Saturday, October 10th, 2009
The sous-chef goes digital | Appliances & Kitchen Gadgets – CNET Blogs. Pretty cool gadget for those that love blending technology and cooking. Next, I need a robot that is a five-star chef for my home.
Saturday, October 10th, 2009
T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Microsoft’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup. This is just plain old incompetence! It is only as good as those who are responsible for the execution side of providing IT services. Unbelievable!
Monday, October 5th, 2009
QNAP’s new NAS device TS-410 model is aimed at home and office users and with a price tag of $449. It could be an interesting addition to early adopter’s home or small office setup. After all, you can never have too much storage…right?
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Great article on innovation in IT in the Information Week Blogs. The article summarizes a survey by Accenture that breaks down and describes the barriers and enablers to innovation within IT. Please note: That nearly two-thirds (62%) of respondents to the survey said that their organization’s business strategy is either totally or largely dependent on [...]
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
So after a great deal of complaining to Microsoft by numerous parties…they have acquiesced, and will continue to sell XP for five more months. That means manufacturers can continue selling PCs with all flavors of Windows XP preloaded until June 30, 2007. This is a welcome change and will allow many people including myself to [...]
Friday, August 10th, 2007
The battle continues between Microsoft and IBM over the right open standard approach to service-oriented architectures (SOA). This article from CNET discusses the continuing struggle to agree on a open SOA format. Both Microsoft and IBM are major players in ECMA, each one supports a different format, IBM favors
OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard. [...]
Monday, July 9th, 2007
Many organizations often get excited about ITIL and begin implementing it into their organizations without understanding the effects of doing it on their service capabilities. Having a plan and understanding the ramifications of implementing the plan are a crucial first step. Shortly after approving the plan and starting the move to ITIL, you will be [...]
Saturday, June 16th, 2007
With a government deadline for IPv6 looming many monitoring, management and security software vendors are trying to move quickly to ensure they will have IPv6 support in their products. This article from Network World dives deep into the current state of management platforms and their support for IPv6.
Monday, February 26th, 2007
A well thought primer on the many ways to handle bugs and patches In open source products. This is something that all developers of open source products should read and consider as it could be the difference between failure and success in a very competitive marketplace. Read on, learn and profess!
