Intelligent Enterprise Event Calendar 2009
On a tight budget this year? Don't skip education. Find the enterprise-oriented events that are closest to home.
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Nine BI Megatrends for 2009
Open source software, rich, dynamic interfaces and column-store databases: these are just a few of the trends that will reshape business intelligence and information management in the year ahead. Get ready for the next waves that will help you ride out a tough economy.
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Alaska Air Taps Oracle To Build Customer Loyalty
The airline implements Siebel loyalty-program software designed to shift the focus away from revenue-draining free miles and more toward personalized service.
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Windows 7 Leaked To The Internet
Microsoft's next operating system is available from torrent sites.
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Microsoft Seeks Pay-As-You-Go Computing Patent
While such patent applications do not always lead to products, they do give some inkling as to what Microsoft is considering.
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Intelligent Enterprise Top-Ten Stories of 2008
How-to articles trump news and trend pieces yet again.
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Facebook, MySpace Could Boost Location-Based Services
Integrating LBS and tapping into its anticipated $13 billion market is expected to generate a healthy revenue stream for the social networks.
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Windows XP Extensions Reflect Vista's Woes
Microsoft needs to keep its older operating system on the market in order to appease business customers.
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Jobless Claims Crash State's Unemployment Network
The problems occurred just weeks after New York reported that its private sector job count fell by 23,500 from November to 7,219,700 in December.
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IBM Completes ILOG Acquisition, Opens Door To Event Processing
The purchase is expected to equip IBM with automated process intelligence for its business process management products.
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Motorola Combines WiMax, WiFi, Ethernet, VoIP In One Device
The Motorola wi4 WiMa CPEi 775 will be available only to carriers initially and will not be offered for retail markets.
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HTC Brings S740 Smartphone To U.S.
With a svelte size and slide-out keyboard, this Windows Mobile smartphone is aimed at the message-heavy user.
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Apple Refreshes 17-Inch MacBook Pro
The company's largest laptop is gaining an eight-hour battery, a faster Intel processor, and better graphics capabilities.
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Data Breaches Booming
The Identity Theft Resource Center says reported data breaches increased by 47% from 2007 to 2008.
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Small Business Managers Turning Into 'Mouse Potatoes'
A growing number are increasingly eating and working while on their computers, ushering in the era of the "deskfast."
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Apple iTunes Music Store Going DRM-Free
The company will also offer new price points to offset competition from Amazon.com and will let iPhone users buy songs over 3G networks.
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Comcast confirms new network management practices
Comcast, the second largest broadband provider in the U.S., has stopped network-management practices that focus on slowing the BitTorrent peer-to-peer application, the company said.
Digital TV converter program out of money
A federal program providing vouchers for digital television converters to people whose TV sets will stop working on Feb. 17 has run out of money.
Microsoft touts Mac-Windows collaboration at Macworld Start-up Ctera will offer cloud storage through carriers 'Leap second' snafu affects Oracle clustering tool Vista's flaws surface again on eve of Windows 7 beta Backup Resolutions: 5 Strategies to Back Up Your Data, Now Samsung packs camcorder with SSD for fast start
Microsoft plans to launch new Mac software later this year that will let Office 2008 for Mac users collaborate with people running the Windows version of the application suite.
Storage start-up Ctera introduced a combined local and cloud storage system for service providers to sell as a service.
The second that was added to 2008 to adjust for the slowing of the earth's rotation is causing problems with Oracle's Cluster Ready Services software, according to a support document issued by the vendor.
Attendees of the International Conference on Cyber Security 2009 in New York were reminded of the Vista operating system's failings a day before the Windows 7 beta is expected to be publicly announced at the CES trade show.
Every year you say you'll be better at keeping your data backed up, but then life happens. You get busy. You get distracted. And the number of files in your digital life grows exponentially--all while you continue to relegate this critical task to the "I'll get to it" pile.
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Solid-state disks, hard-disk drive replacements filled with flash memory chips, have become popular in the laptop computing space and now they're expanding to other markets. At this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics will unveil an SSD-based camcorder, it said Tuesday.
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