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Innovation in IT…Are We Getting A Clue???

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 [...]

The New Data Center – Consolidate and Bring on the Virtualization

Caught this article from CIO Magazine through a post on Doug McClure’s Blog titled “Defining the next generation data centers”, in the article is discusses how data centers are changing and redefining their approach.   One area of the article that leaped out at me though was the author’s thoughts on consolidation and virtualization.   We continue [...]

IBM And Microsoft Continue To battle Over SOA Standard

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. [...]

What DoesThe Democrats’ Win Mean For The Tech Industry?

Great article on CNET regarding the effect the Democrats’ win will have for the tech industry.  For instance a GOP committee recently failed to approve rules that all Internet traffic be treated the same no matter what its “source” or “destination” might be.  This is an important item for the tech industry and the [...]

Problems With The Voting Today? Report it!

If you experience any issues or irregularities in voting today…dont hesitate, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE, the hotline for the National Campaign for Fair Elections. EFF lawyers and many others are standing by across the country to take legal action to remove malfunctioning voting machines, keep polls open, etc.

5 More Must Have Free BlackBerry Downloads

As a avid Blackberry user, I really appreciate any article like this one from Robb Dunewood on RIMarkable that provides insight into applications that can help me and the million of other crackberry users be more productive.  His review of what he considers the five must have applications is close to being my top [...]

Space Craft Crashes and Floating Point Numbers

Great article on the issue of rounding floating point numbers.  In this article on Reg developer the author Dan Clarke discusses the misues of floating point numbers in current development practices.  He points out that with space craft crashing, inconsistent information on bank statements and pensioners being short changed (he provides validation for these example) [...]

Funny bug on Google’s China Site

Bruce Schneier on his weblog tells of a funny bug on Google’s China Site that allows you to bypass China’s sensors if your enter the search term in all capitals.  Nice…