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Posted by David Berlind @ 7:28 pm Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
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Who broke the Apple news? Better yet, who predicted it.
Posted by David Berlind @ 7:28 pm
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Dan Gillmor has rightly picked apart a scoop conspiracy on the Apple-Intel story. He notes how, in the process of undeservedly patting itself on the back, the Wall Street Journal quoted Steve Jobs as saying "Most of you are hearing about this for the first time, unless you read The Wall Street Journal." during his keynote presentation at Apples Worldwide Developer Conference. On the grounds that theres no official criteria for separating certifiable journalists from uncertifiable journalists, Gillmor has zinged Jobs numerous times for his legal assault on the Web sites that have revealed several Apple trade secrets. He thinks...
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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 12:44 pm Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
Gartner: Seven tips for enterprise VoIP reliability
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 12:44 pm
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If you are a network administrator, youve heard the mantra "redundancy." Greatly simplified, that means complete-as-possible, real-time replication of data across different paths. If onepath goes out, well, you have Plan B. The goal, especially in data networks, would be to have a "five 9s reliability" that would cause you network to be down only 10 minutes a year.
A worthy goal, yes - but research and consultancy firm Gartner is out with brief today that may cause sysadmins that run VoIP to reassess exactly what "redundancy" means. The brief is entitled "How IT Managers Can Make VoIP Networks More Reliable."
"Unfortunately, five 9s reliabili...
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Posted by Dan Farber @ 12:34 pm Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
A large screen is in your future
Posted by Dan Farber @ 12:34 pm
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Despite the fact that smaller, handheld screens are outnumbering desktops, Microsoft Research has a thing for big screens. I visited the Redmond research offices and almost every office had two or three screens lined up side by side. The demo rooms have walls full of interlocking screens. It’s apparent that larger screens?20 to 30 inches, as well as multiple screen configurationswill become more mainstream over the next few years, and Microsoft is trying to figure out the best way to design software that takes advantage of the increased screen real estate. An enthusiastic Mary Czerwinski, senior res...
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Posted by Chris Jablonski @ 1:51 pm Year:July 21st, 2004 Source Site:zdnet
July 21st, 2004
Amazon, eBay, Google: service providers of the future?
Posted by Chris Jablonski @ 1:51 pm
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Traditional IT service providers appear to be in the best position to lead the IT industry toward the utility computing landscape, but IDC sees things a bit differently; like the potential for some current or unknown players to emerge and disrupt the nature of utility computing. Take for instance, firms with platforms that already deliver on-demand services successfully on a global scale: Amazon, eBay, and Google.? This new breed of online providers may be better suited to deliver outsourced services more effectively over networks than the usual suspects. In addition, companies like Automated Data Processing (ADP) and the telcos could leverage ...
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Posted by David Berlind @ 9:56 am Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
Apple: Just one straw remains on the camels back
Posted by David Berlind @ 9:56 am
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Steve Jobs reputation as an idealist and a control freak precedes him everywhere he goes. Before yesterday, if you asked the age-old question of why other companies like Dell (ones that are better at minimizing hardware manufacturing costs) dont make computers that run Apples operating systems, they would have no choice but to make a pit stop at the PowerPC question. Dell, just for example, doesnt even make systems with Intel-compatible AMD chips in them, let alone computers with PowerPC chips in them. [Sidebar: AMD would probably prefer that you think of it the other way now that Intel ...
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Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 9:32 am Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
SOA not for SMB, yet
Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 9:32 am
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Webservices.Orgs latest survey research into SOA deployment sites uncovered a vital missing piece. That is, Web services and SOA have had very little penetration among small-to-medium-size organizations, thus far.
Having large volumes of Web services is still primarily the domain of large companies or organizations. In Webservices.Orgs study of 1,000 companies of all sizes, for example, 27% of organizations with 10,000 or more employees report having 21 or more Web services, compared with only four percent of the smallest companies. There isnt an appreciable rise in number of Web services until we hit the 10,000-employee mark.
