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Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 1:05 pm Year:May 14th, 2008 Source Site:zdnet
May 14th, 2008
Putting Workday on SAPs radar
Posted by Phil Wainewright @ 1:05 pm
Categories: ERP, SAP, HRM, Workday
Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Now that SAPs SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, Ive been wondering how Im going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing Ill be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a 200,000-seat deal at contract manufacturer Flextronics. Oracle was also reportedly a bidder for the deal.
Workdays win has caused quite a stir after being billed by InformationWeek as the Software Industrys...
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Tim Leberecht Year:May 14, 2008 9:18 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Remember the movie "The Game" with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn as unlikely brothers, shot before the backdrop of vertiginous San Francisco?
Well, heres a a new interface for the city by the Bay: SFZero is "a new representation for the data thats already there. Your mind is full of /inaccurate/ representations that are affecting the way you use the San Francisco dataflow: steering you away from interaction and collaboration and towards unproductive reflexive data loops (forNext). SFZero designers are working double-shifts to engineer this next-generation interface that will bring you together with your cohabitants to experience the freedom that is /hard-coded/ into San Franciscos protocol."
Sounds enigmatic, looks enigmatic, and is enigmatic. I am therefore not sure if I fully get ...
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Nilay Patel Year:by , posted May 15th 2008 at 7:11AM Source Site:engadget
Although RSAs SecurID two-factor authentication system is pretty solid (except for when the keys go out of sync), it looks like organizations with even more stringent security requirements might be interested in UPEKs new Eikon To Go RSA key, which adds a fingerprint reader to the mix. Yep, nothing really too wild -- but its definitely one of the cooler-looking SecurID keys weve seen out there....
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Posted by Jason Perlow @ 12:51 pm Year:May 14th, 2008 Source Site:zdnet
May 14th, 2008
Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!
Posted by Jason Perlow @ 12:51 pm
Categories: General, Software Infrastructure, Vista, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo
Tags: America Online Inc., Internet, E-mail Providers, 3G, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
Pursuing a career in Information Technology comes with certain responsibilities and baggage among these are having to act as a personal, unpaid member of the Geek Squad whenever a friends and family computer is ill.
Yesterday I got a phone call from my wife, Rachel, who was at her mothers house trying to get onto the Internet.
Click on the Read the rest of this entry link below for more .
The Internet isnt working.
Okay, well, did you try rebooting...
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Mike Ricciuti Year:May 14, 2008 9:01 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Adobe on Thursday is expected to launch a beta test program for the latest version of its Flash Player software.
Flash Player 10, developed under the code name Astro, includes better support for 3D animation and video hardware acceleration, among other improvements.
Adobe said that Flash Player 10 will now support custom visual effects, created with Adobes free Pixel Bender tools. Developers can write code to create effects that can be rendered by Flash Player at runtime.
Developers can also now target code to render through graphics processors, speeding up performance and freeing CPU bandwidth, Adobe says.
The beta version of Flash Player 10 will be available from Adobes Labs site.
Flash Player 10 will run on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Mac OS X an...
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Nilay Patel Year:by , posted May 15th 2008 at 7:11AM Source Site:engadget
Well let you read the hed again -- nope, its not a joke. Apparently millions of tiny swarming ants called "crazy raspberry ants" are causing quite a ruckus down in Houston after they accidentally arrived on board a cargo ship and started busily invading homes and offices, where they are attracted to electrical equipment. So far theyve messed up sewage pumps, cause fire alarms to go haywire, destroyed computers, and taken out at least one gas meter -- and since theyre resistant to over-the-counter ant killers and each colony has multiple queens, theyre nearly impossible to kill. Worse, those that do die are used by the remaining ants as bridges over pesticide-treated areas. Yep -- thats insanely creepy. Anyone in Houston got any horror stories to share?
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Thomas Ricker Year:by , posted May 15th 2008 at 7:11AM Source Site:engadget
For those of you continuing to have Grand Theft Auto IV lockups on your PS3 even after the May 7th Rockstar patch... tough noogies. The latest 2.35 firmware wont specifically help. Sony says that the "minor update" will "improve stability of some PS3 titles" -- then clarifies that GTA IV is not part of the vagary. Nevertheless, Sony does say that they "have a identified a solution that should resolve the issue." So buck up Niko and get on the horn with Sony for help, God know the police wont.
[Via Joystiq, thanks Warren and Luis C.]
Read -- GTA IV freezing / not loading help
Read -- 2.35 firmware...
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Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 12:49 pm Year:May 14th, 2008 Source Site:zdnet
May 14th, 2008
The death gap
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 12:49 pm
Categories: General, U.S., Aging, Home Health Care, Ethics, Research, Wellness
Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S.
An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young than an educated black manby 2001.
More important, death rates for all uneducated groups rose during the decade, while those for educated people fell. By 2001 a black man with a high school education was nearly 10 times more likely to die before 65 than an educated white woman.
And its g...
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Stephen Shankland Year:May 14, 2008 9:00 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, plans to increase its heft through an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Group, which operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com Web sites.
Ask.com didnt release terms of the acquisition, but Lexico is "highly profitable, with high double-digit growth for a couple years," said Jim Safka, chief executive of the IAC-owned search site. And by using Ask.coms advertising relationship with Google on the Lexico sites, the company should be able to increase the ad revenue.
Adding Lexicos Web visitor count will increase Ask.coms monthly visitors to 145 million, according to ComScore statistics, Safka said. "Overnight, our unique users will increase by 11 percent, which is outstanding," he said.
Ask far trails its biggest ri...
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Steven Musil Year:May 14, 2008 8:00 PM PDT Source Site:newsblog
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two current and two former key executives of chipmaker Broadcom with backdating stock options.
The SEC announced Wednesday it had filed a federal complaint against Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Henry Samueli and general counsel David Dull, as well as former Chief Executive Officer Henry Nicholas and former Chief Financial Officer William Ruehle. The chipmaker later announced that Sameuli and Dull had taken leaves of absence from their positions until the matter is resolved.
Samueli, who co-founded the company, also resigned as chairman of the board. The board appointed director John Major to serve as nonexecutive chairman.
Major said Broadcom would not comment on allegations, but pointed out that the charges were "half a d...
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Paul Miller Year:by , posted May 15th 2008 at 7:11AM Source Site:engadget
RINGBO put a song in our hearts the other day, and now that weve pretended to sit in its little robotic seat, we can assure you that the experience is just as magical as the video makes it out to be. In case youre curious, the bumper-mounted IR sensors work great for stopping Junior from knocking over another vase, and the controls really couldnt be simpler. We heard a price somewhere in the ballpark of a few hundred dollars, but theres really no telling until it lands Stateside for reals. Check out our best approximation of the original music video after the break -- and be amazed.
Gallery: RINGBO riding robot up close and personal
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