even if it's not scintillating.
Comments (0)

Posted by Brian Watson on February 8, 2010 9:09 AM in CIOs in 2010, Future of IT, IT Careers

What does it take to exceed the professional lifespan of the usual CIO? One veteran IT leader weighs in.
Comments (0)

Posted by Larry Walsh on February 8, 2010 5:55 AM in Analysis, DLP: Data Loss Prevention

New channel leader Matt Hynes says the security vendor has failed to properly promote its products and channel program. A new marketing offensive will create demand among customers to help partners seal more deals.
Comments (0)

Posted by Donald Sears on February 7, 2010 2:39 PM in CIOs and IT Executives, Employment Economics, Outsourcing, Workplace Tech

IT is in a constant state of balancing the maintenance of technologies with business needs--especially in lean economic times.
Comments (0)

Posted by Clint Boulton on February 7, 2010 4:39 AM in Google Advertising

Google CEO Eric Schmidt tweeted that the search engine will air an ad during the third quarter of today's NFL Super Bowl, which can cost $3 million for just 30 seconds of air time. Google has to do something with that $25 billion of cash in the bank. Why not call attention to itself during the biggest advertising blitz of the year in the U.S.?
Comments (2)

Posted by Clint Boulton on February 7, 2010 12:01 AM in Google Maps

The Google Maps team added a new feature that pits competing businesses against one another in a block of local links on Place Pages. Normally I praise the endless rollout of Maps features, but I'm torn about this feature, dubbed "Nearby Place You Might Like."
Comments (0)

Posted by Migration Expert Zone Team on February 5, 2010 7:34 PM in Hardware, Software, Windows 7

Here at Migration Expert Zone, we're big fans of Windows Virtual PC and XP Mode--the Windows 7 virtualization solutions that allow legacy software to run in the new OS. Just one problem: Not all CPUs support hardware-assisted virtualization, which is...
Comments (0)

Posted by Chris Preimesberger on February 5, 2010 4:37 PM in General, thought leaders

Following a professional conference, most of us return loaded down with things like: a) yet another cheapo backpack, b) a pile of company brochures, c) a stack of new business cards, and d) schwaggy items, like T-shirts and light-up yo-yo's....
Comments (0)

Posted by Nicholas Kolakowski on February 5, 2010 4:17 PM in Business Applications, Corporate, Desktop & Mobile

Former Microsoft executive Dick Brass asserted in a New York Times op-ed piece that Microsoft is "failing" due to internal infighting and an inability to innovate. Microsoft responded by saying that the company is succeeding at its goal to push its technology to a broad base of consumers.
Comments (3)

Posted by Brian Prince on February 5, 2010 12:31 PM in Browsers, Social engineering, Trojan attacks

Mozilla detected two "experimental" Firefox add-ons were laced with malware, and may have infected 4,600 users.
Comments (0)

Posted by Clint Boulton on February 5, 2010 12:22 PM in Google Mobile, Google Vs. Apple

Out of Stanford's research arm comes Siri, a company whose mobile application leverages artificial intelligence to conduct transactions for smartphone users looking to book a table at a restaurant or buy movie tickets while on the go. Whether they boosted or squashed the Siri app, Google and Apple would no doubt love to add the talent behind it.
Comments (1)

Posted by Migration Expert Zone Team on February 5, 2010 1:16 AM in Hardware, Simplified Solutions

Most businesses these days have mobile workforces, and many of those workforces rely on wireless modems to stay connected while on the move. The technology's great, but there's one problem: It's expensive. Indeed, nearly every USB or PC Card modem...
Comments (0)

Posted by Judy Mottl on February 5, 2010 1:05 AM in Administration, Benchmark, Business Analytics, DB2, Database, Exadata, Hardware, IBM, Oracle, Server, Software, Sun

Enterprises don't need to fix what isn't broke when it comes to the database environment, yet Oracle seems to think so.
Comments (0)

Posted by Nicholas Kolakowski on February 4, 2010 5:26 PM in Corporate, Desktop & Mobile, Windows 7

Microsoft claims to be investigating complaints from users that Windows 7, if installed on a laptop that previously ran Windows XP or Windows Vista, drains battery power at an unacceptable rate. Commenters on the Microsoft TechNet discussion forum have been sharing their own stories about seemingly Windows 7-related battery problems, and occasionally offering solutions.
Comments (14)

Posted by Chris Preimesberger on February 4, 2010 2:29 PM in General, thought leaders

The Station reported on Jan. 26 that Sun Microsystems Chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy and CEO Jonathan Schwartz would not be moving to the newly combined Oracle Sun organization, which plans to become an important player in the next-generation storage...
Comments (0)

Posted by Judy Mottl on February 4, 2010 2:00 PM in Administration, Business Analytics, DB2, Database, IBM, Oracle, ROI, Server, Software, Sun

Talk is cheap, and can often be misleading, when it comes to illustrating what a technology can do. IBM's DB2 customer experiences tell the real story.
Comments (0)

Posted by Clint Boulton on February 4, 2010 11:38 AM in Evil Google, In Google We Trust

Google spent $4 million on lobbying in 2009, up from $2.84 million in 2008 and almost three times the $1.52 million it spent in 2007. Microsoft's own lobbying spend plummeted from 2007 and 2008, where it was around $9 million, to $6.72 million. Microsoft must feel some cognitive dissonance here; while it's nice not to be the top target of governmental scrutiny, it's also a sign that it's not a threat to consumers, let alone competitors.
Comments (0)

Posted by Ed Cone on February 4, 2010 10:35 AM in The Web

by Tim Moran Since the very first day--way, way back in Internet history--that marketers realized the power of the Web to sell products and make money, one of the most sought after capabilities has been "personalization." The thinking is always...
Comments (0)

Posted by Brian Watson on February 3, 2010 10:38 PM in IT Careers, IT Salaries, IT and the Recession

IT salaries are rising, but at the rate they did in previous years. And it's not the bosses that are getting the "big" payday.
Comments (0)

Posted by Migration Expert Zone Team on February 3, 2010 7:12 PM in Windows 7

Remember all those surveys and studies last year that concluded nobody and their brother would adopt Windows 7 much before, say, 2011? Phhbblllttt. As it turns out, Windows 7 sales are through the roof--at least relative to Vista's. According to...
Comments (0)

Posted by Judy Mottl on February 3, 2010 5:46 PM in DB2, Database, IBM, Oracle, Server, Sun

IBM's DB2 scales a heck of a lot more than Oracle CEO Larry Ellison realizes.
Comments (0)

Posted by Nicholas Kolakowski on February 3, 2010 5:09 PM in Corporate, Developer, Windows 7

Microsoft executive Mike Nash, currently the corporate vice president for Windows Platform Strategy, will leave the company within the next couple of weeks. Nash spent 19 years at Microsoft, and his departure is not the first among Windows executives in 2010 -- perhaps indicative of a coming brain-drain for the operating systems division.
Comments (1)

Posted by Brian Prince on February 3, 2010 11:31 AM in Apple, Smartphone security, Vulnerability Research

Apple fixes five security vulnerabilities with the release of iPhone OS 3.1.3 and iPhone OS 3.1.3 for iPod Touch.
Comments (0)

Blogroll - Our Favorite Blogs: