Posted by ZDNet Editor @ 7:21 am   Year:July 7th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 7th, 2006 VoIP saving college big bucks Posted by ZDNet Editor @ 7:21 am Categories: Education Technology, Higher Ed Tags: ZDNet Editor Colleges and universities are adopting Internet telephony as the way to improve communications and save money, reports News.com. Arthur Gloster recently took over as CIO of Bryant University and has transformed the colleges antiquainted phone system into the second-most wired university in the U.S., according to the Princeton Review. The university converted to Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, equipment from Cisco Systems, including about 2,700 IP-based phones for its students and eliminated the expense of operating multiple voice and data networks. The system integrates technology so that material can be accessed from dorm rooms...

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Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 6:48 am   Year:July 7th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 7th, 2006 New York Times beats Digg, or Hitwise beats Alexa? Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 6:48 am Categories: Media, Culture, Internet Data, Digg Tags: The debate I sparked over the holiday weekend with my "Digg v.3, Who needs the New York Times? islarger than Digg vs. The New York Times. My story questioned the validity of relying on an Alexa-based chart to conclude that a 15 person Social Web start-up, which itself does not gather, or report on, any news, is on track to displace the 1200 person New York Times worldwide newsroom with its $200 million news gathering budget. While it would seem that no statistics are necessary to conclude that The New York Times is in no near-term danger of being displaced by Digg as the world’s newspaper of record, in profiling Digg v....

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Posted by Marc Orchant @ 5:46 am   Year:July 7th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 7th, 2006 Starting up with Foldera Posted by Marc Orchant @ 5:46 am Categories: Mobility, Software, Web Apps Tags: Im just wrapping up my first week with Foldera and have begun contributing to the companys blog. My first post is now up in which I discuss why I made the decision to take the plunge into a Web 2.0 startup (of sorts). Ill be joining Oliver Starr (who also blogs at MobileCrunch) and Michael Sampson on the Foldera blog. How cool to finally have a gig where blogging is encouraged! Marc Orchant has been building, testing, and sometimes breaking hardware and software for 25 years. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations. ...

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Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 5:07 am   Year:July 7th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 7th, 2006 Microsoft adCenter to Google, Yahoo, AOL: our ad-supported software services are better Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 5:07 am Categories: Advertising, Search, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Tags: Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer opened battle against Google, Yahoo and AOL, when he confirmed Microsoft’s objective last May to evolve from a software company into the world’s largest, most attractive provider of online media through MSN, Windows Live and adCenter. Ballmer officially launched Microsoft adCenter in the U.S. at MSN’s annual Strategic Account Summit, May 3, while celebrating advertisers’ role in Microsoft’s media network vision: Ad-supported software services are an integral part of Microsoft’s plans to give consumers access to a broader variety...

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Posted by Paul Murphy @ 2:54 am   Year:July 7th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 7th, 2006 A CIO taxonomy Posted by Paul Murphy @ 2:54 am Categories: General Tags: Since Im planning on phasing out my defen book in favor of a new adventure in publishing, and have spent this week talking about hiring related issues, I thought it might be fun to close the week with this excerpted guide to the most common CIO stereotypes. Number one is the bluffer. Bluffing is the easiest and most common CIO survival strategy. This generally works well for many people because it leverages the simplistic assumptions senior executives usually make about systems to retain credibility with them and then uses their imprimatur to shield the CIO from direct criticism. Basically, the rule is that if you spend enough time micro managing staff expense accounts while rushing aro...

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Posted by Tom Foremski @ 1:37 am   Year:July 7th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 7th, 2006 Representing is sometimes better than marketing Posted by Tom Foremski @ 1:37 am Categories: Culture Tags: The term "marketing" is broadly used but it carries a lot of baggage such as "spin" and "selling." Yes, marketing means so much more than the commonly understood termit is how product development is monetized. But in many uses of the term "marketing" there is an uncomfortable implication that there is some kind of persuasion or manipulation going on, to sell something for which there might very well be no actual need. "Selling refrigerators to Eskimos," or "taking coals to Newcastle," are examples of sayings that describe this baggage. Marketing sometimes seems to be about the use of persuasive marketing/selling techniques rather than the meeting of rea...

