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Submission + - Guardian to close move to Twitter: April Fool? (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by teflon_king on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @06:50AM

teflon_king writes: Today's April fool joke by the Guardian that the newspaper will close and be replaced by a Twitter service is certainly amusing. However, despite the well-aimed kick at the much-hyped message service, the joke may linger as more a commentary on a newspaper industry under pressure. This is reinforced by the Guardian's recent submission to the UK govt Digital Britain report which has a go at search engines and content aggregators like slashdot.

Submission + - Microsoft: Azure aims to build and shape the cloud (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @02:45AM

inkslinger77 writes: "Microsoft's new Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism, Gianpaolo Carraro speaks in this article about the software giant's cloud development platform and Microsoft's approach to cloud computing. He mentions Microsoft's plan to support other languages other than .NET, even though the software giant would prefer developers use its own tools. "Obviously, we would like our ecosystem to use our own development tools, technology and languages. We believe that that is the right choice. But if the developers don't agree, we can still give them value from our platform," he said. "We have the specific tooling structure to help you use Azure with .Net, but you can also access it using Java and other means if you choose to." The company also announced recently that it would support PHP."

Submission + - Web apps: IBM to go head-head with MS, Google (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by teflon_king on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:53AM

teflon_king writes: Are we headed for a rerun of the office suite wars of the 1990s, only this time with online/cloud/SaaS/Software-as-a-Service apps? IBM is going to go head-to-head with Google and Microsoft by offering Web apps. IBM hasn't fared well against Microsoft in the past in the software stakes — remember Lotus SmartSuite which include Lotus 123. I didn't even realise you could still buy it: http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/smartsuite/! And of course, don't forget OS/2 vs Windows NT (and Linux). They're certainly not selling OS/2 (Os/2 Warp) anymore.

I think it's a good move though — online apps could level the playing field and provide software suppliers an angle against Microsoft. Do you think we'll be seeing Corel step up to the plate with WordPerfect Office: Software as a Service Web Edition?! They've already put a toe in the water ... well sort of ...

Submission + - Games & the Global Financial Crisis (gameplayer.com.au)

Submitted by

SlappingOysters

on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:18AM

SlappingOysters writes: "Gameplayer asks the question: Can video games survive, or even thrive, in the economic downturn? They examine the current sales data, look into the industry's historical dealings with economic problems and investigate the way the tightening of belts is altering the types of games being made and the ways that they are being released. The site then offers Recession Proof Gaming in the form of links to 50 of the best free games."

Submission + - Schneier: The cloud is hype, transparency is key (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Monday March 30, 2009 @10:19PM

inkslinger77 writes: "Technology and business has posted an interview with security guru, Bruce Schneier about the security aspects of cloud computing, with mention to the recent Google Docs leak and the suite against them by EPIC. Schneier says that whatever cloud computing is, the security issues and conversations around it are nothing new. The key, he says, always comes down to trust and transparency."

Submission + - Laptop Quiz: Test your computer trivia knowledge (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by teflon_king on Monday March 30, 2009 @02:56AM

teflon_king writes: I was thinking about the other day about all the laptops and notebooks I'd seen over the years as they were introduced onto the market. This notebook quiz isn't a definitive history but it's a good memory jogger for some classic portable computing trivia.

Submission + - Business moves most of its software to the cloud (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Monday March 30, 2009 @02:42AM

inkslinger77 writes: "Altium, an International software company, is a massive cloud consumer. Altium's human resources, finance, customer relationship management, data and email are all now hosted via cloud services. The company was apparently the first in the world to use salesforce.com's business platform. Other cloud services used by Altium include Intacct, a new financial assistant based on the cloud; Amazon Web services S3 and EC2 for storage and systems hosting; Attlassian Confluence and Jira for wiki documentation, Intranet, and issue tracking; and Google apps including gmail, Docs, and Calendering. Altium's CIO suggested at a conference last week that IT managers throw away the current notion of their role, which is to maintain the company's systems. Use the cloud to support the systems and the IT department to support the business, he says."

Submission + - Microsoft: Acid3 browser test not relevant to IE8 (technologyandbusiness.com.au) 1

Submitted by teflon_king on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @10:19AM

teflon_king writes: Microsoft is claiming in this article that the Acid3 browser standards compatibility test — which IE8 does not come close to passing — is not important because it tests against draft standards.

Submission + - UK team build carp shaped robots (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Sunday March 22, 2009 @06:03PM

inkslinger77 writes: "These carp shaped robots will use chemical sensors to sniff out potentially hazardous pollutants and transmit the information back to shore using Wi-Fi technology."

Submission + - NASA tries out enterprise-level social networking (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @03:02AM

inkslinger77 writes: "A recently released report by NASA bodes well for social networking in business. The agency conducted a pilot run using Soialcast, and wrote an extensive report on the results, basically recommending the agency implement the social networking tool on a permanent basis. This article explores the results of the project and also speaks with Socialcast's founder."

Submission + - SSD and flash storage in the enterprise (technologyandbusiness.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @02:47AM

inkslinger77 writes: "Microsoft's highly regarded computer science researcher, Jim Gray, was an early advocate of enterprise flash-based storage. Shortly after giving a presentation on the topic over two years ago, Gray went missing after embarking on a solo boating trip from San Francisco in 2007, but his work and research has continued to have its effect on software developers and enterprise users. This article, written by "a database insider" explores Gray's research, and examines whether SSD is enterprise-ready."

Comment Good news for the Wii (Score 1) 1

by FroopY on Thursday September 18, 2008 @10:07PM (#25065435) Attached to: "de Blob would have Mr Miyamoto bowing in resp

Hopefully this will sell well and encourage some more 3rd party titles, it looks like some sweet fun to be had.

23,000 Linux PCs For Filipino Schools 142

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 28, 2008 @10:24PM from the get-'em-while-they're-young dept.

Da Massive writes "Speaking at the linux.conf.au event in Melbourne, Australia, independent open source consultant Ricardo Gonzalez has told of how he has helped bring 23,000 Linux PCs to over 1000 schools in the Philippines: 'Ministers in the Filipino government now understand Linux can do so much for so little outlay.'" The slow process of educating a government that knew only Microsoft is especially well described in this piece.

Submission + - Researchers build bionic eye (computerworld.com.au)

Submitted by

inkslinger77

on Monday January 28, 2008 @08:11PM

inkslinger77 writes: "University researchers have reported that they have used nanotechnology manufacturing techniques to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. Perfecting virtual displays could apparently mean that traveling executives could surf the Net or check their e-mail on a floating virtual display screen that only they could see."

Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity 286

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 28, 2008 @07:11PM from the turn-yourself-in-for-ten-grand dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Raymond Niro of Niro Scavone Haller & Niro is fighting back against criticism from the Patent Troll Tracker blog by offering a $10,000 bounty for the identity of the person behind it. He thinks the blogger might work for Microsoft, Intel, or has connections to a 'serial infringer' and that could 'color' what they say."

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