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Posted by Dan Farber @ 9:30 am Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
Apple/Intel: The morning after
Posted by Dan Farber @ 9:30 am
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The morning after of the Apple/IBM trystis full of pundits explaining why they got it wrong when they dismissed the notion of such a union. Michael Kanellos offers his entertainingmea culpa("They say animals can sense things early, but I completely ignored the fact that two weeks ago my cat started drinking coffee and fiddling with the band saw."), and points to the potential of cloners mucking up Apples business, as he did in a story following the rumored Apple/Intel deal last month. Potentially, cloners, with the aid of some hacking, could buy copies of the Mac OS in a store and assemble their own Mac PCs using the cheap, off-...
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Posted by Britton Manasco @ 7:55 am Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
Bringing BTO to SOA
Posted by Britton Manasco @ 7:55 am
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Chris Lochhead is almost always interesting and amusing. In an insightful interview with the flamboyant chief marketing officer of Mercury Interactive, Chris Jablonski gets some forward-looking perspectives on the three layers of IT that must be managed as we turn it into a business driver as opposed to a mere mechanism of support. At the top layer, one finds application delivery and management an activity hampered by a situation(as Lochhead asserts) where 80 percent of applications go untested before they’re deployed.
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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 7:07 am Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
Why Apple Switched
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 7:07 am
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Since Paul and Joe have both discussed Apples move to Intel let me explain in one word why I thinkthe decision was made.
Supply.
I heard it near the end of an interview Steve Jobs conducted with CNBCs Ron Insana right after yesterdays announcement. He was asked about the success of the iPod and iTunes, where Apple has an 80% market share rather than the 3% were used to in the PC world.
Heres what Jobs said, from my notebook.
"We’re thrilled that we seem to be in stock in most places, which is something we didn’t do before."
How many sales has Apple lost over the years because supplies were tight or just expensive? Neither Motorola nor IBM could ever supply the quantities...
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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 6:00 am Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
The overlooked connection between cable tv reception quality and VoIP quality
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 6:00 am
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File this under "well, duh."
Still, I think the following is important for you to know. Especially those who have not made the association I am about to describe.
For the last week or so, the voice quality on my VoIP services has been kind of crackly. Dropped packet rate was on a trajectory toward the endemic.
At the same time, our cable television reception has been plagued by static.
I immediately assumed a connection. And, according to the cable guy that came by yesterday, yes indeed, there was.
Your incoming (cable drop) has been barely stable enough to hold its own, he said, but your outgoing, you are sending ...
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Posted by John Carroll @ 5:54 am Year:June 7th, 2005 Source Site:zdnet
June 7th, 2005
Apple moves to Manhattan
Posted by John Carroll @ 5:54 am
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Apple sure knows how to keep itself on the front pages. The IT world is buzzing with news of their impending shift to Intel chips. Some herald it as a "seismic shift," others treat it like a meteorite wiping out the west coast. Some think they did it for technical reasons (that certainly was part of the claim made by Jobs), others think its a boardroom-level temper tantrum over IBMs waning enthusiasm for its last major desktop customeras it moves to favor thehigh-growth world of game consoles (IBM chips are the foundation of the "big 3" next generation game consoles).
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Alpines got a fine streak going with regard to integrating consumer electronics into its snazzy head units, and now its continuing the trend by offering up a do-it-all Bluetooth Interface Module. The KCE-300BT accessory acts as a bantam liaison between your Bluetooth-enabled handset and that brand new Ai-NET-compatible stereo, giving users the ability to hold handsfree conversations sans wires or complicated installations, and also allowing A2DP / AVRCP-compliant mobiles to stream tunes and control playback functions. Co-developed with Motorola to work specifically with Alpines 2007 lineup of Ai-NET head units, its possible this module would actually work with other BT-enabled units not manufactured by Alpine, but were not so sure wed press our luck. Anyways, the interface also allows users to peep caller ID information, missed / dialed calls, and on certain high-end units, you can even scroll through your address book, which were certain is exactly what everyone around you on the freeway hopes youre eyes are glued to. Regardless,
Alpines KCE-300BT can add another dash of utility to your otherwise average in-dash media player next month for a (slightly steep) $220.