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Posted by George Ou @ 12:38 am   Year:July 7th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 7th, 2006 Still plugged in to the raw Internet? Here are some $25 routers Posted by George Ou @ 12:38 am Categories: Security, Infrastructure, Networking, Hardware Tags: For the life of me I still dont understand why people still plug directly in to their cable or DSL modem. Not only are they exposing themselves to the raw Internet, theyre making life miserable by limiting themselves to one PC connectivity at a time and possibly even having to deal with PPPoE DSL dialup configurations. If this is you, then this is your lucky day. Our friends at Tomsnetworking have come up with this nice little list of cheap routers in the $25 street price range. Some of the key benefits of a hardware router is: Offload PPPoE dialup configuration. This means you no longer need to "di...

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Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 11:31 pm   Year:July 6th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 6th, 2006 AMD AM3 CPUs will work in AM2 sockets! Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 11:31 pm Categories: New-Tech Tags: Details released to OEMs suggest that AMDs upcoming AM3-based CPUs will both fit into and work with motherboards using the existing AM2 socket. This is good news for users that have motherboards supporting the AM2 socket because they will be able to switch to AM3CPUs without having to upgrade the rest of the hardware (in particular the motherboard and RAM). I have to admit to being somewhat surprised by this move. An older socket supporting a more AMDs upcoming AM3-based CPUs will both fit into and work with motherboards using the existing AM2 socketmodern CPU is very unusual since the normal maneuver is to upgrade both CPU and the motherboard (not to...

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Posted by Russell Shaw @ 11:29 pm   Year:July 6th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 6th, 2006 Heres what the BlackBerry camera phone will look like Posted by Russell Shaw @ 11:29 pm Categories: General, Products, News, BlackBerry Tags: Ive just broke this on my BBHub blogworld exclusive, was first with this: BlackBerry patent application for a long-awaited camera-equipped, or camera-connectible BlackBerry has just been published. Thats the abstract at the top of this post. Now heres a sketch of the device: From my BBHub post, this will help you understand what these numbers mean: This is from the application: "In addition, according to the invention, handheld electronic device 65 is provided with an application for operating and controlling a digital camera 5 as described elsewhere herein. In such a situation, processor 85 may perform th...

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Posted by Suzi Turner @ 9:39 pm   Year:July 6th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 6th, 2006 Direct Revenue plotted to hijack your computer Posted by Suzi Turner @ 9:39 pm Categories: Spyware/adware news Tags: Fascinating article here in BusinessWeek Online with never before published details about Direct Revenues inner workings and the people involved. There are a lot of juicy tidbits, including how the Dark Arts department crafted software "torpedoes" to kill competitors, other adware vendors, software. Then CEO Joshua Abrams is quoted as saying "its a license to kill" in a February 2004 email.Direct Revenue was the target of a lawsuit by competitor Avenue Media over that practice. CNET News called it Adware cannibals feast on each other. (Loved the title!) The article mentions some of Direct Revenues advertisers including big names Cingular Wirele...

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Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 9:20 pm   Year:July 6th, 2006   Source Site:zdnet

July 6th, 2006 Gossip, key to engaging Social Web community? Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 9:20 pm Categories: Web 2.0, Culture, User-Generated Content Tags: I recently asked: Digg: newspaper of the Web, or its gossip column?: Perhaps we should call Digg a gossip column, for while Digg commentary is entertaining and colorful, it is often not newsworthy… Recent Digg news commentary/gossip about Comcast tech support: Yes I hate Comcast too. But really, I just hate anyone who charges an arm and a leg (or $30+) a month for medium speed internet YouTube is down for some reason. Any mirrors? I wonder if Digg brought it down, or are they just doing mantinace? yeah dood, youtube, which uses 200 terabytes of bandwidth a day, was dugg to death :P, YouTube is down retard, Jus...

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